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On my machines, the upgrade to Fedora 45 replaced gnome-keyring with oo7, and on the first one Brave came out with an almost empty password list. Nothing was actually lost: the old passwords were still on disk, and my real password store is KeePassXC anyway. On a second machine, an XFCE desktop, I upgraded carefully, with backups, and found where it goes wrong and how to fix it.

This article explains how Chromium-family browsers store passwords on Linux, what oo7 does differently, the steps that got every password back under XFCE, and a small script, browser-pwsafe, that saves everything you need before an upgrade.

At nearly 42 million lines, Linux 7.4 is the largest merge in the history of the kernel.

Fedora 45 is now available! 🎉 So let’s see what this new release for the Fedora Atomic Desktops variants includes for Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic, Budgie Atomic and COSMIC Atomic. Changes for all Atomic Desktops Completed the migration to the new Fedora forge Everything related to the Atomic Desktops now resides in the atomic-desktops organization.…

Full-disk encryption joins the toolkit, MATE and Xfce stay while Gershwin sits this one out

Fedora Workstation features the latest six months of meticulous polish, under-the-hood responsiveness, and security hardening for F45, based on GNOME 51. Whether you are multitasking across monitors, managng daily appointments, or organizing large sets of files, GNOME 51 brings thoughtful refinements to your daily workflow on Fedora Workstation. Silky-Smooth Responsiveness: Reworked Frame…

IONOS has been picked as a contractor, and the service would run inside data centers in Germany.

Berlin, 3 November 2026 – The Document Foundation today announced the release of LibreOffice 26.2.7, the seventh maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch. Building on the major feature release published on 4 February 2026, this update delivers targeted bug fixes and stability improvements contributed by a global community of

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora Linux 45! Whether you use Fedora on your desktop, server, edge device, or cloud instance, Fedora Linux 45 brings polished desktop upgrades, powerful new installer features, and updated toolchains. Every Fedora release is a major community effort – thank you to everyone in our…

EN / CA / CZ / ES / JA / EL / NL / SV / ZH-TW Members of the openSUSE Project are excited to announce the release of openSUSE Leap 16.1. This is the first minor release in the Leap 16 series and with this release, openSUSE’s immutable server…

Last week, Google and industry partners dismantled the XCPE backdoor which enrolled more than 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet. We assess with high confidence that the backdoor and botnet were intentionally developed, deployed, and operated for financial gain by...

AerynOS 2026.11 was released today along with a lengthy blog post highlighting the recent development work on this original Linux distribution…

Linux Mint is bringing back a feature most Linux distributions quietly gave up on years ago: hibernation.

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

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…

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

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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.