- Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Improvements For Running On Real Hardware7 May 2026, 12:22 am
Redox OS is out with its status report for April 2026. During the past month this open-source, Rust-based operating system written from scratch has seen improvements for running on real hardware as well as a wide variety of other improvements for bettering this original OS project...... 
- D7VK 1.9 Brings Some Hefty Performance Improvements6 May 2026, 11:43 pm
D7VK continues advancing for this Vulkan-based implementation of Direct3D 7 that also supports D3D 6 / 5 / 3 APIs too for vintage games ultimately rendered using the modern Vulkan API......
- Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers6 May 2026, 8:03 pm
Eric Engestrom just announced another timely feature release of the Mesa drivers. Mesa 26.1 is out today for this collection of predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for a variety of hardware as well as the likes of Rusticl for OpenCL, Zink for OpenGL-on-Vulkan, various Windows acceleration components, and more......
- PCIe 8.0 Spec Draft 0.5 Released For 1TB/s Bi-Directional x16 Bandwidth6 May 2026, 7:53 pm
The PCI-SIG today held a briefing around PCIe 8.0 that follows the PCIe 7.0 specification that was released to members last June......
- Linux 7.2 To Integrate The AMDGPU "Power Module" To Better Align With Windows6 May 2026, 5:30 pm
Sent out today was a batch of "new stuff" for the AMDGPU graphics and AMDKFD compute kernel drivers that are ready for DRM-Next to queue until the Linux 7.2 merge window happens in June. Most notable is the introduction of the AMDGPU DC power module to better align with the Radeon power management behavior under Microsoft Windows......
- Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance6 May 2026, 4:00 pm
When having the HP Z6 G5 A workstation in the lab for benchmarking, one of the curiosity-driven tests was seeing how well the latest open-source and upstream Nouveau driver stack is competing against the latest official NVIDIA R595 driver for workstations. The official NVIDIA Linux driver stack remains the best positioned software solution for RTX (PRO) hardware but Nouveau continues evolving while awaiting the Nova kernel driver to reach the limelight....
- Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Now Supports Device Generated Commands "DGC"6 May 2026, 1:53 pm
Exciting yesterday in the land of Intel's open-source Vulkan driver "ANV" for Linux systems was introducing experimental support for descriptor heaps with the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. Today there is another separate exciting development for this open-source Intel driver: Vulkan device generated commands are finally merged!.....
- Vulkan SC SDK Released For Safety-Critical Graphics / Compute6 May 2026, 1:22 pm
Yesterday was the OpenCL 3.1 release and today is another exciting development for The Khronos Group standards: the debut of the Vulkan SC SDK for safety-critical applications......
- Dell & Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service6 May 2026, 1:10 pm
Dell and Lenovo have stepped up to become premier sponsors for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) that provides for seamless system firmware and device/component firmware updating under Linux with the Fwupd client......
- VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 Brings More Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan6 May 2026, 12:30 pm
Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux graphics driver team announced the release today of VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 for Direct3D 12 over the Vulkan API......
- [$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 7, 20267 May 2026, 12:01 am
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:
Front: LLMs and security; restartable sequences and TCMalloc; Fedora and GNOME bug reports; Prolly trees; Arm on s390.
Briefs: NHS open source; Alpine outage; GCC 16.1; Incus 7.0 LTS; NetHack 5.0.0; PHP license; Quotes; ...
Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
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- [$] LLM-driven security reports disrupt coordinated disclosure6 May 2026, 2:56 pm
Predictions that LLM tools would cause a surge in reports of security vulnerabilities
have, unquestionably, borne out. As expected, maintainers are having to wade
through more security reports than ever before; in addition, LLM tools are
disrupting traditional-coordinated disclosure practices as well. The method of Copy Fail's disclosure, in particular, left
vendors, projects, and users scrambling. In addition, maintainers are seeing
parallel discovery of the same security flaws within the embar...
- Incus 7.0 LTS released6 May 2026, 1:53 pm
Version
7.0 of the Incus container and
virtual-machine management system has been released. Notable changes in this
release include the inclusion of a low-level backup API, the addition
of basic S3 operations directly in Incus to replace the now-unmaintained
MinIO project, as well as the removal of support for
cgroups v1 and xtables (iptables/ip6tables/ebtables). This is a
long-term-support (LTS) release, with support through June 2031.
The first 2 years will feature bug and security fixes as ...
- Security updates for Wednesday6 May 2026, 1:05 pm
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (corosync, dovecot, image-builder, python-tornado, resource-agents, and systemd), Debian (openjdk-11, openjdk-17, and pyjwt), Fedora (pdns, pyOpenSSL, and squid), Slackware (hunspell), SUSE (alloy, avahi, bubblewrap, cmctl, coredns, curl, dpkg, firefox, golang-github-prometheus-prometheus, grafana, libpng12, PackageKit, sed, and xen), and Ubuntu (docker.io-app, nghttp2, python-django, and python-mako)....
