Your Linux system may be bloated with lots of services that run in the background. Here’s how to make Linux boot faster by disabling unnecessary services.

Earlier this week Rust Coreutils 0.6 released while out today is GNU Coreutils 9.10 as the de facto standard for this set of core utilities on Linux systems and other platforms…

Following December’s release of COSMIC Epoch 1 along with the Pop!_OS 24.04 release by System76, today they shared more of their feature plans for the next two major COSMIC desktop updates…

Ahead of the imminent GNOME 50 beta release, the GNOME Shell and Mutter components have declared their “50.beta” releases to ship the latest bug fixes, memory leak fixes, and some last minute improvements ahead of the stable release in March…

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Sigil; Eurydice; Sub-schedulers for sched_ext; Swap table; Futex robust lists; Tyr.
• Briefs: openSUSE governance; Git 2.53.0; LibreOffice 26.2; Open Source Award; Quotes; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 26.2 today as a major update for this open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

The virtual Richard M. Stallman (vrms) concept lives on, helping Linux users identify non-free software via license audits.

Eric Engestrom is out with another on-time Mesa release. Mesa 26.0-rc3 provides the latest week’s worth of bug fixes as we work toward the stable Mesa 26.0 release as soon as next week…

In recent months Intel Linux engineers have been quite active in preparing for next-gen Nova Lake processors. That work has included initial Xe3P graphics support and enabling display support and related display/graphics functionality. The newest now is enabling Nova Lake P including the Xe3P_LPG graphics support…

While link-time optimizations “LTO” can deliver some nice performance benefits out of this compiler optimization technique, it can make debugging said binaries more challenging. Due to various bugs in Mesa being attributed to the use of compiler link-time optimizations when compiling Mesa, the builds are being blocked on using LTO…

The robust
futex kernel API is a way for a user-space program to ensure that the
locks it holds are properly cleaned up when it exits. But the API suffers
from a number of different problems, as André Almeida described in a session in the
“Gaming on
Linux” microconference at the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo.
He had some ideas for a new API that would solve many of those problems,
which he wanted to discuss with attendees; there is a
difficult-to-trigger race condition that he wanted to talk about too.

Follow this walkthrough to set up Censor from Flathub and use it to remove sensitive information from your PDFs.

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With GIMP 3.2 releasing soon, GIMP developer Ondřej Míchal presented at FOSDEM 2026 this past weekend on some of the feature work being eyed for post-3.2 developments…

Versions installed via Snap don’t delete files when users empty system trashLinux users who installed Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code as a Snap package may want to check to see whether files they sent to the trash with the app have actually been deleted.…

Creating an ebook in EPUB format is easy,
for certain values of “easy”. All one really needs
is a text editor, a few command-line utilities; also needed is a working
knowledge of XHTML, CSS, along with an understanding of the format’s
structure and required boilerplate. Creating
a well-formatted and attractive ebook is a bit harder. However, it can be
made easier with an application custom-made for the purpose. Sigil is an EPUB editor that
provides the tooling authors and publishers may be looking for.

Version 26.2 of the LibreOffice
office suite has been released.

LibreOffice 26.2 is focused on improvements that make a difference in daily work and brings better performance, smoother interaction with complex documents and improved compatibility with files created in other office software. Whether you’re writing reports, managing spreadsheets, or preparing presentations, the experience feels more responsive and reliable.

LibreOffice has always been about giving users control. LibreOffice 26.2 continues that tradition by strengthening support for open document standards, and ensuring long-term access to your files, without subscriptions, license restrictions, or data collection. Your documents stay yours – forever.

More information can be found in the release notes
for LibreOffice 26.2.

While Vulkan Video is a cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode and decode API that is beginning to gain traction by multimedia applications and frameworks, the Intel “ANV” open-source Vulkan driver has for now taken a step-back on its encode support with newer hardware. Newer Intel graphics hardware is seeing Vulkan Video encode support disabled due to insufficient testing…

Fish Shell 4.4 introduces Vim-aligned word movements, operator counts, new color themes, and multiple interactive improvements.

LibreOffice 26.2 is now officially released as the newest half-year update to this leading open-source and cross-platform free software office suite…

A one-line patch to the HP WMI x86 platform driver for Linux was posted for allowing the HP OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-fb1xxx to correctly hit its rated TDP limit for allowing better performance outside of the Microsoft Windows confines…