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JFS Sees Data Integrity Hardening With Linux 7.1

Tue, 04/21/2026 - 22:20
It's pretty rare nowadays seeing any real changes to the JFS file-system on Linux when there are multiple far superior solutions available. But in any event, the JFS file-system driver has seen a few fixes in Linux 7.1...
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Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray Officially Announced for October 15 Release

Tue, 04/21/2026 - 22:20
Canonical has confirmed Ubuntu 26.10 will carry the Stonking Stingray codename and is scheduled to launch on October 15, 2026.
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Git 2.54 Released With New Experimental "git history" Command

Tue, 04/21/2026 - 22:20
Git developers continue working toward Git 3.0 while out today is Git 2.54 with a few interesting additions...
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Archinstall 4.3 Arch Linux Installer Adds Support for Installing Additional Fonts

Tue, 04/21/2026 - 22:20
Archinstall 4.3 has been released today as the latest stable version of the official installer for the Arch Linux distribution, with various additions and bug fixes.
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HarfBuzz Continues Improving Its New GPU-Accelerated Text Shaping Library

Tue, 04/21/2026 - 22:20
Released at the beginning of the month was a new version of HarfBuzz, a widely-used, open-source text shaping engine. With this HarfBuzz 14.0 release it introduced a GPU-based text rasterization library that supported GLSL shaders as well as HLSL, WGSL, and APple's Metal MSL. Since then this GPU-accelerated library has been seeing more improvements...
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Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Is Slated for Release on October 15th, 2026

Tue, 04/21/2026 - 22:20
Canonical’s next major Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 26.10, has been dubbed the “Stonking Stingray,” and it now has a release schedule with a release date set in stone for October 15th, 2026.
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When Your Xorg Fork Is More About DEI Than Display Servers

Tue, 04/21/2026 - 22:20
A fork created amid claims of censorship and anti?DEI posturing is now in the news for the same reason: not how it renders pixels, but how it treats people.
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New Android development tool designed for robots, not humans

Tue, 04/21/2026 - 22:20
Google previews Android CLI as agentic development continues to snowballGoogle has introduced a new Android command-line interface built specifically for AI agents, claiming a 70 percent cut in token usage and three times reduction in task completion time.…
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Git 2.54 Released With New git history Command

Tue, 04/21/2026 - 22:20
Git 2.54 introduces the experimental git history command, config-based hooks, and more efficient repository maintenance by default.
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LXQt 2.4 Desktop Environment Released with Better Wayland Support

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 22:20
LXQt 2.4 releases with improved multi-monitor Wayland behavior, refined power management, and several fixes across desktop components.
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Firefox 150 Is Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 22:20
Today, Mozilla has published the final builds of the Firefox 150 web browser ahead of its official unveiling on April 21st, 2026, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.
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Attribution or Restriction? The OnlyOffice vs Euro-Office AGPLv3 Licensing Dispute

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 22:20
The four freedoms granted by the license are supreme and paramount, and their protection must be ensured. GPLv3 was structured to prevent licensors from using additional terms as a backdoor to reintroduce restrictions that the licence was intended to eliminate.The intent behind GPLv3, and by extension AGPLv3, is unusually well-documented. The drafting process was explicitly aimed at preventing licensors from imposing downstream restrictions that would inhibit modification, redistribution, or independent development.
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Banana Pi BPI-OM7 3D camera kit pairs RK3588 with Orbbec Gemini 2

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 22:20
Banana Pi has provided initial details about the BPI-OM7 3D camera kit, which combines the BPI-M7 single-board computer with an Orbbec Gemini 2 3D camera for computer vision, robotics, and spatial perception applications. The system is built around the Rockchip RK3588 processor, which integrates four Cortex-A76 cores clocked at up to 2.4 GHz and four […]
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Bcachefs 1.38 Released With Faster Mounts and Discard Fixes

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 22:20
Bcachefs 1.38 fixes mount stalls, improves discard handling, and speeds up snapshot-heavy systems with journal and allocator changes.
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New Debian Project Leader Elected For 2026

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 22:20
Sruthi Chandran has been elected the new Debian Project Leader "DPL" after running unopposed in this year's elections...
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M5Stack previews CardputerZero handheld Raspberry Pi CM0 system

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 22:20
M5Stack has teased the CardputerZero, a compact handheld system built around the Raspberry Pi CM0. The device integrates a display, keyboard, battery, and wireless connectivity into a credit card-sized form factor intended for portable Linux-based development and command-line tasks. The platform uses the Broadcom BCM2837 SoC, featuring a quad-core Cortex-A53 processor operating at up to […]
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GIMP 3.2.4 Released With A Fix For Its XCF Code That Has Existed Since 1999

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 22:20
Following last month's GIMP 3.2 feature release that was followed by the GIMP 3.2.2 point release at the end of March, out now is GIMP 3.2.4 to ship more fixes to users of this open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop and other imaging applications...
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GIMP 3.2.4 Improves Text and Crop Tools, PDF Export, PSD Import, and More

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 22:20
GIMP 3.2.4 is out now as the second maintenance update to the latest GIMP 3.2 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform image editing software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.
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Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 16, 2026 (Apr 13 – 19)

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 22:20
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Solus 4.9, Zorin OS 18.1, COSMIC Desktop 1.0.10, Wine 11.7, Linux 7.1 merges new NTFS driver, Fedora 44 faces second release delay, and more.
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CachyOS Rolls Out A Super-Charged Linux 7.0 Kernel

Mon, 04/20/2026 - 22:20
The popular Arch Linux based CachyOS has now rolled out the Linux 7.0 kernel to its users. But beyond re-basing against the latest upstream kernel version it is also carrying some extra patches...
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