Return of The Meme! Hannah Montana Linux Lives Again in 2026

A curious developer took it upon himself to revive this *iconic* gem.

Another German State Swaps Microsoft for ‘Born in the EU’ Open Source

Digital sovereignty is driving European governments off US clouds and onto homegrown open source options.
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Nushell: A Better Shell for Files, Processes, and JSON

The post Nushell: A Better Shell for Files, Processes, and JSON first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .If you’ve ever chained together ls, awk, and grep just to find a file or extract a piece of information,
The post Nushell…

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1180

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: FreeBSD 15.1 with install-time desktop
News: Asahi fixes macOS boot bug, reasons to run Gentoo, Ubuntu reverts Rust-based copy command, Astral g…

cssc @ Savannah: CSSC-1.5.0 released

This is to announce CSSC-1.5.0, a beta release.

There have been 424 commits by 2 people since 1.4.1.   Thanks to Greg A. Woods for helping to improve CSSC.

See the NEWS below for a brief summary.

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Ubuntu 25.10 loses security updates this week

Support for Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” ends 9 July 2026 – which is this week. If you’re still using it, you can upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS directly to keep receiving updates. Ubuntu 25.10 was released in October 2025. As an &#821…

BleachBit 6.0.2 added DNS Cache Cleaner & AppImage for Linux

BleachBit, the free open-source system cleaner application for Linux and Windows, released new 6.0.2 version yesterday. The new version of this CCleaner alternative application introduced many new cleaner functions, UI improvements, new universal package for Linux, and various bug-fixes. As AI is getting so popular today, BleachBit finally added support cleaning caches for many AI‑powered […]

Sipeed's New KVM Wants AI Agents to See and Control Your Screen

The NanoKVM-Go connects with a single USB-C cable, runs over WiFi 6, and exposes every KVM function as an MCP server for AI agents like PicoClaw and Claude Code.

FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending July 3, 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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Gnome 51 Alpha Released! Removed Legacy NVIDIA Driver Support

GNOME 51, the Linux desktop expected as default in Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora 45, is now available for Alpha testing! The new version of this popular Linux desktop environment finally removed the code for legacy NVIDIA drivers support! Meaning the old graphics cards, such as GeForce 700 series (except GTX 750 Ti, GTX 750, and […]

Ubuntu is swapping its time sync tool for a Rust-based version

Canonical is putting money behind a Rust rewrite of Ubuntu’s time-syncing tech, becoming a Gold Sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation – a snip at €40,000 a year – to help fund the non-profit’s memory-safe software projects. That includes …

GNU Hurd development blog: 2026-q2

Hello and welcome to another Qoth! Here’s what’s been happening in Q2
of 2026!

Joshua Branson added a pretty cool svg logo for our ethernet
multiplexor. He built that image
with Inkscape whilst using a Hurd laptop (Thinkpad 420) running on
real ir…

Snap Store downtime this weekend means no snap installs or updates

Canonical’s Snap Store will be shutting down for database maintenance this weekend, meaning users won’t be able to install or update snap software until it’s back online. The planned downtime starts on Sunday, 5 July 2026 at 22:00 UTC…

Distribution Release: Ultramarine Linux 44

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Ultramarine Linux, a Fedora-based desktop distribution, has published a new release, version 44. The new version includes updates to three of the four desktop environments: “We have …

Mobile OS Release: CalyxOS 7.2.2.0

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The CalyxOS team have announced the return of the project to active status and, with it, the launch of version 7.2.2.0 of the mobile operating system. “CalyxOS 7.2.2.0 is up online. This…

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has fixed its missing video/audio thumbnails

If you installed Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and noticed video and music files weren’t showing image thumbnails in the file manager, a packaging oversight was to blame, not anything you did. It turns out that Ubuntu’s Default install option (aka minim…

Fable 5 just set a new AI freelance work performance record – but it can’t replace humans yet

The newly reinstated Anthropic model topped charts for automating work. Here’s what that means for the future.

GnuPG 2.5.21 Released With Kyber Support as 2.4 Reaches End of Life

Version 2.5.21 introduces Kyber/ML‑KEM, tweaks internals for newer libraries, and signals that users should move off the now‑unsupported 2.4.
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Distribution Release: Galactic Mandate Linux 99

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. M. R. Richardson, a science fiction writer and author of the Galactic Mandate series of science fiction books, has announced the release of Galactic Mandate Linux 99. Based on Ubuntu 26….

GNU Guix: ‘guix substitute‘ and ‘guix pull‘ Vulnerabilities

Several security issues (CVE IDs pending) have been identified in guix substitute, a helper utility invoked by
guix-daemon,
which enable a variety of harmful activities including remote privilege
escalation to the build daemon user, remote store corr…