Linux NewsUbuntu 26.10 Steps into AI with Local Speech-to-Text
Canonicalβs Project Myna brings local speech-to-text dictation to Ubuntu Desktop, starting with the 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) release.
Fedora F44 election results
The results are in for Fedora's F44 election cycle for seats on the Fedora Council, Fedora Engineering Steering Committee, Fedora Mindshare Committee, and EPEL Steering Committee. Miro HronΔok and Aleksandra Fedorova have won seats on the council. Neal Gompa, Fabio Valentini, Michel Lind, Maxwell G, and Simon de Vlieger have been elected to FESCo. Samyak Jain, Akashdeep Dhar, Luis Bazan, and Mat Holmes have all been elected to the Mindshare Committee. The four candidates for the EPEL committee, Carl George, Diego Hererra, Jonathan Wright, and Troy Dawson were all automatically elected as there were an equal number of candidates and seats open. Congratulations to all the winners.
Everything security at PyCon US 2026
The Python Software Foundation blog has a post with a summary of the security-related content at PyCon US 2026 with links to slides from important sessions. The recordings will be published to the PyCon US channel on YouTube, and the post will be updated with links to those videos as they are made available.
6 distros that prove Linux is the future of desktop PCs
Plenty of proof that a Linux distro can be polished, stable, and easy to use.
[$] Some buffer-heads cleanup work
Jan Kara has been working on cleaning up how buffer heads are used by some kernel filesystems. In a short filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, he gave an update on that work and where it is headed. Topics included generic infrastructure to track buffer heads for metadata, a buffer-head cleanup for the Amiga filesystem, and some planned locking fixes.
4 reasons CLI apps are better than GUI alternatives on Linux
It's not always about the visual advantage.
FairScan 2.0 released
Version 2.0 of the FairScan document-scanning app for Android has been released. The headline feature for this release is the addition of optical-character-recognition (OCR) support using Tesseract to produce PDFs with searchable text from scans. FairScan developer Pierre-Yves Nicolas has written a detailed blog about adding the feature and explaining why it had not been added previously. That looks nice, so why didn't FairScan have it before? That's because FairScan wasn't ready for it: I wouldn't be comfortable if FairScan was giving you wrong text half of the time. To get good results from an OCR engine, you need to provide it a readable image. If it's hard to read for a human, it's certainly also hard to read for an OCR engine. Over the past year, I worked on different parts of FairScan's automatic processing to transform photos of documents into PDFs that are easy for humans to read: document detection perspective correction shadow reduction brightness and contrast enhancement All
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (hplip, kernel, kernel-rt, libpng12, libpng15, libxml2, libxslt, mysql:8.0, mysql:8.4, opencryptoki, openssl, postfix, postgresql:15, rsync, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (asterisk, atril, gsasl, and libreoffice), Fedora (ack, bird, chromium, firefox, ldns, librabbitmq, nextcloud, nss, openslide, perl-Protocol-HTTP2, tig, vorbis-tools, and xen), Mageia (coturn, log4cxx, and python-tornado), SUSE (389-ds, buildah, container-suseconnect, distribution, editorconfig-core-c, elemental-system-agent, glib-networking, google-guest-agent, google-osconfig-agent, kernel, libcaca, libXpm, opensc, openssl-3, openvswitch, perl-Crypt-PBKDF2, python-python-dotenv, python311-aiosmtplib, python311-zeroconf, runc, shim, and sqlite3), and Ubuntu (ca-certificates, keystone, librabbitmq, linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe, linux-oracle, linux-azure, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe, linux-oracle, linux-azure-6.8, linux-ora
Amarok 3.3.3 Music Player Released with Playback and Layout Fixes
Amarok 3.3.3 music player is out with fixes for suspend inhibition, window layout restoration, context applet saving, and Wikipedia applet parsing.
Experimental, Reverse-Engineered & AI Assisted Rust Driver Targets Modern DisplayLink Hardware
The original DisplayLink USB display adapters were great for working with an upstream, open-source driver while sadly the newer DisplayLink tech has been limited to an out-of-tree driver and proprietary user-space daemon. But posted today is an experimental "Vino" driver that is a clean-room, reverse-engineered driver for newer DisplayLink hardware...
Qt Creator 20 Open-Source IDE Released with AI Coding Agents
Qt Creator 20 adds AI coding agent support, expanded MCP integration, GN projects, Zen Mode, and remote debugging improvements.
The 5 Linux distros you should never run on an old PC
Not every Linux distro should be used for that old PC you have sitting around.
Epic Games Announces Lore Open-Source Version Control System
Epic Games announced today they have created a new version control system that is now open-source as Lore. Given the proliferation and excellence of Git, you may be wondering why Epic Games is pursuing another VCS option... They are specifically catering Lore to games and entertainment purposes with large file sizes...
Qt Creator 20 Open-Source IDE Released with AI Support, New Zen Mode
Qt Creator 20 open-source IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is now available for download with AI support, new Zen mode for distraction-free coding, and many other enhancements.
Fedora Is Building a Web-Based Remote Installer for Headless Systems
Fedora is working on a browser-based remote installation for Anaconda, targeting headless systems, ARM boards, and network installs.
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