Linux NewsAudacity 4.0 Open-Source Audio Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
Audacity 4.0 open-source audio editor is now available for download as a major update with numerous new features and improvements. Here are the details!
Tails 7.12 Anonymous OS Kicks Off New Two-Week Release Cycle
Tails 7.12 is out as the first release under the project’s new two-week cadence, bringing Tor Browser 15.0.21, Electrum 4.8.1, and updated firmware.
21st Revision Of Patches For Getting Linux To Shutdown Devices Asynchronously
Being worked on for over two years has been the latest attempt for async device shutdown support for Linux for getting Linux systems -- especially servers with lots of hardware like many NVMe drives -- to shutdown faster. That work is now up to its 21st version as it works toward hopefully making it to the mainline kernel in the not too distant future...
Vivaldi 8.2 Adds Address Bar Calculator, Easier PWA Installation
Vivaldi 8.2 introduces a private local calculator in the Address Field, improves PWA discovery and installation, and previews Enterprise features.
NVIDIA Acquiring Hugging Face For $12.93 Billion
Following rumors in recent days of NVIDIA courting Hugging Face, it's now been officially announced that NVIDIA is acquiring Hugging Face...
Linux 7.3 Now Disabling RandStruct Security Feature By Default If Rust Support Present
While Rust programming language use may help with memory safety and other security advantages, the default Linux kernel configuration is now losing randomization of sensitive kernel structures if Rust support is present...
Audacity 4.0 Audio Editor Released With Qt6 Based UI
The longtime Audacity open-source audio editor had been using wxWidgets for years but with today's Audacity 4.0 release they have transitioned to using the Qt6 toolkit...
GCC 17 Now Supports Using -mtune=native -mcpu=native On RISC-V
As a follow up to last month's article about patches being posted for enabling "-mcpu=native -mtune=native" support for RISC-V with the GCC compiler, that code is now merged for what will become the GCC 17.1 release in the early months of 2027...
InputPlumber 0.79 Adds Support For More Handhelds
InputPlumber is the open-source router and remapping daemon for Linux that is particularly popular among Linux gaming handhelds for combining multiple input devices and translating actions into various virtual device formats. InputPlumber supports emulating mouse, keyboard, ad gamepad inputs. With the new InputPlumber 0.79 release there is expanded hardware support and bug fixes...
Canonical joins the Open Secure AI Alliance
Canonical recently joined the Linux Foundation’s Open Secure AI Alliance to help make open-source security tools for AI systems and autonomous agents. The alliance formed in July 2026 in response to the security breach at Hugging Face, when OpenAI models undergoing a safety test broke out of their sandbox to access Hugging Face’s systems – aided by config errors rather than super-intelligence. Commercial AI models refused to help in assessing attack logs due to their guardrails, so Hugging Face engineers had to run an open-weight model on their own infrastructure to complete their analysis – and underscore the need for […]
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 3, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Python JIT; rnull block driver; steal time; GNOME governance; 7.3 merge window; LUKS. Briefs: Kernel infrastructure; Debian AI; Dolphin 26.08; Firefox 155; Incus 7.4; OpenShot 4.0; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
These 5 Linux distros promise to run Windows apps—I tried them all, and one was clearly the best
Running a Windows app on Linux can be surprisingly easy, but some distro make the process far less frustrating!
Fastfetch 2.68.1 System Information Tool Brings New Top Module
Fastfetch 2.68.1 introduces a new Top module for displaying resource-hungry processes, alongside improved GTK detection and Wi-Fi reporting.
Lemonade 11.9 Local AI Server Released With Super Exciting AMD ROCm HRX Backend
Lemonade 11.9 is out today as the newest feature release to this AMD-backed, open-source local AI server solution across Linux, Windows, and macOS. Lemonade has long been focused on offering "100% free and private" AI use with local hardware whether it be GPUs, CPUs, or NPUs. With Lemonade 11.9's release today it's very interesting for having experimental ROCm HRX back-end support with Llama.cpp. HRX is the new exciting thing to watch out for on the AMD ROCm compute landscape...
Arduino’s VENTUNO Q went up for pre-order, sold out
Arduino's VENTUNO Q is now up for pre-order, priced from $299. The development board comes with Ubuntu preinstalled and is built around Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ8 platform.