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AI Can No Longer Rampage Through Rust’s Code Repo

The new rust-lang/rust policy allows AI-written code only under a narrow, disclosed experiment, and doesn’t apply to the wider Rust project.

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QPDF 12.4.0 Released with zsh & bash Shell Completion Rewritten

QPDF, the popular command-line tool for transforming, inspecting, and repairing PDF files, released new 12.4.0 version today. The new version of this free open-source software library and CLI tool rewrote the Tab completion function for zsh & bash shells, introduced a few security updates, and fixed various issues. Previously, qpdf itself was responsible for providing […]

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Hyperswitch on Linux: A Self-Hosted Payment Switch for Multiple Processors

The post Hyperswitch on Linux: A Self-Hosted Payment Switch for Multiple Processors first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Hyperswitch is an open-source payments switch from Juspay that you can run on your own Linux server. This g…

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DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1185

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: Battle of the Children of Void
News: Commits to AUR paused, Mageia highlights useful applications, Proxmox introduces ARM support
Questions and …

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How to Install, Secure, and Set Up MySQL on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

If you have been using an ecommerce store to place online orders or have been using multiple softwares for work, it is very likely that one or many of those would be using MySQL on the backend to store, retrieve and manage data. MySQL is a relational database that stores data in a structured format […]

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Distribution Release: iDeal OS 2026.08.08

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. iDeal OS, an MX Linux-based desktop distribution with focus on privacy and security, has been updated to version 2026.08.08. This release replaces Firefox with Waterfox as the new defaul…

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Windows’ Weather app uses obscene memory – are Linux apps better?

I flummoxed to read a report about how much memory Microsoft’s Weather app uses on Windows 11 – more than 1GB just to render what is, ostensibly, a fancy table of stats. I was less flummoxed to check the memory usage of Mousam, my current go-to w…

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LightDM Released Version 1.33.0 After Four-Year Hiatus

LightDM, the lightweight display manager originally developed by Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu), returns by releasing version 1.33.0 a few days ago. It’s the first release in four years, that features bug-fixes for the issues since the last 1.32.0 and Qt6 support, while Qt5 will continue to be available. LightDM (Light Display Manager) was the […]

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Orion for Linux beta update adds private browsing and link previews

Kagi has released a new beta of Orion for Linux, a WebKitGTK-based port of its popular browser for macOS and IOS. Orion for Linux v0.4.1 builds on the v0.3.0 public beta, released in May, adding more features found on its macOS and iOS versions and imp…

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GNOME File Previewer “Sushi” 51 Ports to GTK4 & Adds New Click Actions

Sushi, the file previewer for GNOME desktop environment, released version 51 Beta in last week. GNOME Sushi was revived several months ago. With the latest 51 development version, it’s finally ported to GTK4 with some new functions and API updates. In case you don’t know about Sushi, it’s a macOS Finder’s Quick Look style application, […]

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Opera 134 Stable Released with Vertical Tabs Generally Available

Opera, the free Chromium based web browser, released new stable 134 version a few days ago. The new Opera version updated its Chromium base platform to the previous 150 stable release. And, it finally makes the Vertical Tabs feature available for all users. Vertical tabs is the popular feature that displays the browser tabs vertically […]

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OpenSearch Is Done Being Called “the Elasticsearch Fork”

An interview with Bianca Lewis of OpenSearch, conducted at Open Source Summit India.

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Dynamic Music Pill adds word-by-word lyrics highlighting

An updated version of Dynamic Music Pill, the GNOME Shell extension to put now playing track info and lyrics in your panel or dock with animated flourishes, is out. If you’re prone some desk-side crooning, Dynamic Music Pill v1.3.0 brings two new…

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FSF publishes incident report on GNU Savannah vulnerabilities

Source: FSF News

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FSF News: FSF publishes incident report on GNU Savannah vulnerabilities

Source: Planet GNU

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Distribution Release: TitalcruiseOS 5.4

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Titalcruise E.A. has announced the release of TitalcruiseOS 5.4, a major update of the project’s Debian-based Linux distribution designed primarily for system administrators, developers …

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GCC 16.2 Released With More Than 100 Bugs Fixed

The latest release of the GNU Compiler Collection addresses regressions and serious bugs found in GCC 16.1.
The post GCC 16.2 Released With More Than 100 Bugs Fixed appeared first on FOSS Force.

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Linux Surpasses Double-Digit Market Share

According to two sources, the Linux operating system has hit a major milestone in market share that naysayers thought would never happen.

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Calibre 9.13 fixes broken ebook search in the content server

A new bug-fix release of Calibre, the open-source e-book manger, view and converter, is available for download. Calibre 9.13 fixes a number of PDF-related issues, including a conversion error that could occur on Linux distributions shipping an ‘a…

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Mesa 26.2.0 Released with OpenCL 3.1 Capability

Mesa, the open-source implement of OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, OpenGL, and other graphics API, released new 26.2.0 version on Wednesday. The new version updated its Rusticl OpenCL implementation with OpenCL 3.1 capability across Apple AGX, Intel, AMD, Vulkan-based, and CPU software backends, allowing OpenCL 3.1 applications to run through Mesa on those platforms. The Vulkan […]

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