New story! Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” Will Reach End of Life on July 9th, 2026

Canonical announced this week that the interim Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” release is reaching the end of its supported life next month on July 9th, 2026.

New story! First Look at Audacity 4: A Beautiful and Modern Revamp of the Audio Editor

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jun 14, 2026 3:23 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Reviews; Groups: Linux
Today I took a first look at Audacity 4 since it just entered public beta phase, so I wanted to see what’s new and improved in this long-anticipated upgrade of one of the most popular open-source audio editors.

New story! New Steam Client Update Adds Support for Dimming the Steam Controller’s LED

Valve released a new stable Steam Client update today that further improves support for the new Steam Controller while also addressing some bugs affecting downloads and remote play.

New story! Haiku OS Now Enables AVX-512 Support, Other Hardware Improvements

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jun 14, 2026 12:20 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Intel; Story Type: News Story
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system now enables Advanced Vector Extensions 512 on capable Intel/AMD CPUs. A number of other hardware driver improvements were also merged for this interesting OS during the last month...

New story! Shelly 2.3.3 Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves Flatpak/AppImage Support

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jun 13, 2026 10:48 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Arch, Linux
Shelly developer Zoey Bauer released Shelly 2.3.3 today as a new stable update to this open-source graphical package manager for Arch Linux-based distributions, adding more new features and improvements.

New story! GCC 17 Merges Function Multi-Versioning For APX & AVX10.2

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jun 13, 2026 9:17 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Intel; Story Type: News Story
Earlier this month I wrote about Intel working on function multi-versioning support for APX and AVX10.2 with the GCC compiler. This allows developers to write optimized code paths specifically targeting Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) or Advanced Vector Extensions 10.2 capabilities of future processors while being able to otherwise fall-back to generic or other optimized code paths for other ISA target features. This work is now merged for GCC 17...

New story! KDE Plasma 6.7 Nears Release with Final Bug-Fixing Push

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jun 13, 2026 7:45 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
KDE is preparing Plasma 6.7 for release next Tuesday, with fixes for crashes, broken animations, widget glitches, and several desktop regressions.

New story! Intel Thermald 2.5.12 Released... With Initial Support For ARM

Released on Friday was the newest version of Intel Thermald, the thermal daemon developed by Intel for their processors on Linux for monitoring and helping control temperatures across modern Intel-powered laptops and desktops. Catching me immediately by surprise was Intel Thermald 2.5.12 introducing support for ARM...

New story! Modular Framework 13 Pro Laptop Will Now Ship in July

Framework’s next-gen Linux-friendly, repair-it-yourself laptop hits a speed bump, with shipping pushed from June to July over last-minute touchpad and display fixes.

New story! Wine 11.11 Adds Bundled SymCrypt Library and Wayland Layered Windows

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jun 13, 2026 3:11 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Wine 11.11 replaces TomCrypt with bundled SymCrypt, adds layered windows in the Wayland driver, and fixes 25 bugs.

New story! First Look at Antergos NeXT: A Modern Revival of Antergos Linux with KDE Plasma

Meet Antergos NeXT, a modern revival of the Antergos Linux distribution based on Arch Linux and featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment.

New story! Fedora 45 Considering A Lightened GRUB Bootloader For Confidential Compute

Among the changes being considered for the in-development Fedora 45 is a lightened version of the GRUB UEFI bootloader that would focus on being a minimal implementation suitable for confidential computing...

New story! Red Hat Releases Second Developer Preview Of RHEL 10 For RISC-V

Last year when releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, Red Hat announced a RHEL 10.0 developer preview for RISC-V. Since then that RISC-V developer preview hadn't been updated but now Red Hat has published a new developer preview snapshot based on RHEL 10.2...

New story! Chrome Closes Another Door on Classic uBlock Origin

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jun 13, 2026 9:05 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Chrome closes another path for classic uBlock Origin as Chromium removes a leftover Manifest V2 flag from the browser codebase.

