Linux NewsCalibre 9.8 E-Book Manager Improves Content Server, Native TTS Engine, and More
Calibre 9.8 open-source e-book management software is now available for download with the ability to reset the zoom to 100% by right-clicking in the preview panel.
First Arch Linux ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 7.0 Is Now Available for Download
Arch Linux 2026.05.01 is now available for download as Arch Linuxâs ISO release for May 2026, powered by Linux kernel 7.0 and featuring an improved installation experience.
Calibre 9.8 E-Book Manager Adds Local OpenAI-Compatible AI Provider Support
Calibre 9.8 adds support for local OpenAI-compatible AI providers, improves mobile book details access, and fixes TTS and GIF conversion issues.
Major DDoS attack knocks Ubuntu websites, Snap store offline
If youâre having trouble accessing the Ubuntu website, the Snap store or Launchpad then youâre not alone: Canonicalâs websites are currently facing a âsustained, cross-borderâ DDoS attack. The company says it is âworking to addressâ the attack and will provide more details shortly. Some websites and services have been affected for as long as 14 hours (at the time of writing). The Ubuntu APT repos are not offline, as theyâre mirrored across multiple locations, countries and servers, although the main archive.ubuntu.com is offline (at the time of writing). Itâs still possible to download OS ISO images too, due to distributed [âŚ]
Intel Making More GPU Driver Improvements For Crescent Island With Linux 7.2
Intel's upcoming Crescent Island product as a reminder is a new inference-optimized Xe3P graphics card with 160GB of vRAM and targeting enterprise AI workloads. Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers continue to be very busy enabling the driver support for Crescent Island as well as making broader Xe3P improvements...
Mesa Developers Consider Branching Off Some Older GPU Drivers - Including AMD R300/R600
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team has ignited a discussion over potentially shifting some of Mesa's older GPU drivers into a new legacy Git branch in order to better support the more modern OpenGL and Vulkan drivers without having to worry about breaking the legacy drivers and to allow for better cleaning of the Mesa codebase. Among the drivers that could be impacted are the ATI/AMD R300 and R600 drivers and many smaller drivers...
Linux 7.0 Release, Age Verification Laws, Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 & Other April Happenings
A lot happened in the Linux and open-source world during the month of April. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 shipped, a lot of news around age attestation/verification laws, the Linux 7.0 kernel was released, Linux 7.1 is bringing many exciting changes as well as removing of old hardware drivers, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition CPU was released, we began testing the Intel Arc Pro B70 "BMG-G31", and much more software and hardware content that made the month interesting. Last month on Phoronix were 303 original news articles and 16 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles...
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Linux App Release Roundup (April 2026)
April 2026 has been and gone, but not before delivering an array of Linux software updates, including new versions of popular FOSS video editor Kdenlive and Oracleâs virtualisation offering VirtualBox. We also got Firefox 150 with GTK emoji picker support and split tab improvements, and a modest bug fix update to the GIMP image editor, albeit resolving an annoying on-canvas text tool quirk. Below, I list other notable Linux app releases to arrive in April. While these didnât merit a dedicated article (hey, it was a busy month with the release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS), they still brought nifty new [âŚ]
Microsoft Marks 45 Years of DOS by Open-Sourcing Its Oldest-Known Source Code
Tim Paterson's 1981 assembler printouts are now transcribed, compilable, and MIT-licensed.
âMentoring Mondaysâ Is Otto Kekäläinenâs Way to Support New Debian Devs
In this lowâpressure Monday meetup, Otto Kekäläinen helps aspiring Debian devs untangle packaging puzzles, absorb the culture, and turn curiosity into accepted contributions. The post âMentoring Mondaysâ Is Otto Kekäläinenâs Way to Support New Debian Devs appeared first on FOSS Force.
Shotcut 26.4 Video Editor Adds GPU Acceleration for Speech to Text
Shotcut 26.4 adds Vulkan GPU support for Speech to Text, timeline improvements, export metadata, 10-bit VP9 presets, and many fixes.
Linux 7.2 To Set Default DRM Scheduler Priority To "Fair", New AIE4 Hardware In AMDXDNA
Even while the Linux 7.1 merge window was still ongoing this month, the initial "drm-misc-next" pull request to DRM-Next was sent out for beginning to queue new feature material toward the Linux 7.2 kernel coming this summer...
Shotcut 26.4 Video Editor Adds Vulkan GPU to Speech to Text on Linux
Shotcut 26.4 open-source video editor is now available for download with Vulkan GPU support for Speech to Text on Linux, 10-bit VP9 MP4 (E-AC-3) and 10-bit VP9 WebM (Opus) export presets, and more.
Grml 2026.04 Linux Distro Is Out with Linux Kernel 6.19, Based on Debian 14 Forky
Grml 2026.04 GNU/Linux distribution is now available for download based on Debian Testing/Forky and powered by Linux kernel 6.19. Hereâs whatâs new!
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