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Two years ago RHEL-derived AlmaLinux announced a hardware certification program as part of their Certification Special Interest Group (SIG). They have now expanded their hardware certification program to include third-party software certification on AlmaLinux too plus a new app that users can install for self-certifying their system...
The built-in skills allow you to control and change system settings via AI agent. Is this the beginning of AI assistant for desktop computers?
The Linux kernel is having to introduce a new taint flag "TAINT_FORCED_BIND" to deal with fuzzing bots like Syzbot abusing Linux's bind/unbind sysfs functionality and generating bug reports for impractical and not at all relevant hardware/driver combinations...
Canonical today released Mir 2.30 as the newest release of this Wayland compositor library for building out different shells and other functionality from smart mirrors to other consumer devices...
GNOME 50.5 arrives as an old-stable maintenance update with fixes across GNOME Shell, Mutter, GTK, GDM, GVfs, Epiphany, and more.
Lead LVFS/Fwupd developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced Fwupd 2.1.8 today as the newest feature release for this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems. With Fwupd 2.1.8 comes support for a number of newer devices plus plenty of bug fixes...
In 2022 the SLOB allocator was deprecated and removed with Linux 6.4 a year later. SLOB was popular with embedded systems with minimal amounts of RAM, so as a result the CONFIG_SLUB_TINY Kconfig option was then added for configuring the slab allocator for a minimal memory footprint for systems with 16MB of RAM or less. The CONFIG_SLUB_TINY is now on the chopping block with a proposed rework to the allocator code for making the "tiny" memory handling a boot time option...
Sent out today was the latest weekly pull of drm-misc-next changes of feature material to queue in DRM-Next for Linux 7.4. Most notable in this week's pull request are a number of patches for enhancing the HDMI 2.0 handling in the DRM core infrastructure and display helpers...
Ubuntu’s new AI-powered dictation tool Myna isn’t officially ready, but you can give it an early test. Canonical has added the Myna orchestrator snap and a pair of speech-recognition AI models to the Snap Store recently, and made its new desktop Myna Settings tool available to test from a PPA. Ubuntu 26.10 also comes with another component preinstalled, as the gnome-shell-ubuntu-extensions package has a GNOME Shell extension that triggers an on-screen HUD when the Myna local AI speech-to-text tech is listening or transcribing. While a formal call for testing hasn’t been made, all the pieces needed to test Myna are […]
Ubuntu kernel updates are about to get more frequent, as Canonical changes tack to keep pace with an ‘explosion’ in security vulnerabilities being discovered with AI tools. The company has announced it’s adopting a ‘unified’ two-week stable release update (SRU) cycle for kernel updates. This speeds up patching, testing and getting fixes for CVEs out to users. Previously, Canonical maintained kernel updates on a 4/2 schedule – a four-week regular cycle and a two-week security cycle. The new cadence takes effect from 28 September, 2026. Why a change is needed Canonical says the “explosion” in bugs and CVEs, driven largely […]
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Wireshark 4.6.9 rolls out with fixes for 19 security issues affecting protocol dissectors, file parsers, Sharkd, and profile imports.
The developer who made the original Window Task Manager app has vibe-coded a new system monitor app – and it works on macOS and Linux too. TMOG (Task Manager OG) might look like something mocked up by a design team to appear in the background of a cheap sci-fi movie – an aesthetic that years of US TV in the 1990s has programmed me to find cool – but it is a real, functional task manager. It’s created by Dave Plummer, who, in the 1990s, worked at Microsoft on the original Task Manager tool for Windows. To get TMOG from […]
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