New story! Ubuntu 26.10 Reaffirms Plans For Switching To Dbus-Broker

Among the many new features planned for Ubuntu 26.10 is switching the default D-Bus implementation over to using the high performance Dbus-Broker drop-in replacement...

New story! Yserver Is a New X11 Server for Linux Written from Scratch in Rust

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jun 13, 2026 6:02 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Yserver is a new X11 server written in Rust, with working support for MATE, Xfce, Cinnamon, and classic window managers.

New story! OpenZFS 2.4.3 Released With Many Bug Fixes

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jun 13, 2026 4:30 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
OpenZFS 2.4.3 is out today as the newest stable point release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation as well as point releases for the OpenZFS 2.3 and 2.2 series too...

New story! T2 Linux 26.6 “Mythos” Brings Linux 7.0, Refined KDE Plasma Desktop with Flatpak Support

The T2 Linux team released today T2 Linux 26.6 (codenamed “Mythos”) as a hefty update to this highly portable source-based Linux distribution, bringing some of the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies.

New story! Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Affected Packages

The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware. Now in ending out the day they believe all affected commits have been addressed. But it ended up being more than 1,500 affected packages...

New story! KDE Frameworks 6.27 Is Out to Improve KRunner, Breeze Icons, and More

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jun 12, 2026 11:56 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE, Linux
The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 6.27 as the monthly update to this collection of more than 80 add-on libraries to Qt and a companion to the KDE Plasma desktop environment and KDE Gear software suite.

New story! Justin Wheeler on Growing Up in the Fedora Community

Flock to Fedora is more than a conference – it’s where the Fedora community comes alive. As part of the In the CommitHistory campaign, we sat down with confirmed Flock 2026 speakers to hear their stories: what brought them to Fedora, what Flock means to them personally, and what they’re hoping for in Prague this […]

New story! Btrfs Snapshot Deletion Gets Faster as Developers Tackle One of the Filesystem's Biggest Pain Points

The Btrfs filesystem continues to receive significant performance tuning, and one of the latest areas of focus is snapshot deletion performance. While Btrfs snapshots have long been praised for their speed, flexibility, and efficient use of storage, deleting large numbers of snapshots has historically been one of the filesystem’s most resource-intensive operations.

New story! Audacity 3.7.8 Audio Editor Improves Linux HiDPI UI

Audacity 3.7.8 lands with Linux HiDPI UI improvements, multichannel FLAC import fixes, and several editing, scripting, and macro bug fixes.

New story! M5Stack LLM-8850 Kit delivers 24 TOPS AI acceleration in M.2 form factor

The LLM-8850 Kit is an M.2-based AI accelerator designed for edge AI, embedded inference, video analytics, and multimodal large-model workloads. It combines the LLM-8850 Card, a compact M.2 M-Key 2242 module based on the Axera AX8850 SoC, with a PiHat adapter board for the Raspberry Pi 5.   The AX8850 integrates eight Arm Cortex-A55 cores […]

New story! Arch Devs Scramble as 400 AUR Packages Infected With Malware

Arch User Repository hit by a large-scale malware campaign, with maintainers racing to roll back malicious commits and lock out bad actors.

New story! PeppermintOS Releases New Systemd-Free Build Based on Devuan Excalibur

PeppermintOS releases a new systemd-free build based on Devuan Excalibur, offering SysVinit, OpenRC, and runit as installer options.

New story! Arch Linux's AUR Sees More Than 400 Packages Compromised With Malware

The Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these user-supplied packages being compromised...

New story! LTMNight SDDM Theme Brings a Modern Aesthetic and Live Shader Backgrounds to Your Login Screen

Taking on challenges helped me grow in Linux. After migrating to Arch and Hyprland, I built HyprLTM-Net and now introduce LTMNight SDDM Theme with GLSL shaders.

New story! I Don't Think I Can Go Back To Windows...

(Video) After more than 1 month using some flavor of Linux Linus, Luke and Elijah all sit down to discuss what they liked and didn't like about using it.

New story! ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Reaches The Milestone Of Being Able To Run Half-Life

ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game Half-Life running on this open-source platform...

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