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Fedora's CoreOS as their container-optimized operating system will be moving to enable systemd-oomd by default with Fedora CoreOS 45. Additionally, swap on zRAM will be enabled by default too...
In addition to more ASUS motherboards having working sensors with Linux 7.3, this next kernel version will also get several more Lenovo laptop models to be reporting their fan sensor information under Linux...
Linux Mint 22.3 HWE ISO images are now available for download powered by the Linux 7.0 kernel series from Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS.
A new Linux Mint 22.3 HWE ISO is available for download, powered by Linux kernel 7.0. The distro issued the first Linux Mint 22.3 HWE ISO in March with Linux 6.17. That image remains available to download alongside this, the latest. Those default download for Linux Mint 22.3 (Zena) is the regular ISO that boots from Linux 6.14. All of the Linux Mint HWE ISOs installs Linux Mint 22.3, which is based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, just with a newer hardware stack than the one found in the standard image. Canonical began rolling out the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Hardware Enablement […]
BPF offers useful safety guarantees, but Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi wants BPF programs to be even safer. At the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, he led a session (slides) discussing the possibility of adding domain-specific invariants to BPF programs. It was not a discussion intended to lead to the implementation of any particular kernel feature, but rather an overview of why additional formal verification might be needed, and how it could work with the existing BPF ecosystem.
The Django Python web-framework project has announced that it has accepted an annual release cycle proposal. This means that the project is moving from a somewhat complicated schedule that interspersed short-lived feature releases and long-term-support (LTS) releases to a simpler annual cycle where each release is supported for three years. Every feature release gets three years of support: one year of mainstream bugfixes, then two years of security and data-loss fixes. The "LTS" label is retired — every feature release now carries that same, unique commitment. No more LTS gap: no racing a deadline to jump two years of changes at once. Upgrade one year at a time, whenever suits you within the support window. Three versions are supported at any time, giving third-party packages a clear, rolling target. This will take effect with the upcoming Django 2028 release, expected in January 2028.
Expected to be merged during the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is a Kernel Control Flow Integrity (KCFI) improvement intended to benefit older Intel processors...
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (firefox, gpsd-minimal, kernel, libarchive, libgcrypt, and LibRaw), Debian (bind9, ca-certificates, chromium, dnsdist, icinga2, kitty, libheif, openjdk-21, pdns, pdns-recursor, thunderbird, and xen), Fedora (bird, erlang, kernel, mingw-glib2, nghttp2, p11-kit, perl, perl-Devel-Cover, perl-PAR-Packer, pgadmin4, polymake, python-nh3, python-wsgidav, python3.12, rabbitmq-server, rust-ammonia, seamonkey, and udisks2), Mageia (python-starlette), Oracle (gnutls, kernel, and LibRaw), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8), Slackware (wpa_supplicant), and SUSE (azure-storage-azcopy, bouncycastle, ffmpeg-4, fuse-overlayfs, gleam, gstreamer-plugins-bad, libssh2-1, libssh2_org, libwireshark19, libXfont2-2, perl-Mojo-JWT, perl-Mojolicious, podman, python310, python313-Django4, and tekton-cli).
Linux Mint 22.3 introduces new HWE installation images with Linux kernel 7.0, alongside a preview of upcoming system and Cinnamon improvements.
The Qt Group has been working on various AI integrations for the Qt toolkit in recent times like a QML profiler skill for agentic development to help with performance profiling. They have also worked on Qt AI coding assistants and AI agents in the Qt Creator integrated development environment. Their latest AI use is now preparing to introduce a new module in the Qt toolkit itself for edge AI inferencing...
Apache NetBeans 31 adds Java lambda breakpoints, improves code completion, updates Maven and Gradle tooling, and fixes numerous IDE issues.
HP recently launched their Z4 G6i workstation that I have been testing out the past few weeks. The HP Z4 G6i is powered by Granite Rapids WS with the review unit specifically being powered by the Intel Xeon 678X. As the unit shipped with Microsoft Windows 11 Pro and this being the first time I've had my hands on Granite Rapids WS, I took the opportunity to run some Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS performance benchmarks to see how the operating system performance compares for this 48 core / 96 thread workstation processor.
Linux maintainers are drowning in AI-generated garbage, and nobody knows how to stop it.
Linux Mint is out today with their July 2026 status update that highlights all the improvements made to their distribution over the past month...
KDE Plasma 6.7 is now available in Debian Testing “Forky,” giving users access to the latest desktop improvements ahead of Debian 14.
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