Linux NewsAudacity 4.0.1 Audio Editor Fixes Project Corruption, Linux AppImage Issues
Audacity 4.0.1 fixes project corruption, broken AUP3 conversions, Linux AppImage startup issues, and adds improved multi-file exporting.
Audacity 4.0.1 Audio Editor Restores Keyboard Shortcuts from Audacity 3
Audacity 4.0.1 open-source audio editor is now available for download with keyboard shortcuts from Audacity 3, exporting of tracks or labelled regions to its own file, and other changes.
Framework Desktop With AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 Starts Out At $6799 USD
Framework Computer today opened the pre-order process for their updated Framework Desktop featuring the new AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 496 "Gorgon Halo" SoC with 192GB of LPDDR5x-8533 memory...
OpenJDK vs. GraalVM vs. Eclipse Temurin vs. Semeru Java Performance
Immediately following the OpenJDK 8 through OpenJDK 27 benchmarks I expanded the scope of testing to look at how recent OpenJDK releases have been comparing to alternative JVMs like GraalVM, Temurin, and Semeru. Here are those benchmarks if curious about the Java performance in those different environments.
Tcl/Tk 9.1 Released With Screen Reader Support and RTL Text
Tcl/Tk 9.1 adds screen reader accessibility, initial right-to-left text support, a new toggle switch widget, and several Tcl improvements.
Qt 6.12 LTS Released With QML Hot Reloading, StyleKit In Experimental Form
Qt 6.12 is now available as the newest version of the Qt6 toolkit and also serving as a Long Term Support (LTS) release...
Gitea 28.0 Drops 1.x Versioning, Adds Audit Logs and Bot Accounts
Gitea jumps from the 1.x series to version 28.0, bringing audit logging, bot accounts, admin impersonation, and new collaboration features.
Rusticl Had A Great Year For Rust OpenCL In Mesa With 3.1 Support, More Drivers
Rusticl lead developer Karol herbst provided a status update on this Mesa Rust-based OpenCL driver during the XDC 2026 conference happening in Toronto...
Tails 7.14 Anonymous OS Updates Tor Browser, Tor Client, and Linux Kernel
The privacy-focused Tails 7.14 release refreshes its core components with Tor Browser 15.0.24, Tor 0.4.9.13, and Linux 6.12.111.
Linux 7.4 To Support The NPU On AMD Ryzen AI Max 400 Series "Gorgon Halo"
While the AMD Ryzen AI 400 series "Gorgon Halo" systems are nearing the marketplace, the NPU support for Linux was seemingly overlooked until now. But at least the simple enablement patch looks like it will arrive for the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel...
The Netherlands Picked NixOS. France Was Already Using It
France’s digital agency has been using NixOS on internal workstations for months through Sécurix, its open-source, security-hardened configuration.
Proposal To Set ARM64 Kernel Stack Size At Boot Time To Reduce Memory Consumption
A proposal was posted this week to the Linux kernel mailing list by a Google engineer to make it easier for ARM64 Linux to adjust the kernel stack size. The motivation for doing so to configure the kernel stack size during boot time is on reducing system memory consumption...
Intel Media Driver 2026Q3 Introduces Crescent Island Support
Released overnight was the Intel Media Driver 2026Q3 stack for providing the latest open-source video encode/decode capabilities on Intel integrated/discrete graphics hardware. Most notable with the new release is rolling out Crescent Island support...
Mesa Developers To Work Toward Eliminating TGSI IR
TGSI was the intermediate representation (IR) developed for Mesa's Gallium3D drivers by Tungsten Graphics at the time. It worked fine more than a decade ago but since then the Mesa front-ends and hardware drivers have largely transitioned over to the superior NIR format. Work is underway toward eliminating TGSI in the Mesa codebase...
VLC got its ‘biggest security release ever’
VLC 3.0.24 is out, billed as the video player’s ‘biggest security release ever’ with more than 130 fixes across the app and its bundled libraries. VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf says the bulk of security flaws patched by the update are “hard to exploit in practice” – among them OOB, integer overflow, double-free and use-after-free issues – he notes not all are ‘harmless’ so encourages users to update. No major new user-facing features arrive with this update to the open-source player, notable improvements are present. VLC 3.0.24 supports ATRAC3 & ATRAC9 decoding (the former used by Sony MiniDiscs the later for […]