Linux NewsArch Installer Goes 4.0 With a New Face and Fewer 'Curses'
The release drops curses in favor of Textual, but that's just the highlight.
Raspberry Pi prices rise AGAIN, as 3GB variant introduced
Raspberry Pi has announced a fresh round of price rises for its range of popular single-board computers, owing to industry-wide memory costs. It’s also launched a new version of the Pi 4 with 3GB RAM to sweeten the bad news, albeit somewhat. This is the second price rise announced for Raspberry Pi in recent months. The RRP of many Raspberry Pi boards was bumped in December, adding up to $20 to the cost of Raspberry Pi 5 boards versus the original price. Price increases this time around are far more dramatic. The Raspberry Pi 5 (8 GB) originally sold at […]
GNOME 50 Drops Google Drive Integration (For Valid Reasons)
Nobody stepped up to maintain a key package, and its security baggage eventually led to this.
Arch Linux April 2026 ISO Ships With Kernel 6.19 and Systemd 260
Arch Linux April 2026 ISO includes Linux kernel 6.19, systemd 260, updated firmware, and refreshed core packages from March.
Must Be April Fools’ Day. Gentoo Says It’s Moving to Hurd
Gentoo has a Hurd port you can boot today, plus a straight-faced promise to ditch Linux by year’s end. We’re guessing only one of those things is real. The post Must Be April Fools’ Day. Gentoo Says It’s Moving to Hurd appeared first on FOSS Force.
Arch Linux’s April 2026 ISO Is Out Now with Linux Kernel 6.19 and Archinstall 4.1
Arch Linux 2026.04.01 is now available for download as Arch Linux’s ISO release for April 2026, powered by Linux kernel 6.19 and featuring the Archinstall 4.1 text-based installer.
What Everybody Knows About You: Your Employer
What Everybody Knows About You: Your Employer This is the final article in a series about data collection today. We end with tracking by corporate managers. I imagine that most readers of this series, like me, are “knowledge workers” considered ... Read more The post What Everybody Knows About You: Your Employer appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Ubuntu raises its minimum system requirements
You’ll need at least 6GB of RAM to run Ubuntu 26.04 LTS comfortably, as the upcoming version of the distro raises its recommended minimum memory requirement for the first time since 2019. According to the official specs, “Ubuntu Desktop 26.04 LTS requires a 2 GHz dual-core processor or better, a minimum of 6GB RAM and 25 GB of free hard drive space.“ CPU and storage requirements are unchanged. Ubuntu last increased its recommended processor requirements with the release of 17.10. Free disk space has been a hard requirement of ~25 GB since 18.04 LTS (the desktop version won’t install on less). […]
[$] Pandoc: a workhorse for document conversion
Pandoc is a document-conversion program that can translate among a myriad of formats, including LaTeX, HTML, Office Open XML (docx), plain text, and Markdown. It is also extensible by writing Lua filters that can manipulate the document structure and perform arbitrary computations. Pandoc has appeared in various LWN articles over the years, such as my look at Typst and at the importance of free software to science in 2025, but we have missed providing an overview of the tool. The February release of Pandoc 3.9, which comes with the ability to compile the program to WebAssembly (Wasm), allowing Pandoc to run in web browsers, will likely also be of interest.
Servo 0.0.6 released
Version 0.0.6 of the Rust-based Servo web browser rendering engine has been released. This release boasts a long list of new features, performance enhancements, improvements, and bug fixes. Some of the notable changes include layout performance improvements, a servo:config page for setting any preference, and developer tools enhancements.
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, libxslt, python3.11, and python3.12), Debian (libpng1.6, lxd, netty, and python-tornado), Fedora (chunkah, cpp-httplib, firefox, freerdp, gst-devtools, gst-editing-services, gstreamer1, gstreamer1-doc, gstreamer1-plugin-libav, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free, gstreamer1-rtsp-server, gstreamer1-vaapi, insight, python-gstreamer1, python3.14, rust, rust-cargo-rpmstatus, rust-cargo-vendor-filterer, rust-resctl-bench, rust-scx_layered, rust-scx_rustland, rust-scx_rusty, and xen), Mageia (freeipmi, python-openssl, python-ply, ruby-rack, vim, and zlib), Oracle (firefox, freerdp, kernel, libpng, thunderbird, uek-kernel, and virt:ol and virt-devel:ol), Red Hat (golang), SUSE (bind, expat, fetchmail, ffmpeg-7, freerdp, gsl, incus, kernel, libjavamapscript, libjxl, libpng16-16, libpolkit-agent-1-0-127, net-snmp, net-tools, openexr, perl-XML-Parser, python-ldap, pyth
Cloudflare Announces EmDash As Open-Source "Spiritual Successor" To WordPress
Cloudflare continues to be full of open-source surprises. Today Cloudflare announced EmDash as an open-source "spiritual successor" to WordPress with an emphasis on better security...
6 Linux command-line habits you need to break today
Your arrow keys deserve better.
Komodo 2.0 Build and Deploy Tool Adds Docker Swarm Support
Komodo 2.0 adds Docker Swarm management, introduces PKI-based authentication, and updates its UI with improved terminal features.
HarfBuzz 14.0 Released With New GPU Accelerated Text Rendering Library
HarfBuzz is the open-source text shaping engine originally born out of the FreeType project and now widely-used by GNOME, KDE, Java, Flutter, Godot, Chromium, LibreOffice, and countless other applications. HarfBuzz 14.0 released today and making this release quite exciting is introducing a GPU-accelerated text rendering library...
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