New story! Fix Missing Minimize, Maximize menu On LibreWolf Easily

Fix Missing Minimize, Maximize menu On LibreWolf Easily on KDE Plasma

New story! Attack Vector Controls Land In Linux 6.17 To Better Control CPU Security Mitigations

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Aug 2, 2025 2:35 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
The Attack Vector Controls work is now in Linux 6.17 for those new tuning knobs worked on by AMD engineer David Kaplan to make it more straight-forward for Linux server administrators and power users to more easily select the CPU security mitigations relevant to their system(s) and intended workloads...

New story! When Flatpak's Sandbox Cracks: Real-Life Security Issues Beyond the Ideal

Flatpak promises a secure runtime for Linux applications through container-like isolation, relying on bubblewrap namespaces, syscall filtering, and portal interfaces. In theory, each app should operate inside a strong sandbox, disconnected from the host system. But in reality, experience shows gaps, tiny cracks through which apps may escape with serious consequences.

New story! Steam Survey For July Shows Linux Use Approaching 3%

Back in February Steam on Linux was at a 1.45% marketshare, then was corrected to 2.33% for Linux gaming in March, 2.27% for April, a nice jump to 2.69% for Linux gaming in May, and June came in at 2.57% for the Linux gaming population as a percent of Steam users. The July numbers were published this evening and show a new recent high for Linux gamers...

New story! How to Change Waydroid Screen Resolution Easy Resize Guide

Change waydroid screen size easily when you wanna make some screen is not fullscreen on your Linux PC

New story! Microsoft's Debt Exploded by 15.4 Billion Dollars in the Past 9 Months Alone (Despite All the Layoffs)

  • Techrights; By Roy Schestowitz (Posted by schestowitz on Aug 1, 2025 8:29 PM CST)
  • Groups: Microsoft
After nearly 10 waves of layoffs in 2025 (not 2 as the mainstream media likes to claim) the workforce is a lot smaller and money is still absent, except for speculation in Wall Street

New story! Another one bites the dust as KubeSphere kills open source edition

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Aug 1, 2025 6:12 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Company blames license violations and infrastructure changes for abrupt move KubeSphere has become the latest service to abruptly yank an open source edition of a product, triggering outcry from users.…

New story! NetworkManager 1.54 Adds Per-Device IPv4 Forwarding

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Aug 1, 2025 4:41 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
NetworkManager 1.54, a Linux network configuration tool, brings per-device IPv4 forwarding, plus enhancements for WireGuard, OVS, and initrd.

New story! Incus 6.15 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released

Incus 6.15 is out now with OCI registry auth, webhook logging, markdown CLI output, and improved VM memory handling.

New story! Boston-Based FSF Could Use a Few Volunteers on August 11

FSF’s big summer fundraiser is over and it’s now time for rolling up the sleeves to get those orders shipped!

New story! EXT4 Shows Wild Gains With Better Block Allocation Scalability In Linux 6.17

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Aug 1, 2025 12:06 PM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
The EXT4 file-system enhancements for Linux 6.17 were merged on Thursday and bring better scalability to the block allocation code as well as fixing the file-system's large folios support. The scalability work can show some wild gains in select areas...

New story! RustDesk 1.4.1 Remote Desktop Adds Terminal and Stylus Support

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Aug 1, 2025 10:35 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
RustDesk 1.4.1, an open-source remote desktop app, adds terminal access, stylus support, OTP login, and IPv6 punch.

New story! Intel XeSS 2.1 Released With Frame Generation For Non-Intel GPUs But Still A Binary Mess

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Aug 1, 2025 9:03 AM CST)
  • Groups: Intel; Story Type: News Story
This evening Intel released XeSS 2.1 as the newest version of their Xe Super Sampling library with upscaling, frame generation, and low latency optimizations for gamers. Notable with XeSS 2.1 is that it introduces XeSS Frame Generation with Xe Low Latency support now for non-Intel GPUs...

New story! New Google AI model maps world in 10-meter squares for machines to read

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Aug 1, 2025 7:32 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
DeepMind geospatial AI model offers comprehensive view of Earth image data Google has released a new AI model that maps the world in 10-meter squares for machines to read.…

New story! Canonical dusts off TPM encryption for Ubuntu 25.10

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Aug 1, 2025 6:00 AM CST)
  • Groups: Ubuntu; Story Type: News Story
Passworldless disk locking is coming, a couple of years later than hoped Canonical's Director of Engineering for Ubuntu Desktop has published a roadmap for the 25.10 release, which includes a feature that was originally planned for 23.10.…

New story! DuckStation PS1 Emulator Dev May Drop Linux Support After AUR Frustrations

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Aug 1, 2025 4:29 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
After repeated complaints from Arch users, the DuckStation PS1 emulator dev removed the PKGBUILD and is considering dropping Linux support altogether.

