Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today the general availability of Ubuntu Desktop images for the RISC-V architecture, along with unofficial and unsupported Xubuntu Minimal images for RISC-V.
Flathub has replaced its blanket ban on AI-generated applications with a disclosure requirement. Reviewers can still reject submissions, and manifests remain off-limits for AI-generated content.
The EXT4 file-system today deprecated its journaled mode of the “data=journal” mount option. Following its deprecation, this mode is planned for removal in the year 2028.
Klassik brings the KDE 3 desktop to Plasma 6: reimplemented panel applets, the KDE 2/3 application style, ports of the KWin window decorations, and the original color schemes and wallpapers, with Wayland support.
Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.10 today as the latest stable version of this Rust-based desktop environment for modern GNU/Linux distributions.
The Q4OS team announced today the release and general availability of Q4OS 6.10 as the tenth update to the Q4OS 6 “Andromeda” series of this Debian-based Linux distro featuring KDE Plasma and Trinity Desktop Environment.
Canonical recently added the Myna orchestrator snap and speech-recognition AI models to the Snap Store, and made a new desktop Myna Settings tool available to install from a PPA.
AI can speed up a lot of the manual labour needed to bring even an almost dead, 10-year-old device back to life. My Xiaomi Mi Max 2 (oxygen, MSM8953) was dead. With AI help and my own knowledge, I ported/rewrote the missing drivers, and it now runs Nura (postmarketOS) with working camera, torch, SIM, phone calls and SMS. Only the loudspeaker is still broken.
Today, the Raspberry Pi project released today an updated version of its Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS distribution for Raspberry Pi single-board computers with new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
Canonical is about to release its interim version of Ubuntu, the Stonking Stingray, a.k.a. Ubuntu 26.10, and they are doubling down on security with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel series, a slimmed-down GRUB bootloader, and more.
In 8 hours it uses 20% of the battery. When Windows or Mac are put to sleep, the damn things can sleep for a week! This is the case with Linux on multiple laptops.
AI can speed up a lot of the manual labour needed to bring even an almost dead, 10-year-old device back to life.
My Xiaomi Mi Max 2 (oxygen, MSM8953) was dead. With AI help and my own knowledge, I ported/rewrote the missing drivers, and it now runs Nura (postmarketOS) with working camera, torch, SIM, phone calls and SMS. Only the loudspeaker is still broken.
Kagi has announced it will stop developing the Orion Browser for Linux and Windows, ending its direct work on these platforms. The good news is that instead of dropping the project, the company plans to open-source both versions so other developers or organizations can keep them going.
Steam on Linux use in March hit an all-time high of around 5.33% marketshare. Since then it pulled back to around 4% while for September 2026 the Steam Survey results are now in and it’s clocking in just above 3%.
In addition to NVIDIA announcing their Display Config Server project at XDC 2026 in Toronto, at this annual developer’s conference they also presented their findings on scientific testing of X.Org vs. Wayland latency.
System76’s COSMIC desktop now requires contributors to certify that pull requests contain no LLM-generated content. The new template also adds a Developer Certificate of Origin.
OpenMandriva has published refreshed installation images for ROME, its rolling-release edition, combining the distro’s current software stack in the new 26.09 snapshot.
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I’m currently using Tailscale with a self hosted control server(headscale). The problem’s that when the control server goes down for several days(Internet outage, here, in Iran), the clients get lost. And I have to come up with a new control server.
they shipped new Ubuntu 26.10 Snapdragon Concept images today with improved Snapdragon X1 laptop support as well as the initial Snapdragon X2 laptop support.
Flatpak 1.18.4 has been released as a security-focused update to the popular application sandboxing and distribution framework for Linux, addressing six newly disclosed vulnerabilities along with several related hardening improvements.
As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls.
A proposal to make KDE an “AI-native” desktop has gone down like a house on fire: screams, flames, people running for safety. There may be no survivors.*
For the first time, there’s a way to carry out software certification on AlmaLinux, and the hardware suite has been rewritten alongside it, with test results from either certification path landing in the same public catalog.
I’m not seeing many people taking about it online when talking about music player on Linux, So I make this post to spread the word https://www.nokarin.xyz/projects/aqloss#download , https://flathub.org/en/apps/xyz.nokarin.aqloss
Solus Linux has announced a new policy on using AI and large language model tools in project contributions, explaining where these tools can and cannot be used.
Hey everyone! Yesterday, I announced on Mastodon my third research paper that was accepted: https://infosec.exchange/@vmcall/117327103049106849. You may remember that earlier this year, I made this post: https://lemmy.world/post/41712400. In that, I was talking about randomly stumbling across cachestat… but if you read the paper, I also mention the inotify subsystem too 🧐. Well, I started digging into that and voila:
Personal opinion: Nathan seems to be really side-stepping a lot of concerns brought of up in the comments there. And referring to people coming together collectively in an open-letter when virtually all other channels are closed as ‘brigading’ is… Not cool. Edit: he retracted the use of brigading.
I ( @thingsiplay@beehaw.org ) wrote some niche commandline Python script to rename filenames. I know there are many tools to do this already. It’s in the vein of something like Perl rename command. Maybe someone is interested, I don’t know.
Given its extremely high energy and water consumption, the increased minimum system requirements driving premature hardware obsolescence, among other very problematic social and political issues, genAI/LLMs are not compatible with the values and goals of KDE Eco.
Ubuntu 26.10 changes how the system choose which processes are killed when memory runs low, making a rogue browser tab is less likely to punt you back to the login screen.
Wine 11.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and apps on Linux, macOS, and other platforms.
Arch Linux was my distribution of choice for more than a decade. With its rolling-release model, minimal base, and the invaluable ArchWiki, it felt like the final distribution I would ever need.
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