Working Exploit for a Linux Kernel Flaw Made Public
Posted: 2026-10-30 19:37:15 Source: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Working-Exploit-for-a-Linux-Kernel-Flaw-Made-Public
Even before a bug received its CVE identifier or an upstream fix, the local privilege escalation vulnerability exploit found its way into the wild.
next-20261030: linux-next
Posted: 2026-10-30 14:27:11 Source: https://www.kernel.org/
| Version: | next-20261030 (linux-next) |
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| Released: | 2026-10-30 |
r/opensource Bans AI-Assisted and AI-Related Projects
Posted: 2026-10-30 13:57:21 Source: http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/r-opensource-Bans-AI-Assisted-and-AI-Related-Projects
The de facto subreddit for all things open source has not only banned AI-related projects but also users who "don't speak English."
7.3.1: stable
Posted: 2026-10-30 12:09:58 Source: https://www.kernel.org/
| Version: | 7.3.1 (stable) |
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| Released: | 2026-10-30 |
| Source: | linux-7.3.1.tar.xz |
| PGP Signature: | linux-7.3.1.tar.sign |
| Patch: | full |
| ChangeLog: | ChangeLog-7.3.1 |
7.2.14: stable
Posted: 2026-10-30 12:08:37 Source: https://www.kernel.org/
| Version: | 7.2.14 (stable) |
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| Released: | 2026-10-30 |
| Source: | linux-7.2.14.tar.xz |
| PGP Signature: | linux-7.2.14.tar.sign |
| Patch: | full (incremental) |
| ChangeLog: | ChangeLog-7.2.14 |
6.18.60: longterm
Posted: 2026-10-30 12:06:46 Source: https://www.kernel.org/
| Version: | 6.18.60 (longterm) |
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| Released: | 2026-10-30 |
| Source: | linux-6.18.60.tar.xz |
| PGP Signature: | linux-6.18.60.tar.sign |
| Patch: | full (incremental) |
| ChangeLog: | ChangeLog-6.18.60 |
6.12.115: longterm
Posted: 2026-10-30 12:05:31 Source: https://www.kernel.org/
| Version: | 6.12.115 (longterm) |
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| Released: | 2026-10-30 |
| Source: | linux-6.12.115.tar.xz |
| PGP Signature: | linux-6.12.115.tar.sign |
| Patch: | full (incremental) |
| ChangeLog: | ChangeLog-6.12.115 |
6.6.161: longterm
Posted: 2026-10-30 12:04:34 Source: https://www.kernel.org/
| Version: | 6.6.161 (longterm) |
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| Released: | 2026-10-30 |
| Source: | linux-6.6.161.tar.xz |
| PGP Signature: | linux-6.6.161.tar.sign |
| Patch: | full (incremental) |
| ChangeLog: | ChangeLog-6.6.161 |
6.1.191: longterm
Posted: 2026-10-30 12:00:57 Source: https://www.kernel.org/
| Version: | 6.1.191 (longterm) |
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| Released: | 2026-10-30 |
| Source: | linux-6.1.191.tar.xz |
| PGP Signature: | linux-6.1.191.tar.sign |
| Patch: | full (incremental) |
| ChangeLog: | ChangeLog-6.1.191 |
5.15.224: longterm
Posted: 2026-10-30 11:57:49 Source: https://www.kernel.org/
| Version: | 5.15.224 (longterm) |
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| Released: | 2026-10-30 |
| Source: | linux-5.15.224.tar.xz |
| PGP Signature: | linux-5.15.224.tar.sign |
| Patch: | full (incremental) |
| ChangeLog: | ChangeLog-5.15.224 |
5.10.273: longterm
Posted: 2026-10-30 11:56:34 Source: https://www.kernel.org/
| Version: | 5.10.273 (longterm) |
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| Released: | 2026-10-30 |
| Source: | linux-5.10.273.tar.xz |
| PGP Signature: | linux-5.10.273.tar.sign |
| Patch: | full (incremental) |
| ChangeLog: | ChangeLog-5.10.273 |
ZFS High Availability in 2026
Posted: 2026-10-29 16:02:27 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vBb9dTI4-w
KDE Plasma 6.8.2 Released With More KWin and Wayland Fixes
Posted: 2026-10-29 16:00:00 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/kde-plasma-682-released-more-kwin-and-wayland-fixes
The KDE Project has released KDE Plasma 6.8.2, delivering another round of stability improvements for its Wayland-based Linux desktop environment. Released on October 27, 2026, the update arrives one week after Plasma 6.8.1 and two weeks after the anniversary release of Plasma 6.8, which marked 30 years since the KDE project's founding.
This second maintenance release concentrates on correcting regressions discovered after the initial rollout. The largest collection of changes targets KWin, KDE's window manager and Wayland compositor, with fixes involving multi-GPU synchronization, display handling, pointer constraints, color pipelines, and window stacking. Additional improvements address disappearing desktop icons, application launcher behavior, remote desktop sessions, screen recording, accessibility, and system monitoring.
