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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...
With Linux 7.1 ISDN, ham radio, and other old network code was removed in lightening the kernel source tree by around 138 thousand lines of code. Some additional Linux networking code cleaning is expected for Linux 7.2 with the ISA and PCMCIA hardware around ARCnet set to be removed...
Redis 8.8 reached GA today for the Redis open-source project providing a high performance, in-memory data store...
While not as good as repealing AB 1043 outright for requiring operating system providers to ask for a user's age or birth date at device setup, open-source Linux distributions and other open-source OSes may end up seeing some reprieve before this law goes into effect at the start of 2027...
MX Linux 25.2 distribution is now available for download with a new text-mode installer, Debian 13.5 base, and Linux kernel 7.0 on the AHS builds. Here’s what’s new!
Rhino Linux 2026.1 distribution is now available for download with a new Lomiri edition, Linux kernel 7.0, Pacstall updates, and other changes. Here's what's new!
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Rhino Linux 2026.1, Proxmox VЕ 9.2, Nitrux 6.1, Firefox 151, GNOME Commander 2.0, Microsoft Azure Linux 4, Linux Mint’s new screenshot tool, and more.
Linux Mint developers are building a new screenshot utility for the Cinnamon desktop ahead of its next major release. The home-grown tool will give users more options when making screen grabs and “accommodate the differences between CSD (Client Side Decoration) and SSD (Server Side Decoration) windows” to result in clearer screenshots. Currently, Cinnamon uses the GTK-based gnome-screenshot , but the tool fails to capture window shadows at all when taking app window screenshots. It does, however, leave clipped, dark pixel artefacts from window shadows beneath the rounded corners. Which isn’t pretty. The new tool can take app window screenshots with […]
Ubuntu-based Rhino Linux 2026.1 is out with new Lomiri desktop images for x86_64 and ARM64, updated kernels, and Pacstall improvements.
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for May 24th, 2026, brings news about Firefox 151, Ardour 9.5, Ubuntu Core 26, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2, Nitrux 6.1, Thunderbird 151, HPLIP 3.26.4, Tails 7.8, Shelly 2.3.1, Agama 21 installer, Firefox 152 beta, DietPi 10.4, Wireshark 4.6.6, AlmaLinux Day, and more.
The 7.1-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Quoth Linus: I'm not entirely happy about it - most of this is totally trivial stuff to random drivers, which obviously makes it all less scary, but at the same time I'm really not convinced the churn is worth it at rc5 time. These things are "fixes", sure, but at the same time a lot of them are simply so irrelevant that I think they'd be better off in a linux-next tree and get merged during the merge window. So I think I'll start being a bit more hardnosed about this kind of unnecessary churn this late in the game. We are supposed to look for *regressions*. Non-critical fixes to long-standing issues are simply not appropriate for this late in the release cycle. End result: this is too big, and this is the heads-up that I'll be pushing back on pointless pull requests with fixes that just aren't that important. And yes, several of these series were triggered by AI code review.
With Richard Stallman back on the road and FSF backing 46 community-focused LibreLocal meetups worldwide, the free software movement looks anything but finished. The post FSF Shows Strength With 46 LibreLocal Meetups in 2026 appeared first on FOSS Force.
Canonical will decommission its long-running text-hosting service Ubuntu Pastebin on May 31. The company is pulling the plug as part of a broader “infrastructure modernization and migration project”. Ubuntu Pastebin, which works similarly to GitHub’s Gist, albeit without the revision history, has been available to the community since late 2007 It originally launched under the paste.ubuntu.com domain before adding pastebin.ubuntu.com, which is live until the end of the month. The service was partly created to stop the official IRC support channels from being flooded with reams of terminal output from help-seeking users. It was also used by the community to share […]
In the road to releasing Linux 7.1 in June, out today is Linux 7.1-rc5 that continues coming on heavy with fixes...
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