New story! AlmaLinux Kitten 10 Adds i686 Userspace Support

AlmaLinux Kitten 10 now provides i686 package repositories and official 32-bit x86 container images, with the same model planned for AlmaLinux 10 stable.

New story! New Media Drivers Merged For Linux 7.1

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Apr 17, 2026 2:37 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
The media subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.1 merge window and includes new hardware support...

New story! Proton 11 Enters Beta Testing with Support for Breath of Fire IV, Unknown Faces

Valve released today the beta version of the upcoming Proton 11 open-source compatibility tool for Steam Play, based on Wine and additional components for playing Windows games on Linux systems.

New story! New NTFS File-System Driver Submitted For Linux 7.1

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Apr 16, 2026 11:35 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Making today very exciting in Linux 7.1 merge window land was a pull request being sent out for introducing the new, modern NTFS file-system driver. Linus Torvalds has yet to comment if he's going to merge the new driver but it looks like it's ready for providing a better Linux NTFS experience over the current NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed by Paragon Software a few years ago and hasn't seen too much feature progress...

New story! FunOS: Ubuntu LTS with JWM and No Snaps

With Ubuntu LTS under the hood and JWM on top, FunOS keeps things light, snap?free, and ready for you to assemble your own workspace.

New story! Linux 7.1 sched_ext Brings cgroup Sub-Scheduler Groundwork, Idle SMT Sibling Improvement

The extensible scheduler "sched_ext" code for allowing Linux scheduling behavior to be defined via BPF programs is seeing some useful improvements with the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel...

New story! Linux Mint Will Adopt a Longer Development Cycle Starting with Linux Mint 23

Linux Mint project leader Clement Lefebvre revealed today in the monthly newsletter for March 2026 that Linux Mint will adopt a longer development cycle starting with the upcoming Linux Mint 23 release.

New story! How to Add User to Sudo Group

Sudo users have the most authority over the system, including the ability to install, remove, update packages, and modify system files.

New story! Linux Mint Targets Christmas 2026 for Next Major Release

Linux Mint 23 Alfa is now based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Linux kernel 7.0, marking the start of development for the project’s next major release.

New story! Rust 1.95 Released With Several Improvements

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Apr 16, 2026 11:11 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Rust 1.95 was released to the wild today as the latest feature update to this popular programming language...

New story! Duane O’Brien Takes OSI’s Hot Seat

O’Brien’s first job at OSI won’t be polishing the logo; it’ll be navigating a community still concerned over the group’s Open Source AI Definition and last year’s messy board election.

New story! Linux 7.1 Delivers Performance Regression Fix For Sheaves

The Linux 7.1 kernel is bringing performance improvements for Sheaves, the per-CPU caching layer introduced several kernel cycles ago (Linux 6.18) for better efficiency on today's high core count hardware. Sheaves began as an opt-in feature but since Linux 7.0 is now being used for all caches...

New story! Zorin OS 18.1 Released With Lite Edition, Better App Support, and Linux 6.17

Zorin OS 18.1 is now available with the new Lite edition, Linux kernel 6.17, LibreOffice 26.2, and broader hardware support.

New story! exFAT For Linux 7.1 Helps Reduce File Fragmentation, Fixes

The exFAT file-system changes have landed for the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel...

New story! Raspberry Pi OS ends open-door policy for sudo

Command prefix will require password by default The latest version of Raspberry Pi OS now requires a password for sudo by default.…

New story! GDB source-tracking breakpoints

One of the main abilities of a debugger is setting breakpoints.GDB: The GNU Project Debugger now introduces an experimental featurecalled source-tracking breakpoints that tracks the source line a breakpointwas set to. Introduction Imagine you are debugging: you set breakpoints on a bunch ofsource lines, inspect some values, and get ideas about how to change yourcode. […]

New story! Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.2 Fixes Botched Disk Encryption Security

Archinstall 4.2 is now available as the latest update to this very convenient, text-based Arch Linux OS installer...

New story! Zorin OS 18.1 Boosts Windows App Support by 40%, Improves Window Tiling

Zorin OS 18.1 is out today as the first minor update to the latest Zorin OS 18 series of this Ubuntu-based distribution that aims to convert more Windows users to switch to Linux due to its friendly look and feel.

New story! Find the Last Logged-In Users on Linux with Lastlog Command

In this article, you will learn how to use the lastlog command on Linux to check the most recent login of all users or a specific user, as well as how to clear a single or all user’s last login records.

New story! Forlinx FAI-ARA240-M Packs Ara240 NPU into M.2 2280 Module

Forlinx Embedded has officially launched the FAI-ARA240-M, an M.2-based AI accelerator built around the NXP Ara240 processor. The module provides a discrete NPU for offloading inference workloads from embedded host systems. The Ara240 processor was first seen during the launch of the OK-MX9596-C. Forlinx provides additional details with this module, which delivers up to 40 […]

New story! Encrypt Files on Linux with Hideout and Skip the Terminal

This minimalist GTK app puts GPG?powered file encryption behind a drag?and?drop interface that even a Linux newbie can use on the first try.

New story! COSMIC 1.0.10 Desktop Environment Brings Small Tweaks and Bug Fixes

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Apr 15, 2026 1:38 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.0.10 (Epoch) today as the latest stable update to this Rust-based desktop environment for Pop!_OS Linux and other GNU/Linux distributions.

New story! Nominate Your Fedora Heroes: Mentor and Contributor Recognition 2026

It’s time to show our appreciation of the amazing contributors who help shape the Feodra community. The Fedora Project thrives through the devotion, guidance, and tireless drive of the contributors who consistently perform. From developing testcases to onboarding contributors, from technical writing to coordinating events, it is these vital champions who ensure that the community […]

New story! Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S.

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Apr 15, 2026 10:35 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
A new federal bill proposes OS-level age verification, advancing beyond state laws to establish a potential nationwide requirement.

New story! You can finally control serial devices from Firefox

Long languishing API gets love from Mozilla Firefox will soon be able to communicate directly with your 3D printer. Thirteen years after the idea was initially proposed, the Web Serial API has landed in Firefox Nightly, Mozilla's work-in-progress channel for its browser.…

New story! GNOME 50.1 Released with Basic Zoom Support for the Captive Portal

The GNOME project released GNOME 50.1 today as the first point release of the latest GNOME 50 desktop environment series to address some bugs, update translations, and implement a few enhancements.

New story! htop 3.5 System Monitor Released with Backtrace Screen, New Meters

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Apr 15, 2026 6:00 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
htop 3.5 is the first new release since April 2025 for this terminal system monitor, bringing a backtrace screen, new meters, and more.

New story! OpenSSL 4.0 Released With Encrypted Client Hello, RFC 8998 Support

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Apr 15, 2026 4:29 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
OpenSSL 4.0 was just released as a big update for this widely-used SSL/TLS and crypto library...

New story! GitHub invokes spirit of Phabricator with preview of Stacked PRs

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Apr 15, 2026 2:57 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Long-familiar workflow lets developers split big code changes into smaller, easier-to-review chunks GitHub has unveiled Stacked PRs, a new feature aimed at making large pull requests easier to review, manage, and move through the pipeline faster.…

New story! XOrg Server 21.1.22 and Xwayland 24.1.10 Released with Multiple Security Fixes

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Apr 15, 2026 1:26 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
The XOrg Server 21.1.22 and Xwayland 24.1.10 display implementations have been released today, patched against multiple security vulnerabilities that could lead to use-after-free, out-of-bounds reads, buffer overflow, or integer underflow.

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