Although Plasma 6.8.2 does not introduce major new desktop features, its corrections are particularly important because Plasma 6.8 completed KDE's transition away from native X11 desktop sessions. With Wayland now serving as Plasma's display foundation, improvements to KWin and its supporting components directly affect the reliability of the entire desktop environment.
KDE Continues Stabilizing Its Anniversary Release
KDE Plasma 6.8 arrived on October 14, 2026, coinciding with the project's 30th anniversary. The release introduced significant desktop changes, including the retirement of native X11 sessions, additional HDR improvements, expanded remote desktop capabilities, NVIDIA graphics optimizations, and further development of KDE's Union theming engine.
The transition represented an important architectural milestone, but major desktop releases frequently expose problems that were not encountered during development or beta testing. Linux desktops must operate across numerous combinations of graphics hardware, display configurations, drivers, input devices, and applications. Even extensive testing cannot always reproduce every environment used by the wider community.
KDE acknowledged this challenge during the development cycle following Plasma 6.8, noting that users had discovered regressions that were not reported during the beta period. Contributors responded with a substantial collection of fixes, many of which have now reached the stable 6.8 branch through its first two maintenance releases.
Plasma 6.8.2 continues that stabilization effort. Rather than changing the desktop's overall direction, it improves the reliability of existing functionality and addresses issues that could affect everyday workflows. The release includes corrections across KWin, Plasma Desktop, Plasma Workspace, Discover, KRDP, KPipeWire, and several other components.
Distribution Release: CarotOS 1.3
Posted: 2026-10-29 12:47:13 Source: https://distrowatch.com/13010
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Yusuf Miraç Üzümcüler has announced the release of CarotOS 1.3, the latest version of the project's specialist Debian-based Linux distribution designed primarily for cybersecurity education in a classroom. It includes a number of security tools, covering network scanning, traffic analysis, web and password testing, and firewall configuration, as....
Distribution Release: Gnoppix Linux 26_11
Posted: 2026-10-29 02:15:17 Source: https://distrowatch.com/13009
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Andreas Mueller has announced the release of Gnoppix Linux 26_11, an updated build of the project's privacy-hardened Linux distribution based on Debian's "Testing" branch and featuring the Xfce desktop: "We are excited to announce the release of Gnoppix 26.11. This release brings significant updates across network management, privacy....
Distribution Release: SweetPotatOs 2026.11
Posted: 2026-10-28 21:01:21 Source: https://distrowatch.com/13008
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. SweetPotatOs 2026.11 has been released. SweetPotatOs is a lightweight, Arch-based Linux distribution featuring the Swirl Wayland compositor (a fork of Sway), designed specifically for older computers. The project's changelog page provides a complete list of updates and bug fixes since the 2026.10 release: "Overview (Mod+Tab) no longer shows....
Distribution Release: Equestria OS 2026.10.28
Posted: 2026-10-28 17:02:22 Source: https://distrowatch.com/13007
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Lucia Lunadottir has announced the release of a new version of Equestria OS, a beginner-friendly, Arch-based Linux distribution with KDE Plasma as the preferred desktop. Equestria's main feature is a collection of custom graphical utilities for effortless computer management. The new release, labelled as version 2026.10.28, adds several....
EMACS Turns 50
Posted: 2026-10-28 17:00:00 Source: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/10/28/1541214/emacs-turns-50?utm_source=atom1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
"EMACS, the mother of all editors, turns 50!" writes Slashdot reader dr_jerry, sharing a report from MIT Technology Review: Programming used to be a very different experience from the one we know today. In fact, the first programmers didn't write code at all; the six women who worked on the ENIAC, one of the world's first computers, at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946 did it by physically configuring switches, cables, and plugboards. A few years later, MIT engineers programmed the Whirlwind by punching code onto paper tape that was then loaded into the computer's memory -- making it among the first "stored-program" machines. Later, they and others moved on to punch cards, one for each line of code. By the early 1960s, programmers with interactive computers could use a "line editor" to type their code on teletypes -- large, noisy keyboard-and-printer machines. They'd type one line of code at a time, and their work would be saved on a spinning hard disk the size of a modern washing machine. But there was still no such thing as the now-familiar full-screen text editors that allow programmers to see and modify many lines at a time on a display. One of the first such tools, EMACS, turns 50 this year, and it is still widely used. EMACS first ran on the early video terminals at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in 1976, but its core concepts were so powerful that it was rewritten for many operating systems in the decades that followed. Apple even distributed it with Mac OS X. Beyond that, the software-sharing community that started around EMACS helped give rise to the modern-day free software movement and the GNU/Linux operating system.
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How to Keep Flatpaks Updated with a systemd Service
Posted: 2026-10-28 15:00:25 Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd4S59KP35I
BSD Release: GhostBSD 26.2
Posted: 2026-10-28 09:32:47 Source: https://distrowatch.com/13006
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Eric Turgeon has announced the release of GhostBSD 26.2, the latest version of the project's desktop operating system based on FreeBSD, featuring the MATE and Xfce desktops. This release updates the base system to FreeBSD 15.1: "I am happy to announce the release of GhostBSD 26.2-R15.1p6. This release....