Linux NewsPINE64's Smart Speaker is a Home Assistant Powered Alternative to Amazon Echo
It is powered by a RISC-V chip, has a hardware mic mute switch, and costs $49.99.
COSMIC 1.1 Desktop Environment Released with COSMIC Monitor and Improvements
COSMIC 1.1 desktop environment is now available with COSMIC Monitor and improvements to COSMIC Files, COSMIC Term, COSMIC Edit, COSMIC Applets, COSMIC Comp, and more.
COSMIC Desktop 1.1 Released with New System Monitor App
COSMIC Desktop 1.1 is out with COSMIC Monitor, versioning changes, translation updates, and fixes across core desktop components.
Brave Gives Linux Users Its Stripped Down Origin Browser for Free
Brave Origin is a minimalist Brave edition that costs $59.99 on other platforms but is free for Linux users.
"Disgusting" Linux sched_ext Source Code Restructured Following Complaint By Linus Torvalds
Last week the main set of sched_ext changes were merged for Linux 7.2 that included continued work on sub-scheduler support. While Linus Torvalds didn't object to any of the features being worked on for this extensible scheduler framework that relies on user-space BPF programs, he was frustrated by the layout of the new C source files and remarked, "please don't do this disgusting thing...proper hierarchical filesystems have been available since 1965."..
Whatever happened to Ubuntu TV? Where Linux smart TVs are now
Some projects thrive. Some never make it off the ground.
No More Reboots During Kernel Patching for ARM64 Systems on Ubuntu
Canonical's Livepatch finally extends to the platform in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Ubuntu Core 26.
COSMIC Epoch 1.1 Released With COSMIC-Monitor, Compositor Improvements
System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.1 as the newest feature release as well as being their first time bumping the minor version number since the December release of COSMIC 1.0...
A Curiosity For Linux: Alejandra’s Foss Path
What begins with curiosity can shape a career. In this interview, we meet Alejandra Retana Piedra, whose first encounter with Linux as a child in Costa Rica quietly sparked a journey into IT and open source. Today, her passion and ... Read more The post A Curiosity For Linux: Alejandra’s Foss Path appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Fedora Governance Changes Take Effect as Project Refines Leadership, Policy, and Contributor Oversight
by George Whittaker A series of Fedora governance updates are now taking effect, marking another step in the project's ongoing effort to modernize decision-making processes, improve transparency, and better support Fedora's growing contributor community. The changes come as the Fedora Council and other leadership bodies continue refining how one of the Linux world's largest community-driven projects is managed. While these updates may not be as visible as a new desktop environment or kernel release, they play a critical role in shaping Fedora's future direction, community initiatives, and long-term sustainability. How Fedora Governance Works Fedora's governance structure is built around several key organizations that guide different aspects of the project. These include: The Fedora Council, which oversees strategic direction FESCo (Fedora Engineering Steering Committee), responsible for technical and engineering decisions Mindshare, which focuses on community outreach and contributor e
[$] KASAN for JIT-compiled BPF code
Alexis Lothoré has been working to add support for the kernel's memory-access checker, KASAN, to just-in-time-compiled BPF code. He spoke about that work at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit. KASAN support is needed, he said, to help catch bugs in the BPF just-in-time (JIT) compiler. KASAN is a great tool for catching memory-management problems in the kernel, but only in code that can be monitored by it.
Valve, Intel, and Nvidia will bring SteamOS to more PCs—including handhelds
You won't have to go with AMD to get a Steam device.
BASIC09 Programming Language Front-End Developed For LLVM
The 46-year-old BASIC09 programming language has new compiler support with a front-end having been developed for the LLVM compiler stack. BASIC09 was developed in 1980 for the Motorola 6809 CPU running with the OS-9 operating system. With this LLVM compiler front-end, you can write BASIC09 code for modern software and hardware...
Cloudflare Unveils PACT to Help Websites Fight Bots Without CAPTCHA
Cloudflare, Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Shopify introduce PACT, a privacy-first protocol for proving legitimate web access.
Three Lines of Code Improve Linux Storage Performance
A developer changed three lines of code, giving Linux storage performance a 5% bump.