Linux NewsHere are Your Choices for an Open Source NAS Operating System
Building a NAS in your homelab? Here are the choices of operating systems you can use.
Linux 6.19 Networking Delivers 4x Improvement For Heavy Transfer Workloads, New Hardware
The big set of networking subsystem updates was recently merged for the ongoing Linux 6.19 merge window. There are some enticing core networking improvements like a big performance improvement for heavy transfer workloads, Bluetooth PAST enablement, and more. Plus a lot of wired and wireless networking driver activity and new hardware enablement...
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Merges Shader VMA Allocator For Ray-Tracing Capture/Replay
Merged today to the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.0 is introducing a shader VMA allocator. Long story short this new allocator steps toward enabling Vulkan ray-tracing capture/replay support, which can come in hand for debugging issues with Vulkan ray-tracing on Intel graphics hardware under Linux and similarly to assist in optimizing for better performance...
Cinnamon 6.6 Desktop Environment Lands With Major Menu Redesign
Cinnamon 6.6 introduces a redesigned menu, smoother animations, and extensive fixes across applets, improving the desktop experience.
A Linux-Powered Smartphone That Has Features You Won't Find on Most Phones
The Divine D. is set to come with LoRa networking, hardware privacy switches, and local AI processing.
Cinnamon 6.6 Desktop Environment Released with Redesigned Application Menu
Cinnamon 6.6 desktop environment is now available with a redesigned application menu, improved virtual keyboard, and other changes. Here's what's new!
Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.2 Improves Write Speeds And UI Stability
Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.2 boosts performance with direct I/O bypass, zero-copy buffering, and faster verification, while refining the UI and accessibility.
10 Years of Let's Encrypt Certificates
Let's Encrypt has published a retrospective that covers the decade since it published its first publicly trusted certificate in September 2015: In March 2016, we issued our one millionth certificate. Just two years later, in September 2018, we were issuing a million certificates every day. In 2020 we reached a billion total certificates issued and as of late 2025 we're frequently issuing ten million certificates per day. We're now on track to reach a billion active sites, probably sometime in the coming year.
Kroah-Hartman: Linux CVEs, more than you ever wanted to know
Greg Kroah-Hartman is writing a series of blog posts about Linux becoming a Certificate Numbering Authority (CNA): It's been almost 2 full years since Linux became a CNA (Certificate Numbering Authority) which meant that we (i.e. the kernel.org community) are now responsible for issuing all CVEs for the Linux kernel. During this time, we've become one of the largest creators of CVEs by quantity, going from nothing to number 3 in 2024 to number 1 in 2025. Naturally, this has caused some questions about how we are both doing all of this work, and how people can keep track of it. So far, Kroah-Hartman has published the introductory post, as well as a detailed post about kernel version numbers that is well worth reading.
OpenTofu 1.11 Introduces Ephemerality for Safer Temporary Credentials
OpenTofu 1.11 introduces ephemeral resources, safer temporary data handling, and language updates for more secure, flexible infrastructure automation.
Ubuntu Will Soon Make AMD GPUs Much Easier to Use for AI Workloads
Canonical teams up with AMD to package ROCm directly in Ubuntu.
Two Ubuntu Flavours Won’t Be LTS Releases Next Year
Not all of Ubuntu’s flavours have applied for long-term support status in next year’s 26.04 release. Per the outcome of a recent Ubuntu Technical Board meeting, only 7 of the 10 official offshoots are designated LTS releases: — Oh, and the ‘oh yeah, that’s a flavour’ flavour: (No shade; I just always forget about little ol’ Kylin). However, two Ubuntu flavours did not apply for LTS status for 26.04: No Ubuntu Unity LTS? Expected in light of challenges facing the distro (there was no Ubuntu Unity 25.10 release) because the incumbent project lead is, reportedly, now busy with higher education. […]
[$] Mix and match Linux distributions with Distrobox
Linux containers have made it reasonably easy to develop, distribute, and deploy server applications along with all the distribution dependencies that they need. For example, anyone can deploy and run a Debian-based PostgreSQL container on a Fedora Linux host. Distrobox is a project that is designed to bring the cross-distribution compatibility to the desktop and allow users to mix-and-match Linux distributions without fussing with dual-booting, virtual machines, or multiple computers. It is an ideal way to install additional software on image-based systems, such as Fedora's Atomic Desktops or Bazzite, and also provides a convenient way to move a development environment or favorite applications to a new system.
Glibc Now Enabling 2MB THP On AArch64 By Default For Better Performance
The GNU C Library's malloc implementation is now enabling 2MB Transparent Huge Pages (THP) by default for AArch64 Linux. This is being done in the name of better performance -- a healthy 6.25% performance improvement is noted for SPEC with this change...
Qt Toolkit Lands IO_uring Abstraction
The newest feature to land in the cross-platform Qt toolkit is QIORing as an abstraction for Linux's IO_uring interface. This QIORing may also end up supporting Microsoft's Windows IORing implementation as well...