I tested COSMIC’s new Frosted Glass effect, and it’s way better than MacOS’ Liquid Glass

This simply gorgeous Linux desktop just stole the UI crown from Apple’s Liquid Glass.

Ubuntu 26.04 fixes Papers bug that sent PDF links to wrong page

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is prepping a bug fix update to Papers, the document viewer that replaced Evince in 25.04, resolving several annoyances – including internal PDF links that jumped to the wrong page. The internal link snafu only occurred in some PDFs, n…

New Linux Flaw Lets Attackers Escape VMs

A 16-year-old vulnerability allows an attacker to escape a virtual machine, gain access to the host, and execute malicious code.

Biopass – Another Windows Hello Style Facial Authentication for Linux

Want a Howdy alternative application for Windows Hello style facial authentication? Biopass is another one for your Linux Desktop. I’ve written about how to enable facial authentication using Howdy in Ubuntu. The project however has not been updated for more than a year. And, the installation and setup are not friendly for beginners. There are […]

Slack Who? This Self-Hosted Chat App Just Went Open Source

Built by one developer over the past year, Chatto is a team chat solution that can be self-hosted.

Android Screen Mirroring App Scrcpy 4.1 Added VP8/VP9 Encoders Support

Scrcpy, the app to mirror and control your Android screen on Windows, Linux, and macOS computers, released new 4.1 version. The new version of this free open-source application added VP8 and VP9 video encoding support, primarily intended as a fallback when H.264, H.265, and AV1 encoding are not available. This is useful for devices, such […]

OpenCode: AI Agent That Reads and Edits Code in Terminal

The post OpenCode: AI Agent That Reads and Edits Code in Terminal first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .OpenCode brings an AI coding agent right into your terminal. Once you see it understand an entire project instead of
The post…

Open Book Touch is Crowdfunding: A Buttonless, Open Hardware Answer to Kindle

It’s $149, runs on an ESP32-S3, and skips DRM entirely and lets you skip the Kindle ecosystem.

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1181

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: Artix 20260419
News: Google locks down Android, TUXEDO OS moves to Debian foundation, Mint updates Cinnamon on Wayland, Redox OS gets USB gamepa…

How to change Night Light’s colour temperature during the day on Ubuntu

Night Light Scheduler is a new GNOME Shell extension that lets you control how warm your screen is throughout different parts of the evening (or day). GNOME’s built-in Night Light feature has a customisable schedule, and it lets you set a colour …

screen @ Savannah: GNU Screen v.5.0.2 is released

Hi everyone,

I’m glad to announce the new release of GNU screen.

Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells.

The 5.0.2 release includes the following chan…

Deb Dev Builds Graphical Debian Vulnerability Exporter for Prometheus

Built on debsecan, debvulns‑exporter surfaces Debian security metadata for Prometheus and Grafana.
The post Deb Dev Builds Graphical Debian Vulnerability Exporter for Prometheus appeared first on FOSS Force.

8 Linux Handheld Computers You Can Splurge On

The rest are ready to use out of the box without requiring a spare Raspberry Pi or tinkering.

FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending July 10, 2026

Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.
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I Mined and Built My Way Through Space Haven

An indie game studio out of Finland, Linus Torvalds’ birth country, built this game, treating Linux as a first-class citizen.

findutils @ Savannah: GNU findutils 4.11.0 released

This is to announce findutils-4.11.0, a stable release.

This release follows the recent POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1-2024) changes,

especially to mention the new behavior of ‘find -mount’ vs. ‘find -xdev’,

as well as a lot of documentation improvement…

GNOME Has A Modern New Email App Work in Progress

Want an email app between Evolution and Geary? Check out Gnome’s modern new “Stamp” app which is working in progress. Stamp is an open-source mail, contact, and calendar suite application for Linux, which was unveiled at OpenSUSE conference 2026: The project provides a complete mail client with integrated contact and calendar functionality. It features a […]

ELM11-Feather Is a Feather-Compatible Board That Speaks Lua Natively

It’s an FPGA-based board that lets you program the application, driver, and hardware layers in Lua, C, and VHDL/SystemVerilog, and it starts at $29.

Ubuntu 26.10 retires dbus-daemon after 22 year run as default

Ubuntu 26.10 is replacing its D-Bus implementation for the first time since 2004, swapping dbus-daemon for dbus-broker – a change end-users are unlikely to notice. Processes on your desktop talk to each other and to the host system using D-Bus, a &#821…

Red Hat will support your RHEL forever now – for a price

Red Hat’s new Long-Life Add-On extends support on a specific release for as long as you’re willing to pay for it.