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Arch has evidently stopped new AUR registrations for the time being while maintainers scrub malware and users debate how to harden the popular community repository.

The Btrfs file-system feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel with a few noteworthy changes for this copy-on-write file-system...

Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.10 today as the fifth maintenance update to the latest VirtualBox 7.2 series of their open-source, free, and cross-platform virtualization software for Linux, Solaris, macOS, and Windows.

It's been a while since there has been any Slackware news to pass along, but this week they've finally landed the KDE Plasma 6 desktop in this legendary Linux distribution...

The openSUSE Project released Agama 22 today as the latest stable version of this web-based installer for openSUSE Tumbleweed, Slowroll, and MicroOS, introducing several new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

There is no shortage of different file-systems available for Linux. New file-systems continue to come about in the open-source world but ultimately many of them end up not being well maintained or having very limited users and not necessarily innovating enough to make them worthwhile over other alternatives. Given the continued increase in file-systems looking to get into the Linux kernel, such as FTRFS and VMUFAT being some of the most recent and then even having multiple NTFS drivers for Linux, there is now documentation in place to formally lay out criteria for new file-systems to be accepted...

Commodore’s new Sailfish OS flip phone blocks browsers, social media, email, and work apps by design, with pricing starting at $499.

Merged as part of the many VFS changes for Linux 7.2 is the new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag for the openat2 system call. This can be used to limit programs to only open regular file-systems and avoid accidentally or intentionally opening up device files or other non-conventional data files on the file-system...

ARK Electronics has recently featured the ARK Just A Pi, a compact carrier board for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. The board provides USB, Ethernet, CSI camera, UART, PCIe, HDMI, and GPIO connectivity in a small form factor intended for integration with autopilot and embedded systems. ARK describes the board as a same-form-factor carrier […]

KDE Plasma 6.7 is now available, bringing per-screen virtual desktops, improved printing, new theming work, and performance enhancements.

The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.7 as the latest stable version of this popular graphical desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems that introduces numerous new features and improvements.

AI coding agents such as Claude code or Codex get more capable every month. This is great for productivity, but approving all commands gets annoying really quickly. On the other hand, allowing agents to run any command on your work machine is not a great idea. They are really good at exploring your production cluster […]

EasyOS is a unique Linux distribution and there is a lot of online documentation; however, seeing the features demonstrated, in simple small steps, may be very helpful. Hence we have started this video series. The first has been uploaded.

Orange Pi has revealed new details for the Orange Pi 6, a compact single-board computer built around the CIX CD8180 processor, also known as the CIX P1. Compared with the previously previewed Orange Pi 6 Plus, the standard model uses a smaller 90 × 90 mm form factor with dual 2.5GbE networking, up to 24GB […]

Arch Linux’s AUR is still operational, while new account registration appears blocked during ongoing cleanup work.

The newest open-source project out of Intel is the Intel Performance Skills project that is providing AI agent skills to help with CPU performance analysis and performance optimizations on Linux...

The GNU Linux-libre project announced today the release and general availability of the GNU Linux-libre 7.1 kernel for those who seek 100% freedom for their GNU/Linux computers and software freedom lovers.

In addition to the surprising impact of /proc/filesystems read optimizations for Linux 7.2, another one of the VFS pull requests for this next kernel version is delivering some nice improvements for EXT4 and XFS around IOmap, the framework that maps file data offsets in memory to their physical locations on storage...

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2 promises better web compatibility with Morph Browser, moving from Chromium 87 to Chromium 134.

Earmarked donations let GNOME fund two fellows to modernize Files (Nautilus), improve tooling, and bolster project-level governance.