New story! Collabora + Flipper: Opening up the RK3576

Collabora is excited to announce our partnership with Flipper to develop an open Linux platform for the highly anticipated Flipper One handheld device! Built on the Rockchip RK3576, this collaboration brings together Collabora's open-source expertise and Flipper's hardware innovation to create a powerful tool for hardware hackers and developers.

New story! HP Joins Dell and Lenovo in $100K Annual LVFS Sponsorship

  • LinuxStans.com; By Linux Stans (Posted by Feenta on May 21, 2026 12:17 PM EDT)
  • Groups: HP
HP becomes the third premier sponsor of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service, joining Dell and Lenovo in funding firmware update infrastructure for Linux users

New story! chipStar 1.3 Released For Running HIP/CUDA Code On SPIR-V With OpenCL

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on May 21, 2026 10:46 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Intel; Story Type: News Story
A new release of chipStar is now available as the open-source tool for compiling and running HIP/CUDA code in a vendor-neutral manner with the SPIR-V intermediate representation on OpenCL or even Intel Level Zero as the run-time alternative. This is part of the ambitious effort to allow NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP code to ultimately run on alternative vendors with increasing levels of success...

New story! Nitrux 6.1 Is Now Available for Download, Powered by Linux Kernel 7.0

Nitrux developer Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 6.1 as the latest stable ISO snapshot of this immutable, systemd-free GNU/Linux distribution featuring the Hyprland dynamic tiling Wayland compositor.

New story! RHEL 10.2 Released with Post-Quantum SSH and Kernel Livepatching

RHEL 10.2 is out with post-quantum SSH support, Kernel Livepatching, PostgreSQL 18, updated toolchains, and Flatpak desktop changes.

New story! Greg KH Calls For More Rust Linux Developers

Greg Kroah-Hartman took time away from his duties as Linux's second-in-command as stable maintainer, various subsystem maintainer, and recent hobby of using AI/LLMs for uncovering Linux kernel bugs to present at the Rust Week conference...

New story! Microsoft Azure Linux 4 Moves to a Fedora-Based Foundation

Microsoft’s Azure Linux 4 development branch confirms a move to Fedora-based packaging sources and standard RPM tooling.

New story! Vim Merges GTK4 Toolkit Support, Co-Authored-By Claude

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on May 20, 2026 9:36 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The GTK-based GUI version of the Vim text editor, gVim, now has support in place for the modern GTK4 toolkit as an alternative to its long present GTK2/GTK3 support...

New story! Canonical Launches Ubuntu Core 26 for IoT and Edge Devices

Ubuntu Core 26 arrives for IoT and edge devices with smaller OTA updates, ARM64 Livepatch, and up to 15 years of security maintenance.

New story! Mageia 10 RC1 Released With Newer Packages

Following the ISOs dropping a few days ago, today the Mageia 10 release candidate was officially announced for those fond of this Linux distribution with its roots tracing back to Mageia and Mandrake Linux...

New story! Ardour 9.5 Open-Source DAW Released with Chord Editing and Quantization

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on May 20, 2026 5:02 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Ardour 9.5 has been released today as the latest stable version of this powerful, free, cross-platform, and open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

New story! Wireshark 4.6.6 Packet Analyzer Released with ROHC Security Fix

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on May 20, 2026 3:30 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Wireshark 4.6.6 network protocol analyzer fixes a ROHC dissector crash, updates Npcap to 1.88, and resolves several Windows and protocol-related bugs.

New story! How to Install Scratch on Linux for Fun Coding Adventures

Discover how to install Scratch, an engaging visual programming language for kids and beginners, on your preferred Linux distribution.

New story! ODROID-H5 is a low-power x86 SBC with 10GbE and four M.2 slots

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on May 20, 2026 12:27 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Intel; Story Type: News Story
Hardkernel has introduced the ODROID-H5, a new x86 single-board computer based on Intel’s Core i3-N300 processor. The board updates the ODROID H-series with onboard 10GbE networking, four M.2 expansion slots, DDR5 memory support, and a revised HSIO configuration intended for storage, networking, and accelerator expansion. The new model succeeds the ODROID-H4 family and shifts the […]

New story! Mozilla Thunderbird 151 Released with Thundermail OAuth Sign-In

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on May 19, 2026 10:56 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Mozilla
Thunderbird 151 email client adds Thundermail OAuth sign-in, EWS account improvements, task sorting options, crash fixes, and security updates.

