Linux NewsLinuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 34, 2026 (August 17 – 23)
Catch up on the latest Linux news: kernel 7.2, AerynOS August update, Bazzite 44, COSMIC Desktop 1.6, VirtualBox 7.2.16, Firefox 154, and more.
Arch-Based Omarchy Linux Distro Lands a Massive $8M Boost
The Arch Linux-based Omarchy has secured $8 million in backing through the new Omacom Foundation, which has become Hyprland’s exclusive sponsor.
A decade-old bug closure turned into an Ubuntu Phone engineer reunion
A decades-old bug on Ubuntu’s Launchpad was marked as invalid at the weekend, and lead to an impromptu reunion for many of Canonical’s former engineers. Bob Harvey filed bug #1589796 in 2016, having spent £700 on Ubuntu phone and tablet hardware but, on visiting the official website, found no documentation on how to use them. Canonical axed the Ubuntu Phone project in 2017, leaving this bug (along with hundreds of others) resolved. Until now. This weekend, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, a member of the Ubuntu bug triage team, marked #1599796 as invalid. When closing it, he mentioned to the original bug […]
This Linux PC-phone hybrid could be the future of Linux smartphones
A Linux computer you can carry in your pocket—and actually type on.
Linux 7.3 Improving RAID 5/6 Benchmark-Based Algorithm Selection
Following the main set of memory management "MM" changes submitted for Linux 7.3, Andrew Morton sent in his "non-MM" pull request of the other patches he's been collecting from various developers for this next Linux kernel release. Standing out there were some improvements to the RAID 5/6 benchmark-based algorithm selection...
LibreOffice 26.8 Will Bring a Better Tabbed Interface — Not a Single ‘Best’ One
The new Tabbed interface is an improvement, not a retreat from LibreOffice’s longstanding commitment to offering users multiple ways to work. The post LibreOffice 26.8 Will Bring a Better Tabbed Interface — Not a Single ‘Best’ One appeared first on FOSS Force.
I installed Linux on my mother-in-law’s PC to prove it’s easier than Windows
I gave the most non-technical user I know the OS everyone calls the most technical to see what happens.
Linux 7.3 Better Protects Against Buggy EFI Firmware Taking Down The Rest Of User-Space
The EFI updates were merged today for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel. Most notable with the EFI updates is now enforcing a timeout foe EFI runtime service completions rather than potentially hanging indefinitely...
Linux 7.3 Delivers Graphics Driver Improvements From Old GPUs To Next-Gen Hardware
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 merge window. There is a lot of exciting GPU kernel driver improvements this cycle ranging from some notable enhancements to old AMD Radeon graphics hardware up through enabling support for some next-generation AMD graphics IP blocks to over on the Intel side where Nova Lake S graphics are being enabled by default...
Sunday's stable kernel set
The 7.1.10, 6.18.46, 6.12.105, 6.6.153, 6.1.184, 5.15.217, and 5.10.266 stable kernels have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
Mourning Steve French
From Jeremy Allison we have the sad news of the passing of Steve French. He was the maintainer of the kernel's SMB filesystem code for many years, having only dropped that role due to health issues in the last week. "I've known Steve for over 20 years. He was a legend in the community, and a really good friend. He will be greatly missed. Farewell Steve." He will indeed be missed.
Contour 0.7 Terminal Emulator Adds Tabs, Split Panes, and Saved Layouts
Contour 0.7 is out with native GUI tabs, split panes, saved layouts, a command palette, GUI settings, and experimental daemon sessions.
I switched to Pop!_OS for the most superficial reason. No, I don't regret it at all
I thought the novelty would wear off. Then I realized I was actually enjoying using it!
17 GNOME Extensions To Help You Customization Desktop Looks
Change how your Linux desktop running GNOME DE looks with these GNOME extensions.
Unraid 8 NAS to Drop Slackware for Fedora-Based uCore
The upcoming Unraid 8 release will switch from Slackware to Fedora-based uCore while introducing integrated backups, Docker Compose, and more.