Linux NewsNitrux 7.0 Launches With New Workspace Environment, Linux Kernel 7.2
Nitrux 7.0 overhauls the desktop experience with a new first-party Workspace Environment, Hyprland 0.55.4, and updated MauiKit components.
YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI
Their submission to the EU's piracy watchlist places the open source tool in the same category as illegal downloading websites.
Arch Linux October 2026 ISO Is Out with Linux Kernel 7.2.7, Systemd 262
Arch Linux releases its October 2026 ISO with Linux kernel 7.2.7, Archinstall 4.5, systemd 262, Mesa 26.2.3, and other recent updates.
The EU Is About to Make Linux’s Vulnerability Management Problem Harder to Ignore
More CVEs, sprawling deployments, and new EU reporting rules are turning vulnerability management into a matter of evidence as well as patching. The post The EU Is About to Make Linux’s Vulnerability Management Problem Harder to Ignore appeared first on FOSS Force.
Ubuntu 26.10 Beta Lands With Linux Kernel 7.3-rc and GNOME 51
Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Beta brings Linux 7.3-rc, GNOME 51, Rust Coreutils, dbus-broker, Mesa 26.2, and major toolchain updates.
Ubuntu 26.10 Beta Released with Linux Kernel 7.3 and GNOME 51
Ubuntu 26.10 is now available for public beta testing with the latest and greatest Linux 7.3 kernel, Mesa 26.2 graphics stack, and GNOME 51 desktop environment.
Ubuntu 26.10 Beta released with Linux 7.3 & GNOME 51
Chocks away – the beta release of Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stringray) is now available for download. Ubuntu 26.10 runs on the Linux 7.3 kernel (release candidate) and ships the GNOME 51 desktop with various user-facing features. Lower-level changes include a full set of Rust core utilities and better handling of low-memory situations. This beta is meant for testing, so users and developers can trial the changes and report any bugs ahead of the final, stable release of Ubuntu 26.10 due o 15 October 2026. For a concise overview of what ships in the Stonking Stingray, read on. What’s new in […]
FOSS Weekly #26.40: NixOS is European Choice, Firefox Nova and Features, Free Terminal Course, Homelab Improvements and More
European governments are betting on NixOS to reduce their dependency on big tech.
Fedora 45 Beta Performance: The Satisfyingly Boring Benchmarks
While there have been a number of Ubuntu 26.10 development benchmarks in recent weeks and more on the way, some Phoronix readers have asked about the lack of any early Fedora 45 tests given its recent beta. For good reason, it's largely boring but here are some to illustrate.
Dutch Government Turns to Open Source for Digital Sovereignty
Following in the footsteps of European countries, the Netherlands is looking to increase its sovereign digital infrastructure with open source software.
This Linux experiment convinced me to stop dual-booting Windows
A Windows VM ran my Windows-only apps well enough that dual-booting is no longer necessary.
F-Droid's New App Shows it Isn't Going Anywhere
The Compose-based 2.0 app release marks the largest update in the storefront's history.
Mesa Drops Its Poorly Maintained & Rarely Used Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver
Back in 2021 the Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver "d3d10umd" was introduced as a new Gallium3D state tracker to work as a Windows WDDM UMD driver similar to Windows WARP while leveraging LLVMpipe for better performance. Now five years later the poorly maintained code is removed from the Mesa codebase...
Speech Synthesis on Linux: Adding a Voice to Scripts and Systems
by George Whittaker Linux users have long had a pragmatic relationship with text-to-speech. The classic open-source engines have been available for years, wired into accessibility tools and the occasional script, dependable but unmistakably robotic. They do the job where the job is simply to convert text to some kind of speech, but the mechanical output has kept them out of anything where the voice actually matters. The arrival of high-quality speech synthesis delivered over an API changes what is possible, letting Linux users add genuinely natural voices to scripts, services, and applications without hosting a heavyweight model themselves. The Familiar Trade-Off Anyone who has used the traditional Linux speech engines knows the trade-off. They are free, local, and scriptable, which fits the Linux ethos perfectly, but the voices are clearly synthetic. For accessibility and for utilitarian tasks where intelligibility is all that counts, that has been acceptable. For anything user-facing
Trends in IT that Open Source Advocates Should Address, Part 1
The world of computing used to be rich with opportunities for mavericks and the marginalized, as celebrated in books such as Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution and Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. ... Read more The post Trends in IT that Open Source Advocates Should Address, Part 1 appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
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