Linux NewsFirefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine
Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes.
Will You Pay $119 For This Open Source KVM Built on Rust and Buildroot?
The LeafKVM packs a 2.4-inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi 5, and PoE into a CNC aluminum box.
Fwupd 2.1.2 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for New Devices
Fwupd 2.1.2 Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for new devices, new features, and various improvements. Here's what's new!
3 fantastic plugins to power-up your Vim statusline
Avoid time-consuming configuration and get an awesome statusline right away with these convenient plugins.
Fwupd 2.1.2 Adds AMD EntrySign HSI Check and More Hardware Support
Fwupd 2.1.2 adds an AMD EntrySign HSI check, native CBOR parsing, safer firmware parsing limits, and support for more hardware.
Bitwarden Confirms Short-Lived npm Compromise Affecting CLI Package
Bitwarden has confirmed a brief supply-chain compromise of its CLI 2026.4.0 npm package, with no evidence of vault data exposure.
Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal
Linus Torvalds did it! He merged the pull request to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem and various other old network drivers largely for PCMCIA era network adapters. This was the code suggested for removal given the recent influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports against this dated code that likely has no active upstream users remaining...
Redroid: The Lightweight, Open Source Android Virtualizer
Android virtualization on single-board computers (SBCs) can seem like a complicated process. Running Android applications on embedded hardware without resorting to heavy emulators or expensive proprietary solutions is highly frustrating. Enter Redroid on RK3588, a solution designed to make your ... Read more The post Redroid: The Lightweight, Open Source Android Virtualizer appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
3 essential Linux apps to try this weekend (April 17 - 19)
Skip the Reddit rabbit hole. Here are three Linux apps worth your weekend.
GnuPG 2.5.19 released
Werner Koch has announced the release of GnuPG 2.5.19. This release includes a few new options and a number of bug fixes, and comes with the reminder that the GnuPG 2.4 series will reach end-of-life soon The main features in the 2.5 series are improvements for 64 bit Windows and the introduction of Kyber (aka ML-KEM or FIPS-203) as PQC encryption algorithm. Other than PQC support the 2.6 series will not differ a lot from 2.4 because the majority of changes are internal to make use of newer features from the supporting libraries. Note that the old 2.4 series reaches end-of-life in just two months. Thus update to 2.5.19 in time. As always with GnuPG new versions are fully compatible with previous versions. LWN recently covered Fedora's discussion about what to offer after GnuPG 2.4 is no longer supported.
GCC Establishes Working Group To Decide On AI/LLM Policy
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) now has a working group established by their steering committee to study the use of AI and large language models (LLMs) within the context of GCC compiler development...
[$] On pages and folios
The kernel coverage here at LWN often touches on memory-management topics and, as a result, tends to talk a lot about both pages and folios. As the folio transition in the kernel has moved forward, it has often become difficult to decide which term to use in writing that is meant to be both approachable and technically correct. As this work continues, it will be increasingly common to use "folio" rather than page. This article is intended to be a convenient reference for readers wanting to differentiate the two terms or understand the state of this transition.
Security updates for Friday
Security updates have been issued by Fedora (anaconda, dnf5, firefox, flatpak-builder, libexif, minetest, nss, plasma-setup, python-blivet, rpki-client, and xorg-x11-server), Oracle (bind, kernel, osbuild-composer, thunderbird, webkit2gtk3, and wireshark), Red Hat (java-25-openjdk), SUSE (cacti, cacti, cacti-spine, cockpit-machines, cockpit-podman, cockpit-tukit, csync2, flannel, gdk-pixbuf, go1.25-openssl, go1.26-openssl, haproxy, kernel, libcap, libpng16, libtree-sitter0_26, libvirt, ncurses, ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs, openssl-1_1, openssl-3, openvswitch, perl, python-pyOpenSSL, python311, rclone, sudo, and tomcat), and Ubuntu (gst-plugins-bad1.0, jq, libopenmpt, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.15, and php-league-commonmark).
Someone Made a Windows 95 Subsystem for Linux
WSL9x is not Microsoft WSL, but a retro Windows 95 and 98 project that makes Linux run where nobody expected it.
Tails 7.7 Anonymous Distro Adds Detection of Outdated Secure Boot Certificates
Tails 7.7 anonymous Linux distribution is now available for download with automatic detection of outdated Secure Boot certificates, Tor Browser 15.0.10, and other changes.