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4MLinux developer Zbigniew Konojacki announced the release and general availability of 4MLinux 49.0 as the latest stable version of this mini Linux distribution featuring the lightweight JWM window manager.

Learn how the new Linux backdoor Plague uses PAM to silently bypass system login. Understand how it works and its security risks.

Audacity 3.7.5 has been released as a new stable version of this open-source digital audio editor and recording software to improve the stability and reliability of the software.

The AlmaLinux project announced today that there is now "native" NVIDIA graphics driver support for AlmaLinux 10 and AlmaLinux 9 using NVIDIA's open-source kernel modules that are now conveniently packaged in an AlmaLinux repository for easy usage complete with NVIDIA's closed-source user-space packages like CUDA...

On Linux 6.15.3+ there have been increased reports of log tree corruption being hit by users of the Btrfs file-system. Fortunately, a fix has now been submitted for Linux 6.17 Git and then for back-porting to the recent stable kernel versions...

KaOS Linux 2025.07 has been released today as the latest ISO snapshot for this independent Linux distribution built on top of the latest KDE software and featuring Arch Linux’s pacman package manager.

Proton Authenticator is an open source, privacy-focused Authenticator app that lets you securely sync and manage 2FA codes across all your devices—without ads, tracking, or lock-in.

KDE Plasma 6.4.4 fixes crashes in KWin, improves System Monitor behavior, and refines Flatpak handling in Discover.

More evidence that AI expands the attack surface Check Point researchers uncovered a remote code execution bug in popular vibe-coding AI tool Cursor that could allow an attacker to poison developer environments by secretly modifying a previously approved Model Context Protocol (MCP) configuration, silently swapping it for a malicious command without any user prompt.…

Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 is out now, featuring Debian 13, LVM snapshot support, SDN Fabrics, and a revamped mobile UI.

The PCI-SIG announced today the PCI Express 8.0 specification due out in 2028 will double the data of the PCI Express 7.0 specification, taking it to 256 GT/s...

The Rust project put out a status update concerning its 2025 project goals to summarize what has been accomplished during the first half of the year...

Audacity 3.7.5 audio editor brings beta support for Windows ARM64, but lacks third-party plugin compatibility and needs Windows 11 or newer to run.

GPT-OSS now available in 120 and 20 billion parameter sizes under Apache 2.0 license OpenAI released its first open weights language models since GPT-2 on Tuesday with the debut of GPT-OSS.…

StarDict plugins on Debian 13 leak selected X11 text over HTTP to Chinese dictionary services, exposing potentially sensitive data.

Join us this week for the Anaconda Web UI Installer test week where we are focusing testing on Anacondas brand new WebUI for KDE and Spins live images. What is a test week? Test weeks are organised by the Fedora QA team per release cycle and are a great way to get involved in developing […]

Following yesterday's F2FS pull request, the exFAT file-system updates were sent out and since merged for the ongoing Linux 6.17 kernel merge window...

New version season is near, and some of the big names are dropping x86-32 – but not this one NetBSD 11 is taking shape and the code branch for the new release has been created.…

In this comprehensive tutorial, we will discuss how to implement pam_faillock account lockout ubuntu policies after failed login attempts on Debian and Ubuntu systems. The pam_faillock module allows for automatic user account locking after a specified number of failed authentication attempts. This provides protection against brute-force login attacks. This article will also discuss configuration settings and security implications for implementing this protection.

If all goes according to plan Debian 13.0 will be released this weekend. Already in its effectively final state aside from any last minute fixes, I've begun running Debian 13 testing builds on various systems in the lab to great success. With two years since Debian 12, the new software packages of Debian 13 help in delivering better performance especially on modern systems. Here is a look at Debian 12 versus Debian 13 performance on an AMD EPYC server across 130 benchmarks. Coincidentally, Debian 13 is coming in at 13% faster than Debian 12.