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DCOX, PDFs Were Not Built for AI. This New Open Standard Wants to Change That
The spec looks to simplify how AI systems read and process documents under a vendor-neutral umbrella.
5 criminally underrated Windows apps I only found after using Linux
Turns out the best Windows apps were on Linux the whole time.
Continuous Growth for Linux on the Desktop
For quite some time now, Linux has been waiting for that long-awaited “breakthrough year” on the desktop market: a chance to chip away at those percentage points that signal real progress. This time around, something might actually give it that ... Read more The post Continuous Growth for Linux on the Desktop appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Juno Tab 4 LTE Brings Intel N300 Power to a Rare Linux Tablet
Juno Tab 4 LTE is a 10.5-inch Linux tablet with an Intel Celeron N300, LTE, 12 GB RAM, a 1 TB SSD, and Debian or Ubuntu options.
Audacity 3.7.8 Audio Editor Improves Linux HiDPI UI
Audacity 3.7.8 lands with Linux HiDPI UI improvements, multichannel FLAC import fixes, and several editing, scripting, and macro bug fixes.
Audacity 3.7.8 Audio Editor Improves Support for HiDPI Displays on Linux
Audacity 3.7.8 open-source digital audio editor and recording software is now available for download with improves support for HiDPI displays on Linux, new options to choose where silence is truncated, and more.
Homebrew 6.0.0 released
Version 6.0.0 of the Homebrew package-management system has been released. Notable changes in this release include the introduction of tap trust to improve supply-chain security, improvements in sandboxing on Linux, a number of performance tweaks, and many other changes. See the changelog for a full list. LWN covered Homebrew in November 2025.
[$] Automatic mTHP creation in 7.2
The Linux kernel has long tried to use huge pages as a way to improve performance, sometimes with more success than others. The size of huge pages has traditionally been imposed by the hardware, which typically only offers a couple of relatively large options. In more recent times, though, the use of multi-size transparent huge pages (mTHPs), with more flexible sizing implemented in software, has been growing. If all goes well, the 7.2 development cycle will include the addition of a new feature, contributed by Nico Pache, to make the use of mTHPs even more transparent.
Fedora Account Compromise Raises AI Agent Supply Chain Concerns
Fedora is reviewing suspicious account activity after an alleged compromise led to AI-like bug actions and reverted Anaconda patches.
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, podman, poppler, and postgresql-jdbc), Debian (chromium, jackson-core, libdbi-perl, and libinput), Fedora (httpd, rust, and xmlstarlet), Mageia (openssh, postfix, and roundcubemail), Oracle (frr, kernel, libyang, n, postgresql-jdbc, and unbound), Red Hat (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, redis, and redis:7), SUSE (agama-web-ui, cockpit, cosign, glibc, google-cloud-sap-agent, google-osconfig-agent, kanidm, kernel, kubernetes, kubernetes1.23, kubernetes1.24, kubernetes1.25, kubernetes1.27, kubernetes1.28, libpodofo-devel, libyang, NetworkManager-libreswan, openCryptoki, python311-pypdf, rclone, steampipe, wicked, and xen), and Ubuntu (exim4, libcrypt-saltedhash-perl, libhttp-daemon-perl, samba, and uriparser).
Git 2.55-rc0 Released With Rust Enabled By Default
Git 2.55-rc0 is out today as the first tagged test version of the forthcoming Git 2.55 distributed version control system. Most notable with Git 2.55 is that Rust support is being enabled by default...
Benchmarking The Performance Benefits To Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Packages
With Canonical engineers again experimenting with x86_64-v3 package builds for Ubuntu Linux using an "amd64v3" archive for the current Ubuntu 26.10 development, I decided to see how these latest amd64v3 packages comparing to their conventional Ubuntu 26.10 amd64 packages.
Khronos Releases glTF 2.1 To Make This 3D Asset Standard Work Well For Large Scenes
It's crazy realizing that glTF 2.0 is already nine years old for this API-neutral 3D runtime and asset delivery format. The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group today extended that with the debut of glTF 2.1 as a backward-compatible revision to the specification...
YSERVER: Modern X11 Server Written In Rust With The Help Of Claude Code
Open-source developer Jos Dehaes wrote in to Phoronix today in announcing a new X11 server he has been working on from scratch that has been quietly developed to this point but now ready to announce to the world... The YSERVER...
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