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Gentoo has a Hurd port you can boot today, plus a straight-faced promise to ditch Linux by year’s end. We’re guessing only one of those things is real. The post Must Be April Fools’ Day. Gentoo Says It’s Moving to Hurd appeared first on FOSS Force.
Arch Linux 2026.04.01 is now available for download as Arch Linux’s ISO release for April 2026, powered by Linux kernel 6.19 and featuring the Archinstall 4.1 text-based installer.
What Everybody Knows About You: Your Employer This is the final article in a series about data collection today. We end with tracking by corporate managers. I imagine that most readers of this series, like me, are “knowledge workers” considered ... Read more The post What Everybody Knows About You: Your Employer appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
You’ll need at least 6GB of RAM to run Ubuntu 26.04 LTS comfortably, as the upcoming version of the distro raises its recommended minimum memory requirement for the first time since 2019. According to the official specs, “Ubuntu Desktop 26.04 LTS requires a 2 GHz dual-core processor or better, a minimum of 6GB RAM and 25 GB of free hard drive space.“ CPU and storage requirements are unchanged. Ubuntu last increased its recommended processor requirements with the release of 17.10. Free disk space has been a hard requirement of ~25 GB since 18.04 LTS (the desktop version won’t install on less). […]
Pandoc is a document-conversion program that can translate among a myriad of formats, including LaTeX, HTML, Office Open XML (docx), plain text, and Markdown. It is also extensible by writing Lua filters that can manipulate the document structure and perform arbitrary computations. Pandoc has appeared in various LWN articles over the years, such as my look at Typst and at the importance of free software to science in 2025, but we have missed providing an overview of the tool. The February release of Pandoc 3.9, which comes with the ability to compile the program to WebAssembly (Wasm), allowing Pandoc to run in web browsers, will likely also be of interest.
Version 0.0.6 of the Rust-based Servo web browser rendering engine has been released. This release boasts a long list of new features, performance enhancements, improvements, and bug fixes. Some of the notable changes include layout performance improvements, a servo:config page for setting any preference, and developer tools enhancements.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp, libxslt, python3.11, and python3.12), Debian (libpng1.6, lxd, netty, and python-tornado), Fedora (chunkah, cpp-httplib, firefox, freerdp, gst-devtools, gst-editing-services, gstreamer1, gstreamer1-doc, gstreamer1-plugin-libav, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-base, gstreamer1-plugins-good, gstreamer1-plugins-ugly-free, gstreamer1-rtsp-server, gstreamer1-vaapi, insight, python-gstreamer1, python3.14, rust, rust-cargo-rpmstatus, rust-cargo-vendor-filterer, rust-resctl-bench, rust-scx_layered, rust-scx_rustland, rust-scx_rusty, and xen), Mageia (freeipmi, python-openssl, python-ply, ruby-rack, vim, and zlib), Oracle (firefox, freerdp, kernel, libpng, thunderbird, uek-kernel, and virt:ol and virt-devel:ol), Red Hat (golang), SUSE (bind, expat, fetchmail, ffmpeg-7, freerdp, gsl, incus, kernel, libjavamapscript, libjxl, libpng16-16, libpolkit-agent-1-0-127, net-snmp, net-tools, openexr, perl-XML-Parser, python-ldap, pyth
Cloudflare continues to be full of open-source surprises. Today Cloudflare announced EmDash as an open-source "spiritual successor" to WordPress with an emphasis on better security...
Your arrow keys deserve better.
Komodo 2.0 adds Docker Swarm management, introduces PKI-based authentication, and updates its UI with improved terminal features.
HarfBuzz is the open-source text shaping engine originally born out of the FreeType project and now widely-used by GNOME, KDE, Java, Flutter, Godot, Chromium, LibreOffice, and countless other applications. HarfBuzz 14.0 released today and making this release quite exciting is introducing a GPU-accelerated text rendering library...
From ricing to hyprctl, this window manager rewards tinkerers with a sleek, efficient desktop while reminding casual users that convenience isn’t always part of the deal. The post Hyprland WM’s Eye Candy and Efficiency Ship With a Learning Curve appeared first on FOSS Force.
What's more annoying: half-baked AI slop open-source patches or April Fools' Day with programmers trying to have some fun? This year, April 1 is seeming more patches than usual...
KDE Linux as the in-house, leading-edge Linux distribution for showcasing the latest KDE Plasma innovations has promoted itself as being an atomically updated Linux distribution. But these atomic updates didn't quite work out as planned recently with some users finding their system(s) unbootable. But improvements are being made now for better robustness moving forward...
The Rust-For-Linux crew is preparing to raise the minimum supported Rust version for building the Linux kernel and and similarly also bumping the minimum supported version of bindgen, the tool for generating Rust FFI bindings for C code in the kernel...
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