Red Hat's Lightwell Doesn't Wait for Upstream Maintainers to Act
A status update shows it clearing 400 vulnerabilities from Java libraries and a key service now being generally available.
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Siemens Abruptly Takes Down OpenRadioss, But a Fork is Already Live
Another reminder of why open source saves software from being lost forever.
Ubuntu 26.10 Will Have a Rust-based GnuPG Replacement
The Rust-based OpenPGP tool lands in Ubuntu 26.10's main archive, with sq and sqv available alongside gpg and gpgv.
DigitalOcean Quietly Ends Open Source Credits Program
Some project maintainers have received emails that they will no longer get any more free credits from Digital Ocean.
YT-DLP is Being Treated as a Piracy Tool By The IFPI
Their submission to the EU's piracy watchlist places the open source tool in the same category as illegal downloading websites.
F-Droid's New App Shows it Isn't Going Anywhere
The Compose-based 2.0 app release marks the largest update in the storefront's history.
Microsoft Has Made WSL Containers Available to Everyone
Previously in public preview, it now offers new commands, Consommé networking, and Intune registry controls.
The Netherlands Picked NixOS. France Was Already Using It
France’s digital agency has been using NixOS on internal workstations for months through Sécurix, its open-source, security-hardened configuration.
openSUSE Leap is The Immutable Distro Now, Leap Micro is Out
Starting with Leap 16.1, the separate immutable flavor will cease to exist.
Firefox in a New Skin! Nova Redesign Has Become The Default
Six months after the mockups leaked, the Firefox 157 release is the one that got it done.
postmarketOS is No More, At Least Under That Name
It took the project 1.5 years before settling on 'Nura' as its new identity.
GhostBSD is Replacing MATE With a New Desktop Named After a Typo
Eric Turgeon has shown off a new desktop environment that would ship with custom components in GhostBSD.
AlmaLinux Puts Software Certification in the Hands of Users
You can now certify the machine you already own and check the public catalog to see what else is validated.
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.
This Tiny SBC Lets You Swap Interface Modules for Voice, Vision or Sensing
Vicharak's Axon-Lite packs a Rockchip RK3576, a 6 TOPS NPU and swappable modules into a tiny SBC.
How openEuler Is Reinventing the OS Foundation for the AI Era with SuperPoD and UnifiedBus
openEuler 24.03 LTS SP3 is the first version built for SuperPoD, and the project says its UnifiedBus interconnect can lift application performance by 30 to 50 percent.
Ubuntu is Tightening its Kernel SRU Cycle to Two Weeks, and Clankers Are to Blame
Ubuntu users will get kernel security fixes faster thanks to this.
Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon X2 Linux Developer Preview
They have put out an early developer preview for Snapdragon X2 laptops, with Debian 13 as the reference environment.
openKylin 3.0 Release Makes it a "AI first" Linux Desktop
The built-in skills allow you to control and change system settings via AI agent. Is this the beginning of AI assistant for desktop computers?
Distro With an Expiry Date? Gravity Linux is a New Distro for Apple Silicon
Its first alpha targets the M4 Mac mini and runs on a Fedora base, with all driver work aimed at the upstream Linux kernel.
PeppermintOS Is Moving From Xorg to XLibre to Avoid Wayland
The lightweight distro will ship the XLibre display server in its upcoming Debian and Devuan ISO refreshes, and it says it has no plans to switch to Wayland for the foreseeable future.
Organizations Are Now Reaching for OpenSearch for AI, Not Just Search
The 2026 Open Data Infrastructure Report finds 62% of current users already run OpenSearch for AI workloads.
Signal Will Let You Sign Up Without a Phone Number — For $3
The feature is currently in testing on Android, with iOS support still a bit far away.
18 Programming eBooks, 1 Bundle, and Your Purchase Also Fights Surveillance
DRM-free ebooks on programming from the prestigious No Starch Press. Part of your purchase gets donated to EFF.
