Linux NewsAfter Days of DDoS, Now Ubuntu's Twitter Account Seems to be Compromised
A fake AI agent, a near-identical Ubuntu URL, and a crypto wallet prompt, here's how hackers used Ubuntu's own branding against its users.
The PHP License Is Dead; Long Live the BSD 3-Clause
The PHP Group retires its quirky, and partly non‑GPL‑compatible licenses in favor of the widely used BSD 3‑Clause. The post The PHP License Is Dead; Long Live the BSD 3-Clause appeared first on FOSS Force.
Wonderful! This $85 PCB is Giving Old Google Home Mini Devices a Second Life
I like projects built around sustainability and open source. The MiciMike board fits into the original Home Mini enclosure and handles all voice processing locally.
LibreOffice Questions Whether Euro-Office is Truly Sovereign
Makes us wonder how things will turn out in the end.
Three stable kernel updates
The 7.0.4, 6.18.27, and 6.12.86 stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
SR-IOV Support Appears To Be Coming For Next-Gen Ryzen AI NPUs
AMD recently upstreamed Linux support for their next-gen AIE4 NPU. That next-gen AMD NPU support is expected to premiere in Linux 7.2 while this week an interesting new patch series has surfaced for SR-IOV support with those upcoming neural processing units...
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 7, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: LLMs and security; restartable sequences and TCMalloc; Fedora and GNOME bug reports; Prolly trees; Arm on s390. Briefs: NHS open source; Alpine outage; GCC 16.1; Incus 7.0 LTS; NetHack 5.0.0; PHP license; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
Mesa 26.1 Graphics Stack Brings Vulkan and OpenGL Improvements
Mesa 26.1 is out with expanded driver support, new graphics extensions, Intel VirtIO GPU work, and broader updates across the stack.
Ubuntu’s old Unity desktop remade in Wayfire and Libadwaita
If Canonical hadn’t burned through cash and goodwill during its smartphone detour in the mid-2010s, Ubuntu would likely still ship with the Unity desktop today – albeit in an evolved form. What would that form actually look like? Well, you don’t have to shut your eyes and imagine, thanks to Ubuntu community member Muqtxdir, who’s experiment in “re-building ubuntu’s unity shell in a wayfire session through gtk4-layer-shell and libadwaita widgetry” (sic) gives us a sideways glimpse. Muqtxdir, who help maintain and develop Ubuntu’s Yaru theme and contributes to the immutable Vanilla OS Linux distribution, recently shared a video of his […]
Can ‘Smart Window’ Revive Interest in Firefox?
Jack Wallen put Firefox's new AI feature through its paces to see whether opt-in intelligence can win back users from other browsers. The post Can ‘Smart Window’ Revive Interest in Firefox? appeared first on FOSS Force.
Mesa 26.1 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
Mesa 26.1 open-source graphics stack is now available for download with new features and improvements across all supported drivers. Here’s what’s new!
Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Improvements For Running On Real Hardware
Redox OS is out with its status report for April 2026. During the past month this open-source, Rust-based operating system written from scratch has seen improvements for running on real hardware as well as a wide variety of other improvements for bettering this original OS project...
D7VK 1.9 Brings Some Hefty Performance Improvements
D7VK continues advancing for this Vulkan-based implementation of Direct3D 7 that also supports D3D 6 / 5 / 3 APIs too for vintage games ultimately rendered using the modern Vulkan API...
openSUSE Board Sees Changing of the Chair
Out with the old; in with the new. Gerald Pfeifer’s nearly seven‑year run as chair ends with SUSE veteran Jeff Mahoney moving into the role. The post openSUSE Board Sees Changing of the Chair appeared first on FOSS Force.
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