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Ubuntu has long provided hardware enablement "HWE" stacks for Ubuntu LTS releases to provide a newer kernel and Mesa drivers and more for better supporting new/modern hardware on the long-term support Ubuntu Linux releases. With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical will also now be providing a virtualization HWE stack for shipping newer virtualization / confidential computing features...
Last month I wrote bout new AMD Linux patches introducing a new "low power" CPU core type as an alternative to their standard performance cores and dense efficiency cores. That work now is poised to land with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel...
The Wayfire modular and extensible Wayland compositor formally used by default on Raspberry Pi SBCs is nearing its v1.0 release. Wayfire 0.11 was released on Sunday for this Compiz-inspired, wlroots-powered compositor with that being their hopeful last planned version before Wayfire 1.0 releases...
The FreeBSD project published today their Q2-2026 status report that highlights all of their interesting open-source development initiatives for the past quarter. A lot is happening including FreeBSD seeing an AMD ROCm port and also their own NTSYNC driver being created...
NVIDIA and more than two dozen other companies have started the Open Secure AI Alliance for helping to keep open-source AI models secure. The other founding members range from Microsoft to Adobe, IBM, Red Hat, SpaceX, OpenClaw, Palantir, and others...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for July 26th, 2026, brings news about Firefox 153 ESR, Mozilla Thunderbird 153, NetworkManager 1.58, Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0, IPFire 2.29 Core Update 203, OBS Studio 32.2, VirtualBox 7.2.14, COSMIC 1.4, Tails 7.10, LibreOffice 26.2.5, 10" Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2, and more.
The new release also adds reproducible tarballs and new tools, while dropping Gold from the main tarball. The post GNU Binutils 2.47 Released With New Linker, Disassembler Options appeared first on FOSS Force.
Catch up on the latest Linux news: COSMIC 1.4, VirtualBox 7.2.14, Firefox 153, Wine 11.14, Hyprland 0.56, OBS Studio 32.2, Debian developers debate ban on AI-assisted contributions, and more.
The 7.2-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: "So it's a bit too big for my liking, but nothing in there strikes me as particularly strange or scary".
Garuda Linux has released FireDragon v13, a full reimplementation of its privacy-focused Firefox-based browser with new search, privacy, and performance controls.
You can now install an official Google Chrome build on Arm64 Linux devices, including the Raspberry Pi. Back in March, Google promised Chrome for Arm64 Linux in “Q2 2026” allowing users on devices like the Raspberry Pi or the growing-fleet of Snapdragon laptops to use their flagship browser and all of its additional extras. It hasn’t said a whole lot about the effort since, but it appears that Arm64 builds of Chrome were recently added to the browser’s official Linux repos for Debian and RPM-based Linux distributions – thanks Steven H. Loading the official Chrome download page on my Raspberry Pi 5 (running […]
The Fedora Council is considering a formal conflict-of-interest policy and inviting community feedback on the draft. The post Fedora’s Considering a Conflict-of-Interest Policy appeared first on FOSS Force.
The "just use Docker" crowd isn't going to like this one.
In working toward releasing the stable Linux 7.2 kernel in less than one month's time, out today is Linux 7.2-rc5 to ship this week's latest bug/regression fixes and help facilitate more testing of this in-development kernel version...
From Rust in the core to much improved NTFS support and better Mac compatibility, your kernel does it all.
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