The NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.15 was released overnight as this VA-API driver implementation built atop NVIDIA’s NVDEC interface used by their proprietary user-space driver stack. The purpose of NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver as this community open-source project continues to be around enabling video acceleration for NVIDIA GPUs with the Firefox web browser on Linux that supports the VA-API interface but not NVIDIA’s NVDEC…

OPNsense 26.1 open-source firewall and routing platform boosts security with threat intelligence, host discovery, and clearer real-time firewall visibility.

Let’s understand the “A stop job is running” Linux shutdown message, the reason behind it, and how to reduce the Systemd timeout safely.

Sun Microsystems began developing gettext in the early 1990s and the GNU Project began GNU gettext development in 1995 for this widely-used internationalization and localization system commonly for multi-lingual integration. While GNU gettext is commonly used by countless open-source projects and adapted for many different programming languages, only an hour ago was GNU gettext 1.0 finally released…

The device is designed as an open system for rapid deployment of vision, audio, and AIoT applications, aimed at researchers, and developers requiring more capable on-device inference and improved image quality than typical DIY camera setups. MaixCAM2 is built around an Axera AX630-series SoC with dual Arm Cortex-A53 cores running Linux, paired with a small […]

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: PostmarketOS; LKRG 1.0; Fedora elections; EROFS, NTFS, and XFS; Fedora and GPG 2.5; BPF kfuncs.
• Briefs: curl bounties; GPG security; Guix 1.5.0; ReactOS turns 30; glibc 2.43; Rust 1.93; Xfwl4; Quotes; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Krita 5.2.15, a free and open-source digital painting app, is out with crash fixes, improved tablet handling, and stability improvements for everyday creative work.

Wasmer 7.0 is out today for this WebAssembly “WASM” run-time for enabling lightweight containers that can run “anywhere” from the desktop to cloud and the edge. The security-minded and extensible WASM runtime provided by Wasmer has already proven to be quite robust while with Wasmer 7.0 has become even more featureful…

The upcoming release of GNOME 50 to be found in the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 will feature improved discrete GPU detection within the GNOME Shell. This effort has been two years coming and finally merged this week…

Transmission 4.1 has been released today as a major update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform BitTorrent client that features GTK and Qt-based interfaces, a headless daemon, and a web UI.

We have received the sad news that Didier Spaier, maintainer of the
blind-friendly Slackware-based Slint distribution, has recently passed
away. Philippe Delavalade, who posted the announcement to the
Slint mailing list, said:

Early 2015, I asked on the slackware list if brltty could be added
in the installer; Didier answered promptly that he could do it on
slint. Afterwards, he worked hard so that slint became as accessible
as possible for visually impaired people.

You all know that all these years, he tried and succeeded to answer
as quickly as possible to our issues and questions.

He will be irreplaceable.

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has announced
that it will not be holding the 2026 spring board election. Instead,
it will be creating a working group to “review and improve OSI’s
board member selection process” and provide recommendations by
September 2026:

The public election process was designed to gather community
priorities and improve board member selection, while final
appointments remained with the board.

Over time, that nuance has become a source of understandable
confusion for community members. Many reasonably expected elections to
function as elections normally do, and in fact, the board has
generally adopted the electorate’s recommendations. When a process
feels unclear, trust suffers. When trust suffers, engagement becomes
harder. This is especially problematic for an organization whose
mission depends on legitimacy and credibility. […]

OSI tried its experiment for the right reasons, but a variety of
factors resulted in “elections” that are performatively democratic
while being gameable and representative of only a small group, and
we’ve learned from the results. Now we are making space to align our
director selection process with our bylaws, to rebuild trust, and to
develop better, more durable and truly representative participation in
which the global stakeholder community can be heard.

LWN covered the
previous OSI election in March 2025.

Following last week’s code branching / feature freeze and first release candidate of Mesa 26.0, Mesa 26.0-rc2 is now available with an initial batch of bug fixes for this quarter’s feature update to these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers…

Xfce says the first development release of its new Wayland compositor xfwl4 is expected around mid-2026, with work already underway.

Phones running Linux are ubiquitous these days and it has been that way
since Android started working toward dominance in the smartphone market.
Unfortunately, Android has slowly increased its freedom-unfriendliness and
has become something of a privacy nightmare. In a talk entitled “We need
an open-source phone OS” at Open
Source Summit Japan 2025, Luca Weiss described the smartphone landscape
and gave an overview of postmarketOS as an alternative Linux
operating system for mobile handsets.

Lotti is an open‑source journal and life manager that aims to integrate tasks, notes, and local AI without relying on the cloud.

The post An Ambitious Life Manager That Tries to Do It All… and Almost Succeeds appeared first on FOSS Force.

The widely-used FreeType library used for rendering text onto bitmaps has landed a significant optimization for its LCD filtering code path for Microsoft ClearType-like rendering. Thanks to the improvement, the rendering can be around 40% faster…

Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers unveiled today the Intel variant of the InfinityBook Max 15 Linux-powered laptop, which was previously only available for purchase with an AMD processor.

Ahead of tomorrow’s official availability of the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D at $499 USD, today the review embargo lifted. This faster variant to the existing Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been undergoing lots of Linux benchmarking the past two weeks for seeing the performance capabilities of this fastest 8-core 3D V-Cache processor.

In light of Plasma 6.8 looking to go Wayland-exclusive and retire their X11 session support, SonicDE (formerly “KDE-Lite”) is getting off the ground as a fork of the relevant X11 support within the KDE desktop…