Linux NewsGodot 4.7 Reaches Beta With HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements & Editor Enhancements
Godot 4.7 reached its beta milestone on Friday for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine...
KDE Plasma 6.7 Enables Overlay Planes For Intel Graphics, More Performance/Efficiency
KDE developers continued to land more feature changes for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. It's a busy spring of fixes, optimizations, and shiny new features for Plasma 6.7...
You can finally tweak Android's Linux Terminal the way you want it
Greater control over performance and quality, and an all-new Themes section.
3 Linux distros for intermediate users
Mint is basically Linux with training wheels. If you’re ready to move on, try these three distros.
Canonical finally gives Launchpad (a bit of) a glow-up
Launchpad, the home of Ubuntu development, has Canonical updated the site’s homepage back in 2024, but many of the pages that the distro’s developers actually use or reference on a regularly basis have remained largely untouched for the best part of a decade. Now that’s starting to change. Canonical UX designer Enzo Deng has announced that the company has “begun […] a complete redesign of the series page” for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, describing it as the start of “the journey of modernizing the Launchpad user experience”. Save for a line telling us that the company has heard that Launchpad’s interface […]
Mozilla Firefox Quietly Adds Brave’s Adblock Engine
Firefox 149 quietly adds Brave’s adblock-rust engine as an experimental content-blocking prototype, disabled by default and without filter lists.
Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes.
Will You Pay $119 For This Open Source KVM Built on Rust and Buildroot?
The LeafKVM packs a 2.4-inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi 5, and PoE into a CNC aluminum box.
Fwupd 2.1.2 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for New Devices
Fwupd 2.1.2 Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for new devices, new features, and various improvements. Here's what's new!
3 fantastic plugins to power-up your Vim statusline
Avoid time-consuming configuration and get an awesome statusline right away with these convenient plugins.
Fwupd 2.1.2 Adds AMD EntrySign HSI Check and More Hardware Support
Fwupd 2.1.2 adds an AMD EntrySign HSI check, native CBOR parsing, safer firmware parsing limits, and support for more hardware.
Bitwarden Confirms Short-Lived npm Compromise Affecting CLI Package
Bitwarden has confirmed a brief supply-chain compromise of its CLI 2026.4.0 npm package, with no evidence of vault data exposure.
Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal
Linus Torvalds did it! He merged the pull request to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem and various other old network drivers largely for PCMCIA era network adapters. This was the code suggested for removal given the recent influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports against this dated code that likely has no active upstream users remaining...
Redroid: The Lightweight, Open Source Android Virtualizer
Android virtualization on single-board computers (SBCs) can seem like a complicated process. Running Android applications on embedded hardware without resorting to heavy emulators or expensive proprietary solutions is highly frustrating. Enter Redroid on RK3588, a solution designed to make your ... Read more The post Redroid: The Lightweight, Open Source Android Virtualizer appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
3 essential Linux apps to try this weekend (April 17 - 19)
Skip the Reddit rabbit hole. Here are three Linux apps worth your weekend.