New story! Linux 6.17 Getting More Rusty With Many Rust Language Additions

As has been the trend with recent Linux kernel releases, a lot of Rust programming language abstractions and other additions are coming for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel...

New story! How to Change OS Icons for VirtualBox Guests

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Aug 2, 2025 6:45 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Learn how to set your own custom OS icons for VirtualBox guests to make your virtual machines more visually organized and easier to identify.

New story! Linux 6.17 Memory Management Optimizations, DAMON_STAT & Other Improvements

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Aug 2, 2025 5:14 PM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
All of the memory management "MM" changes were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 6.17 merge window...

New story! KubeSphere Drops Open for Fauxpen — Blames It On AI or Something…

KubeSphere evidently failed to realize going in that open source means open, and is changing to a new proprietary license with “open source” in the name.

New story! LXD 6.5 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released

LXD 6.5 is out now, bringing PCI hotplug, OIDC secret support, QEMU 9.1 compatibility, dark mode UI, and better VM directory disk hotplugging.

New story! GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Aug 2, 2025 12:39 PM CST)
  • Groups: GNOME; Story Type: News Story
Newelle is a virtual AI assistant developed for the GNOME desktop that supports voice chat and can handle carrying out web searches, terminal command execution, website reading, file management, document editing, and more. Newell v1.0 was released this week for advancing this GNOME AI virtual assistant...

New story! The Bots Never Sleep: In The Weekends, Slopfarms Dominate Google News, Majority of Entries in Google Are Fake Articles About 'Linux'

  • Techrights; By Roy Schestowitz (Posted by schestowitz on Aug 2, 2025 11:08 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux
Google is fast becoming an ocean of plagiarism; the same goes for Google News, which was supposed to have extra quality control

New story! KDE Plasma 6.5 Finally Adds Automatic Day/Night Theme Switching

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly report on the interesting Plasma desktop changes for the week. This week a long-sought feature for the Plasma desktop was finally merged...

New story! KDE Plasma 6.5 to Debut Automatic Light/Dark Theme Switching

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Aug 2, 2025 6:28 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
KDE Plasma 6.5 introduces long-awaited automatic day/night theme switching, plus dynamic wallpapers, UI tweaks, and more bug fixes.

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...

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