Linux NewsProton Drive is Now Faster (And Getting a Linux Client Soon)
The overhaul is part of a broader SDK rebuild that has been in the works throughout 2026.
Linux Falls Hard on Steam After Record 5% Milestone
Linux falls to 3.99% in Steam’s May 2026 survey, losing its historic 5% milestone just two months after reaching 5.33%.
Ubuntu 26.10 Promises a Simplified Installation and New Onboarding Experience
Ubuntu 26.10 will introduce a simplified installation experience, a new onboarding experience, WCAG 2.2 AA compliance, a package-agnostic App Center, GNOME 51, Linux 7.2, and much more.
GNOME 50.2 Adds Rate Control to the VA-API H.264 Screencast Pipelines
GNOME 50.2 is now available as the second point release to the GNOME 50 desktop environment series with various bug fixes and improvements across several core components and default apps.
Akashdeep Dhar – Contributing to Fedora Infrastructure and the Power of Flock!
Flock to Fedora is more than a conference – it’s where the Fedora community comes alive. As part of the In the Commit History campaign, we sat down with confirmed Flock 2026 speakers to hear their stories: what brought them to Fedora, what Flock means to them personally, and what they’re hoping for in Prague […]
How Kubernetes Came to Dominate Large-Scale Computing: Part 2
The first article in this two-part series laid out the landscape of distributed computing just before containers became a viable option. Now we’ll bring the story up to date. Although the term “containers” originated with the Docker project, the idea ... Read more The post How Kubernetes Came to Dominate Large-Scale Computing: Part 2 appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
[$] Moving beyond fork() + exec()
Since the earliest days of Unix, two of the core process-oriented system calls have been fork(), which creates a child process as a copy of the parent, and exec(), which runs a new program in the place of the current one. In Linux kernels, those system calls are better known as clone() and execve(), but the core functionality remains the same. While there is elegance to this process-creation model, there are shortcomings as well. A recent proposal from Li Chen to add "spawn templates" to the kernel will not be accepted in its current form, but it may point the way toward a new process-creation primitive in the future.
I switched to a tiling window manager on Linux and can't believe I wasted years dragging windows around
There's a better, faster way to use your computer.
GNOME 50.2 Released with Shell, Mutter, and Nautilus Fixes
GNOME 50.2 delivers a stability-focused update with fixes across GNOME Shell, Mutter, Nautilus, GTK, GLib, GDM, and more.
Ruby's Bundler adds a cooldown feature
Version 4.0.13 of Ruby's Bundler package-manager has added dependency cooldowns in order to help mitigate the effect of supply-chain attacks: Most supply-chain attacks against RubyGems exploit a narrow window: an account is compromised, a malicious version ships, and any bundle install in the minutes that follow resolves straight to it. Bundler 4.0.13 introduces cooldown, a time-based filter that refuses to resolve to a version until it has been public for at least N days. Releases too new to have been scrutinized are passed over in favor of ones that have aged past the window. The feature was designed in the open, drawing on how other ecosystems approach the same problem. It is opt-in, and complements rather than replaces existing defenses like mandatory 2FA and trusted publishing. LWN covered dependency cooldowns in April, and the takeover of RubyGems and Bundler in October 2025.
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel), Debian (dovecot, exim4, frr, and haveged), Fedora (cockpit, freeipa, jpegxl, libre, nextcloud, perl-Cpanel-JSON-XS, perl-Crypt-Argon2, perl-Dist-Build, perl-ExtUtils-Builder, perl-ExtUtils-Builder-Compiler, perl-HTTP-Tiny, perl-libwww-perl, python-starlette, rubygem-yard, rust-sequoia-cert-store, rust-sequoia-chameleon-gnupg, rust-sequoia-octopus-librnp, rust-sequoia-sop, rust-sequoia-sq, rust-sequoia-wot, samba, and transmission), Red Hat (image-builder), Slackware (dnsmasq and libinput), SUSE (evince, glibc, google-guest-agent, hplip, ignition, LibVNCServer, libzypp, libsolv, python-Pillow, salt, thunderbird, and vim), and Ubuntu (apache2, linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.15, linux-aws-fips, linux-fips, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-gcp-fips, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-hwe-5.15, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, linux-intel-iot-realtime, linux-intel-iotg, linux-kvm, linux-nvidia, linux-nvidia-tegra, linux-nvidia-tegra-5.15, linux-n
LibreOffice 26.2.4 Released with More Than 40 Bug Fixes
The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 26.2.4 with stability fixes for Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base, and desktop integration.
LibreOffice 26.2.4 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 40 Bug Fixes
LibreOffice 26.2.4 is now available for download as the third point release to the LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with 43 bug fixes.
These free, open source Linux apps made expensive creative software harder to justify
These creative apps made photo editing, video work, design, music, and 3D feel far more practical than I expected.
Microsoft Opens the Door to Azure Linux 4.0 Testing
Azure Linux 4.0 is now in public preview, giving users an early look at Microsoft’s Fedora-based Linux system for Azure.
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