Linux NewsHannah Montana Linux Is Back!
Developer Noah Cagle decided the world needed the once obscure but beloved Linux distribution and gave it a decidedly pink refresh.
Linux Now Runs on the Atari Jaguar, a 1993 Console With Just 2 MB of RAM
The Atari Jaguar joins the list of unlikely Linux machines, booting a NOMMU Linux kernel and BusyBox shell from cartridge ROM.
[$] Progress in modernizing kernel cryptography
At the 2026 Linux Security Summit North America, Eric Biggers spoke about some of the problems with the kernel's cryptography framework, as well as the recent progress in adding library APIs to allow developers to use cryptographic functions without using the traditional crypto API. He walked through a couple of examples to demonstrate the frailty of the original API and showed how the new library API made life easier for developers and kernel maintainers.
Linux Mint’s Next Release Will Fully Support Wayland in Cinnamon
The next Linux Mint 23.0 release is planned for Christmas 2026, with Cinnamon gaining fully supported Wayland sessions.
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, kernel-rt, libreoffice, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, opentelemetry-collector, perl-HTTP-Daemon, and python-markdown), Debian (dpkg, imagemagick, and postfix), Fedora (betterleaks, docker-compose, firefox, helm, perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2, perl-IO-Compress, perl-JavaScript-Minifier-XS, python-cramjam, python-fastar, python-pillow-jxl-plugin, python-rignore, and tor), Oracle (grafana, grafana-pcp, and ruby:4.0), Slackware (tftp), SUSE (gi-docgen, glibc, helm, helm3, json-c-devel, kubevirt-1.6, librpmbuild10, python313-dulwich, python313-lxml_html_clean, python313-openapi-spec-validator, and sdbootutil), and Ubuntu (ruby-addressable).
LibreOffice 26.8 Beta Released For Improving This Free Software Office Suite
The Document Foundation today announced the first beta release of the LibreOffice 26.8 open-source office suite set for its stable debut in August...
Linux Mint’s Cinnamon 6.8 Desktop Environment Will Fully Support Wayland
Cinnamon 6.8 will fully support Wayland in the next major Linux Mint release, along with various other improvements and new features.
OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt
The OpenMandriva project put out a statement today concerning an attempted distribution sabotage effort. Part of the OpenMandriva GitHub repository was deleted and there was an empty package push made to OpenMandriva's Cooker repository in trying to obsolete all GNOME and COSMIC packages...
Single vs. Dual Channel Memory Performance With The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus
Given today's pricing environment around system memory, a Phoronix Premium supporter recently requested some benchmarks to quantify the performance difference from single to dual channel memory. In considering a new computer build, he is contemplating whether to go for a single stick of DDR5 memory until memory prices hopefully subside in the future. For those in a similar boat, here are some benchmarks of single versus dual channel memory on an Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus "Arrow Lake" desktop.
I gave Ubuntu another chance, and now I'm tempted to leave Zorin OS behind
Zorin OS helped me leave Windows behind, but Ubuntu's newer desktop, smarter workspaces, and endless customization have me rethinking my Linux home.
Collabora Office 26.04 Takes On Open Source’s Office Disrupter Wannabes
We get down and dirty with Collabora Office 26.04, the new desktop twin to Collabora Online, to see how it stacks up against LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, Euro‑Office and, yes, Microsoft Office. The post Collabora Office 26.04 Takes On Open Source’s Office Disrupter Wannabes appeared first on FOSS Force.
Intel Sunsets Quantum Intrinsics & Other Open-Source Projects This Week
Intel has formally archived some more of their now-unmaintained open-source projects this week...
AMD ZenDNN 6.0 Brings Many Improvements For Accelerating Inference On Ryzen/EPYC CPUs
AMD ZenDNN 6.0 released today as a significant update to this open-source deep neural network library for helping to accelerate inferencing on AMD Zen processors from Ryzen to EPYC...
Deepin 25.2 Released with Smarter File Search and Desktop Improvements
Deepin 25.2 brings over 20 Treeland fixes, better multi-monitor handling, improved file indexing, and updated security components.
Wayland No Longer Considered Experimental For Linux Mint's Next Cinnamon Release
The Linux Mint distribution has published their June development summary that most notably includes work on Cinnamon's Wayland support where it's now ready to graduate...