Linux NewsLinux Users, Do You Use Non-Free Software?
The virtual Richard M. Stallman (vrms) concept lives on, helping Linux users identify non-free software via license audits.
All Sources
9to5Linux
Fedora Magazine
Foss Force
How-to Geek
It's FOSS
Linux Insider
Linux Journal
Linux Magazine
Linux TLDR
Linux.org
Linuxiac
LPI
LWN.net
OMG! Ubuntu
Phoronix
How to pipe and redirect like a pro in the Linux command line
Many hands make light work.
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Users Get Linux 6.17 and Mesa 25.2 Ahead of Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) users are receiving the Linux 6.17 kernel and Mesa 25.2 graphics stacks from Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka).
IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and other IDEs are getting a Wayland upgrade on Linux
A much better experience on modern Linux distributions.
[$] API changes for the futex robust list
The robust futex kernel API is a way for a user-space program to ensure that the locks it holds are properly cleaned up when it exits. But the API suffers from a number of different problems, as André Almeida described in a session in the "Gaming on Linux" microconference at the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo. He had some ideas for a new API that would solve many of those problems, which he wanted to discuss with attendees; there is a difficult-to-trigger race condition that he wanted to talk about too.
Need to Redact a PDF on Linux? Try Censor
Follow this walkthrough to set up Censor from Flathub and use it to remove sensitive information from your PDFs. The post Need to Redact a PDF on Linux? Try Censor appeared first on FOSS Force.
JetBrains to Enable Wayland Support in IntelliJ 2026.1
JetBrains has announced that native Wayland support will be enabled in its IntelliJ-based IDEs starting with version 2026.1, letting Linux developers work without X11 compatibility layers. Moving its development suite away from legacy X11 is necessary now that major desktop environments and distributions (including Ubuntu) only officially run on or support Wayland out-of-the-box. Wayland support gas been available in preview in 2024. If you run IntelliJ IDEs on Ubuntu right now it likes runs through XWayland, the compatibility layer that allows legacy apps to run on Wayland desktops. While that bridge is functional, matching old X11 protocols on modern compositors […]
Zorin OS vs. Linux Mint: Which is the better Linux distro for Windows users?
Two Linux distros that look like Windows, but caters to completely different users.
Debian's Challenge When Its Developers Quietly Drift Away
You may recall the news last month around no one was left on Debian's data protection team and other volunteer staffing challenges with different Debian efforts in the past. Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille has been looking at the issue of the challenges that arise when Debian's all-volunteer developers quietly drift away either due to time commitments, other interests, or other reasons but don't properly communicate it to the Debian project...
Mesa 26.0-rc3 Released With More Graphics Driver Fixes
Eric Engestrom is out with another on-time Mesa release. Mesa 26.0-rc3 provides the latest week's worth of bug fixes as we work toward the stable Mesa 26.0 release as soon as next week...
[$] Sigil simplifies creating and editing EPUBs
Creating an ebook in EPUB format is easy, for certain values of "easy". All one really needs is a text editor, a few command-line utilities; also needed is a working knowledge of XHTML, CSS, along with an understanding of the format's structure and required boilerplate. Creating a well-formatted and attractive ebook is a bit harder. However, it can be made easier with an application custom-made for the purpose. Sigil is an EPUB editor that provides the tooling authors and publishers may be looking for.
LibreOffice 26.2 released
Version 26.2 of the LibreOffice office suite has been released. LibreOffice 26.2 is focused on improvements that make a difference in daily work and brings better performance, smoother interaction with complex documents and improved compatibility with files created in other office software. Whether you're writing reports, managing spreadsheets, or preparing presentations, the experience feels more responsive and reliable. LibreOffice has always been about giving users control. LibreOffice 26.2 continues that tradition by strengthening support for open document standards, and ensuring long-term access to your files, without subscriptions, license restrictions, or data collection. Your documents stay yours – forever. More information can be found in the release notes for LibreOffice 26.2.
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (thunderbird), Fedora (openqa, os-autoinst, python-jupytext, python-python-multipart, rust-sequoia-keystore-server, rust-sequoia-octopus-librnp, rust-sequoia-sq, rust-sequoia-sqv, and xen), Oracle (curl, kernel, net-snmp, python3, and python3.12), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8, fence-agents, golang, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana, grafana-pcp, opentelemetry-collector, podman, python-s3transfer, python-wheel, and resource-agents), SUSE (alloy, chromium, cockpit-podman, cockpit-subscriptions, dpdk, elemental-register, elemental-toolkit, glib2, glibc, gpg2, ImageMagick, imagemagick, jasper, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kernel, libheif, libmlt++, libpng16, libsodium, libsoup, libvirt, openssl-3, openvpn, php8, postgresql16, postgresql17 and postgresql18, protobuf, python-FontTools, python-fonttools, python-h2, python-python-multipart, python-urllib3, python-wheel, python311-PyNaCl, trivy, ucode-amd, udisks2, unbound, util-linux
Microsoft's VS Code in Ubuntu's Snap Format Eats Up Disk Space Like Bloatware Even After Removal
The bug itself was reported all the way back in November 2024, and the issue is still present for current Snap versions of VS Code and even VSCodium.
Intel Sends Out Initial Linux Patches For Xe3P_LPG Graphics With Nova Lake P
In recent months Intel Linux engineers have been quite active in preparing for next-gen Nova Lake processors. That work has included initial Xe3P graphics support and enabling display support and related display/graphics functionality. The newest now is enabling Nova Lake P including the Xe3P_LPG graphics support...
Page 1 of 167
Next »