by George Whittaker
Linux kernel developers are moving forward with plans to remove the crypto_rng API layer, a long-standing component of the kernel’s cryptographic subsystem. The pro…
Read MoreFFmpeg, the popular free open-source multimedia library, released new major 9.0 version today. The new version of this library introduced some new decoders and encoders, hardware accelerated encoders and filters for better performance, as well as many other new features. First, FFmpeg 9.0 introduced decoding animated WebP images support, as well as, extracting its individual […]
Read MoreA use-after-free race exploit was discovered and exploited on CentOS Stream 9.
Read MoreFan of the the Papirus icon theme will be pleased to hear there a new update – the first since May 2025. For Papirus’s first update in 2026 (the tardiness of which its maintainer, Serhii Yeremenko, apologises) brings over 80 new icons or updated …
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Read MoreA full rewrite moves it to GTK4 and Libadwaita, with Windows 11 support being tidied up.
Read MoreThe answer to bad AI-assisted contributions is not a purity test. It is better engineering discipline.Earlier this year, a discussion in the GNUstep community raised a proposal that will sound familiar across the Free Software world: prohibit AI-gen…
Read MoreNVIDIA announced the 610.57.04 driver along with 595.91.07 for Linux this monday! The production branch driver 595.91.07 includes only many bug fixes and improvements, while the 610.57.04 feature branch driver fixed crashes in many games. For Steam users or those who play Windows games in Linux through Proton, the new NVIDIA 610 driver fixed STALKER […]
Read MoreThe post How to Monitor Commands Executed by Linux Users in Real Time first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Checking .bash_history after the fact, it only shows the commands a user typed, and that’s only if they didn’…
Read MoreDropbeat is a new riff on a old tune, a panel-based music applet for GNOME Shell that gives you an alternate way to pause, play and skip tracks in MPRIS-friendly Linux media players. Applets of this ilk are legion, and this panel applet doesn’t d…
Read MoreUbuntu is moving hwctl from Deb package to snap-only distribution, a change Canonical says improves security and desktop integration.
You’re reading Ubuntu’s turning another system Deb package into a snap, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not rep…
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s minimal cloud images have been missing curl – accidentally, it turns out, so Canonical has put it back. Curl is a commonly-used command-line tool for fetching files from remote servers. It’s called on in countless install…
Read MoreThe same low-quality AI patterns kept showing up in submissions even after GNOME updated its review guidelines in December.
Read MoreMutter, the window manager and Wayland compositor used by GNOME, released new 51 Beta version today. The new version of this GNOME component that manages windows, handles input devices, and draws the desktop, added support for Wayland ext-background-effect-v1 protocol. It gives Wayland applications a standard way to request background blur to the specific regions of […]
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The NetHydra project has published a new update of the Debian-based distribution. The latest version includes a handful of new tools and enables running as the root user by default. “In …
Read MoreGNOME Document Viewer, aka Papers, released new 51 Beta version one day ago. The new version of this GNOME core application for reading PDF / DejaVu documents as well as Comic Books archives introduced visual signature support. Visual signatures is less secure than digital signatures, as someone can simply copy and paste the image into […]
Read MoreCodenotary says Anthropic’s Claude for OSS program will help accelerate immudb development and improve code quality.
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Review: Mageia 10
News: FreeBSD to get Dockerbox, Haiku can redistribute Firefox port, Garuda revamps FireDragon, Ubuntu plans virtualization upgrades
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Check in for a roundup of the hottest Linux app release that landed in July 2026 (and not just hot because of the temperatures last month). Major updates last month included the Firefox 153 release, with container tabs confusing those who’ve had …
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