Linux Mint announces the beta release of LMDE 7 this month. Discover new features and improvements in this exciting update for users and developers alike.

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Samba 4.23 enables SMB3 Unix Extensions by default, improving POSIX interoperability for Linux and UNIX clients with proper permissions and symlinks.

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Fwupd 2.0.16 is here! Discover the new search feature that enhances your firmware update experience. Stay updated and secure with the latest improvements.

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A few days ago I wrote about Intel fixing some Panther Lake Xe3 graphics performance issues ahead of launch. The downside of those performance optimizations for Panther Lake was that they led to longer shader compilation times. The good news though is that some separate improvements were merged now for Mesa 25.3 to help enhance the Intel graphics shader compilation performance…

The PipeWire project has released PipeWire 1.4.8 today as yet another maintenance update to the latest PipeWire 1.4 series of this popular open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux systems.

Fish 4.0.6 is out as the newest update to this shell that with Fish 4.0 was rewritten in Rust from C++…

Samba 4.23 is out today as the newest version of this SMB protocol re-implementation for file and print services interoperability with the Microsoft Windows world…

This week’s round of power management fixes for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel are on the more notable side with fixes for both AMD and Intel P-State drivers plus addressing a system hibernation issue that could lead to “serious breakage” and stems from a Linux 6.16 regression…

It was just two days ago that Fwupd 2.0.15 released with new hardware support and other improvements. That has already been replaced by Fwupd 2.0.16…

Learn how to add, delete, and grant sudo privileges to users in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux.

Stuck between a rock and a hard place, ASF ditches the feather, but keeps the Apache name: not enough for the left, too ‘woke’ for the right? Welcome to modern America…

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In some controversial news, openSUSE announced that it plans to disable support for the Bcachefs file system in openSUSE Tumbleweed with the next major kernel update, Linux 6.17, due out in late September or early October 2025.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) unveils a refreshed visual identity with an oak leaf logo, highlighting growth, trust, and sustainability.

While it’s very commendable that Linux Lite is going after a particular user – people who might be unhappy with Windows 11 – treating these new users like digital imbeciles leaves a lot to be desired.

With Linus Torvalds having recently marked Bcachefs as being “externally maintained” following ongoing disagreement over the generally accepted Linux kernel development practices, the plans were laid out today for shipping Bcachefs as an out-of-tree DKMS module…

The Bcachefs filesystem will be disabled in openSUSE kernel 6.18. All Bcachefs users are strongly advised to take necessary precautions.

Fedora 43 Beta is declared a “GO” and ready for release next Tuesday…

Out-of-tree file-system drivers not licensed/compatible with the GPL will have a new obstacle to deal with come time for Linux 6.18 later this year…

The VMScape
vulnerability is a Spectre variant that “allows a malicious KVM guest to
leak sensitive information such as encryption/decryption keys from a
userspace hypervisor such as QEMU“. Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced
the 6.16.7, 6.12.47, 6.6.106, 6.1.152, 5.15.193, and 5.10.244 stable kernels, which add a
mitigation for the hardware bug.

The Apache Software Foundation announced last year that they would be changing its corporate logo and overhaul its branding after being criticized by American Indian activists. Today they announced the brand new Apache Software Foundation branding…