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Following prominent Linux x86 platform enabler Hans de Goede leaving Red Hat (as recently noted, he recently joined Qualcomm), there is another prominent Linux kernel engineer that will be departing from Red Hat.

David Hildenbrand landed a patch into yesterday's Linux 6.18-rc6 kernel that acknowledges his departure soon from Red Hat

Systemd today finally merged support for building against and using the musl libc library. This is a win for Linux distributions like postmarketOS, Alpine Linux, and others that use musl by default as their standard C library or offer it as an option.

Since September has been a pull request for experimental support for building systemd with musl libc. This requires a new version of musl with a recent patch, which has been backported to some distributions like Alpine Linux and postmarketOS, in order to use musl as an alternative to glibc.

NetworkManager, a system service and set of tools for managing network connections, widely adopted by most Linux distributions, is rolling out version 1.54.2 today as the second maintenance update to the 1.54 series.

The first notable enhancement in this release is the ability to reapply the sriov.vfs property as long as the total number of virtual functions remains unchanged. This simplifies adjustments to VF configurations without forcing administrators to modify or reset the sriov.total-vfs value.

Additionally, the release introduces two new properties for users working with High-availability Seamless Redundancy (HSR) networks. NetworkManager now allows configuring the HSR protocol version directly through the hsr.protocol-version setting, offering more flexibility in environments where specific versions are required for interoperability.

VKD3D-Proton is one of the secret ingredients for Proton to make so many Windows games work well on Linux / SteamOS with a new 3.0 release out now.

You don't need to actually do anything to upgrade, as Valve pull in VKD3D-Proton changes for Proton versions themselves that you'll see in future Proton release updates. However, if you wish to try it out in the current version of Proton we have a GamingOnLinux guide to tell you what to do.

SUSE engineer Lucas Mülling is leading an effort to work on implementing SSH within the Zig programming language, a popular language for robust, optimal, and reusable software.

In development now and planned for further work during SUSE's upcoming Hack Week the first week of December is this SSH implementation being worked on in the Zig language.

https://archive.ph/vZh8f