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Ubuntu 26.10 official flavors are now available for download, so here's a look at what's new in Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu Cinnamon, Edubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, Ubuntu MATE, Ubuntu Budgie, Ubuntu Unity, and Ubuntu Kylin.
Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” is now available, featuring GNOME 51, Linux kernel 7.3, improved App Center, Rust-based coreutils, and nine months of support.
I cut animations, trimmed startup apps, and hid desktop icons to make Linux Mint feel cleaner and more responsive.
3mdeb firmware engineers have been quite busy this year working on porting Coreboot and openSIL to an AMD Ryzen AM5 MSI motherboard and similarly getting openSIL and Coreboot up and running on a Gigabyte server motherboard for AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs. They haven't forgotten about their past projects though and today released an updated version of their Dasharo downstream firmware for the ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T motherboard supporting 4th and 5th Gen Xeon Scalable processors...
Strata 1.0 is a new Rust-based Linux file manager designed for Omarchy, featuring GTK4, Miller columns, keyboard navigation, and secure previews.
Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) distribution is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 7.3 and using the GNOME 51 desktop environment.
AI/LLMs like Claude Code are beginning to prove capable of helping to reverse engineer hardware for Linux support, especially when it comes to the tedious reverse engineering tasks...
Libreboot 26.10 open-source BIOS/UEFI firmware is now available for download with full UEFI support, support for over 200 Intel/AMD Chromebooks, and other changes.
Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" is now officially available as the newest six-month non-LTS update to Ubuntu Linux...
For those using the generic ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) CPUFreq driver such as on a number of ARM64 Linux server platforms, if the CPUs support a "boost" mode it's disabled by default. But a patch from Huawei is now looking to enable CPU boost mode by default on Linux...
As an early improvement to Mutter to look forward to with GNOME 52, the compositor is now tracking damage for secondary GPU copy buffers. This should improve the experience for those with multi-GPU setups such as some hybrid laptops...
Microsoft's newest software release for Linux is... Microsoft Defender for the Linux desktop. Microsoft Defender has been ported to Linux to "secure Linux desktops" with Microsoft acknowledging that "more developers begin to use Linux desktops" and thus bringing their security application and threat-protection product to Linux desktops to complement their prior ill-used Linux server support...
The vendors behind the openDesk office suite have formed a company to take it beyond public administration and into commercial use.
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: 2026 Maintainers Summit; Rust goals; GCC and LLMs; GCC CFI; systemd; C types in Rust; LTTng; Swap showdown; KDE Linux. Briefs: 64-day certificates; Nix and Lix security; Asterinas 0.19.0; LineageOS 24; KDE 6.8; Python 3.15; Quotes; ... Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
We've covered Virtual Machines, and now we can get into Linux Containers (LXC). Since our Proxmox Server is running on a 64-bit Intel or AMD, the Linux Containers must run a distro of Linux on this platform. If you tried to install the QEMU packages to support ARM, PPC, or other architectures, the system would give you an error. This basically means that we are stuck with any distro supporting x86 and x86_64 architectures. Linux Container Benefits There are a few benefits of using... https://www.linux.org/threads/proxmox-ve-series-part-6-linux-containers-lxc.64233/
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