Linux NewsDebian Project Leader Election 2026 results
Debian Project secretary Kurt Roeckx has announced the Debian Project Leader (DPL) election results: the winner of the election is Sruthi Chandran. She will replace two-term DPL Andreas Tille.
Box64 0.4.2 Begins Working On POWER PPC64LE Backend, Support For SteamRT3 + Proton 11
While FEX-Emu has been garnering a lot of attention due to being sponsored by Valve and slated to be used by the Steam Frame for running Linux x86_64 binaries on AArch64, the Box64 project continues moving along with similar goals for x86_64 binaries on other CPU architectures...
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, delve, freerdp, giflib, go-rpm-macros, libarchive, and openexr), Debian (gimp, imagemagick, luanti, mapserver, mupdf, opam, perl, pillow, postgresql-13, and tiff), Fedora (aqualung, awstats, curl, incus, mac, mbedtls, mingw-LibRaw, python-msal, python3.11, python3.12, python3.15, smb4k, stb, and usd), Gentoo (DTrace and FUSE), Mageia (gdk-pixbuf2.0, giflib, polkit-122, python-cairosvg, and rsync), Oracle (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, 389-ds-base, bind, freerdp, go-rpm-macros, kernel, libarchive, nodejs:20, openexr, perl:5.32, python, python3, squid:4, thunderbird, and uek-kernel), Slackware (tigervnc), and SUSE (aardvark-dns, avahi, bind, blender, Botan, bouncycastle, chromedriver, cpp-httplib-devel, flannel, gdk-pixbuf, GraphicsMagick, ignition, ImageMagick, jetty-annotations, jetty-minimal, kernel, kubo, leancrypto-devel, libcap, liblog4cxx-devel, libpng16-16, libraw, libraw-devel, NetworkManager, opam,
Git 2.54 Released With New Experimental "git history" Command
Git developers continue working toward Git 3.0 while out today is Git 2.54 with a few interesting additions...
Firefox 50 brings Linux emoji picker, PDF page ordering + more
Firefox 150 is released this week with an enhanced Split View features, multi-tab sharing and a clutch of welcome PDF editor improvements. Split View debuted in Firefox 149 last month, letting you easily view two web-pages side-by-side in a single tab (no more juggling windows). In Firefox 150, you can right-click a link on a web page and choose Open Link in Split View to, well, do precisely that. Firefox’s Split View feature now includes an option to Reverse Tabs in the context menu (three dots at the bottom of a focused split). And when creating a new Split View without a […]
Firefox 150 brings Linux emoji picker, PDF page ordering + more
Firefox 150 is released this week with an enhanced Split View features, multi-tab sharing and a clutch of welcome PDF editor improvements. Split View debuted in Firefox 149 last month, letting you easily view two web-pages side-by-side in a single tab (no more juggling windows). In Firefox 150, you can right-click a link on a web page and choose Open Link in Split View to, well, do precisely that. Firefox’s Split View feature now includes an option to Reverse Tabs in the context menu (three dots at the bottom of a focused split). And when creating a new Split View without a […]
GNOME 50 is the Linux desktop update I've waited years for
New features that have been a long time coming
Firefox 150 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New
Firefox 150 open-source web browser is now available for download with support for the GTK emoji picker on Linux, extended local network access restrictions, and other changes.
GNU Coreutils 9.11 Brings New Performance Improvements: Up To 15x Faster cat
It's not only the uutil's Rust Coreutils project seeing performance improvements but some increased healthy competition now from GNU Coreutils. With today's release of GNU Coreutils 9.11 the wc command is up to multiple times faster and even cat can be up to 15 times faster...
Firefox 150 Available With GTK Emoji Picker, CSS Media Element Pseudo-Classes
Mozilla today published their Firefox 150 release binaries as the latest milestone for this open-source web browser with growing AI ambitions...
LXQt 2.4 Desktop Environment Released with Better Wayland Support
LXQt 2.4 releases with improved multi-monitor Wayland behavior, refined power management, and several fixes across desktop components.
Intel Compute Runtime Promotes Support For Wildcat Lake, "Early" Crescent Island
Out today is the Intel Compute Runtime 26.14.37833.4 that now includes production support for the newly-launched Wildcat Lake cut-down Panther Lake SoCs that debuted last week as the Core Series 3...
A Lot Of Memory Management "MM" Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1
Andrew Morton recently sent out his various "MM" related pull requests for the ongoing Linux 7.1 kernel. There are a number of memory management optimizations in this next kernel version, which is always nice to see but all the more so these days with the inflated RAM pricing and other computer component prices...
LXQt 2.4 Desktop Environment Released with More Wayland Improvements
LXQt 2.4 desktop environment is now available with better Wayland support and many other changes across its core components. Here's what's new!
Debian Names a New Leader for the Project
Debian has chosen Sruthi Chandran as its new project leader, following the official 2026 vote confirming her victory.