Linux NewsAndroid's Quick Share finally works on Linux—and it's simpler than KDE Connect
Packet is an easier way to perform what may be KDE Connect's most important feature
Wine 11.11 Released With Wayland Improvements
Alexandre Julliard just released Wine 11.11 as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and allows for running Windows games and applications under Linux as well as other platforms...
Arch Devs Scramble as 400 AUR Packages Infected With Malware
Arch User Repository hit by a large-scale malware campaign, with maintainers racing to roll back malicious commits and lock out bad actors. The post Arch Devs Scramble as 400 AUR Packages Infected With Malware appeared first on FOSS Force.
Justin Wheeler on Growing Up in the Fedora Community
Flock to Fedora is more than a conference – it’s where the Fedora community comes alive. As part of the In the CommitHistory campaign, we sat down with confirmed Flock 2026 speakers to hear their stories: what brought them to Fedora, what Flock means to them personally, and what they’re hoping for in Prague this […]
AMD Opens Pre-Orders For The Linux-Friendly Ryzen AI Halo Developer Platform
AMD today announced the opening of pre-orders for their Ryzen AI Halo petite PC powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" and working with either Microsoft Windows or Linux...
GStreamer 1.28.4 Adds Support for FLAC Decoding and New Codec Profile Mappings
GStreamer 1.28.4 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with support for decoding FLAC files and new codec mime/profile mappings for Android, bug fixes, and various other improvements.
GStreamer 1.28.4 Improves Multimedia Playback and Stability
GStreamer 1.28.4 delivers security updates, playback fixes, better debug logging, audio fixes, and improved stability across platforms.
Systemd-Free Peppermint OS Devuan Is Now Based on Devuan 6 Excalibur
Peppermint OS Devuan distribution has been updated today to Devuan 6 (Excalibur), based on the Debian 13 (Trixie) operating system series but without the systemd init system.
Hundreds of AUR packages compromised
Hundreds of orphaned packages hosted by the Arch User Repository (AUR) have been compromised by an attacker who has added a malicious npm package (atomic-lockfile) that can exfiltrate sensitive data. The project is currently working on cleaning up the mess. There is a list of affected packages and post by "sodiboo" with additional information. Arch Linux users (or users of Arch-based distributions) that use AUR packages may wish to see if they have installed any of the compromised updates.
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, bind, expat, httpd:2.4, kernel, kernel-rt, mod_http2, openssl, poppler, redis, redis:7, samba, and unbound), Debian (ironic, kernel-wedge, libinput, linux-base, and neutron), Fedora (kernel, openssl, vaultwarden, and vaultwarden-web), Mageia (erlang-hex_core, erlang-rebar3, gnupg2, and sqlite3), Red Hat (buildah, podman, and skopeo), SUSE (flannel, gdk-pixbuf-loader-libheif, gnutls, google-cloud-sap-agent, grafana, graphite2, hplip, libIex-3_4-33, libzypp, nginx, openssh, perl-DBI, perl-Git-Repository, perl-Protocol-HTTP2, python-Pygments, python-simpleeval, python311-Django4, rclone, roundcubemail, strongswan, tomcat10, tomcat11, unbound, and webkit2gtk3), and Ubuntu (apache2, dotnet8, dotnet9, dotnet10, gst-plugins-base1.0, ironic, linux-azure-5.15, linux-azure-fips, lwip, mistral, and ubuntu-kylin-software-center).
Linux 7.2 Features Expected: Apple M3, Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, USB4STREAM, Cache Aware Scheduling
Linux 7.1 stable is expected to be released this Sunday with its many new features. Immediately following the Linux v7.1 tagging, the Linux 7.2 merge window will open and a lot of new feature material is expected to be merged over the next two weeks...
Beware of these 6 inconsistent Linux commands, especially if you use another OS
Some commands don’t always behave the same.
Red Hat Releases Second Developer Preview Of RHEL 10 For RISC-V
Last year when releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, Red Hat announced a RHEL 10.0 developer preview for RISC-V. Since then that RISC-V developer preview hadn't been updated but now Red Hat has published a new developer preview snapshot based on RHEL 10.2...
The Best Features Of Linux 7.1: FRED, New NTFS Driver & More Performance
On Sunday it's anticipated that Linus Torvalds will released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel. This is a really terrific mid-year update to the Linux kernel! Here's what makes me excited about Linux 7.1...
Ubuntu 26.10 Reaffirms Plans For Switching To Dbus-Broker
Among the many new features planned for Ubuntu 26.10 is switching the default D-Bus implementation over to using the high performance Dbus-Broker drop-in replacement...