Linux NewsPINE64's Smart Speaker is a Home Assistant Powered Alternative to Amazon Echo
It is powered by a RISC-V chip, has a hardware mic mute switch, and costs $49.99.
No More Reboots During Kernel Patching for ARM64 Systems on Ubuntu
Canonical's Livepatch finally extends to the platform in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Ubuntu Core 26.
A Curiosity For Linux: Alejandra’s Foss Path
What begins with curiosity can shape a career. In this interview, we meet Alejandra Retana Piedra, whose first encounter with Linux as a child in Costa Rica quietly sparked a journey into IT and open source. Today, her passion and ... Read more The post A Curiosity For Linux: Alejandra’s Foss Path appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
[$] KASAN for JIT-compiled BPF code
Alexis Lothoré has been working to add support for the kernel's memory-access checker, KASAN, to just-in-time-compiled BPF code. He spoke about that work at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. KASAN support is needed, he said, to help catch bugs in the BPF just-in-time (JIT) compiler. KASAN is a great tool for catching memory-management problems in the kernel, but only in code that can be monitored by it.
Valve, Intel, and Nvidia will bring SteamOS to more PCs—including handhelds
You won't have to go with AMD to get a Steam device.
Cloudflare Unveils PACT to Help Websites Fight Bots Without CAPTCHA
Cloudflare, Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Shopify introduce PACT, a privacy-first protocol for proving legitimate web access.
Three Lines of Code Improve Linux Storage Performance
A developer changed three lines of code, giving Linux storage performance a 5% bump.
Sunsetting Tor 0.4.8
The Tor Project has announced that it is planning to actively stop supporting Tor 0.4.8 and earlier C Tor versions soon. Usually, we try not to break existing releases, even if they are unsupported, unless we have a pretty good reason. In this case, we have several reasons. [...] The most important reason is this: in 0.4.9, we have made some former fields in our directory data obsolete -- specifically, TAP onion keys and family lines. Removing these fields will let us save a great deal of client directory bandwidth for everyone. This, in turn, will make all Tor clients bootstrap a little faster, especially those on slow connections. But when we remove these fields, clients and relays running earlier versions of Tor will no longer work, since they expect the TAP onion keys to be present. Therefore, in order to deliver improved performance faster, we need to accelerate the date on which 0.4.8 will stop working. The target sunset date is currently September 1, 2026, after which any versio
LXD 6.9 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Adds OVN Load Balancer Pools
LXD 6.9 is out now with OVN load balancer pools, new security audit events, Dell PowerStore support, and UI improvements.
I Finally Tried Niri, The New Way Of Tiling Linux Users Are Going Crazy About
Niri brings a different, scrollable tiling window experience that has captivated many Linux users.
Security updates for Tuesday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (ffmpeg), Fedora (erlang, ffmpeg, prometheus, python-scrapy, python3-docs, python3.14, thorvg, tigervnc, and vips), Mageia (mumble and sslh), Oracle (389-ds:1.4, dracut, firefox, hplip, kernel, openssh, postgresql:15, redis:6, and uek-kernel), Red Hat (delve, gvisor-tap-vsock, nginx, nginx:1.24, nginx:1.26, osbuild-composer, podman, rhc, skopeo, and yggdrasil), SUSE (containerized-data-importer, graphite2, kernel, libarchive, openssh, openssh-askpass-gnome, openvswitch, openvswitch3, postfix, python-lxml, python-nltk, python-python-multipart, python-urllib3, rmt-server, terraform-provider-local, terraform-provider-null, and util-linux), and Ubuntu (google-guest-agent, haproxy, libxml2, linux-azure, linux-intel-iotg-5.15, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-oracle-5.15, mysql-8.0, mysql-8.4, and nginx).
GNU nano 9.1 CLI Text Editor Released with Minor Improvements and Bug Fixes
GNU nano 9.1 open-source command line text editor for Linux-based operating systems is now available for download with a couple of improvements and various bug fixes.
Linux 7.2 Showing Some Unexpected & Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC Sorano
While the Linux 7.2 merge window doesn't wrap up until this weekend as the feature cut-off for new material, I have already begun some early benchmarks of the code currently staged for this next version of the Linux kernel. Linux 7.2 already was looking quite exciting with cache aware scheduling and other exciting new features while an unexpected surprise in my early testing this week was seeing some local network/socket performance improvements...
KaOS Finalizes Its systemd Exit With First Stable Dinit 2026.06 ISO
KaOS Dinit 2026.06 arrives as the first stable ISO after the project’s systemd-to-Dinit transition reached its final stage.
KDE Plasma 6.7.1 Released with KWin and Desktop Fixes
KDE Plasma 6.7.1 is out as the first bugfix update to Plasma 6.7, bringing fixes for KWin, Discover, networking, and more.
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