Linux NewsUbuntu is Tightening its Kernel SRU Cycle to Two Weeks, and Clankers Are to Blame
Ubuntu users will get kernel security fixes faster thanks to this.
Linux Kernel Developers Consider Adding AGENTS.md To Help Guide AI/LLM Agents
While the Linux kernel continues to be bombarded with patches from AI/LLM agents, to date the kernel hasn't carried an AGENTS.md Markdown file with instructions catering to AI/LLM agents. But a patch set out today would finally introduce one...
I automated my entire Linux desktop with 4 bash scripts—and reclaimed hours every week
I use simple bash scripts to automate the boring stuff in Linux. Here's what they are and how they work.
Qualcomm Posts Patches For Enabling GPU Support In Their Snapdragon X2 Mahua SoC
Yesterday Qualcomm posted open-source GPU driver patches for their Adreno 850 GPU one day after being announced with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Yesterday Qualcomm also announced their Snapdragon X2 Linux support plans. Today they have posted the GPU enablement patches for what's found in the Mahua SoC for lower-tier Snapdragon X2 SoCs...
Firefox Smart Window Expands in Beta With Built-In AI Assistant
Mozilla is expanding Firefox Smart Window, an optional AI-powered browsing mode with page summaries, research tools, tab grouping, and local memories.
FOSS Weekly #26.39: Snapdragon X2, Ubuntu 26.10, Konsole, systemd Tricks and a New Project
Here are the latest happenings from the Linux and FOSS world.
F-Droid 2.0: A new chapter for Android freedom
The F-Droid project has announced the release of F-Droid 2.0, which is a complete redesign of the official app. Notable changes in the release include making it easier to discover and install applications, more useful app categories, improved search, and much more. For more than a decade, F-Droid has helped people discover and install free and open source Android apps. F-Droid 2.0 builds on that foundation with a modern interface, better app discovery, improved search, and a simpler experience that works well, whether you're new to F-Droid or have been using it for years. This isn't just a visual refresh. The user experience was redesigned to integrate smoothly with current Android patterns, like Material Design, while keeping familiar F-Droid interactions in place. Key components were reworked and rewritten using Kotlin Compose, the standard toolkit these days, creating a foundation that will help us deliver improvements more quickly in the years ahead.
ReactOS Lands Significant DirectX Stack Update From Wine For Enabling More Games
The open-source ReactOS project striving to provide binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows applications/games as well as drivers took a huge step forward today with landing a significant update to its DirectX stack from code leveraged from the Wine project...
Research into file-notification attacks on Linux
Sudheendra Raghav Neela, a member of a group of researchers from Graz University of Technology, has announced the release of research into file-notification attacks that would allow spying on user activity on Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows. The group has published a paper with details on the research as well as a web site with demonstrations of the vulnerabilities. On Linux, an attacker can use inotifywatch to monitor a directory to conduct an inter-keystroke timing attack—even if they do not have read access to the files within a directory. The group also discovered a method to conduct a UI-redress attack (or "clickjacking" attack) on KDE 5 and KDE 6 by monitoring /usr/bin/pkexec to detect when Polkit spawns an authentication prompt. An attacker could draw a fake password window on top of the real window to collect a user's credentials. Both of these flaws are still present today, though the Linux kernel did partially mitigate the issue with a fix that was included in the 5.10.248
Ubuntu 26.10 Beta release delayed until October 1
The Ubuntu 26.10 Beta release has been delayed until October 1, having originally mean to intended to release on 24 September. In an update, Canonical’s Matthieu Clemenceau said “unforeseen infrastructure issues” mean the Ubuntu 26.10 Beta release will now be delayed by a week, going live on Thursday, 1 October. The issue in question isn’t specified, but Clemenceau adds that the company expects to resolve it shortly and that they do not think it’ll impact the scheduled stable release of Ubuntu 26.10, which remains 15 October, 2026. Though it’s only a bump of a a week, it does mean the wider […]
COSMIC Desktop 1.9 Adds COSMIC Viewer, On-Screen Keyboard
COSMIC Desktop 1.9 is out with the new COSMIC Viewer, a touch- and gamepad-friendly on-screen keyboard, and a redesigned COSMIC Store.
12 things I do right after installing Linux (and you should too)
Don't wait.
systemd 262 Released with Static PID 1, Intel TDX, TPM Improvements, and New Container Features
by George Whittaker The systemd project has officially released systemd 262, delivering another substantial update to the system and service manager used by most major Linux distributions. The final release was tagged on September 22, 2026, following three release candidates earlier in the month. Systemd 262 introduces improvements across service management, containers, virtualization, encrypted storage, TPM security, networking, journal recovery, system updates, and unattended installations. Among the most interesting additions are the ability to build systemd as a single statically linked PID 1 binary, Intel TDX support in systemd-vmspawn, Live Update Orchestrator integration, improved TPM-backed encryption, and new fallback unit files embedded directly into the systemd manager. The release also contains a rather unusual development safeguard: an AI/LLM canary intended to help identify code contributions generated by AI that haven't been properly reviewed by a human before submission
COSMIC 1.9 Desktop Environment Released with COSMIC Viewer and COSMIC OSK
COSMIC 1.9 desktop environment is now available with the COSMIC Viewer image viewer app and COSMIC OSK on-screen keyboard app. Here's what's new!
Ubuntu 26.10 Delivers Some Nice Gains For Intel Panther Lake / Framework Laptop 13 Pro
For those with a Framework Laptop 13 Pro or another Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release is delivering some nice out-of-the-box improvements over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.