Linux NewsAstra: For All Your High Fidelity Music Needs and Absolute Control
Go old school and play local music from your Linux computer but in style with this Spotify-looking music player.
6 Raspberry Pi Handhelds Worth Exploring (If You Have Money to Spend)
These are pocket-sized Linux machines that go beyond just being an SBC on your desk.
[$] Free-threaded Python: past, present, and future
Probably the biggest change for Python over the last five years or so is the advent of the "free-threaded" version of the language, which removes the global interpreter lock (GIL) and allows multiple threads to run in parallel in the interpreter. At PyCon US 2026, held in Long Beach, California in mid-May, longtime CPython core developer (and current steering council member) Thomas Wouters gave a talk about the feature. He looked at the motivation behind the GIL-removal efforts, some history, the current status of the free-threaded interpreter, and provided a prediction on where it all leads.
DokuWiki Is Finally Getting Built-In Markdown Support
DokuWiki’s next release is expected to add native Markdown parsing, giving users an alternative to its long-standing wiki syntax.
First preview release of Xfce's Wayland compositor
Brian Tarricone has announced the first preview release of xfwl4, a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop environment. After close to six months of work, I feel like it's ready to get some wider use, even though of course there will be bugs and missing features. Think of this as an alpha release. [...] The end goal of xfwl4 is to behave as closely as possible to an Xfce desktop running on an X server. Ideally a user could switch between the two without even knowing there's a difference. In reality, of course, it won't be quite that seamless, and there's still more work to be done to get as close as possible to that ideal. This is a first solid cut at it, at the very least.
I fed Claude my Steam game configs and found performance tweaks I didn't know existed
I was having some performance issues on a few of my Steam games. So I fed their config files to Claude and it came up with some helpful fixes.
[$] Reports from OSPM 2026, day one
The Power Management and Scheduling in the Linux Kernel Summit, which still goes by the historical acronym OSPM, was held in Cambridge, UK, in mid-April. As has become traditional, the presenters at that event have since written summaries of their sessions, and this work has kindly been made available to LWN for publication. The first day's sessions covered a wide range of topics, including idle-state selection, user-space schedulers with sched_ext, lock-holder preemption, and much more.
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds:1.4, kernel, and kernel-rt), Debian (gst-libav1.0, gst-plugins-good1.0, imagemagick, kernel, libconfig-inifiles-perl, libgd-perl, libhttp-daemon-perl, mediawiki, pillow, and squid), Fedora (389-ds-base, alertmanager, ansible-core, buildah, chromium, erlang-cowboy, erlang-cowlib, erlang-gun, freerdp, kubernetes1.33, kubernetes1.34, kubernetes1.35, mingw-SDL2_image, ongres-scram, ongres-stringprep, openssl, perl-Config-IniFiles, perl-Crypt-PBKDF2, podman, postgresql-jdbc, python3.13, strongswan, webkitgtk, xdg-desktop-portal, and yt-dlp), Red Hat (osbuild-composer), SUSE (alloy, amazon-ssm-agent, ansible-core, apache-sshd, jpgpj, azure-storage-azcopy, chromedriver, containerized-data-importer, firefox, glibc, graphite2, inspektor-gadget, kubevirt, lemon, openvswitch, python-starlette, python311, python311-joserfc, python313, and tinyproxy), and Ubuntu (netatalk).
This Linux distro finally makes switching from Windows feel natural
Zorin OS makes Linux feel familiar enough for Windows users to try it without feeling like they have to relearn their computer.
Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer "Experimental"
Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. Given all the performance improvements and this being the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag on the file-system, I decided to fire up some benchmarks looking at how the Bcachefs file-system performance has changed with this new version.
Xfce Wayland Compositor Sees First Preview/Alpha Release
Over the past half-year, Xfwl4 has been developed as a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop environment. Released this weekend was the first preview release of Xfwl4 in alpha form...
Discover the game-changing Docker containers revolutionizing work and creativity
Uncover the top Docker containers transforming productivity and self-hosting. Learn how these game-changing tools are revolutionizing work and creativity.
Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT Tablet
It's been 14 years already since Microsoft announced the Surface RT hybrid tablet as their first-generation Surface device for going up against the Apple iPad. All these years later, this NVIDIA Tegra 3 powered device is finally seeing a mainline Linux kernel driver for supporting battery and charger status...
Xfce’s Wayland Compositor Gets Its First Preview Release
Xfce’s new Wayland compositor, xfwl4, reaches its first preview release and is now ready for wider alpha testing.
AMD Updates ROCDXG To Deliver Better ROCm Experience On WSL
Back in March AMD introduced ROCDXG to improve their Windows Subsystem for Linux support. This improved Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" support with the ROCm compute stack is a cleaneer architecture, open-source compared to their legacy WSL code having closed bits, and more robust handling. Today they issued a new ROCDXG library release to further enhance their WSL support...
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