Linux NewsCage 0.3 Released With New Wayland Protocol Support
Cage as the Wayland compositor providing a kiosk mode for single, maximized apps is out with a new feature release more than six months after its prior version...
GNOME-Aligned Amberol 2026.1 Music Player Released, Phosh Improves X11 Support
A few weeks past the GNOME 50 release and there continues to be a lot of ongoing GNOME app activity worth highlighting...
Privacy Messenger Session Is Staring Down a 90-Day Countdown to Obscurity
With paid developers gone and only volunteers remaining, the app has until July 8 to secure funding or fade into irrelevance.
Good News! France Starts Plan to Replace Windows With Linux on Government Desktops
DINUM is ditching Windows for Linux as France pushes every ministry to draft a migration plan away from non-European software.
Support For AMD GFX11.7 "RDNA 4m" Pending For RADV & RadeonSI Drivers
Back in February we were the first to report on a new AMD "RDNA 4m" target appearing in the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler. While part of the "RDNA 4" family, it's graphics IP version is GFX 11.7 (GFX1170) that is associated with the RDNA 3 family but with some ISA changes to align it slightly more with the newer RDNA 4 graphics IP. While the RDNA 4m AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler patches have been out for two months, the Mesa patches have only been posted this week for enabling the RADV Vulkan driver and RadeonSI Gallium3D (OpenGL) driver support...
8GB graphics cards aren't the problem, your operating system is
There's a way to improve performance of AMD GPUs with 8GB VRAM.
EFF Says It’s Quitting TwitterX
It took a minute -- actually a long minute -- but Electronic Frontier Foundation has finally shut the door on the platform formerly known as Twitter, without even a "goodbye." The post EFF Says It’s Quitting TwitterX appeared first on FOSS Force.
Debian 13 Stable Users Can Now Install Hyprland from Backports
Hyprland arrives in Debian 13 (Trixie) backports, giving stable users an official way to install the dynamic Wayland compositor.
Is a Clanker Being Used to Carry Out AI Fuzzing in the Linux Kernel?
Greg Kroah-Hartman appears to be running AI-assisted fuzzing on the kernel. Don't outrage yet, as this may not be a bad thing.
3 modern Linux apps to try this weekend (April 10 - 12)
Three Linux apps that don't look like they were designed during the 2000s.
7 reasons Qubes is better than your Linux distro
Spyware, privacy, and flexibility—these are concerns that everyone shares.
Intel's New Shader Compiler "Jay" Merged For Mesa 26.1
It was just a few days ago that Jay was publicly posted as the new shader compiler in-development for Intel GPUs on Linux for both their ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D drivers. While still very experimental, that initial Jay compiler code was merged today for Mesa 26.1-devel...
Ghostty terminal is now available in the Ubuntu repos
The Ghostty terminal is now packaged in the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS repositories – meaning for those on the new long-term support release, it’s only an apt install away. Ghostty is a fast, open-source terminal emulator for macOS and Linux (Windows support is seemingly trapped between planes), made by Mitchell Hashimoto. It’s picked up millions of users since its launch in December 2024, and has been available on Ubuntu via a community-maintained PPA, DEB and Snap packages for a while. This is its first appearance in the Ubuntu repos proper. What makes Ghostty different? “Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform […]
Why I'm skipping the "AI PC" trend and building a "privacy PC" with Linux instead
It's time to stop being comfortable with surveillance
[$] Removing read-only transparent huge pages for the page cache
Things do not always go the way kernel developers think they will. When the kernel gained support for the creation of read-only transparent huge pages for the page cache in 2019, the developer of that feature, Song Liu, added a Kconfig file entry promising that support for writable huge pages would arrive "in the next few release cycles". Over six years later, that promise is still present, but it will never be fulfilled. Instead, the read-only option will soon be removed, reflecting how the core of the memory-subsystem has changed underneath this particular feature.