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Erin Catto who has been developing the Box2D 2D physics engine for games announced the release of Box3D. Box3D is now providing a new open-source 3D physics engine that is forked off from the Box2D code...
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Xsnow protestware; Git 2.55; Rhombus; kernel hardening; More LSFMM+BPF coverage; 7.2 merge window; Secure Boot certificate expiration; Ceph and Garage; OSPM 2026. Briefs: Akrites; Mageia 10; Git 2.55.0; Podman 6.0; systemd v261; Creative Commons chat; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
System76’s new Lemur Pro weighs under 3 pounds, packs Intel Core Ultra Series 3 chips, and starts at $1,999 before the current $76 discount.
June was sweltering, but the heat didn’t seem to affect developers. A slew of updates to popular open-source Linux software made it out last month, some highlights of which I share in this roundup. Last month also saw Firefox 152 released with a new-look settings page, media converter HandBrake wrangled its WebM handling on Linux, and the Audacity 4.0 beta serve up its new modern UI for public scrutiny. Those weren’t the only releases of note, as the following roundup shows. Cine adds Watch History I spotlighted the Cine Linux video player earlier this year. It’s an MPV-based player with […]
June was sweltering, yet the heat didn’t affect developers too badly as a slew of updates to popular open-source Linux software made it out last month. We saw Firefox 152 released with its new-look settings page. The media converter HandBrake wrangled its WebM handling on Linux. And the Audacity 4.0 beta made its brand-new design available for public scrutiny – mainly of the ‘finally, it doesn’t look bad’ variety. But scores of smaller, minor and maintenance updates made it out too. Cine gained Watch History I spotlighted the Cine Linux video player earlier this year. It’s an MPV-based player with […]
Stemming from the widely varying views over the recent Fedora proposal for an "AI Developer Desktop" catering to running local AI and machine learning workloads in pre-configured environments with a seamless hardware-accelerated experience, the Fedora Council issued a statement this evening to effectively shutdown discussions for now over a Fedora AI Developer Desktop and to pause the Fedora Community Initiatives process...
A four-year-old SSD, 6,605 unexplained errors, and one OS that actually had answers.
Arch Linux’s July 2026 ISO ships with Linux kernel 7.0.14, Archinstall 4.4, systemd 261.1, fresh firmware, and updated core packages.
Back in March Steam on Linux use shot up to 5.33% as a big 3.1% improvement over February. In April it dropped to 4.52% and then fell to 3.99% in May. Valve just published the Steam Survey numbers for June and it points to another minor setback from the recent all-time high of Steam on Linux...
System76 launches new Lemur Pro ultraportable Linux laptop with all-day battery life, Intel Core Ultra processors, and a 16-inch variant.
When a BPF program is used to filter or redirect packets in the networking subsystem, the program will often want to associate data with each packet as it moves through the kernel. The kernel's local BPF storage API, which associates extra data with some kernel objects, provides a way to do that. (See also the BPF map types that end in STORAGE.) Amery Hung and Jakub Sitnicki led two sessions at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit about how to make accesses to local storage data more efficient. Hung spoke about general performance problems related to locking, while Sitnicki examined the use of local storage in the networking subsystem in particular.
With the start of the new month comes a new progress report on the KDE Linux distribution for the prior month. Even with KDE developers being busy to ship Plasma 6.7 in June, they still accomplished a lot when it comes to KDE Linux...
From desktop servers, from single machine to a fleet, here are the backup tools you could explore for your Linux system(s).
Fwupd 2.16 fixes several security-related issues, including safer manifest validation, sealed memfd input handling, and device-version checks.
Fwupd 2.1.6 Linux firmware updater is now available for download with a new HSI attribute for coreboot verified boot, hashes for the latest DBX for offline machines, as well as various other improvements.
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