Linux NewsEndeavourOS Titan Neo Is Out with KDE Plasma 6.6.4 and KDE Gear 26.04
EndeavourOS Titan Neo distribution is now available for download with the KDE Plasma 6.6.4 desktop environment, Linux kernel 6.19.12, and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
EndeavourOS Titan Neo Arrives with Installer and Package Updates
EndeavourOS Titan Neo arrives six weeks after Titan with Calamares fixes, refreshed packages, and updates for new installations.
Is It Panic Time? Linux’s Big Bad ‘Copy Fail’ Security Exploit
‘Copy Fail’ puts Linux users on alert as kernel patches race out and distros scramble to puh them to the update channel. The post Is It Panic Time? Linux’s Big Bad ‘Copy Fail’ Security Exploit appeared first on FOSS Force.
Wine 11.8 Improves VBScript Compatibility, Finally Fixes Microsoft Golf 1999
Wine 11.8 delivers the latest and greatest support for running Windows applications and games under Linux and other platforms. This newest bi-weekly development release brings several more enhancements in working toward Wine 12.0 stable due out in early 2027...
APT 3.3 Lands in Debian Unstable with CLI Versioning Support
APT 3.3 package manager removes the long-standing unstable CLI warning and adds support for requesting a specific CLI version.
3 powerful Linux apps to try this weekend (May 1st—3rd)
Linux apps so good, you'll wonder why you ever clicked anything else.
Star Labs Releases Coreboot Firmware 26.05 with New Features for Its Linux PCs
Star Labs releases Firmware 26.05 with support for AMD Cezanne models like Star Labs Byte Mk I and StarBook Mk VI, and Coreboot support for Star Labs Byte Mk I.
EndeavourOS "Trtion" To Ship New Desktop/WM Options, Titan Neo Brings Various Updates
In addition to today's monthly ISO refresh of Arch Linux that is now pulling in the Linux 7.0 kernel and other updates, the downstream EndeavourOS also happens to be out with a new ISO release for starting the month of May...
Linux faces its largest security threat in years—here's how to deal with Copy Fail
Most distros are vulnerable without patches.
Vulkan 1.4.350 Released With Three New Extensions
Vulkan 1.4.350 released earlier today as the newest routine spec update. Beyond the usual minor fixes/clarifications, Vulkan 1.4.350 tacks on three more extensions...
Shelly 2.2 Arch Linux GUI Package Manager Released with Major UI Revamp
Shelly 2.2 graphical package manager for Arch Linux systems is now available for download with a revamped UI and various other improvements. Here's what's new!
[$] Version-controlled databases using Prolly trees
Modern database and filesystems make pervasive use of B-trees, which are tree structures optimized for storing sorted lists of keys and values on block devices. Dolt is an Apache 2.0-licensed project that makes clever use of a variant of a B-tree to support efficient version control for an entire database. The data structure it uses could well be of interest to other projects.
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (fence-agents), Debian (chromium, dovecot, and kernel), Fedora (chromium, dotnet10.0, dotnet8.0, dotnet9.0, emacs, glow, jfrog-cli, openbao, pyp2spec, python3.6, rust-rustls-webpki, vhs, and xen), Oracle (grafana, grafana-pcp, PackageKit, sudo, vim, and xorg-x11-server), Red Hat (rhc), SUSE (avahi, bouncycastle, chromium, container-suseconnect, firewalld, gdk-pixbuf, grafana, java-25-openjdk, kernel, libixml11, libmozjs-140-0, libpng12-0, libsodium, libssh, mariadb, Mesa, ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs, openCryptoki, openexr, packagekit, prometheus-postgres_exporter, python-jwcrypto, python-mako, python-Pygments, python-pynacl, python311, python311-pyOpenSSL, python315, radare2, sed, and vim), and Ubuntu (kmod and zulucrypt).
Arch Linux May ISO Is Out with Linux Kernel 7.0
Arch Linux’s May 2026 ISO is out with Linux kernel 7.0, Plasma 6.6.4, GNOME 50.1, updated firmware, and refreshed core packages.
AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL Patches For Their AMDGPU Linux Driver
It's not complete HDMI 2.1 support but to much surprise hitting the mailing list today were official patches from AMD for implementing HDMI Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for their kernel graphics driver. HDMI FRL as part of HDMI 2.1+ allows for higher bandwidth to support higher refresh rates and resolutions...