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Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (go-rpm-macros, libpng, thunderbird, udisks2, and valkey), Fedora (coturn, php-zumba-json-serializer, valkey, and yt-dlp), Red Hat (delve, go-rpm-macros, grafana, grafana-pcp, image-builder, osbuild-composer, and postgresql), Slackware (nvi), SUSE (firefox, glibc, haproxy, kernel, kubevirt, libsoup, libsoup2, libxslt, mozilla-nss, ocaml, python, python-Django, python-pip, util-linux, virtiofsd, wicked2nm,suse-migration-services,suse-migration- sle16-activation,SLES16-Migration,SLES16-SAP_Migration, and wireshark), and Ubuntu (gimp, linux-aws, linux-lts-xenial, linux-aws-fips, linux-azure, linux-azure-fips, linux-fips, nss, postgresql-14, postgresql-16, postgresql-17, and qemu).
Rust 1.94 Released With Stable Support For AVX-512 FP16 Intrinsics, Array Windows
Rust 1.94 was rolled out today as the newest routine stable update for the Rust programming language...
FRANK OS 1.0 Launches With a Retro Windows 95-Like Desktop
FRANK OS 1.0 debuts with a windowed desktop inspired by Windows 95, running on RP2350 microcontrollers using the FreeRTOS kernel.
Linux MAINTAINERS Cleaning For Recently Departed Intel Devs, Altera Drivers Oprhaned
The layoffs and restructuring at Intel in 2025 caused unfortunate hits to their Linux/open-source engineering including various driver maintainers leaving and even their CPU temperature driver being orphaned for lack of maintainers. Sent out today were a number of additional updates to the MAINTAINERS file for the Linux kernel to reflect other Intel departures in recent months. Plus some of the Altera drivers have also been orphaned now for having no upstream maintainers...
Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks With XFS Leading The Way
With a number of file-system improvements in Linux 6.19 and more file-system optimizations in Linux 7.0, it's past due for running some fresh file-system benchmarks. Here is a look at how the prominent file-system contenders are performing on the latest Linux 7.0 development kernel.
KDE Gear 25.12.3 Apps Collection Rolls Out, Here’s What’s New
KDE Gear 25.12.3 apps collection is out with numerous bug fixes across apps including Kdenlive, Kate, KDE Connect, NeoChat, and Okular.
KDE Gear 25.12.3 Brings Improvements to Merkuro, Calligra, Kasts, and Other Apps
KDE Gear 25.12.3 open-source software suite is now available with various bug fixes and small improvements for your favorite KDE applications.
This ancient Linux tool is still better than modern alternatives
All modern computers have this unassuming tool and it's surprisingly powerful.
NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver Beta Brings New Vulkan Support & DRI3 v1.2
Following the recent NVIDIA R595 driver release for Windows, NVIDIA today released the 595.45.04 driver for Linux users as a beta version in the R595 release stream...
Debian Still Debating AI Contributions Plus A Need For More Diverse Contributors
Debian Project Leader "DPL" Andreas Tille provided an update today on various happenings within the project and personal reflections on some recent topics. Among the topics in today's DPL updates were around AI contributions, Debian's need to become more diverse with its contributors, and needing more "thank yous" to show appreciation for contributions...
FOSS Force: Authenticity, Independence, and Expertise Worth Funding
Carla Schroder lays out why real expertise, not clickbait, matters -- and why FOSS Force is turning to readers like you to keep going. The post FOSS Force: Authenticity, Independence, and Expertise Worth Funding appeared first on FOSS Force.
Redox OS Gets Vulkan & Node.js Working On This Rust-Based Open-Source OS
There were some fairly exciting improvements made by the Redox OS developers over the course of February. They have the Vulkan API working on Redox OS for the first time along with more COSMIC desktop software and even Node.js...
AMD DCN 4.2 IP, GFX 12.1 Updates For AMDGPU Driver In Linux 7.1 Plus GCN 1.1 APU DC
AMD has begun staging AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver improvements for the upcoming Linux 7.1 cycle...
Rocky Linux Becomes a KDE Patron
ocky Linux has become a KDE patron, joining organizations like Canonical, Google, and SUSE in supporting the KDE open-source ecosystem.