Linux NewsA GrapheneOS Privacy Feature Just Became the Basis for a Federal Indictment
Samuel Tunick faces up to five years in prison after the passcode he gave CBP agents wiped his phone.
Wayfire 0.11 Wayland Compositor Adds Better Fractional Scaling, HDR Rendering
Wayfire 0.11 modular and extensible Wayland compositor is now available with better fractional scaling, HDR rendering, support for per-output ICC profiles, and more.
[$] Progress toward compiling Linux with gccrs
The gccrs project, which is creating a Rust frontend for the GCC compiler, has spent the first half of 2026 focusing on compiling the Linux kernel. By testing the compiler against the kernel crates, the development team has made significant progress toward generating correct code for other Rust programs. As detailed in the project's weekly and monthly reports, this effort has uncovered and resolved problems in areas such as attribute handling (described in the report for February), name resolution, and resource management (both detailed in the May report). Currently, the compiler can only handle simple standalone programs, but that situation could change rapidly in the coming months.
I Really Want to Love This Markdown Editor, But One Thing Holds It Back
It gives an IDE feel with lots of features that fits the workflow of developers working on technical documentation of their projects.
Wayfire 0.11 released
Version 0.11 of the wlroots-based Wayfire Wayland compositor has been released. Notable changes include better fractional scaling, per-output ICC profiles, support for additional Wayland protocols, and more.
[$] A report from Debian's new DFSG team
The DFSG, Licensing & New Packages Team (usually shortened to "DFSG team") was created in October 2025 as part of the ftpmaster team split. Its job is to review packages in the new queue for compliance with the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG), among other things, before the packages are allowed to enter the Debian archive. The change was long in coming, and some questions remained after the split whether it was the right move. Andrew McMillan provided an overview of the team's activities and its current status during DebConf26. While it may be too early to say with certainty, his report suggests that the new division of duties is working out well.
Wayfire 0.11 Wayland Compositor Released with HDR and Better Fractional Scaling
Wayfire 0.11 introduces sharper fractional scaling, experimental HDR, ICC color profiles, expanded Vulkan effects, and a new external plugin manager.
I broke my PC and learned why Linux's boring features are actually genius
Repairing a broken system, breathing life into an old one, or powerful utilities—Linux is unparalleled in these domains.
Linux: In the Cloud and on Servers, the “Invisible” Operating System
Have you ever noticed? In cooking recipes, salt is often kept in a secondary position relative to other ingredients: everyone knows it’s needed, and it’s taken for granted. But if it’s missing, it shows. You feel it immediately. Not everything ... Read more The post Linux: In the Cloud and on Servers, the “Invisible” Operating System appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (grafana and libreswan), Debian (openjdk-11 and openjdk-17), Fedora (opkssh, perl-Mojolicious, and rpm), Mageia (libyang, memcached, nginx, packages, and sqlite3), Oracle (.NET 8.0, acl, buildah, compat-openssl11, compat-poppler022, dogtag-pki, git-lfs, glibc, go-fdo-client, golang, httpd:2.4, jackson-annotations, jackson-core, jackson-databind, jackson-jaxrs-providers, and jackson-modules-base, kernel, libpq, LibRaw, maven:3.8, mysql8.4, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, openssl, podman, poppler, python3.14, samba, sssd, tomcat, tomcat9, vim, and yggdrasil), Red Hat (gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free), SUSE (afterburn, alsa, apache-ivy, avahi, aws-nitro-enclaves-cli, chromium, cifs-utils, cockpit, cockpit-machines, cockpit-packages, cockpit- podman, cockpit-repos, cockpit-subscriptions, containerd, curl, docker-compose, freetype2, gawk, glib2, google-cloud-sap-agent, gpg2, gstreamer-plugins-bad, gzip, helm, ignition, ImageMagick, jackson-annotations, jacks
Hyprland 0.56.1 Released with Monitor Rotation and Mirroring Fixes
Hyprland 0.56.1 is a maintenance update addressing monitor regressions, window-rule leaks, input capture, rendering, and more.
Starling: A New Linux Desktop Written In Swift, Own Wayland Compositor & Written With AI
There's yet another new open-source desktop option for Linux users in the era of new open-source projects largely written via AI/LLMs. Starling is this new project largely written via Claude and using the Swift programming language for the desktop while having its own Wayland compositor implemented in C. It also includes a built-in X11 server for handling X11 clients...
OpenUK Wants Britain to Stop Giving Away Open Source Creations
They point to MCP, built by two engineers in London, that ended up under US-based governance.
CachyOS Outperforming Windows 11, Ubuntu & Fedora On AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470
A recent mini PC being benchmarked at Phoronix is the BOSGAME VTA-439 that employs the new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 Gorgon Point SoC. With the BOSGAME mini PC having shipped with Microsoft Windows 11, here are some comparison benchmarks of the out-of-the-box Windows 11 performance up against Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 while also tossing the rolling-release, highly-optimized Arch Linux based CachyOS into the benchmarking mix.
Flock 2026 Afterburn: a retrospective
A Fedora community intern shares a firsthand look at Flock 2026 in Prague. The annual Fedora contributor conference broke sponsorship records and strengthened community bonds. Attendees praised the invaluable hallway conversations that unite the globally distributed project. Discover the behind-the-scenes planning, post-event survey results, and what makes this gathering feel like a family reunion for Fedora contributors.
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