Linux NewsCachyOS Gets an Update
CachyOS August 2026 release is now available with the latest version of KDE, some new features, and plenty of improvements.
4 reasons to bring Linux with you this school year
A privacy-minded, lightweight OS that breathes life into dusty laptops and keeps tight student budgets intact.
Test Days for Fedora 45: Help Us Test the Big Changes
Fedora 45 has several system-level changes that need testing on real hardware. The first test day up is GNOME 51, starting on 17 August, with more events planned for RPM 6.1, installation media and others. You can participate with a VM for most tests; some hardware-specific testing is more useful on a real machine. Details […]
D7VK 2.1 Brings Faster Load Times, More Performance Tweaks
D7VK as the open-source implementation of the Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5/ 3 APIs atop the Vulkan API for Linux/Wine usage is out with another feature update. D7VK continues to mature quite well for further enhancing these older Direct3D API versions that cover the span prior to DXVK's focus of Direct3D 8 to Direct3D 11 or VKD3D-Proton's Direct3D 12...
Add multiple picture widgets to your Ubuntu desktop
If you remember that desktop picture widget for GNOME I wrote about last year, but found it a bit too basic for your personalisation preferences, you weren’t alone. Another user felt it could lacked enough flexibility, so forked and improved it. Picture Desktop Widget Remake improves on the original. It lets add multiple picture widgets to your Ubuntu desktop, and assign each one a different folder to pull images from, at random. Plus, you can set the size, position, border radius and aspect ratio of each widget individually. Each photo frame has its own on/off button in Preferences, so you […]
Lemonade 11.6 Integrates Muse-Glimmer 30B, Experimental TheNoise ROCm Image Generation
For those dabbling with generative AI on the weekends, the AMD-led Lemonade SDK 11.6 is out today with its newest feature release of this open-source software for running local AI apps with optimized LLMs across CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs...
Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.11 Adds Support for Multi-Frame Compressed Images
Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.11 flashing tool for Raspberry Pi devices is now available for download with support for newer multi-frame compressed images, more reliable writes to SD cards, and other changes.
ByteDance’s OIN 2.0 Deal: Patent Non-Aggression Meets Reputation Management
By placing its qualifying patents in OIN 2.0’s cross-license community, ByteDance strengthens a defensive resource for open source while distancing itself from the political baggage surrounding TikTok. The post ByteDance’s OIN 2.0 Deal: Patent Non-Aggression Meets Reputation Management appeared first on FOSS Force.
Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.11 Brings Safer Image Writing, Better Customization
Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.11 adds stronger drive locking, multi-frame Zstandard image support, improved customization handling, and numerous fixes.
Nvidia just made gaming on Linux a whole lot easier
The cloud game service has also lower lag and higher frame rates.
[$] BPF, continuous testing, and stable kernels
Ihor Solodrai and Shung-Hsi Yu wrapped up the BPF track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit with a pair of sessions related to testing. Solodrai spoke about what has changed for BPF's continuous-integration (CI) testing. Yu spoke about what may be needed to test BPF updates in stable kernels more thoroughly. The BPF subsystem's CI tests are in a good place, they said; even so, Solodrai and Yu have a handful of possible avenues toward enabling better test coverage in the future.
Omarchy 4.0 Linux Distro Released With Desktop Shell Now Implemented Via Quickshell
Omarchy as the Arch Linux distribution developed by David Heinemeier Hansson "DHH" / Basecamp is out today with Omarchy 4.0 as the distro's biggest release to date...
Python packaging council candidates announced
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has announced the candidates running for the Python packaging council that was approved by the Python steering council in April. This inaugural election fills all five seats on the PPC. The two candidates receiving the highest number of votes shall be designated Cohort A with a two year term, and the three candidates receiving the next highest number of votes shall be designated Cohort B with a one year term. In future elections, each cohort will be elected for a full two-year term in alternating years, so that roughly half of the PPC turns over each cycle. There are 17 candidates running for the five open seats. PSF voting-eligible members must affirm their intention to vote in this election by August 25. Voting begins on September 1, and ends on September 15.
GeForce NOW Linux App Exits Beta, Adds Flatpak Repository
NVIDIA’s native GeForce NOW app for Linux is now officially out of beta, bringing improved stability, performance, and polish.
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, bind, bind9.16, and dracut), Debian (apr-util, chromium, postgresql-17, python-httplib2, unzip, and zip), Fedora (erlang-cowboy, erlang-cowlib, flatpak, and libnfs), Gentoo (Apache HTTPD, Bubblewrap, Dnsmasq, Exim, Flatpak, libinput, and rsync), Mageia (dhcpcd, qemu, and roundcubemail), Oracle (.NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, bind, bind9.16, freerdp, glib2, gnome-remote-desktop, grafana, gstreamer1-plugins-good, isns-utils, java-17-openjdk, kernel, libpng, libXfont2, nghttp2, perl-DBI:1.641, python-idna, python3.9, and xorg-x11-server), Slackware (rsync), SUSE (bouncycastle, chromium, dnsdist, dracut, java-1_8_0-ibm, kernel, libXfont2, nodejs22, nodejs24, php8, python-httplib2, rrdtool, rsyslog, samba, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-aws-hwe, linux-aws-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-hwe, linux-oracle, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.8, linux-