Linux News

It's FOSS -233 minutes ago

Linux is Getting a Kill Switch! 📋

This AI-assisted patch would let admins disable vulnerable kernel functions until a proper fix ships. 📋

It's FOSS -119 minutes ago

Restriced by the West, Huawei's Open Source HarmonyOS Now Powers 55 Million Devices 📋

It seems that Huawei has managed to create an ecosystem of hardware as well as software. 📋

Linuxiac 48 minutes ago

PeaZip 11.1 File Archiver Adds Security Fixes and Updates 7z Backend 📋

PeaZip 11.1 updates its 7z backend, fixes security issues, and improves archive extraction workflows across Linux and Windows. 📋

Phoronix 4 hours ago

Linux 7.0.6 Released To Finish Mitigating the Dirty Frag Vulnerability 📋

Linux 7.0.6 is out as stable this morning to finish mitigating the Dirty Frag vulnerability that was made public last week... 📋

9to5Linux 7 hours ago

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 10th, 2026 📋

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for May 10th, 2026, brings news about Steam Controller, Dirty Frag vulnerability, Mesa 26.1, COSMIC 1.0.12, Ubuntu Touch OTA 1.3, KDE Gear 26.04.1, KDE Frameworks 6.26, Inkscape 1.4.4, Firefox 150.0.2, Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.9, Giada 1.4.1, Parrot 7.2, Shelly 2.2.4, and more. 📋

9to5Linux 10 hours ago

Audacious 4.6 Media Player Promises File Browser Plugin, Beta Out Now 📋

Audacious 4.6 open-source media player is now available for public beta testing with a File Browser plugin, a macOS Now Playing plugin, support for playing Musepack SV8 files, and much more. 📋

LWN.net 10 hours ago

Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc3 📋

Linus has released 7.1-rc3 for testing. "I think this answers the 'is 7.1 continuing the larger size pattern that we saw with 7.0?' question, and the answer is yes: that wasn't a fluke brought on by a .0 release - it simply seems to be the new normal." 📋

Linuxiac 11 hours ago

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 19, 2026 (May 4 – 10) 📋

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Parrot OS 7.2, Manjaro 26.1 Preview, Hyprland 0.55, KDE Gear 26.04.1, COSMIC Desktop 1.0.12, Linux kernel killswitch proposed, and more. 📋

Linuxiac 12 hours ago

Debian Now Blocks Non-Reproducible Packages from Testing 📋

Debian now blocks non-reproducible packages from entering testing, making reproducible builds a migration requirement for the 14 (Forky) cycle. 📋

It's FOSS 15 hours ago

I Moved My Photos from OneDrive to Ente Photos, and I'm Not Going Back 📋

Privacy concerns drove me to move 20,000+ photos and videos out of OneDrive. 📋

Phoronix 16 hours ago

Linux 7.1-rc3 Released With Many Networking Changes 📋

Linus Torvalds just issued the third weekly test candidate of the Linux 7.1 kernel with around a third of the patches being for the networking subsystem... 📋

It's FOSS 18 hours ago

After Ubuntu, Now Fedora is Jumping Onto the AI Bandwagon With Dedicated AI Developer Desktops 📋

Planned across three new Fedora releases, the initiative targets Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and ARM hardware. 📋

Linuxiac 18 hours ago

FreshRSS 1.29 Feed Aggregator Adds New Sorting Controls 📋

FreshRSS 1.29 self-hosted RSS feed aggregator adds new sorting controls, feed icons, webhook support, and PHP 8.5 improvements. 📋

How-to Geek 20 hours ago

Why I just can't love Linux Mint 📋

It takes more than stability and reliability to woo me! 📋

How-to Geek 22 hours ago

How I use the Linux terminal without touching it: My secret to extreme automation 📋

A good set of scripts lets you avoid the terminal for common tasks 📋