Cohn, who helped lead a landmark crypto case and shape EFF’s agenda for decades, will hand leadership of the group to Nicole Ozer this summer.

VitruvianOS 0.3 is the first public release, featuring a Haiku-inspired design and a custom graphics stack built on the Linux kernel, without X11 or Wayland.

Merged today was another round of platform-drivers-x86 changes for the ongoing Linux 7.0 cycle. There are bug fixes plus some new hardware support additions that make this merge notable. Due to the new hardware support amounting to just device IDs and not risking existing hardware support, it’s fine for merging at this late stage of Linux 7.0 development…

The March 22, 2026 release of DietPi v10.2 introduces new software options including Immich, uv, and the RustDesk Client, along with a range of enhancements and bug fixes across supported single-board computers. DietPi: DietPi is a lightweight, Debian-based operating system optimized for single-board computers and embedded devices. It focuses on minimal resource usage while providing […]

The whatis command is used to fetch a one-line description of the specified command or tool from the manual pages in your Linux system.

With just a few weeks to go until the official Fedora 44 release, there is already feature planning and activity beginning for Fedora 45 that will be released toward the end of 2026. Among the early feature approvals is a new web front-end feature to the DRM Panic “Blue/Black Screen of Death” functionality with a specialized QR code for kernel errors…

Cohn, who helped lead a landmark crypto case and shape EFF’s agenda for decades, will hand leadership of the group to Nicole Ozer this summer.

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FreeCAD 1.1 has been released today as a major update for this open-source, free, and cross-platform 3D parametric modeler with numerous new features and UI improvements.

Intel’s open-source “ANV” Vulkan driver for Linux systems enabled a new feature called BTP+BTI RCC Keying. You may be wondering what it means or stands for, but long story short it helps with the performance of Direct3D 12 (DX12) games running on Linux by way of Valve’s Steam Play with Proton + VKD3D-Proton…

The keynote for Sun Security Con
2026 (SunSecCon) was given by Farzan Karimi on how incident handling
can go awry because of a lack of collaboration between the “good
guys”—which stands in contrast to how attackers collaboratively operate.
He provided some “war stories” where security incident handling had
benefited from collaboration and others where it was hampered by its lack.
SunSecCon was held in conjunction with SCALE 23x in Pasadena
in early March.

Building off the release of ROCm 7.2 from January, ROCm 7.2.1 is now available with Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS support as well as various bug fixes to this open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct GPU compute stack…

ShellGPT makes the terminal user-friendly, saving time by generating commands, automating scripts, and guiding me through tasks.

The Tor Blog has an interesting article
about the non-technical side of setting up a Tor Relay. It documents how a
computer science student at National Taiwan Normal University worked with the
university system to set up a relay and provides a template for future
attempts:

In Taiwan, anonymous networks do not lack technical documentation or
ideological support. The real scarcity is experience from actually working
through the real institutional system once. Especially in an environment where
academic networks are highly centralized and outbound connectivity is tightly
controlled, distributed anonymous infrastructure like Tor Relays is inherently
difficult to sustain.

This implementation at National Taiwan Normal University was not meant to
provide a final answer for anonymous networks. It was a concrete attempt made
within real-world institutions. It may not immediately improve the performance
or security of anonymous networks, and it was not intended to become a directly
reproducible standard process. What it did achieve was leaving behind a clearly
visible path of practice—one that can be understood, referenced, and built
upon.

A deterministic password manager that generates, rather than stores, your logins — and makes versioning old passwords surprisingly handy.

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In testing thus far on Ubuntu 26.04, the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop with the Wayland session is working pretty darn well and delivering a performance edge across many games/graphics workloads compared to the default GNOME 50 desktop. At least as far as AMD Radeon graphics are concerned, Plasma 6.6 is in quite impressive shape for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.

Version
2.0 of the LibreQoS traffic-management and network operations
platform has been released.

This release makes LibreQoS easier to operate, easier to understand,
and much more useful for day-to-day network work. Now users can see
more of what is happening across the network, troubleshoot subscriber
issues with better tools, and work from a much stronger local
WebUI.

This release includes many capabilities that reflect ideas and
direction long championed by our late colleague, Dave Täht.

Dave’s work helped shape the understanding of bufferbloat and the
importance of latency under load across the networking community. His
influence continues to guide both LibreQoS and the broader effort to
improve Internet quality.

The project has also announced
the release of the LibreQoS Bufferbloat Test
v2, also dedicated to Täht. It runs in a user’s browser to look at
“latency under load, jitter, loss, and what those things mean for
the kinds of traffic people actually care about: browsing, streaming,
video calls, audio calls, backups, and gaming“.

The kernel’s direct map provides code running in kernel mode with direct
access to all physical memory installed in the system — on 64-bit systems,
at least. It obviously makes life easier for kernel developers, but the
direct map also brings some problems of its own, most of which are
security-related. Interest in removing at least some pages from the direct
map has been simmering for years; a couple of patch sets under
discussion show some use cases for memory that has been removed from the
direct map, and how such memory might be efficiently managed.

Alongside announcing the new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake parts with vPro for commercial PCs and the Xeon 600 workstation processors, Intel finally announced their professional “big Battlemage” BMG-G31 graphics card with the Arc Pro B70 as well as the Arc Pro B65…

Kali Linux 2026.1 ethical hacking and penetration testing distribution is now available for download with 8 new tools, fresh new artwork, Kali NetHunter updates, a BackTrack mode, and other changes.

FreeCAD 1.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this leading open-source CAD application…