New story! Steam Beta Brings Fix For UI Scaling On XWayland

Valve is ending out the month of July with a new Steam beta release that has a few Linux-specific fixes...

New story! Scratch-Built KaOS and Its Latest KDE-Driven Evolution

KaOS doesn’t follow the crowd; it sets its own course with a bold KDE twist. This just might be the Linux distro you’ve been waiting for.

New story! Arch AUR Under Fire Once More as Malware Resurfaces

Just ten days after a previous incident, malware with a Remote Access Trojan has once again been discovered in Arch Linux AUR packages.

New story! Proton Launches Free, Open Source Authenticator App

Proton has launched a free, open-source 2FA app with encrypted sync, offline access, for iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and Linux.

New story! Linus Torvalds Continues Using A Radeon RX 580 Graphics Card, Back On An Intel Laptop

The AMD Radeon RX 480 / RX 580 "Polaris" graphics cards remain very popular on the Steam Survey and among enthusiasts/desktop users at large even though they are nearly a decade old. The nine year old Polaris graphics cards have aged well in the marketplace and are an affordable choice. For Linux users they continue enjoying strong open-source driver support. It turns out Linux creator Linus Torvalds himself is still relying on an AMD Radeon RX 580 with one of his main systems...

New story! How to Install ERPNext on Debian 13

  • Rose Hosting Blog; By rosehosting.com (Posted by RoseHosting on Jul 31, 2025 7:20 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
ERPNext is one of the best open-source ERP software systems you will ever see. It is a free, open-source software that you can use to manage your business. ERPNext is an ERP system that enables users to monitor and manage various core business functions from a single, centralized software environment.

New story! CDE, The Common Desktop Environment, Now Ported To OpenBSD

Explore CDE, the classic Common Desktop Environment, now ported to OpenBSD. Relive this open-source UNIX desktop from 1993-1999

New story! Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 3 Released For Monthly Testing

For the Ubuntu 25.10 development cycle to complement the daily ISOs, Canonical began releasing monthly snapshots to facilitate more testing from the community and also in working to enhance their build automation / infrastructure. Today marks the third monthly release of Ubuntu 25.10 for testing...

New story! ESP32-P4-WIFI6 Development Board with Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 Support

Waveshare has introduced the ESP32-P4-WIFI6, a multimedia development board built around the ESP32-P4 with an integrated ESP32-C6 module. The design supports Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5/BLE, offering a wide set of human–machine interaction interfaces and hardware expansion capabilities. The ESP32-P4-WIFI6 combines the processing power of the ESP32-P4 dual-core RISC-V MCU running at 400?MHz with the […]

New story! Arch Linux Installer Gets U2F Authentication and Bluetooth Support

Archinstall 3.0.9 menu-based installer for the Arch Linux distribution is now rolling out with various new features like the ability to set up a Bluetooth connection, as well as improvements and bug fixes.

New story! How to Enable SSH on Debian 13

  • Rose Hosting Blog; By rosehosting.com (Posted by RoseHosting on Jul 31, 2025 11:42 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
In this blog post, we will explain how to enable SSH on Debian 13. SSH, or Secure Shell, is a cryptographic network protocol that allows secure remote access and data transfer between servers or computers over an unsecured network.

New story! Banana Pi BPI-R4 Lite Released with MediaTek MT7987A and Wi-Fi 7 Support

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Jul 31, 2025 10:11 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Banana Pi team has launched the BPI-R4 Lite, a smart router board powered by the MediaTek MT7987A processor. It supports Wi-Fi 7 and offers multiple high-speed interfaces, targeting applications such as internet service routers, wireless repeaters, home gateways, NAS devices, and 4G or 5G connectivity. The board is powered by the MediaTek MT7987A quad-core […]

New story! Fedora Considers Hardlinking Identical /usr Files By Default For Deduplicating RPM Assets

Another change proposal filed recently for the Fedora Linux 43 release is to hardlink identical files within /usr by default for RPM-provided files that are 100% identical and can be then deduplicated to help conserve disk space and increase system efficiency...

New story! Alma-Based HeliumOS 10 Is Out — Here’s What I Think

Alma-based HeliumOS 10 is out now with Linux kernel 6.12, Zsh as default, Btrfs with optional encryption, and Docker preinstalled—here’s my take.

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