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GNOME developers working on GNOME OS have received funding from Germany's Prototype Fund to work on creating the GNOME OS "Developer Tool Suite" or also tentatively called their "Test Center" to help in testing experimental applications/libraries in a modern Linux computing world with systemd-sysext, Buildstream, and other newer tech...
Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number of clean-ups and improvements to the code. That rework to the system call entry handling is now expected to land for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...
While the Raspberry Pi 5 is already over two and a half years old, one of the missing elements of its support from the mainline Linux kernel has been the IOMMU driver. We are now seeing Raspberry Pi's downstream IOMMU driver being adapted for mainline with hopes of getting it into the upstream kernel...
Cloud Hypervisor 53.0 is now available for this open-source, Rust-based VMM focused on cloud workloads and modern security needs. Originally started at Microsoft, Cloud Hypervisor continues seeing new development these days by Microsoft, Meta, Arm, and other organizations...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for July 12th, 2026, brings news about KDE Plasma 6.6.6, Proton 11, KDE Frameworks 6.28, Debian 13.6, Cinnamon goes full Wayland, PeaZip 11.2, GStreamer 1.28.5, Wireshark 4.6.7, Ubuntu 25.10 EOL, TUXEDO OS Debian rebase, and PipeWire 1.6.8, COSMIC Frosted Glass, and more.
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Debian 13.6, Proton 11.0, Wine 11.13, Plasma 6.6.6, COSMIC Desktop Frosted Glass effect, Linux Mint 23 will support Wayland, and more.
The 7.2-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: "Things continue to look normal (the 'new normal' with slightly higher rates of commits, although I do get the feeling that we're seeing that slightly balanced out by people starting to go on summer vacation)".
Night Light Scheduler is a new GNOME Shell extension that lets you control how warm your screen is throughout different parts of the evening (or day). GNOME’s built-in Night Light feature has a customisable schedule, and it lets you set a colour temperature that’s very orange, or less orange to filter out blue light. But that temperature holds the entire time Night Light is switched on. It eases in and out at each end but never changes in between. For most use cases, the default behaviour is fine; set and forget to a schedule. But if you wish you could […]
Built on debsecan, debvulns‑exporter surfaces Debian security metadata for Prometheus and Grafana. The post Deb Dev Builds Graphical Debian Vulnerability Exporter for Prometheus appeared first on FOSS Force.
Linux 7.2-rc3 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel version coming up in August...
Similar to Linux 7.2 enabling Eswin SoC support by default in the RISC-V "defconfig" kernel build, UltraRISC RISC-V coverage is also now being enabled by default for RISC-V kernel builds in Linux 7.2...
PeaZip 11.2 open-source archive manager is now available for download with read support for Zeno IMproved .ZIM archives, improved auto-refresh of the file manager, improved drag and drop, and more.
The rest are ready to use out of the box without requiring a spare Raspberry Pi or tinkering.
Not bad for the company that once called Linux "cancer."
PeaZip 11.1 has been released as the latest version of the open-source, cross-platform archive manager. A key addition is read support for ZIM archives, a format widely used to distribute offline copies of large collections like Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg. Under the hood, PeaZip 11.2 updates its 7z/p7zip backend to version 26.02. The bundled PEA […]
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