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Distribution Release: Home Assistant OS (HAOS) 18.0

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Home Assistant OS, or HAOS for short, has been upgraded to version 18.0. HAOS is an independently-developed, Linux-based operating system optimised to run Home Assistant, an open-source …

Canonical's New AI Tool Wants You to Talk to Ubuntu Instead of Type

Myna runs entirely on local hardware and is set to debut with Ubuntu 26.10.

Install Fish Shell & Set Default in Ubuntu 26.04

This tutorial shows how to install the latest version of fish shell, and set it as default in Ubuntu. Though the title says for Ubuntu 26.04, it also works on Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04. Fish, stands for Friendly Interactive SHell, is an extremely popular command line interpreter that reads your text input, interprets and tells […]

Rolling out AI agents? 4 ways to move fast and furious – but with extreme caution

For starters, don’t just hand over the keys to AI agents. Any endeavor needs to remain a human-instigated, human-led endeavor.

NVIDIA 595.84 Linux Driver Released with Fixes for Many Games

NVIDIA 595, the latest production branch driver, received a new update yesterday for Linux users. The new NVIDIA 595.84 release includes fixes for many games, sleep and wake up issue, and a few regressions introduced in the 580 driver series. As you may know, the NVIDIA 595 series Linux driver improved Wayland and Linux gaming […]

FOSS Weekly #26.25: AUR Supply Chain Attack, Commodore Phones, SonicDE, Y Server, Kernel 7.1 and More

14 years of It’s FOSS thanks you for your support

Ubuntu flavours now need a beta release to ship

Ubuntu has announced an ‘important policy update’, making beta releases mandatory for all Ubuntu flavours, no exceptions. Most flavours already hit the beta milestone every six months without issue. But until now a flavour that missed the d…

Your Linux PC has a Secure Boot problem – what to do first (and the workaround to avoid)

Secure Boot has always been a nuisance for Linux users, but Microsoft’s expiring 2011 certificate authorities are making it a real pain.

After the AUR Malware Flood, Yay v13 Lets You Script Your Own Safety Net

The release adds Lua-based hooks alongside a simpler way to see how recently a PKGBUILD was last touched.

Gary Benson: longintrepr.h

Did your pip install fail with longintrepr.h: No such file or directory? The file likely is on your system, but it sometime or another it was moved, from /usr/include/python3.xx/longintrepr.h to /usr/include/python3.xx/cpython/longintrepr.h. The prop…

Ubuntu 26.10 is Expected to Have Speech To Text Support

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, is making a new speech to text application. Ubuntu 26.10 is expected as the first release to include it. The new app is named myna, a bird that’s known for its ability to mimic human speech. “Press a keyboard shortcut, speak naturally, and see the resulting text appear in the […]

Commodore's New Flip Phone Skips Android for Linux-Based Sailfish OS

The Callback 8020 still runs apps made for Android, btw.

KDE Plasma 6.7 Release Resurrects Two Themes From the KDE 4 Era

The release also brings per-screen virtual desktops and Union, a new CSS-based theming system.

at Command: Schedule One-Time Linux Tasks Without Cron

The post at Command: Schedule One-Time Linux Tasks Without Cron first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .The at command lets you queue a one-off task to run once at a specific time, so you don’t have
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Audacity 4.0 beta lets you test its new (nicer) Qt interface

Audacity 4’s first public beta arrived this month with the biggest design change the iconic open-source audio editor has seen in decades. The audio editor’s interface, built on wxWidgets since the project began, now runs in Qt. However, the…

FreeBSD Launches AI-Assisted Project to Find and Fix Vulnerabilities

With fresh funding from the Linux Foundation’s Alpha Omega initiative, FreeBSD is turning to AI tools and paid security staff to hunt vulnerabilities across its codebase.
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VirtualBox 7.2.10 Released with Initial Linux 7.1 Kernel Support

VirtualBox, the popular virtualization software made and maintained by Oracle, released new 7.2.10 version yesterday. The new version of this free open-source software added initial support for the most recent Linux Kernel 7.1 and fixed various issues. First, the new version added support Linux Distributions with Kernel 7.1, running either as guest OS in virtual […]

cssc @ Savannah: CSSC-1.5.0-rc3 is released

This is to announce CSSC-1.5.0-rc3, a beta release.

This is a release candidate for a future stable 1.5.0 release.

There have been 46 commits by 2 people in the 109 weeks since CSSC-1.5.0-rc2.

See the NEWS below for a brief summary.

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Malicious apps got into the Arch User Repository – how to protect yourself

For the second time in a week, the AUR was found to contain malicious applications. What can Arch Linux users do about this?

4 Tools to Find Which Linux Process Is Using Your Bandwidth

The post 4 Tools to Find Which Linux Process Is Using Your Bandwidth first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Your Linux server’s network is maxed out, and you have no idea what’s eating it, so here’s how to find
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