Canonical says Ubuntu kernel updates are available for DirtyClone, a high-severity Linux local privilege escalation flaw tracked as CVE-2026-43503.

With modern laptops, proper platform/WMI drivers are becoming more depended upon not only for supporting all typical functionality from keyboards to backlights and other handling, but also for achieving proper performance. For many laptop vendors, the Linux platform drivers are maintained by the open-source community and actual customers. The latest example of the challenges of the community-maintained support rather than from the vendor is with the ASUS ROG Strix G16 G614PR gaming laptop seeing inappropriate power values set in the open-source driver that were incorrect and led to lower power/performance than Windows...

Kickstarter recently featured the RootBoard, a Raspberry Pi-powered handheld Linux computer aimed at makers, developers, educators, cyberdeck builders, and users interested in a compact open-hardware Linux terminal. The device combines a small display, integrated keyboard, speaker, power-management circuitry, and support for Raspberry Pi Zero-class boards. The RootBoard is designed for use with the Raspberry Pi […]

The privacy-focused Tails 7.9.1 ships with Linux kernel 6.12.94, addressing DirtyClone and another privilege-escalation vulnerability.

COSMIC Desktop 1.2 lands with archive extraction fixes, better applet behavior, Store loading indicators, and Monitor improvements.

As the last planned article on Phoronix of Q2, here is a look back at what excited readers the most in the second quarter. There were 872 original news articles this quarter as well as 54 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. Here is what excited readers the most over these past three months...

The Git project has officially released Git 2.55, bringing a wide range of improvements focused on performance, developer productivity, and modernizing the world's most widely used version control system. The release introduces smarter repository management, faster operations for large codebases, expanded hook capabilities, and continues Git's gradual adoption of Rust for improved reliability and maintainability.

VirtualBox 7.2.12 is out with an important Linux host fix, plus build improvements for Linux host and guest components.

Parrot OS 7.3 is now available, bringing Linux kernel 7.0, optimized builds for newer CPUs, official Vagrant boxes, and refreshed security tools.

Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.2 today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and Rust-based graphical desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions.

Ever since RHEL deprecated their short-lived Btrfs plans, Red Hat engineers over the past decade have been developing Stratis Storage as their storage management solution leveraging XFS, LUKS, DM, and their Rust-based daemon. While Stratis Storage has been available in Fedora Linux going all the way back to Fedora 28, until now there hasn't been the option of using it for the root file-system on new Fedora installations. Finally with Fedora 45 that may change...

KDE Plasma 6.7.2 lands as the second bugfix update in the 6.7 series, polishing KWin, Wayland, networking, and screencasting.

Mageia 10 Linux distribution has been officially released today, June 30th, 2026, as a major update coming almost three years after Mageia 9, with updated components and improvements.

Linux 7.2 is working toward release in August with its more than 43 million lines in the codebase. With Linux 7.2 there are many new changes in tow as summed up in today's feature overview.

Mageia 10 lands after a long development cycle, bringing Plasma 6.5, GNOME 49, Xfce 4.20, Linux kernel 6.18, DNF 5, RPM 4.20, and more.

Offensive Security released Kali Linux 2026.2 today as the latest stable snapshot of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution for penetration testing and ethical hacking.

Wine 11.12 bundles FFmpeg’s libswresample and libswscale, updates Wine Mono to 11.2, and fixes 27 bugs.

Wine 11.12 fell off the bi-weekly release rhythm with not making it out last Friday, but it managed to ship today. Wine 11.12 brings fractional scaling support to its Wayland driver and various other enhancements...

Git 2.55 adds Linux support for its built-in FSMonitor daemon, helping large repositories avoid costly working-tree scans.

Red Hat senior software engineer Marcin Juszkiewicz of Red Hat's ARM Team had been dogfeeding with an AArch64 Linux desktop being used as his primary, personal system for nearly the past year. But now he shared he has gone back to using his AMD Ryzen desktop instead over AArch64 Linux issues encountered with his Ampere Altra desktop...