The Mesa 25.3 open-source graphics stack has been released today as a major update with new features, improvements for the built-in open-source graphics drivers, and better support for many video games.

The open-source StarlingX cloud infrastructure project is out with its second major update of 2025, bringing with it new edge security and usability improvements.

Debian 13 "Trixie" receives its second refresh (13.2), featuring 123 bug fixes and 55 security updates. Here's more on that.

Introduced last year in the Linux 6.10 kernel was the mseal system call for memory sealing to protect the memory mapping against modifications to seal non-writable memory segments or better protecting sensitive data structures. The GNU C Library has finally introduced its mseal function making use of this modern Linux kernel functionality...

KeePassXC’s developers explain that AI helps with code reviews and small pull requests, but never appears in the KeePassXC codebase.

Fedora 44 is looking at replacing the Linux kernel's console "FBCON" with the user-space-based KMSCON implementation. Eventually the hope remains to deprecate the FBCON/FBDEV code within the Linux kernel...

Ahead of the Wine 11.0 code freeze beginning in early December, Wine 10.19 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for running Windows games and applications on Linux...

This post is an immediate follow up for Fedora 43 KVM Hypervisor && bring CachyOS KDE Plasma 6.5.1 along with kernel to Arch Linux VM ( https://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/358937/index.html ) It is quite clear that there is a way to automatically start services virtstoraged, virtnetworkd, virtqemud, virtnodedevd on Arch Linux VM , however I was not lucky enough to automate this procedure.

Python is a great programming language, but it might not always be the best choice. For Linux administrators, bash shell scripting might often be a better choice. Shell scripting is easier to learn and faster to implement, especially for busy administrators who don't have time to learn a more complex language.

The find command is an advanced tool for searching files or directories rigorously in your file system, taking a little longer time than its alternative tools like the locate command.

Canonical extends Ubuntu LTS security and support to 15 years via the Legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro. Coverage starts with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.

The monthly KDE Frameworks updates continue with KDE Frameworks 6.20, released today by the KDE Project as a companion to the KDE Plasma 6.5.2 desktop environment and KDE Gear 25.08.3 software suite.

ollama 0.12.11 released this week as the newest feature update to this easy-to-run method of deploying OpenAI GPT-OSS, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3, and other large language models. Exciting with ollama 0.12.11 is that it's now supporting the Vulkan API...

The openSUSE project announced today that the openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling-release distribution has recently switched from GRUB2 to GRUB2-BLS as the default bootloader when installed via YaST in UEFI mode.

CUDA 13.0 Update 2 is now available as the latest incremental improvement to NVIDIA's compute stack...

Systemd-free option still available if you choose that downloadMX Linux 25 "Infinity" is now available, and the new version has some significant differences from the 2023 release, with things that used to be boot-time choices now more loaded pre-install decisions.…

The EROFS read-only file-system started by Huawei and now maintained by a growing number of contributors continues attracting even more interest. EROFS has exhibited much potential for mobile devices as well as container use-cases while proving itself to be quite robust since its mainlining back in 2019...

Tails 7.2 has been released today as the second minor update in the Tails 7.x series of this portable Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and designed to protect you against surveillance and censorship.

Patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week are seeking to remove SHA1 support for signing of kernel modules. This is part of the larger effort in the industry for moving away from SHA1 given its vulnerabilities to hash collisions and superior hashing algorithms being available...

Browser maker scolds AI objectors, "The web is changing, and sitting it out doesn’t help anyone"Mozilla is apparently a lot more excited about adding AI features to Firefox than its community. The org has decided that AI deserves its own new environment in the browser, a move its fans met with withering criticism.…