Linux NewsYou Should Keep an Eye Out on Chromium's Flatpak Experiment
There's no guarantee it leads to an official release, but it would give Linux users another way to run Chromium or Chrome.
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for August 27, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: AGPL violations; OpenMDW license; quantum computing and encryption; 7.3 merge window; Remind; Quickshell. Briefs: arrayref; RIP Steve French; Armbian 26.8; Vanilla OS 3; Emacs 31.1; KDE Gear 26.08; LibreOffice 26.8; RPM 6.1.0; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
Chromium Adds Experimental Flatpak Packaging Support for Linux
Chromium gains initial Flatpak support on Linux, though the implementation is still experimental.
Asahi Linux Hopes To Ship A Release Soon With Apple M3 Device Support
The Asahi Linux crew working to bring Linux support to Apple Silicon hardware is out today with a new status update on their initiatives, largely around Apple M3 bring-up as well as some M4/M5 achievements...
Roll Out the Cake: Linux Turns 35
35 years ago, a Finnish student began a humble project that would forever change the course of technology.
7 discontinued Linux projects I still miss today
Some old ideas deserved far more time than they got!
I ran the one command in Linux you should never run. Here's what happened
Linux destruction for science!
LibreOffice 26.8 released with paragraph layout changes, draft view + more
The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 26.8, a major new version of the open-source office suite for Windows, macOS and Linux. Among the changes is a new Paragraph Composer. This improves the way Writer handles justified text. In many word processors, justified text is stretched to create straight edge on both sides of the page, but this can look uneven. Some lines packed tight, others gappy. But with LibreOffice 26.8’s new Paragraph Composer, spacing gets balanced several lines at once, rather than one at a time, which can result in a better overall look: Other typography changes in LibreOffice 26.8 include native […]
Beyond Syslog: Building a Tamper-Proof E-Commerce Audit Trail with immudb
Immudb can work alongside rsyslog, Loki, Elasticsearch, or an operational database to give Linux administrators a way to preserve and verify the integrity of critical event histories. The post Beyond Syslog: Building a Tamper-Proof E-Commerce Audit Trail with immudb appeared first on FOSS Force.
Patches Provide For Much Faster In-Kernel Zstd Due To Embarrassingly Bad Inefficiency
Patches sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today can provide much more efficient Zstd compression and decompression by addressing a very unfortunate oversight in the existing code...
[$] An ongoing 3D-printer AGPL violation
At FOSSY 2026, several people from the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), which organizes the conference, gave a presentation about an ongoing violation of the Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPLv3). Bradley Kühn, Karen Sandler, and Denver Gingerich spoke about different aspects of the violation, which is in regard to 3D-printer software from Bambu Lab, and what is being done to try to provide users with alternatives. One aspect that is particularly interesting is that the circumvention that the company is employing is precisely what the AGPL was written to prevent.
FreeRDP 3.31 Released with Security Fixes, Faster H.264 Graphics
FreeRDP 3.31.0 is out with numerous security and bug fixes, plus faster graphics performance for AVC/H.264 Remote Desktop sessions.
Linux 7.3 KSMBD Adds Interoperability For Apple Time Machine Backups
KSMBD as the in-kernel SMB3/CIFS server for higher performance and lower resource usage than user-space SMB/CIFS protocol implementations is becoming even more useful with the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel...
5 reasons you might want to compile your Linux kernel from source
But you probably don't actually need to.
A hidden Ubuntu feature I use to tidy up my desktop
Ubuntu’s Desktop Icons NG (DING) extension has a little-known way to bring order to a chaotic desktop: stacks. Stacks groups multiple files of the same type into a collapsible icon. Images in one stack, PDFs in another and so on. Folders aren’t grouped, and your files don’t get moved anywhere; this is visual grouping, not relocating. If there is only one of a type of file on the desktop, it is not stacked. Expanding a stack by clicking on it reveals all files in the stack (other file icons bump out of the way). Multiple stacks can be expanded or […]
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