Linux NewsI Came for This New Linux Distro’s Aesthetic Looks and Stayed for its Window Tiling
It's still early in development, but it shows promise with what it offers.
Killed by Ubuntu, Linux Mint is Bringing This Classic Feature Back
Linux Mint is bringing back a feature most Linux distributions quietly gave up on years ago: hibernation.
aerynOS 2026.11 Is Out with GNOME 51, KDE Plasma 6.8, COSMIC 1.11, and Budgie 10.10
aerynOS 2026.11 has been released today and it's now available for download for this independently-develop distribution featuring some of the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies and Open Source software
aerynOS 2026.11 ISO Adds Budgie Desktop, New Installer, and Revamped Moss CLI
aerynOS 2026.11 ISO adds Budgie Desktop, an experimental installer with Btrfs support, and a redesigned Moss package manager CLI.
[$] The second part of the 7.4 merge window
The 7.4 merge window, which closed on November 1, included a record-breaking 18,591 non-merge changesets. That is almost as many as the entire 7.3 development cycle, which had 18,765, itself a record breaker. Of those, 11,838 landed after the article covering the first part of the merge window. Most of those were bug fixes of various forms; it seems as though bug fixes may be crowding out feature additions across the open-source ecosystem to some extent. Still, a good number of new features were included, and a handful removed, in the tail end of the merge window.
CutefishOS Is Reborn as Cutefish, Demonstrates Running Mac Apps on Linux
Cutefish returns with a rebuilt desktop environment, early macOS application compatibility, and nightly ISOs for AMD64 and ARM64.
Linux 7.4 lands with a massive flood of AI patches and record commits
Linus Torvalds isn't fighting AI-generated code, but he wants developers to get it right.
These are the only 3 Linux distros I recommend to newcomers
You should try at least these three distros before calling it quits on Linux!
Shutting the Door on the XCPE Botnet (Threat Intelligence)
The Google Threat Intelligence blog describes, in great detail, the XCPE botnet, which has just been taken down. Last week, Google and industry partners dismantled the XCPE backdoor which enrolled more than 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet. We assess with high confidence that the backdoor and botnet were intentionally developed, deployed, and operated for financial gain by Videostrong Technology Co., an Android Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) and Original Device Manufacturer (ODM). Videostrong monetized the backdoor by selling access to criminal affiliates and loading those affiliates' malware modules onto infected devices. These secondary modules were conducting ad-fraud; silently enrolling infected devices into residential proxy networks; and loading additional malware onto XCPE-compromised devices.
[$] Managing the kernel CVE flood
We recently looked at how the kernel community is dealing with the firehose of vulnerability reports, but said little about how users of the kernel are responding. At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference, Amazon employees Dylan Johnson and Justinien Bouron discussed the problem from the point of view of engineers trying to keep AWS running and secure in the face of a storm of CVE disclosures. The kernel community's longstanding advice is to run current kernels, and that turns out to work — sort of.
Tor Browser 16.0 released
Version 16.0 of the Tor Browser has been released. This is the first stable version based on Firefox ESR 153. Notable changes in this release include support for Linux on 64-bit Arm, redesigned settings, and a "generic window titles" feature to help prevent other applications from snooping on one's browser activity. Tor Browser for Android has had a number of interface updates to Google's Material Design 3 design language. This release also follows Firefox in ending support for 32-bit x86 Linux systems. See the full changelog for all of the updates and bug fixes.
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, java-17-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt, mariadb:10.5, podman, python-jwt, python27:2.7, python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8, python39:3.9 and python39-devel:3.9, ruby:2.5, ruby:2.7, thunderbird, util-linux, and virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel), Debian (chromium, eog, imagemagick, python-aiohttp, thunderbird, and vim), Fedora (asciinema, atuin, btrfs-backup-ng, clevis, gcc, janus, kernel, libheif, libreswan, mingw-expat, mupdf, nautilus, nicotine+, ntpd-rs, openscap, perl-DBI, python-streamlink, python3.12, retsnoop, ruby, rust-cargo-deny, rust-cargo-rpmstatus, rust-ctutils, rust-gst-plugin-reqwest, rust-rbspy, rust-resctl-bench, rust-rpki, rust-rustls-webpki, rust-sequoia-chameleon-gnupg, rust-sequoia-git, rust-sequoia-octopus-librnp, rust-webpki-root-certs, rust-webpki-roots, tpm2-tss, and vhs), Oracle (.NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, aspell, bind9.18, curl, httpd:2.4, java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, libXi, mod_auth_openidc:2.3, nodejs:24, python-pil
France’s Weird Per-Gigabyte Data Tax Could Cost VLC Over €1 Million a Year!
France's National Assembly has voted in favour of a new "internet tax" that would charge companies for every gigabyte of data they send to users in France. It may get messier than GDPR.
Ubuntu looks nicer and feels faster after changing these 7 settings
Make Ubuntu 26.04 feel cleaner and more responsive with these 7 settings, from Reduced Motion and startup apps to Dock tweaks and app packages.
FreeRDP 3.33 Adds WebAssembly Support, Experimental UDP Connections
FreeRDP 3.33 introduces WebAssembly support, experimental UDP connections, improved RemoteApp handling, and security fixes.
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