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From hand‑me‑down laptops to brand‑new desktops, this Debian-based distro with Trinity or KDE Plasma keeps things fast and familiar.

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Wireshark 4.6.4 network protocol analyzer resolves three security vulnerabilities, including a USB HID memory exhaustion flaw.

The Linux kernel continues seeing more open-source kernel drivers emerge for supporting different AI accelerators / NPUs. The newest open-source driver breaking cover today is from NXP and is for enabling their Neutron neural processing unit…

While the Linux 7.0 feature merge window ended this past weekend and that next kernel release won’t debut as stable until April, there are already features out on the horizon that are being positioned for likely merging into the Linux 7.1 kernel assuming no issues appear or objections raised by Linus Torvalds. One of the features already looking like it will be submitted for Linux 7.1 is supporting extended attributes on sockets…

Fwupd/LVFS lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today released Fwupd 2.0.20 with continuing to advance firmware updating on Linux systems…

Big news for Rockchip users: Upstream Linux now supports VDPU381 and VDPU383 hardware decode! This brings mainline H.264/HEVC acceleration, improved IOMMU-reset recovery, and new HEVC V4L2 controls that work with Vulkan Video.

AlmaLinux as one of the leading, modern and community-minded alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) continues enjoying very nice growth. In their 2025 Year In Review they provided a look at their growth with now having more than two million systems per week checking in for software updates…

Building off January’s GStreamer 1.28 release with many new features, GStreamer 1.28.1 was released today as a point release bringing various fixes and minor additions to this open-source multimedia framework…

In this article, you will learn how to use the uname command and its options to print kernel, hardware, and operating system information.

Anthropic fixed the flaws – but the AI-enabled attack surfaces remainSecurity vulnerabilities in Claude Code could have allowed attackers to remotely execute code on users’ machines and steal API keys by injecting malicious configurations into repositories, and then waiting for a developer to clone and open an untrustworthy project.…

A root or normal user can easily switch to another user account using the su command if they know their current or another user’s password.

Manjaro-based Mabox Linux 26.02 introduces a new W-a audio menu, a fully rewritten Cava Colorizer module, fixes for screen recording, and more.

Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in with a new open source build toolA Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic’s Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens.…

Following the Firefox 148 release with the new AI controls, Mozilla promoted Firefox 149 to beta today…

The b4 tool used for managing patch workflows to the Linux kernel has been seeing a lot of work recently on b4 review as the text user interface (TUI) to help expedite the patch review process for the Linux kernel. The b4 review TUI has been integrating AI agent code review helpers powered by the likes of Claude Code too for trying to help enhance the efficiency for Linux kernel patch reviews. That b4 review work is quickly approaching a pre-alpha state…

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: New flags for clone3(); Discord replacements; virtual swap spaces; BPF memory protection keys; PostgreSQL’s lessons in attracting contributors; 7.0 merge window; Network Time Security.
• Briefs: OpenSUSE governance; Firefox 148.0; GNU Awk 5.4.0; GNU Octave 11.1.0; Rust in Ladybird; LibreOffice Online; Weston 15.0; RIP Robert Kaye; Quotes; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

People who have long defamed Richard Stallman (RMS) do not want us to have computer security, so they brand back doors “security”.

Following the release of Firefox 148, the Mozilla Thunderbird open-source email, news, chat, calendar, and addressbook client has been updated today to version 148.

Greg Kroah-Hartman today extended the planned maintenance periods of the latest Linux 6.18, Linux 6.12, and Linux 6.6 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel series…