Linux NewsA Clanker Pitted Fedora Against Windows 11. Fedora Won, Mostly
PhoneBuff's automated test found Windows 11 ahead only at launching Cyberpunk 2077.
Bottles Pushes Windows App Support Further on ARM64 Linux
Bottles pushes its ARM64 efforts forward with Soda 11.0-10, opening the door to running Windows software on more ARM64 Linux devices.
FreeBSD 14.5 Released With Hardware Support Improvements, Many Bug & Security Fixes
For those that haven't yet made the move to FreeBSD 15 with still relying on FreeBSD 14 in production, out today is FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE...
I finally found a Linux music player that feels better than Spotify's desktop app
Spotify, surprisingly, works fine as a local music player, but this open-source app does things just a little bit better.
Ikey Doherty vs Omarchy: Why He’s Building Barney Instead of Another Distro
Ikey Doherty, the creator of Solus and AerynOS, is back with Barney, a Rust tool that builds Linux distros from source. So that you can easily create your own Omarchy.
Elom Musk's X Tried to Kill Nitter. The Project Just Said It’s Coming Back
Two weeks after X Corp's legal letter forced the project offline, Nitter says it will continue.
Stop using the cd command — this Linux command is faster, smarter, and easier
A modern cd alternative can mean less typing, less guessing, and far fewer wrong turns in the terminal.
[$] CERN's migration path from CentOS Linux to Debian
The European Laboratory for Particle Physics, usually just called CERN, is not only the birthplace of the World Wide Web, it is home to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator. As such, its computing environment is both truly unique and of great interest to people outside of CERN who hope to find lessons applicable to their own computing needs. The upcoming migration of some of CERN's systems from CentOS Linux to Debian, which was the topic of a talk at the recent MiniDebConf Winterthur 2026, is of particular interest.
Three stable kernels for Monday
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.4, 6.18.50, and 6.12.109 stable kernels. Each contains important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.
Mysterious x86 CPU Already Has APX, x86S Where Intel Left Off For Legacy-Free x86
The mystery deepens around an x86 implementation from a corporate entity other than AMD and Intel and has been making some very intriguing changes for coming from a seeming start-up. Beyond 16 tile and 32 tile AMX implementations that already surpass Intel's current Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) capabilities in shipping Xeon CPUs, new disclosures were made today concerning Advanced Performance Extensions (APX), Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED), and even x86S as the effort that Intel previously stopped for cleaning up the x86 baggage...
Ubuntu 26.10 daily ISOs add amd64v3 installer
Ubuntu 26.10 daily builds now offer an amd64v3 installer, letting you try out a CPU-optimised package set from the off, without any post-install reconfiguration. The distro began building amd64v3 packages as an opt-in archive last year, though Ubuntu 26.04 LTS continues to use the standard amd64 (v1) baseline by default (there have been hiccups along the way, so that decision was a wise one). While Ubuntu 26.04 LTS can be manually converted to use amd64-v3 package sources after a standard install, the appearance of Ubuntu 26.10 daily builds that use it by default skip that; it boots from and installs v3-optimised packages […]
[$] Fixing the TCMalloc regression with RSEQ operations
The restartable sequences feature is one of the stranger corners of the kernel's user-space interface; it provides a way for user space to carry out simple lockless operations and be informed if it is preempted over the course of an operation (and must, thus, restart). Work merged in the 6.19 release to improve the performance of restartable sequences broke the TCMalloc allocator, which was relying on an undocumented (and unintended) kernel behavior. Now, Olivier Dion is proposing an addition to the restartable-sequences API that will bring TCMalloc back into the fold; it does not make the restartable-sequences API any less strange, though.
I installed Albert on Linux, now I can find any app or file without opening the terminal
Want to find any app, file, website, or calculation without using the Terminal? Try this app now.
Buildroot 2026.08 released
Version 2026.08 of the Buildroot embedded Linux system builder has been released. Buildroot 2026.08 includes nearly 1,000 changes from 100 contributors; some of the notable changes include support for Linux 7.1.x, Binutils 2.46.1, GCC 16.2.0, glibc 2.44, as well as adding the M68K and IBM Power 10/11 architectures.
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, freerdp, gegl04, go-fdo-client, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, and pipewire), Debian (aom, chromium, libde265, libssh2, thunderbird, and tryton-server), Fedora (chromium, composer, cosmic-greeter, gegl04, greetd, ibus-table, jss, libheif, lightdm, lxdm, memcached, perl-DBD-Pg, plasma-login-manager, rust-webbrowser, sddm, selinux-policy, slitherer, and tkimg), Mageia (expat, mingw-expat, mbedtls, microcode, python-linkify-it-py, and tomcat), Oracle (buildah, container-tools:ol8, dbus-broker, freerdp, go-toolset:ol8, grafana-pcp, kernel, kernel-uek, nodejs24, php, and pipewire), Slackware (libpcap, libxml2, mozilla-firefox, mozilla-thunderbird, and util-linux), SUSE (bson-devel, busybox, bzip2, c-ares, cpio, cups-filters, dracut, ffmpeg-7, ffmpeg-8, file-roller, firefox, firefox-esr, glances-common, grafana, hauler, helm, helm3, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, lcms2, libcupsfilters, libheif, libmsgpack-c2, libsoup, libsoup2, libus