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The Netherlands Built a Nix-Based Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC

Eight municipalities are already testing DAWO, the government's NixOS-powered work environment.

ARCTIC Launches Its New Fan Controller That Already Has Mainline Linux Support

In over 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and testing at Phoronix, I have never been more excited for a fan controller..

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Windows Drops Under 60% in Global Desktop OS Share for the First Time in Years

StatCounter’s June 2026 report shows Linux at one of its strongest recent positions, while Windows falls to 56.55%.

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Tails 7.10 Anonymous OS Released with Improved Data-Loss Protection

Tails 7.10 adopts GNOME’s standard shutdown process, replaces GNOME Videos with Celluloid, and updates Tor Browser.

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Microsoft settles centuries of religious debate by providing clearest definition of hell to date: Windows with a website-based shell running only Copilot – OSnews

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SQLite Critical CVEs or LLM Slop? (JFrog blog)

The JFrog blog examines some reported vulnerabilities in SQLite, some of which made their way i [...]

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Hyprland 0.56.1 Released with Monitor Rotation and Mirroring Fixes

Hyprland 0.56.1 is a maintenance update addressing monitor regressions, window-rule leaks, input capture, rendering, and more.

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Ubuntu 26.04 virtualization HWE stack offers newer QEMU & libvirt

Ubuntu's hardware enablement (HWE) effort has expanded to include backports of newer virtualisation tech to users of the current LTS release.

Starling: A New Linux Desktop Written In Swift, Own Wayland Compositor & Written With AI

There's yet another new open-source desktop option for Linux users in the era of new open-source projects largely written via AI/LLMs

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Why Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is hiding your update notifications

If Ubuntu 26.04 LTS hasn't nagged you about pending updates in a while, there's a reason for that. A Launchpad bug report and related discussion on the

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A Linux Hardware Maker is Convincing Colorado to Leave Open Source Alone

After months of advocacy, Colorado's age verification bill is set for an amendment to exclude open source.

New Debian Project Leader Elected For 2026

Sruthi Chandran has been elected the new Debian Project Leader 'DPL' after running unopposed in this year's elections.

GhostBSD 26.1 Now Based On FreeBSD 15.0, Switches to XLibre X Server

GhostBSD 26.1-R15.0p2 released today as a big upgrade for this desktop-focused, BSD operating system derived from FreeBSD.

DistroWatch.com: GhostBSD

News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.

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Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]

FOSS Force

The PHP License Is Dead; Long Live the BSD 3-Clause - FOSS Force

The PHP Group retires its quirky, and partly non‑GPL‑compatible licenses in favor of the widely used BSD 3‑Clause.

Linux 7.1 Adds New AMD SMCA Bank Types, Presumably For Upcoming EPYC Venice

The AMD Machine Check Exception 'mce_amd' driver as part of the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem is introducing support for new SMCA bank types on AMD platforms

Intel Drivers With Mesa 26.2 Ready With Xe In Linux 7.1 To Better Handle vRAM Pressure

Merged to the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver with Linux 7.1 is an addition to improve the video RAM memory pressure or out-of-memory behavior for Intel graphics with dedicated video memory

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Auto-cpufreq 3.1 Adds GUI Monitoring and Bluetooth Controls

The Linux power management tool expands its graphical interface with monitoring mode, Bluetooth controls, and improved Lenovo laptop support.

Flock 2026 Afterburn: a retrospective - Fedora Magazine

Explore the Flock 2026 retrospective. Discover how the Fedora conference in Prague united contributors and strengthened community bonds.

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Best Password Managers for Linux in 2026

We compared password managers with real Linux apps, from Bitwarden to self-hosted Vaultwarden. See features, pricing, and honest pros and cons.

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Fooyin 0.12 Music Player Adds Audio Conversion and New Visualizations

Fooyin 0.12 introduces built-in audio conversion, PulseAudio output support, and new Spectrogram, Oscilloscope, and projectM visualizations.

ARCTIC Launches Its New Fan Controller That Already Has Mainline Linux Support

In over 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and testing at Phoronix, I have never been more excited for a fan controller..

LWN.net

A report from Debian's new DFSG team

The DFSG, Licensing & New Packages Team (usually shortened to 'DFSG team') was created in O [...]

FOSS Force

Another German State Swaps Microsoft for ‘Born in the EU’ Open Source - FOSS Force

Digital sovereignty is no longer just a slogan: German states, Austrian ministries and French agencies are getting on the bandwagon.

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Apple wants to kill your Time Capsule, but they run NetBSD so they can’t – OSnews

Nginx Dark Mode Support For Error Pages Remains Elusive

In early 2025 I wrote about the upstream Nginx web server rejecting dark mode support for its error pages on the basis of wanting to keep the default error pages simple and developers arguing the extra HTML tag for the dark mode styling as superfluous

Linux Dealing With Apple's Wild Mess Of Sensors On Apple Silicon SoCs

While there has been the Apple System Management Controller 'SMC' hardware monitoring driver with the intent on exposing battery/power stats as well as thermal and more for Apple Silicon SoCs on Linux, it hasn't yet been working out properly on the mainline kernel

BFS File-System Being Removed For Linux 7.4

The latest upstream file-system to be removed from the mainline Linux kernel is..