Linux NewsCalibre 9.6 E-Book Manager Released With New Full Text Search View
Calibre 9.6 introduces a card-based full text search view, a word-prefix search mode, CVE fixes, and various bug fixes for the e-book viewer and content server.
Calibre 9.6 Adds New Card-Based View of Full-Text Search Results with Book Covers
Calibre 9.6 open-source e-book management software is now available for download with new card-based view with book covers for full text search results, an improved Bookshelf view, and other changes.
Ubuntu 26.04 Beta is now available to download
The beta release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is now available to download, a month ahead a planned stable release on 23 April, 2026. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS runs on the latest release candidate of Linux kernel 7.0 (yet to be released), includes the new GNOME 50 desktop release and adds a couple of new default apps, including a new system monitoring utility (Resources). Visual changes introduced include a set of colourful new folder icons, a fully opaque Ubuntu Dock, a new default wallpaper and, albeit a little harder to spit, a new boot spinner animation during system startup. On the backend, [โฆ]
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Is Out Now with Linux Kernel 7.0 and GNOME 50
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS operating system is now available for public beta testing with the Linux 7.0 kernel, Mesa 26.0 graphics stack, and GNOME 50 desktop environment.
wlroots 0.20 Released,Sway 1.12-rc1 Available For Testing With Color Management
Released today was wlroots 0.20 as this Wayland support library used by some Wayland compositors for doing much of the "heavy lifting" of compositor bring-up. Following wlroots 0.20, Sway 1.12-rc1 was released for testing as this closely-aligned Wayland compositor inspired by the i3 window manager...
FOSS Weekly #26.13: Age Verification Added in systemd, Systemd forked, Btrfs Subvolumes, New Backup Tool, Yazi Manager and More
Controversies all around.
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Released: Powered By Linux 7.0 + GNOME 50 + Mesa 26.0
Right on schedule the beta for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is now available for testing. This is a great opportunity to help test this release ahead of the official Long Term Support release due out on 23 April...
KDE's KWin Compositor Lands First Step Toward Vulkan Support
Merged today was the very first step toward implementing Vulkan support within KDE's KWin compositor as an alternative to OpenGL rendering...
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.
From Linux to Blockchain: The Infrastructure Behind Modern Financial Systems
by George Whittaker The modern internet is built on open systems. From the Linux kernel powering servers worldwide to the protocols that govern data exchange, much of todayโs digital infrastructure is rooted in transparency, collaboration, and decentralization. These same principles are now influencing a new frontier: financial systems built on blockchain technology. For developers and system architects familiar with Linux and open-source ecosystems, the rise of cryptocurrency is not just a financial trend, it is an extension of ideas that have been evolving for decades. Open-Source Foundations and Financial Innovation Linux has long demonstrated the power of decentralized development. Instead of relying on a single authority, it thrives through distributed contributions, peer review, and community-driven improvement. Blockchain technology follows a similar model. Networks like Bitcoin operate on open protocols, where consensus is achieved through distributed nodes rather than centrali
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.
Ubuntuโs App Center now lets you manage Deb packages
Ubuntuโs App Center software tool makes it easier to manage and update Deb software in its latest update โ and nets a few extra options for snaps, too. The changes are part of Canonicalโs aim to make App Center the epicentre (Iโm 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 outโฆ). 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. [โฆ]
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)
Tomรกลก Hrฤka 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.
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