Linux Newselementary OS 8.1 Is Out With Secure Session Now Default
Ubuntu-based elementary OS 8.1 is now available with the Wayland-based Secure Session set as the default and fixes over 1,100 reported issues.
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elementary OS 8.1 is Out – And It Now Uses Wayland by Default
A new version of Ubuntu-based Linux distribution elementary OS is available to download. The elementary OS 8.1 ‘Circe’ release is built atop a Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS base and runs the Linux 6.14 kernel by default. A raft of improvements to the Pantheon desktop environment, core apps, and the wider user experience are included. Danielle Fore, the elementary team lead, says this release follows through on the team’s release goals for OS 8, improve support for devices and inclusivity, and address feedback from its users – “with over 1,100 issue reports fixed”, she says. November 2024 saw the release of elementary OS 8.0 […]
Away from Cloud: This Local, Offline Tool is Perfect for Personal Project Management on Linux Desktop
We have all been there. You start the week with a massive to-do list, only to feel overwhelmed by Tuesday afternoon. While heavy-duty project management tools exist, sometimes you just need a digital version of "sticky notes on a wall".
Incus 6.20 released
Version 6.20 of the Incus container and virtual-machine management system has been released. Notable changes in this release include a new standalone command to add IncusOS servers to a cluster, qcow2-formatted volumes for clustered LVM, and reverse DNS records in OVN. See the announcement for a full list of changes.
elementary OS 8.1 Released with Wayland Session by Default, ARM64 Support
elementary OS 8.1 distribution is now available for download based on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS and powered by Linux kernel 6.8. Here’s what’s new!
Elementary OS 8.1 Is Out With Secure Session — and We Have Screenshots
More than a year in the making, there’s a new elementary OS in town. On Monday afternoon Eastern Time, the folks behind the Linux distribution… The post Elementary OS 8.1 Is Out With Secure Session — and We Have Screenshots appeared first on FOSS Force.
The Amiga's filesystem is now on Linux and Mac, thanks to an emulated driver
The new amifuse project uses an original AmigaOS driver in Motorola 68k CPU emulation.
GDB 17.1 released
Version 17.1 of the GDB debugger is out. Changes include shadow-stack support, info threads improvements, a number of Python API improvements, and more, including: "Warnings and error messages now start with an emoji (warning sign, or cross mark) if supported by the host charset. Configurable." See the NEWS file for more information.
Qubes OS 4.3.0 released
Version 4.3.0 of the security-oriented Qubes OS distribution has been released. Changes include more recent distribution templates, preloaded disposable virtual machines, and the reintroduction of the Qubes Windows Tools set. See the release notes for more information.
Google Taps More Performance Out Of AMD Zen CPUs With BPF-CCX Scheduling
For helping with thread placement on modern AMD Zen systems with multiple CPU core complexes, Google has been developing "BPF CCX" that leverages the Linux kernel's eBPF capabilities paired with a user-space agent for fine-grained thread control. Google has found very positive performance results out of their use of this alternative means of high performance scheduling for achieving even greater performance on AMD processors under Linux...
RADV Adds Support For New Performance Counters To Help Game Developers
Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's open-source Linux graphics team has landed improvements for the Mesa 260 RADV driver to support new performance counters in conjunction with AMD's Radeon GPU Profiler 2.6 release...
Jackson: Debian’s git transition
Ian Jackson (along with Sean Whitton) has posted a manifesto and status update to the effect that, since Git repositories have become the preferred method to distribute source, that is how Debian should be distributing its source packages. Everyone who interacts with Debian source code should be able to do so entirely in git. That means, more specifically: All examination and edits to the source should be performed via normal git operations. Source code should be transferred and exchanged as git data, not tarballs. git should be the canonical form everywhere. Upstream git histories should be re-published, traceably, as part of formal git releases published by Debian. No-one should have to learn about Debian Source Packages, which are bizarre, and have been obsoleted by modern version control. This is very ambitious, but we have come a long way!
A new Linux Mint beta is here with improved troubleshooting tools
This release makes editing the boot menu a breeze, and you can try it now.
[$] Tools for successful documentation projects
At Open Source Summit Japan 2025, Erin McKean talked about the challenges to producing good project documentation, along with some tooling that can help guide the process toward success. It is a problem that many projects struggle with and one that her employer, Google, gained a lot of experience with from its now-concluded Season of Docs initiative. Through that program, more than 200 case studies of documentation projects were gathered that were mined for common problems and solutions, which led to the tools and techniques that McKean described.