Ubuntu has long provided hardware enablement "HWE" stacks for Ubuntu LTS releases to provide a newer kernel and Mesa drivers and more for better supporting new/modern hardware on the long-term support Ubuntu Linux releases. With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical will also now be providing a virtualization HWE stack for shipping newer virtualization / confidential computing features.

Due to AMD and Intel continuing to upstream new SEV-SNP and Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) features, respectively, there are now plans for a virtualization hardware

Last month I wrote bout new AMD Linux patches introducing a new "low power" CPU core type as an alternative to their standard performance cores and dense efficiency cores. That work now is poised to land with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel.

The patches introducing TOPO_CPU_TYPE_LOW_POWER as AMD's new third core type complementing performance and efficiency cores are set to be mainlined with Linux 7.3. Important timing ahead of next-generation AMD Ryzen platforms debuting.

The Wayfire modular and extensible Wayland compositor formerly used by default on Raspberry Pi SBCs is nearing its v1.0 release. Wayfire 0.11 was released on Sunday for this Compiz-inspired, wlroots-powered compositor with that being their hopeful last planned version before Wayfire 1.0 releases.

Wayfire 0.11 hopes to be their last release before Wayfire 1.0. Wayfire 0.11 ships many fixes, new keybindings, support for the Wayland security-context-v1 protocol, support

The FreeBSD project published today their Q2-2026 status report that highlights all of their interesting open-source development initiatives for the past quarter. A lot is happening including FreeBSD seeing an AMD ROCm port and also their own NTSYNC driver being created.

During Q2 there was a lot more work happening to enhance FreeBSD on desktops/laptops. Efforts continue there around porting the latest graphics driver code, bringing over WiFi driver code from Linux, improving suspend and resume, Framework Laptop support improvements, suspend-

NVIDIA and more than two dozen other companies have started the Open Secure AI Alliance for helping to keep open-source AI models secure. The other founding members range from Microsoft to Adobe, IBM, Red Hat, SpaceX, OpenClaw, Palantir, and others.

The Open Secure AI Alliance aims to help increase the security and safe usage around open-source AI models and builds off the Linux Foundation's Akrites initiative and OpenSSF. The Open Secure AI Alliance aims to remediate and disclose vulnerabilities using open technologies as part of

In working toward releasing the stable Linux 7.2 kernel in less than one month's time, out today is Linux 7.2-rc5 to ship this week's latest bug/regression fixes and help facilitate more testing of this in-development kernel version.

Linux 7.2-rc5 brings a variety of bug fixes, many of which continue to turn up via AI/LLM agents. Linux 7.2-rc5 brings the "new normal" of audio fixes across the board

Along with this weekend's release of GNU C Library 2.44 , the GNU Binutils 2.47 release is also now available for this important set of binary utilities common to Linux systems and other platforms with the GNU toolchain.

GNU Binutils 2.47 introduces a new --reloc-section-sym=[all|internal|none] assembler command line option to control whether relocations referencing local binding symbols are adjusted to use section symbols. Objdump and readelf now have a --debug-

A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is what's dubbed the "KVM Chainsaw" as a major code clean-up in dealing with the kvm_mmu "god data structure".

Red Hat engineer and KVM maintainer Paolo Bonzini has merged the kvm-chainsaw branch to KVM's "next" Git branch. With this KVM Chainsaw work now in the next branch, it should be submitted for the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle.