Linux NewsThis Linux experiment convinced me to stop dual-booting Windows
A Windows VM ran my Windows-only apps well enough that dual-booting is no longer necessary.
F-Droid's New App Shows it Isn't Going Anywhere
The Compose-based 2.0 app release marks the largest update in the storefront's history.
Mesa Drops Its Poorly Maintained & Rarely Used Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver
Back in 2021 the Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver "d3d10umd" was introduced as a new Gallium3D state tracker to work as a Windows WDDM UMD driver similar to Windows WARP while leveraging LLVMpipe for better performance. Now five years later the poorly maintained code is removed from the Mesa codebase...
Speech Synthesis on Linux: Adding a Voice to Scripts and Systems
by George Whittaker Linux users have long had a pragmatic relationship with text-to-speech. The classic open-source engines have been available for years, wired into accessibility tools and the occasional script, dependable but unmistakably robotic. They do the job where the job is simply to convert text to some kind of speech, but the mechanical output has kept them out of anything where the voice actually matters. The arrival of high-quality speech synthesis delivered over an API changes what is possible, letting Linux users add genuinely natural voices to scripts, services, and applications without hosting a heavyweight model themselves. The Familiar Trade-Off Anyone who has used the traditional Linux speech engines knows the trade-off. They are free, local, and scriptable, which fits the Linux ethos perfectly, but the voices are clearly synthetic. For accessibility and for utilitarian tasks where intelligibility is all that counts, that has been acceptable. For anything user-facing
Trends in IT that Open Source Advocates Should Address, Part 1
The world of computing used to be rich with opportunities for mavericks and the marginalized, as celebrated in books such as Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution and Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. ... Read more The post Trends in IT that Open Source Advocates Should Address, Part 1 appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Open Source at a Crossroads: The Centralization of Advanced Computing
The world of computing used to be rich with opportunities for mavericks and the marginalized, as celebrated in books such as Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution and Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. ... Read more The post Open Source at a Crossroads: The Centralization of Advanced Computing appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Ubuntu 26.10 Beta Released With Linux 7.3 Kernel, GNOME 51 Desktop
Ubuntu 26.10 beta is now available for the official Ubuntu editions as well as the various community flavors...
Ubuntu 26.10 ships with a Rust-based OpenPGP
Ubuntu 26.10 adds a new Rust-based OpenPGP implementation called Sequoia (sq) alongside GnuPG tool, which it plans to 'phase out'.
Arch Linux ISO Release for October 2026 Ships with the ArchInstall 4.5 Installer
Arch Linux 2026.10.01 is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 7.2.7 and featuring the latest ArchInstall 4.5 text-mode installer.
[$] Coping with the onslaught of kernel security bugs
By now it is no secret that large language models (LLMs) have made it easy for people to identify security bugs, and that has resulted in a flood of bug reports to almost every free-software project, including the kernel. At the 2026 edition of Kernel Recipes, Greg Kroah-Hartman took the stage to talk about how the kernel's security team is handling this deluge. His core message was "don't panic".
How I Fixed the Biggest Annoyance of My Homelab
Tired of remembering IP addresses and port numbers for your self-hosted services? Here's how I moved my homelab to clean .internal hostnames.
Rust 1.99.0 released
Version 1.99.0 of the Rust language has been released. Changes this time include support for extern "C" variadic functions, the establishment of functions for obtaining the size and alignment of raw pointers, a number of stabilized APIs, and more.
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (corosync, gawk, gdb, nodejs24, and thunderbird), Debian (expat, firefox-esr, libsmpp34, mkvtoolnix, network-manager-l2tp, pgextwlist, python-django, ruby-oj, and tor), Fedora (apptainer, ckermit, ffmpeg, freerdp, librabbitmq, openbao, php, python-cssselect2, python-uv-build, ruff, rust-libcst, rust-libcst_derive, rust-salsa, rust-salsa-macro-rules, rust-salsa-macros, sos, ty, uv, weasyprint, and xdg-dbus-proxy), Mageia (python-pillow), Red Hat (acl, glib2, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, libxml2, mingw-sqlite, nodejs-nodemon, nodejs22, nodejs24, nodejs:22, nodejs:24, sqlite, tesseract, and vim), Slackware (libpng and mozilla-thunderbird), SUSE (alloy, chromedriver, emacs, gdb, gimp, gpsd, jawn, libpoppler-cpp3, libtesseract5, multipath-tools, netty, ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs, pcapplusplus-devel, pi-coding-agent, python-PyYAML, python-tornado, python-tornado6, python311, python313, and wicked2nm), and Ubuntu (designate, gst-plugins-bad1.0, gvfs, imagema
Nearing A 10 Second Kernel Build, Xeon 600 & Other September Excitement On Phoronix
During the past month on Phoronix were 284 original news articles and another 19 featured Linux hardware reviews/multi-page benchmark articles. A lot of exciting happenings both on the hardware and software fronts while October is sure to be another interesting month with the releases of Ubuntu 26.10, Fedora 45, and some more hardware fun...
Some Networking Fixes Being Diverted To Linux 7.4, AI/LLM Activity Still Increasing
With the vast array of wired and wireless networking drivers within the Linux kernel and range of protocols and other networking features, it's a big expanse of code for AI/LLM agents to analyze and critique. The Linux networking developers have acknowledged being "complete overwhelmed" by the AI/LLM-driven patch activity and bug reports as well as battling against AI slop patches. Even though Linux 7.3 stable won't be out for another three weeks, some networking fixes are already being diverted to the next kernel version...