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Fixes for the CVE-2026-98432 Linux kernel vulnerability are available for Ubuntu.

GIMP 3.2.8 delivers a faster Preferences dialog, improved RTL text editing, restored Offset filtering, and multiple bug fixes.

Intel today posted a set of patches for bringing SoundWire support in the upstream Intel AVS driver for Raptor Lake. While Intel SoundWire activities are not new, I was curious to see them focusing on Raptor Lake improvements in 2026 for what will then go into a 2027 Linux kernel version…

Linux Mint’s next release will offer a hibernation mode, so you can close your laptop mid-session and not worry about returning to a drained battery. A new Sleep Modes page in the System Administration tool will make it easy to enable hibernation, and ensure it get setup the way you need. Over a few days, a laptop may sleep for a few days, but continues to use some power. If the battery runs out…

The aerynOS project has informed 9to5linux.com today about the release and general availability of aerynOS 2026.11 as the latest ISO snapshot of this independent Linux distro previously known as Serpent OS.

aerynOS 2026.11 ISO adds Budgie Desktop, an experimental installer with Btrfs support, and a redesigned Moss package manager CLI.

The “Lunduke Computer Operating System” from the Linux Tycoon is systemd-free, but wears a MAGA hat.

Cutefish returns with a rebuilt desktop environment, early macOS application compatibility, and nightly ISOs for AMD64 and ARM64.

'Modern tooling is already changing our daily workflows' says CEO at open source biz

After booting via USB pen on target box, right after you see the first screen for selection of desired OS, you are supposed to press CTRL+ALT+F3 without any other input into the first page of Agama Web UI. You would see in terminal IP-TARGET of target host and root password. From another box ( in my case no https://IP:443 ) launch your browser to https://IP-TARGET.
This step will bring you to Agama WEB UI and prompt for root "password". After entering Agama WEB UI environment select OS (Tumbleweed for instance) manage as usual until creating root account . . . . .

Flash the cash, flush the cache

In this article, you will learn how to use the Linux dd command with options and arguments and use it to create backups, clone hard drives, make bootable USB flash drives, and more.

CentOS Linux is gone, but CentOS Stream and Ubuntu Server are still here. See how they compare on support, security, packages and cost before you deploy.

Wants more local AI, without Big Tech getting open access to everything

Orange Pi has published hardware details for the OrangePi O1, a 90 × 70mm SBC based on the Sophgo BM1688 processor. It pairs eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores with a RISC-V C906 coprocessor and a 16-TOPS INT8 TPU, along with up to 16GB of LPDDR4/LPDDR4X memory. The BM1688 integrates eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores operating at up…

France's National Assembly has voted in favour of a new "internet tax" that would charge companies for every gigabyte of data they send to users in France. It may get messier than GDPR.

We often talk on this blog about large-scale migrations to LibreOffice, such as in the Austrian Military. But many small businesses are switching away from Microsoft, Google and other tech giants too. Today we’re talking to Mišo Oroz from Zerolock, a company in Italy that helps small businesses to switch

Rising component costs drive price increases for 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 and Compute Module 5, but not Raspberry Pi 500+.

Valve just published their Steam Survey results for October and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use on a relative basis…

October’s Linux app releases brought plenty of treats, a couple of tricks and mercifully few frights. In this post, I recap the updates that landed last month. There were other spooks in the shadows with a spotlight. October gave us a double-whammy of Firefox and Calibre updates, with JEPG XL support added in the former and AI reading voices in the latter – among other changes in both. It also…

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Kali 2026.3, Linux Lite 8.2, Budgie 10.10.4, Enlightenment 0.28, Hyprland 0.57, Firefox 159, Ghostty 1.4, Fedora 45 delayed again, and more.

Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) R14.1.7 desktop environment has been released today for nostalgic KDE 3.5 users as the seventh maintenance release of the R14.1.x series, adding new features and enhancements.

Agilex 2X is Altera’s latest FPGA and SoC portfolio, consisting of four device families for applications ranging from industrial control to high-performance computing. The first announced family, Agilex 27, incorporates 256Gbps transceivers, PCIe 7.0 support, and a distributed HyperFlow data network. The company has also released QuartusIQ, an AI-assisted development tool integrated into Quartus…

Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability of the first Release Candidate (RC) of the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel series for public testing and early adopters.

The SCINTIX P4 is a compact compute module developed by RELOC around Espressif’s ESP32-P4 microcontroller, using the 55 × 40mm form factor of Raspberry Pi CM4 and CM5 modules. It combines dual-core RISC-V processing with an ESP32-C6 wireless companion, Ethernet, and MIPI display and camera interfaces for embedded control and HMI applications. Unlike conventional Raspberry…

Enlightenment 0.28 has been released, the first major update to the open-source desktop environment since early 2025. Given the time between this and the previous 0.27 release, the changelog is suitably lengthy. Networking and audio stack enhancements, UI and UX tweaks and, of course, plenty of bug fixes are listed – no jaw-dropping UI changes, though. v0.28 adds a new Network Manager module.…

The MINIX T4000/T5000 is a compact AI workstation based on NVIDIA’s Jetson AGX Thor platform, combining Blackwell GPU architecture with Arm Neoverse-V3AE processors. The system supports up to 128GB of LPDDR5X memory, dual 10GbE networking, PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage, and Ubuntu 24.04 for local AI inference and development. The T4000 configuration uses NVIDIA’s Jetson T4000…

Even with Linus Torvalds having been on holiday, Linux 7.4-rc1 is out today on-schedule for capping off the Linux 7.4 merge window…

Linux 7.3 started out just under 41 million lines in total in the kernel source tree. In the end the Linux v7.3 tag came in at 41,019,555 lines as measured by cloc while now with Linux 7.4 we are inching ever closer to 42 million lines. On a Git commit basis, the Linux 7.4 merge window has been the busiest on record…

As openSUSE Tumbleweed barrels through the autumn, the month of October brought Linux enthusiasts several changes for this premier rolling release. October was a heavy month for both features and fixes, with 23 snapshots landing between Oct. 1 and 28. KDE Plasma 6.8.0 and KDE Frameworks 6.31.0 arrived as new…