Linux NewsFOSS Weekly #26.13: Age Verification Added in systemd, Systemd forked, Btrfs Subvolumes, New Backup Tool, Yazi Manager and More
Controversies all around.
AnduinOS 1.4.2 Offers Redesigned GNOME for Windows Refugees
AnduinOS 1.4.2 pairs Ubuntu's already easy-to-use foundation with a heavily customized GNOME desktop and Flatpak apps to ease the transition from Windows to Linux. The post AnduinOS 1.4.2 Offers Redesigned GNOME for Windows Refugees appeared first on FOSS Force.
GNU Stow turned me into the ultimate Linux distro-hopper
Discover how GNU Stow transforms the tedious process of reconfiguring your environment after every Linux distro switch into a seamless, one-command deployment.
Ubuntu’s App Center now lets you manage Deb packages
Ubuntu’s App Center software tool makes it easier to manage and update Deb software in its latest update – and nets a few extra options for snaps, too. The changes are part of Canonical’s aim to make App Center the epicentre (I’m sorry) for software management on Ubuntu, both Snap and Debian-based packages (might it one day support Flatpak too? Nothing to stop someone contributing the code to find out…). A recent update to App Center in Ubuntu 26.04 adds support for seeing and managing Debian packages installed from the Ubuntu repos, using using PackageKit and Appstream on the backend. […]
Tails 7.6 Privacy-Focused Linux Distro Released with Automatic Tor Bridges
Tails 7.6 anonymous Linux distribution is now available for download with Automatic Tor bridges, the GNOME Secrets password manager, Tor Browser 15.0.8, and other changes.
The forge is our new home (Fedora Community Blog)
Tomáš Hrčka has announced that the Forgejo-based Fedora Forge is now a fully operational collaborative-development platform; it is ready for use by the larger Fedora community, which means the homegrown Pagure platform's days are numbered: While pagure.io has been a vital part of our community for many years, the time has come to retire our homegrown forge and transition to this powerful new tool. The final cutover is planned for Flock to Fedora 2026. We strongly encourage teams to migrate their projects well before the conference to ensure a smooth transition. The pagure.io migration is only the first step in a broader infrastructure modernization effort. By the 2027 Fedora 46 release, we plan to retire all remaining Pagure instances across the project, including the package source repositories on src.fedoraproject.org. Getting familiar with Fedora Forge now will help ensure your team is ready as the rest of the Fedora ecosystem transitions. There is a migration guide for Fedora commu
[$] Vibe-coded ext4 for OpenBSD
A number of projects have been struggling with the question of which submissions created by large language models (LLMs), if any, should be accepted into their code base. This discussion has been further muddied by efforts to use LLM-driven reimplemention as a way to remove copyleft restrictions from a body of existing code, as recently happened with the Python chardet module. In this context, an attempt to introduce an LLM-generated implementation of the Linux ext4 filesystem into OpenBSD was always going to create some fireworks, but that project has its own, clearly defined reasons for looking askance at such submissions.
Inside the Systemd Age Verification Debate: Developer Responds to Criticism
A single pull request turned a quiet open source contributor into the unlikely target of one of the Linux community's most heated controversies. We interacted with Dylan Taylor to hear his side of the story.
LibreOffice 26.2.2 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 80 Bug Fixes
LibreOffice 26.2.2 is now available for download as the second point release to the LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with 65 bug fixes.
Kali Linux Waxes Nostalgic with BackTrack Mode
For those who've used Kali Linux since its inception, the changes with the new release are sure to put a smile on your face.
LibreOffice 26.2.2 Released With Over 100 Bug Fixes Across Writer, Calc, and Impress
LibreOffice 26.2.2 delivers over 100 fixes, including DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX compatibility improvements and crash resolutions.
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (awstats, firefox-esr, and nss), Fedora (chromium, dotnet10.0, dotnet8.0, dotnet9.0, freerdp, and wireshark), Mageia (graphicsmagick and xen), Oracle (mysql:8.4 and nginx), Red Hat (podman), Slackware (bind and tigervnc), SUSE (azure-storage-azcopy, firefox-esr, giflib, glances-common, govulncheck-vulndb, grafana, kernel, libpng16, libsoup, mumble, net-snmp, perl-Crypt-URandom, pgvector-devel, pnpm, postgresql17, Prometheus, protobuf, python-cbor2, python-Jinja2, python-simpleeval, python311-dynaconf, python311-pydicom, python313-PyMuPDF, salt, snpguest, systemd, and vim), and Ubuntu (bind9, linux-azure, linux-azure, linux-azure-6.17, linux-azure-6.8, and mbedtls).
Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.7 Released With UI Fixes and Improved Device Support
Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.7 delivers UI fixes, improved device support, better search, and multiple bug fixes across Linux, Windows, and macOS.
Backing up isn’t enough: A modern guide to ZFS on Linux
It's awesome—but it, sadly, has some downfalls.
Open-Source Nouveau Performance With Linux 7.0 + NVK Mesa 26.1-dev vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver
As a few months have passed since our prior round of testing the fully open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver plus Zink, here is a fresh round of benchmarks using Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.1-dev compared to the open-source stack shipped by Ubuntu 25.10 (Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2) for showing how far the open-source NVIDIA driver has progressed the past few months. Plus testing against the NVIDIA official Linux graphics driver for putting that Nouveau/NVK performance into perspective.
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