Linux NewsKdenlive 26.08.3 Video Editor Released with Project Recovery, Crash Fixes
Kdenlive 26.08.3 improves project recovery, fixes crashes, and addresses issues with rendering, keyframes, and audio scopes.
Bottles just got an update, so I tested whether Linux can finally run my favorite Windows apps
Linux handled my Windows apps better than my Windows games.
COSMIC Desktop’s Next Visual Upgrade Introduces Theme Constellations
System76 previews COSMIC Theme Constellations, an upcoming feature offering complete desktop themes with matching wallpapers, icons, fonts, and colors.
TUXEDO OS Enters Final Beta Testing Ahead of Debian-Based Release
TUXEDO OS nears completion of its transition from Ubuntu to Debian, with the new Debian-based edition entering the final stage of beta testing.
Automake 1.20 Brings New Features, Desires To Re-Establish GNU As Leading Build System
Out today is GNU Automake 1.20 with the new --enable-jobserver option and opting for GPLv3+ licensing...
Asahi Linux 7.3 progress report
The Asahi Linux developers have put out a new report on their progress toward a Linux distribution for Apple devices. Some time ago, we were made aware of multiple attempts to exploit our permissive licensing to hijack our work, with a direct view to replacing the project and aggressively monetising Linux on Apple Silicon. In some extreme cases, in-development feature code was being lifted straight out of our personal forks and published without attribution or lazily rewritten with LLM assistance to obfuscate its origin. The MIT licence explicitly allows this, and has no carveouts to protect against bad faith actors. As such, we made the difficult decision to begin the process of transitioning all of our repositories to the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. Going forward all Asahi Linux code will be licenced under strong copyleft licences only. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Amutable Foundations: A Technical Overview
Lennart Poettering, Michael Vogt, and Joaquim Rocha have put together a detailed overview of what the Amutable Operating System (AOS) and associated infrastructure will look like. The image-based OS approach enables us to enforce some very strict but powerful security properties, which elevate the security posture of the system substantially above traditional Linux systems. Specifically, let's highlight seven major essential security properties of AOS here: No Shell + No SSH + No Language Interpreters. By default AOS does not install a UNIX shell, nor makes remote access via SSH available on the nodes. Moreover, we do not install any of the usual language interpreters (Python, Perl, …) by default. For most nodes a shell or interpreted language support is not required and it removes a whole class of attacks. Signed Images Only. On AOS only images that come with Verity data signed by a signing key listed in the Verity keyring may be activated. [...]
HyprBSD Provides Wayland-Based Desktop Built Atop FreeBSD, Complete With Steam Gaming
While FreeBSD has been working to improve its desktop and laptop experience, that work isn't yet shipping in released form for the OS installer and other ongoing efforts. Now there's a new desktop FreeBSD distribution on the scene with HyprBSD providing a Wayland-based desktop experience and with the Linux binary compatibility layer even an easy route to gaming with Steam...
Kmorph Aims To Provide Rebootless Linux Kernel Crash Recovery
Kmorph aims to provide reboot-less kernel crash recovery for Linux systems and can yield as little as ~2 second downtime for recovering the Nginx web server or other important services in the case of a kernel crash...
KDE Plasma 6.9 Will Stop Leaking Memory When Right Clicking Files/Folders On Desktop
With Plasma 6.8 stable approaching one month old, KDE developers continue ramping up work toward Plasma 6.9. Here is some of the interesting work they've been up to so far in November...
System76 Teases COSMIC Theme Constellations for Its COSMIC Desktop
System76 teases COSMIC Theme Constellations for their Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment bundled with wallpaper, colors, icons, and fonts.
Vulkan 1.4.368 Released With New Extensions From Valve & NVIDIA
Vulkan 1.4.368 is out as the newest weekly spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API...
Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.2022 Ships With More Than 470 Security Fixes
Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.2022 on Friday night as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution. Given the rampant AI/LLM-fueled bug reporting and security research, Azure Linux 3.0.2022 ends up incorporating more than 470 security fixes for different CVEs across the many open-source projects making up Azure Linux...
Asahi Linux Makes Progress On Gaming, More Apple Silicon Upstreaming
Given the recent Linux 7.3 upstream kernel release, the Asahi Linux project published a new status report to outline recent code they have upstreamed to the mainline kernel as well as other efforts taking shape in their downstream codebase...
3 Linux apps that fix Flatpak's most annoying permission and storage problems
Tired of Flatpak permissions and leftover files? Try these apps!
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