New story! Ubuntu Core 26 Released With Live Kernel Patching, Better OTA Updates

Following last month's release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical today released Ubuntu Core 26...

New story! AMD Announces The EPYC 8005 Series SKUs From 8 To 84 Cores

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on May 19, 2026 7:53 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Back in late February AMD announced the EPYC 8005 "Sorano" series to succeed EPYC 8004 Siena. At the time details were light while today AMD published the SKU table and more details on the EPYC 8005 series...

New story! Fedora Retiring Its Deepin Desktop Packages

A year after SUSE decided to remove its Deepin desktop packages over ongoing security concerns, Fedora Linux is now also removing their Deepin packages over similar concerns and lack of activity in maintaining the packages...

New story! Torvalds Capitulated on Rust and Slop, Now He's Paying the Price

Neither problem (Rust and slop) is about making the kernel better, an associate opines, both are about gaining control over development by displacing or crushing the senior developers. e.g. Ted, Linus, etc.

New story! OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Destined For Linux 7.2

The latest Linux gaming handheld driver work by Derek Clark of Valve's Linux efforts is the OneXPlayer Configuration Driver that is now set to premiere in the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle...

New story! Kitty 0.47 Terminal Emulator Adds Drag and Drop Kitten

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on May 19, 2026 12:47 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Kitty 0.47 GPU-accelerated terminal adds a new drag-and-drop kitten, window rearranging, auto config reloads, progress bars, and several security fixes.

New story! Canonical Launches Ubuntu Core 26 with Live Kernel Patching, Optimized Updates

Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today the general availability of Ubuntu Core 26 as the latest stable version of this minimal, immutable variant of the Ubuntu operating system for IoT (Internet of Things), edge, and embedded devices.

New story! ModuleJail Blocks Unused Linux Kernel Modules to Limit Attack Surface

ModuleJail is a new project that blacklists unused Linux kernel modules, helping reduce the attack surface exposed by recent local privilege escalation flaws.

New story! LILYGO adds ESP32-S3 Standard Series to T-SIM lineup

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on May 19, 2026 6:29 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
LILYGO has introduced the T-SIM / T-A Standard Series, a refreshed family of ESP32-S3 cellular development boards combining SIMCom and A76xx modem options with new hardware features including Qwiic support, seamless power switching, camera interfaces, optional GNSS functionality, and lower deep-sleep power consumption. The Standard Series is based on the ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 (N16R2) module with 16MB […]

New story! Firefox 151 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New

Today, Mozilla has published the final builds of the Firefox 151 web browser ahead of its official unveiling on May 19th, 2026, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.

New story! WireGuard Easy 15.3 Adds Server-Side Allowed IP Enforcement

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on May 19, 2026 3:26 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
WireGuard Easy 15.3 adds server-side Allowed IP enforcement, improving client access control for self-hosted WireGuard VPN setups.

New story! Torvalds: AI Tools Great When Not Causing Unnecessary Pain & Pointless Make-Believe Work

With yesterday's Linux 7.1-rc4 release are some additional comments by Linux creator Linus Torvalds around AI tooling and the surge in security bug reporting to the Linux kernel due to said LLM-powered tooling...

New story! More Intel Open-Source Projects Formally Sunset: BigDL Time Series Toolkit & Others

Yet more open-source Intel software projects have been formally archived. Over the past year Intel has formally discontinued a number of open-source projects it formally maintained. Many of them were already dormant and not too noteworthy but there were also some more notable ones discontinued like their legendary Clear Linux, Software Defined Silicon, Optane Memory software projects, and then other efforts like open ecosystem community/evangelism. This past week yet more Intel software projects were formally disbanded...

New story! DietPi 10.4 Adds Copy Fail and Dirty Frag Fixes for SBC Users

DietPi 10.4 adds kernel security fixes for Copy Fail and Dirty Frag, plus a new Orange Pi 5B image and SBC package updates.

New story! How to Install TensorFlow on Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros

Discover a step-by-step guide to safely install the TensorFlow library in a Python virtual environment on Ubuntu with practical examples.

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