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Samba continues strong in 2026 for this leading open-source SMB protocol re-implementation for Microsoft Windows file and print services interoperability. Samba 4.24 brings more features, including remote password management support...
If you miss Arc’s design and want something similar on Linux — but open source and without the AI baggage — Flow Browser is worth a look. The post Meet Flow, a Fresh New Browser for Linux appeared first on FOSS Force.
Google engineers have been spending the past number of months developing Sashiko as an agentic AI code review system for the Linux kernel. It's now open-source and publicly available and will continue to do upstream Linux kernel code review thanks to funding from Google...
The widely-used GRUB bootloader is now being developed on FreeDesktop.org with a modern GitLab-based workflow...
A new platform feature being worked on by Arm engineers for the Linux kernel is Live Firmware Activation to allow for updated firmware components to be deployed without requiring a system reboot...
For those that happen to have the Logitech MX Master 4 wireless mouse or are considering this high-end ~$120 USD Bluetooth mouse, better support for it was merged yesterday to Linux 7.0...
Now that we've covered the primary commands, we can start on the Methods, Tags and Marks. If you intend on using a Text Widget, or multiples, these are very handy abilities other than the standard options. Methods Now, we can move on to doing something with text in the Text Object. Let's start with the five methods: insert delete get index see Insert Method We can insert text into the Text Object by specifying the line, character place and... https://www.linux.org/threads/python-series-part-23-text-widget-part-1.60068/
Mozilla has announced that a free, built-in VPN is coming to Firefox later this month. Firefox’s free VPN will offer 50 gigabytes of monthly data, which is pretty generous for a browser-based VPN. A Mozilla account is required to make use of it, which isn’t a hardship (they’re free), but is a point of friction some may wish to know upfront. This is not a full-device VPN; Firefox VPN only protects traffic inside of the browser, not data sent outside. It won’t rival the flexibility and security benefits of a full-featured VPN, like server switching to access geo-restricted streaming services […]
No more broken updates.
Systemd 260 drops SysV scripts, raises kernel and dependency requirements, and brings key internal changes across the stack.
Version 4.3 of the CMake software development tool / build system was released today. Notable with CMake 4.3 is support for importing and exporting packages described using the Common Package Specification (CPS) for greater interoperability in the ecosystem...
With a less flashy appearance than previous System76 systems, though.
Mozilla is adding a free VPN and Split View to Firefox, giving users more privacy and a better way to browse side by side.
Roman Gushchin has announced the existence of an LLM-driven patch-review system named Sashiko. It automatically creates reviews for all patches sent to the linux-kernel mailing list (and some others). In my measurement, Sashiko was able to find 53% of bugs based on a completely unfiltered set of 1,000 recent upstream issues using "Fixes:" tags (using Gemini 3.1 Pro). Some might say that 53% is not that impressive, but 100% of these issues were missed by human reviewers. Sashiko is built on Chris Mason's review prompts (covered here in October 2025), but the implementation has evolved considerably.
Systemd 260 was just released as the newest stable version of this widely-used Linux init system and service manager. Systemd 260 brings yet more features to this critical open-source project and to be incorporated into H1'2026 Linux distributions...
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