Linux NewsThere is No Future for Online Safety Without Privacy and Security
Alexander Linton on building decentralized messaging and why platform-wide content moderation is impractical on encrypted platforms.
Is Pardus 25.0 Turkey’s Perfect Gift to Linux Users?
Pardus 25.0 promises a “just install and go” experience for Linux users. We test whether this Turkish distro lives up to that promise. The post Is Pardus 25.0 Turkey’s Perfect Gift to Linux Users? appeared first on FOSS Force.
Linux 6.19 Fixes A Thundering Herd Problem For Big NUMA Servers
The "timers/core" pull requests for updating Linux kernel timer-related code doesn't tend to be too interesting each kernel cycle, but this time around for Linux 6.19 it is for addressing a problem HPE discovered on big NUMA servers...
Good News! Canonical Plans to Rebuild Ubuntu Wiki From Scratch
Current wiki to be decommissioned in August 2026 due to content quality, security and usability concerns.
Zlib-rs 0.5.3 Expands AVX-512 Usage For Faster Performance
The Trifecta Tech Foundation today released zlib-rs 0.5.3 as the newest version of this Zlib implementation written in the Rust programming language for better memory safety. Zlib-rs is advertised as "a safer Zlib" for use by both C and Rust projects while delivering competitive performance to the C-based zlib-ng...
Linux 6.19 Will Allow Enforcing IPE Security Checks On Indirectly Executed Scripts
Linux's Integrity Policy Enforcement "IPE" module is gaining a useful addition with the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel...
Mesa 25.3.1 Released With Initial Set Of Fixes, Mesa 25.2 Comes To An End
Mesa 25.3.1 was released overnight as the first point release of the Mesa 25.3 series. The Mesa point releases are typically bi-weekly but this one dragged out to nearly three weeks. In turn this also marks an end to the Mesa 25.2 series...
EXT4 Optimizes Online Defragmentation, Improves Performance & Larger Block Sizes
The merged EXT4 changes for Linux 6.19 bring some of the most prominent feature changes in recent times for this mature and widely-used Linux file-system...
FOSS Force’s Top Ten for November
Here’s what people were reading the most on FOSS Force during the month of July, 2025. The post FOSS Force’s Top Ten for November appeared first on FOSS Force.
FOSS Weekly #25.49: Kernel 6.18 'LTS', Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Linus Torvalds on BSOD, Obsidian Distro and More Linux Stuff
And we enter the Christmas month.
Screen video tutorial
Just recorded/released a new screen tutorial .. check it out, subscribe! There's a lot of reasons to use screen. Mostly it's because you want to make sure you can re-connect to the session that you started on that other server. This video goes over how to use it so you can get your stuff done. https://www.linux.org/threads/screen-video-tutorial.59592/
Linux Bootloaders: Installing and Configuring rEFInd, Limine, and GRUB
In following the modularity of Linux, we will look at the Bootloader. A Bootloader is software that the hardware loads the Linux kernel into memory. The system Bootloader is the bridge between the hardware powering up and the Operating System (OS) taking over. NOTE: If you continue with installing any of these Bootloaders, you need to disable Secure Boot in your UEFI settings. There are two folders to be aware of for Bootloaders. The Boot folder is where the actual kernel and... https://www.linux.org/threads/linux...and-configuring-refind-limine-and-grub.57750/
Cro provides commentary on LWN's Zig asynchronicity article
Loris Cro has published a detailed YouTube video talking about the terminology used to discuss asynchronicity, concurrency, and parallelism in our recent article about Zig's new Io interface. Our article is not completely clear because it uses the term "asynchronous I/O" to refer to what should really be called "non-blocking I/O", and sometimes confuses asynchronicity for concurrency, among other errors of terminology, he says. Readers interested in precise details about Zig's approach and some of the motivation behind the design may find Cro's video interesting.
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for December 4, 2025
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Rust in Debian; Python comprehensions; asynchronous Zig; BPF and io_uring; C safety; 6.18 statistics; just. Briefs: Landlock; Let's Encrypt lifetimes; Last 5.4 kernel; TAB election; AlmaLinux 10.1; FreeBSD 15.0; NixOS 25.11; Django 6.0; Home Assistant 2025.12; PHP 8.5.0; Racket 9.0; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
Ubuntu Pro Now Available for Windows (on WSL, Obvs)
Canonical announce Ubuntu Pro for WSL, bringing extended security coverage to users running Linux on Windows. As on desktop, it's free for personal use.