Linux News3 reasons most people stick with Windows, even though Linux is free
Microsoft built a fortress around its user base. From schools to enterprises, Windows is so deeply woven into daily life that change seem unthinkable.
I read the leaked Halloween Documents—here’s what Microsoft feared most about Linux
They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky, they're altogether geeky, the Halloween Documents...
Snap Store will be down for maintenance this weekend
Canonical’s Snap Store will be shutting down for database maintenance this weekend, meaning users won’t be able to install or update snap software until it’s back online. The planned downtime starts on Sunday, 5 July 2026 at 22:00 UTC and is expected to last for four hours, coming back online on Monday, 6 July at 02:00 UTC. During the maintenance you will not be able to install or update snaps. If there’s a snap app you’ve been wanting to try, or your IoT or core device runs automated tasks during the affected window, you’ll need to plan accordingly To make […]
Four vulnerabilities in Guix
The GNU Guix project has announced three vulnerabilities in the guix substitute utility as well as a fourth that affects the guix pull and guix time-machine commands. The impact of the vulnerabilities ranges from remote-privilege escalation to local disclosure of sensitive files. The remote exploitation of guix substitute only requires that the vulnerable system attempt to download a binary substitute. Any configured substitute server, including ones discovered using guix-daemon's --discover option, can exploit this, and so can a man-in-the-middle (MITM), regardless of whether https is used in the substitute server urls. The local exploitation of guix substitute only requires the ability to connect to guix-daemon's socket, which by default any user can do. Separately, another security issue (CVE ID pending) was identified in guix pull and guix time-machine, which enables anyone who can control the channels file used by these commands to cause a file to be created or overwritten whereve
UPower 1.91.3 Fixes Behavior To Avoid Degrading Your Laptop Battery Faster
The UPower abstraction layer used for power management on Linux systems, especially laptops and desktops, is out with an important fix today to avoid inadvertently falling back to the laptop battery "fast" charging mode on some laptops that in turn could degrade your laptop battery faster...
These 5 ancient Linux distros are still teaching modern users how systems actually work
You don't need a time machine to run these classic distros.
[$] Limiting negative dentries
A number of problems related to negative directory entries (dentries) were the topic of a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. Negative dentries are used to indicate that a file of a given name does not exist in a directory; it is an optimization that short-circuits the lookup of the file name when the answer is already known. Miklos Szeredi led a session that discussed some problems that come from having too many negative dentries for a directory.
Linux Tops 2026 CVE Charts, Greg KH Says That’s a Good Thing
Greg Kroah-Hartman says Linux leads CVE counts for the first half of 2026, arguing the numbers reflect responsible reporting, not poor security.
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (389-ds-base, bind9.18, evince, fence-agents, freerdp, frr, frr10, gimp, gnutls, hplip, jmc, mariadb:11.8, mysql:8.4, php:7.4, postgresql-jdbc, postgresql:15, postgresql:16, valkey, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Debian (fastnetmon), Fedora (7zip, apptainer, cpp-httplib, mysql8.4, and nmap), Oracle (freerdp, giflib, glib2, glibc, kernel, libreoffice, libvirt, mariadb:10.11, postgresql, python3.11, python3.12, rrdtool, and thunderbird), Red Hat (buildah, podman, and skopeo), SUSE (alloy, apache2, buildah, c3p0, containerd, crun, cups, dhcpcd, dnsmasq, docker-stable, dracut, editorconfig-core-c, ffmpeg-7, fontforge, google-guest-agent, google-osconfig-agent, graphicsmagick, gstreamer-plugins-bad, gstreamer-plugins-good, helm, jackson-annotations, jackson-core, jackson-databind, jline3, kernel, kubectl-cnpg, lcms2, libslirp, libssh2_org, libxreaderdocument3, openbabel, openssl-3, pacemaker, perl-CGI-Session, perl-list-someuti
Apple Container 1.0 Released as a Native Docker Alternative for macOS
Apple’s Swift-powered container tool for macOS hits 1.0 with persistent Linux machines, host integration, and broader workflow improvements.
Vulkan Adds Extension For OCP's Microscaling MX Formats To Help Machine Learning
Vulkan 1.4.356 is out today and it's interesting for the lone new extension debuting: VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types. The VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types is for enabling the Open Compute Project's Microscaling MX data types to help with machine learning workloads with Vulkan...
Coreboot + AMD openSIL On MSI Ryzen Motherboard Now Works With Windows 11
With 3mdeb's Dasharo port of AMD openSIL and Coreboot running on the Gigabyte EPYC motherboard, 3mdeb engineers have been devoting more time to their bring-up of Coreboot+openSIL on the MSI PRO B850-P consumer motherboard for desktop AMD Ryzen. They now even have Microsoft Windows 11 working atop this open-source firmware alternative along with other features implemented...
ClamAV 1.5.3 Open-Source Antivirus Fixes Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
ClamAV 1.5.3 open-source antivirus engine released with fixes for multiple security vulnerabilities affecting file parsing, archive scanning, and executable unpacking.
Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility
While the Rust Coreutils offers better memory safety than GNU Coreutils due to being written in the Rust programming language, subtle incompatibilities continue to be spotted in the Rust Coreutils implementations of the different commands. The latest coming to light this week was the Rust Coreutils cp command breaking Ubuntu image builds due to differences in argument handling...
Ultramarine Linux 44 Released with Fedora 44 Base and Desktop Updates
The Fedora-based Ultramarine Linux 44 adds a Wayland-based Budgie experience, Plasma 6.7, Taidan installer improvements, and more.