Linux NewsKDE Plasma Saw At Least 9 Crash Fixes This Week
KDE Plasma 6.6 feature development work continues winding down while Plasma 6.7 has begun seeing more feature work. This week also saw at least nine different crash fixes affecting Plasma/KWin...
Wine 11.1 Released With 22 Bug Fixes Across Apps and Games
Wine 11.1 arrives with 22 bug fixes, resolving crashes and regressions affecting games, installers, and popular Windows applications.
Not An April Fool's Joke, You Can Run Linux and Windows on This Android Smartphone
This $549 rugged smartphone runs Android 16, launches Debian Linux as an app, and dual-boots Windows 11.
Raspberry Pi's USB upgrade, Photoshop on Linux, and more: Linux news roundup
All the Linux news you might have missed this week.
Pangolin 1.15 Tunneled Reverse Proxy Launches With iOS and Android Apps
Pangolin 1.15 introduces iOS and Android apps, device approvals, and stability improvements for zero-trust private access.
GNU C Library 2.43 Released With More C23 Features, mseal & openat2 Functions
Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library "glibc" was released on Friday evening as the newest half-year feature update. This is a very feature packaged update and even managed to be released ahead of the 1 February release plan...
Alpine Linux Turns Equinix Metal Exit Into an Infrastructure Upgrade
With Equinix Metal headed for shutdown, Alpine Linux has secured fresh backing from regional cloud and hosting providers, emerging with more diverse and resilient infrastructure than before. The post Alpine Linux Turns Equinix Metal Exit Into an Infrastructure Upgrade appeared first on FOSS Force.
GNU Guix 1.5 Released with KDE Plasma 6.5, GNU Linux-Libre 6.17 Kernel
GNU Guix 1.5 transactional package manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system are out now with new features and improvements. Here's what's new!
Tonearm, New Unofficial TIDAL Client for Linux, Hits Beta
Tonearm is a new GTK4/libadwaita TIDAL client that delivers what the streaming service itself doesn’t: a native Linux app with solid desktop integration – albeit unofficially, of course. It’s the third unofficial client for Linux I’ve covered, joining High Tide and the Electron-based Tidal-Hifi. All exist as TIDAL doesn’t provide a Linux app itself, leaving users with the option of the web player. The web app works fine, but it means keeping a browser tab open and losing out on system-side niceties like media controls and keyboard shortcuts. Thankfully, TIDAL offer a robust API that, with a bit of open-source […]
Wine 11.1 Released In Kicking Off The New Development Cycle
Following the release of Wine 11.0 stable just under two weeks ago, Wine 11.1 is now available as the first of the bi-weekly development snapshots for Wine in leading toward the Wine 12.0 release next January...
GNU Guix 1.5 Brings Plasma 6.5, GNOME 46, Rootless Mode, and More
GNU Guix 1.5 is out after three years, delivering Plasma 6.5, GNOME 46 on Wayland, rootless package management, and more than 12,500 new packages.
[$] Filesystem medley: EROFS, NTFS, and XFS
Filesystems seem to be one of those many areas where the problems are well understood, but there is always somebody working toward a better solution. As a result, filesystem development in the Linux kernel continues at a fast pace even after all these years. In recent news, the EROFS filesystem is on the path to gain a useful page-cache-sharing feature, there is a new NTFS implementation on the horizon, and XFS may be about to get an infrastructure for self healing.
What Everybody Knows About You: Data Collection and Privacy in 2026
In the digital era, it seems like the hope for personal privacy is lost. We all hear stories of daily privacy violations along with scary predictions for the future. But what is really happening? This eleven-part series scans the landscape ... Read more The post What Everybody Knows About You: Data Collection and Privacy in 2026 appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Hyprland 0.53.2 Improves Plugin Handling and Workspace Stability
Hyprland 0.53.2 tiling Wayland compositor is out, improving plugins, window handling, and multi-monitor behavior.
GNU Guix 1.5.0 released
Version 1.5.0 of the GNU Guix package manager and the Guix System have been released. Notable improvements include the ability to run the Guix daemon without root privileges, support for 64-bit RISC-V, and experimental support for the GNU Hurd kernel. The release comes with ISO-9660 installation images, virtual machine images, and with tarballs to install the package manager on top of your GNU/Linux distro, either from source or from binaries—check out the download page. Guix users can update by running guix pull. It's been 3 years since the previous release. That's a lot of time, reflecting both the fact that, as a rolling release, users continuously get new features and update by running guix pull; but it also shows a lack of processes, something that we had to address before another release could be made. During that time, Guix received about 71,338 commits by 744 people, which include many new features. LWN last looked at Guix in February 2024.