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How-to Geek 1 hour ago

These 5 Linux command-line tools let you work with Excel spreadsheets from the terminal 📋

Filtering, querying, visualizing, and editing: these tools do the lot. 📋

Linuxiac 2 hours ago

COSMIC Stops Accepting LLM-Generated Content in Pull Requests 📋

System76’s COSMIC project now requires contributors to confirm that pull requests contain no LLM-generated code, comments, or descriptions. 📋

9to5Linux 4 hours ago

LibreOffice 26.8.1 Open-Source Office Suite Released with 40 Bug Fixes 📋

LibreOffice 26.8.1 open-source office suite is now available for download as the first point release to the LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with 40 bug fixes. 📋

Phoronix 5 hours ago

Linux 7.4 To Introduce Initial Device Trees For Apple M4, A18 Pro For MacBook Neo 📋

Asahi Linux developer Sven Peter today sent out the pull requests of the Apple SoC Device Tree changes they are ready to upstream for the Linux 7.4 merge window happening later this month. Most notable is the initial Device Tree for Apple systems using the base M4 SoC model as well as for the MacBook Neo with the A18 Pro SoC... 📋

OMG! Ubuntu 5 hours ago

Raspberry Pi price increases due to 📋

Raspberry Pi has announced further price increases for its single-board computers driven, of course, by the ongoing cost of memory components. The cost of a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 or Raspberry Pi 5 jumps by $12.50 (£12) from 1 October, 2026: Model Old price New price Raspberry Pi 4 (2GB) $55 $67.50 (£64.80) Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB) $65 $77.50 (£74.40) For context, the Raspberry Pi 4 2GB model launched at $45 in 2019, was reduced to $35 in 2020, increased back to $45 in 2021 and rose by $10 in February. Prices of Pi models have increased in price several […] 📋

Linuxiac 6 hours ago

LibreOffice 26.8.1 Lands With 40+ Fixes Across the Office Suite 📋

The first maintenance update in the LibreOffice 26.8 series fixes crashes, import issues, PDF export bugs, and Microsoft Office compatibility problems. 📋

LWN.net 6 hours ago

[$] Beyond the & 📋

Rust has a number of kinds of smart pointers, both in the standard library and defined by users. Still, some operations that are possible with built-in references are not possible to perform with user-defined smart pointers. Tyler Mandry, lead of the Rust project's language team, spoke at RustConf 2026 about the lengthy effort to change that, and make smart pointers just as flexible as built-in references. 📋

Linuxiac 6 hours ago

Nginx UI Turns Nginx Management Into a Modern Web Experience 📋

Nginx UI offers a polished open-source dashboard for managing sites, configs, SSL certificates, logs, upstreams, nodes, and more from your browser. 📋

Phoronix 7 hours ago

Intel Ready With A Big Improvement For Battlemage With Linux 7.4 📋

Sent out on Thursday was the last round of planned Intel Xe kernel driver improvements targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. There is one big improvement that is set to benefit Intel discrete GPUs with at least Battlemage benefiting nicely... 📋

Phoronix 7 hours ago

Ubuntu Working On SHA3 For Debian's APT For If/When SHA2 Is Broken 📋

Ubuntu developer Gianpiero Carpinelli at Canonical has been working on introducing SHA3-256 and SHA3-384 support for Debian's APT packaging tool in preparing for if/when that SHA2 is broken... 📋

LWN.net 7 hours ago

Linux Test Project suite stable release for September 2026 📋

The Linux Test Project has announced its latest stable release for September 2026. There have been 382 patches from 41 authors since the May 2026 release. See the announcement for a list of new tests, changes, and more. 📋

LWN.net 8 hours ago

Security updates for Friday 📋

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dogtag-pki, expat, freerdp, gawk, gdb, ghostscript, gvfs, kernel, kernel-rt, libpcap, openssh, pki-core, rsync, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (chromium, firefox-esr, libio-compress-perl, libpng1.6, nodejs, open-iscsi, redis, thunderbird, and webkit2gtk), Fedora (sos), Mageia (libgcrypt, python-tornado, python-urwid, python-wcwidth, and wireshark), Oracle (corosync, dogtag-pki, expat, firefox, freerdp, gawk, glib2, ipa, kernel, libXfont2, nodejs:24, openssh, osbuild-composer, perl-DBI, pki-core, postgresql:12, python-cryptography, resteasy, ruby, ruby4.0, ruby:3.3, ruby:4.0, thunderbird, and xmlrpc-c), Red Hat (skopeo), SUSE (chromium, emacs, glib2, glibc, gnome-shell, helm3, ImageMagick, imagemagick, kernel-devel, libtcnative-1-0, libtcnative-1-0, libtcnative-2-0, tomcat, tomcat10,, libtcnative-2-0, libX11, libX11-6, libXi-devel, libXpm-devel, libXtst-devel, mistral-vibe, openssl-3, perl-DBI, perl-Protocol-HTTP2, php-composer2, ph 📋

Linuxiac 9 hours ago

Cloudflare Is Building a Free Public CA to Rival Let’s Encrypt 📋

Cloudflare is building a free, public Certificate Authority with ACME support to add more choice and resilience to the TLS ecosystem. 📋

Phoronix 11 hours ago

AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform OS Updated With ROCm 10.0, Linux 7.2 📋

With the AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PC that launched this summer that focused on local AI, one of the biggest surprises for me when reviewing the unit was finding that the Linux preload wasn't just a stock Ubuntu/Debian OS but rather a customized AMD Linux distribution known as AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform. Yesterday the newest version of AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform was released with some nice software updates... 📋

Linuxiac 11 hours ago

aerynOS Could Soon Welcome Budgie Desktop 📋

Joshua Strobl has opened a pull request to bring Budgie Desktop 10.10.3, related apps, and required dependencies into aerynOS. 📋