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Red Hat's leading input expert Peter Hutterer announced the release overnight of libinput 1.31, the input handling library used by the Linux desktop on both X.Org and Wayland desktop sessions...
All of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.0 merge window...
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS kicked off 2026 by making many improvements to its kernel, device drivers, and user-space software...
NetworkManager 1.56 open-source network connection manager is now available for downlaoad with new features and improvements. Here's what's new!
New tool helps open source projects manage the scourge of AI slop.
All of the memory management "MM" related patches have now been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.0 merge window...
The last kernel of the 6.x series is here.
Podman 5.8 now supports installing multiple Quadlet files at once and automatically migrates BoltDB databases to SQLite in preparation for Podman 6.0.
The XFS file-system has some interesting new feature work and performance tuning with the Linux 7.0 kernel that will be used by the likes of Fedora 44 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS this spring...
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Linus Torvalds has announced that after Linux kernel 6.19, we'll finally reach the 7.0 iteration stage.
by George Whittaker The Document Foundation has officially released LibreOffice 26.2, the latest major update to the widely used open-source office suite. With improvements spanning performance, user interface refinements, document compatibility, and accessibility, this version continues LibreOffice’s mission to provide a powerful, community-driven alternative to proprietary office software. LibreOffice 26.2 is available for Linux, Windows, and macOS, offering consistent functionality across platforms while keeping full control in the hands of users. What’s New in LibreOffice 26.2 While LibreOffice updates often focus on incremental refinement rather than radical redesign, version 26.2 introduces several meaningful enhancements that improve daily workflows. Improved Performance and Stability Performance remains a priority. LibreOffice 26.2 includes: Faster document loading, especially for large spreadsheets and presentations Reduced memory usage in complex Calc files Improved stability
Web sites are being increasingly beset by AI scraperbots — a problem that we have written about before, and which has slowly ramped up to an occasional de-facto DDoS attack. This has not gone uncontested, however: web site operators from around the world have been working on inventive countermeasures. These solutions target the problem posed by scraperbots in different ways; iocaine, a MIT-licensed nonsense generator, is designed to make scraped text less useful by poisoning it with fake data. The hope is to make running scraperbots not economically viable, and thereby address the problem at its root instead of playing an eternal game of Whac-A-Mole.
Lead developer says frequent releases leave little time for development.
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