The F-Droid project has announced the release of F-Droid 2.0, which is a complete redesign of the official app. Notable changes in the release include making it…
COSMIC Epoch 1.9 was released last night as the newest version of the System76-sponsored, Rust-based desktop environment. COSMIC Epoch 1.9 release notes only be…
So far, Canonical has followed a split kernel SRU cycle for Ubuntu, where regular fixes and security patches lived on separate tracks, with a full update every …
Sudheendra Raghav Neela, a member of a group of researchers from Graz University of Technology, has announced the release of research into file-notification att…
Following their recent AVX10_V2_AUX support for GCC as part of the bring-up for the AI Compute Extensions "ACE" in GCC 17, AMD compiler engineers this week post…
First thing first. Yesterday, I mistakenly sent the Local AI Weekly newsletter to everyone. That was not supposed to happen. I'll be more careful in the future.…
Many of the transmissions sent over the radio spectrum can be decoded with a relatively cheap hardware dongle. Thomas Eckert presented at RustConf 2026 in Montr…
One of the livelist Fedora Discourse community discussions in recent days -- or even in quite a period of time for that matter -- comes down to a user having su…
Qualcomm has put out an early developer preview of Linux for Snapdragon X2 Series laptops, asking kernel developers, distro maintainers, and hardware enablement…
After a two-year hiatus, LWN's Jonathan Corbet presented an updated edition of his Kernel Report at the Kernel Recipes conference. Corbet looked at what is happ…
Following the KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta from earlier this month, the second and last beta of the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop is now available for testing...…
The built-in skills allow you to control and change system settings via AI agent. Is this the beginning of AI assistant for desktop computers?…
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, firefox, kernel, kernel-rt, openexr, perl-DBI, podman, postgresql, postgre…
Two years ago RHEL-derived AlmaLinux announced a hardware certification program as part of their Certification Special Interest Group (SIG). They have now expan…
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Git 2.56; gccrs; NetBSD and compat_linux; io_uring; Desktop UX. Briefs: WordPress vulnerability; Radicle vulne…
The Linux kernel is having to introduce a new taint flag "TAINT_FORCED_BIND" to deal with fuzzing bots like Syzbot abusing Linux's bind/unbind sysfs functionali…
Canonical today released Mir 2.30 as the newest release of this Wayland compositor library for building out different shells and other functionality from smart …
Lead LVFS/Fwupd developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced Fwupd 2.1.8 today as the newest feature release for this open-source firmware updating solution fo…
In 2022 the SLOB allocator was deprecated and removed with Linux 6.4 a year later. SLOB was popular with embedded systems with minimal amounts of RAM, so as a r…
Sent out today was the latest weekly pull of drm-misc-next changes of feature material to queue in DRM-Next for Linux 7.4. Most notable in this week's pull requ…
With Debian voting to allow the responsible use of generative AI, there is now a new initiative funded by Scaleway to make it easier for Debian contributors to …
Qualcomm at their Snapdragon Summit taking place in Hawaii are talking up the forthcoming Linux support for Snapdragon X2 series laptops...…
The AMD-aligned Lemonade open-source project for serving as a local AI server released 2026.39.1 today as well as issuing a release candidate of 2026.40 as thei…