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Sway 1.12 Wayland compositor is now available for download with HDR10 support when running with the Vulkan renderer, support for capturing individual windows, and other changes.
Joshua Hahn began his session in the memory-management track of the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit by saying that the memory controller for control groups is intended to provide resource allocation, accounting, and protection from interference by other tasks. But it was not really designed for tiered-memory systems; he is looking for a way to improve that situation.
AppGrid 1.8 open-source application launcher for the KDE Plasma desktop environment is now available for download with new features and improvements. Here's what's new!
Security updates have been issued by Debian (atril, evince, gnutls28, haproxy, haveged, jq, kernel, krb5, libgcrypt20, nodejs, and thunderbird), Fedora (aw-server-rust, awatcher, bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, chromium, composer, docker-buildkit, docker-buildx, dotnet10.0, dotnet8.0, dotnet9.0, evince, firefox, httpd, kernel, nodejs-aw-webui, nss, perl-Apache-Session-Browseable, pie, python-pulp-glue, python-requests, and python3.15), Slackware (kernel), SUSE (apptainer, chromium, cockpit, dnsmasq, google-guest-agent, hauler, iproute2, jfrog-cli, kernel, libecpg6, libsolv, libzypp, zypper, mcphost, oci-cli, perl-YAML-Syck, python-lxml, python-urllib3, python311-impacket, rqlite, rsync, util-linux, and xz), and Ubuntu (evince, linux-azure, linux-azure-5.4, linux-azure-fips, linux-azure-4.15, linux-azure-fips, linux-fips, linux-gcp-5.15, linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15, linux-oracle-6.17, node-path-to-regexp, and rclone).
Linus Torvalds does not enjoy giving talks, but he does consent to the occasional on-stage conversation with Dirk Hohndel at Linux Foundation events. The pair held the 30th of their fire-less fireside chats during a keynote session on May 20, at the 2026 Open Source Summit North America. Topics included 3D printing, guitar pedals, the recent 7.1-rc4 release of the kernel, and Torvalds's complicated relationship with AI tooling.
Tells Linux users to either pay up or get stuck on an aging, unsupported version forever.
Everyone's sleeping on the distro I've been using for the past five years while celebrating its more vanilla brother—and I can't take it anymore.
Sway 1.12 is out today as the newest feature release of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor powered by the wlroots library...
Flatpak’s future sandboxing design may rely more heavily on systemd services, raising questions about compatibility with non-systemd systems.
You don't need to fully commit or leave everything behind. You can have the best of both worlds.
Merged today for what will become Mesa 26.2 next quarter is the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" now supporting the VK_KHR_shader_fma extension...
They are working on a new project called 'baltobu', which will reverse-engineer Bambu's proprietary components.
MX Linux 25.2 is now available with Linux 7.0 on the AHS edition, Debian 13.5 base updates, and refreshed ISO images.
MKVToolNix 99.0 open-source MKV manipulation tool is now available for download with the ability to remember the last used directory when selecting audio files, and many other changes. Here’s what’s changed!
An exciting Intel innovation expected to be added for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is introducing the new USB4STREAM protocol for USB4/Thunderbolt as a "super simple" way to "basically just transfer raw packets from one host to another". This can be useful for quickly backing up a system from one host to another, sharing of web cameras or other peripherals across systems, or other environments where not having networking or wanting to avoid the traditional Linux networking stack...
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