Linux News3 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.
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, fontforge, freerdp, go-toolset:rhel8, gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free, gstreamer1-plugins-base, and gstreamer1-plugins-good, kernel, kernel-rt, libtasn1, mariadb:10.11, mysql:8.4, nginx:1.24, openssh, pcs, python-jinja2, python3.9, ruby:3.1, vim, virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel, and xmlrpc-c), Debian (libyaml-syck-perl and openssh), Fedora (cockpit, crun, dnsdist, doctl, fido-device-onboard, libcgif, libpng12, libpng15, mbedtls, opensc, and util-linux), Red Hat (git-lfs, go-toolset:rhel8, grafana, grafana-pcp, and rhc), Slackware (libpng), SUSE (389-ds, aws-c-event-stream, bind, cockpit, cockpit-repos, corepack24, dcmtk, dnsdist, docker-compose, expat, firefox, firefox-esr, gnome-online-accounts, gvfs, gnutls, jupyter-jupyterlab-templates, kea, libIex-3_4-33, libpng16, mapserver, perl-XML-Parser, postgresql13, postgresql16, python-Pillow, python311-lupa, thunderbird, tigervnc, and tomcat10), and Ubuntu (linux-azure-fips,
VMUFAT File-System Driver Proposed For The Linux Kernel
The newest Linux file-system driver proposed for the kernel is... VMUFAT...
VUMFAT File-System Driver Proposed For The Linux Kernel
The newest Linux file-system driver proposed for the kernel is... VUMFAT...
Linux 7.0 Ready For Release With Many Exciting Changes
The Linux 7.0 kernel is gearing up for its stable release and should be out this coming Sunday, 12 April, barring any major last minute issues...
Linux is easier than ever, but these 4 defaults still trip people up
There are more than a half-dozen different ways to install a program.
KDE Frameworks 6.25 Brings New Fixes and Developer Improvements
KDE Frameworks 6.25 is out now with new fixes and maintenance updates for the collection of libraries powering KDE software.
KDE Frameworks 6.25 Adds Support for Converting Momme Units in KRunner
KDE Frameworks 6.25 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop environment. Here’s what’s new!
Firefox 149 vs. Chrome 147 Web Browser Performance On Linux
It has been a while since featuring a showdown of the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers on Linux. With some fresh benchmarks being overdue plus the new JetStream 3 browser benchmark having been announced last week, here is some fresh data for how these two dominant web browsers are competing on the modern Linux desktop from an Intel Panther Lake system running Ubuntu 26.04.
Microsoft Locked Out VeraCrypt, WireGuard, and Windscribe from Pushing Windows Updates
A mandatory verification requirement Microsoft introduced in October took them out.