- [$] Hardware-assisted Arm VMs for s3905 May 2026, 2:52 pm
A recent
patch set from Steffen Eiden and others has set the groundwork for allowing
hardware-assisted emulation of Arm CPUs on s390 CPUs.
Version two of the posting fixes a handful of smaller problems, but does not
differ much.
The patches were welcomed
by the Arm maintainers, pending some discussion of how the collaboration between the
architectures could be structured to prevent maintainability problems on the Arm
side. When those details are resolved, the patches could pave the way for
tr...
- Security updates for Tuesday5 May 2026, 1:14 pm
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (kernel, kernel-rt, libcap, LibRaw, openssh, thunderbird, and tigervnc), Debian (libarchive and lxd), Fedora (chromium, insight, nodejs20, rust-sequoia-git, and uriparser), Mageia (kernel, kmod-virtualbox), Oracle (kernel, libcap, thunderbird, and uek-kernel), Red Hat (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, fence-agents, sudo, and systemd), Slackware (httpd), SUSE (freerdp, hauler, helm, himmelblau, kernel, libspectre, thunderbird, trivy, and xen), and Ubun...
- The retirement of the PHP license5 May 2026, 11:27 am
The PHP project has long shipped under its own license — except for
the parts under the Zend Engine License. The PHP project has now announced
that the PHP license has been retired, and the PHP code has been relicensed
under the three-clause BSD license. See this
blog entry for more details.
Getting here required more than writing an
RFC. The PHP License gives the PHP Group the authority to
change it, which meant tracking down each of the original PHP Group
members and getting their wr...
- Alpine Linux systems currently offline4 May 2026, 3:20 pm
The Alpine Linux account on fosstodon.org reports
that all systems hosted at Linode, including its GitLab instance,
"are suspended at the moment due to some billing issue". They
are working to get it resolved, but in the meantime all of their
services appear to be down.
Update: Alpine Linux's servers are back online.
...
- [$] Bug-monitoring expectations and Fedora GNOME packages4 May 2026, 2:59 pm
For a number of years, users submitting bugs reports against GNOME packages in Fedora have
received an auto-reply saying that the reports were not actively
monitored; users were encouraged to file bugs with GNOME upstream instead. However,
that practice seems to be in conflict with the Fedora Engineering Steering
Committee (FESCo) policy
that package maintainers "deal with reported bugs in a timely manner". On
April 28, FESCo discussed the disconnect between practice and policy; so far,
it has o...
- NetHack 5.0.0 released4 May 2026, 2:58 pm
Version 5.0.0
of the NetHack
dungeon-exploration game, a distant relative of Rogue and
Hack, has been released. NetHack's code is now compliant with the
C99 standard, and the release includes more than 3,100
bug fixes and changes, detailed in doc/fixes5-0-0.txt
(may contain game spoilers). Saved games from previous versions will
not work with NetHack 5.0.0....
- LibreOffice Questions Whether Euro-Office is Truly Sovereign7 May 2026, 2:42 am
Makes us wonder how things will turn out in the end....
- Should You Be Worried About The Copy Fail Linux Exploit?6 May 2026, 6:03 am
It's been patched, but cloud and container users should update sooner than later....
- Go Away Microsoft! The Netherlands is Quietly Building Its Own GitHub Replacement6 May 2026, 4:44 am
The self-hosted, FOSS-only platform is still in the pilot phase, but government agencies are already signing up....
- Typical Microsoft! Turns Out VS Code Was Adding Copilot as a Git Co-Author Without Telling Anyone5 May 2026, 10:35 am
Microsoft reversed the change after developers found the AI attribution line appearing even with Copilot disabled....
- A Free Open Source Mobile Dev Hackathon is Coming to the Netherlands on May 164 May 2026, 1:27 pm
OS-SCi's Lomiri Tech Meeting includes keynotes, free books, and a new bounty program reveal....
- What Are Linux Mint HWE ISOs and Do You Actually Need One?4 May 2026, 12:17 pm
These images ship with a newer kernel, and they exist for a good reason....
- Ubuntu’s Official Flavour List Is Shrinking, And That’s Not a Bad Thing2 May 2026, 3:32 pm
There are fewer official flavors with 26.04 LTS version. Is it alarming?...
- Microsoft Marks 45 Years of DOS by Open-Sourcing Its Oldest-Known Source Code30 April 2026, 3:43 pm
Tim Paterson's 1981 assembler printouts are now transcribed, compilable, and MIT-licensed....
- FOSS Weekly #26.18: Ubuntu's AI Move, New Entry in Home Directory, New Ubuntu Terminal, Fedora 44 Release and More Linux Stuff30 April 2026, 1:07 pm
Fedora 44 is here and so is a new standard directory under Home....
- 7 Features I Like in Ptyxis (The New Default Ubuntu Terminal)30 April 2026, 12:33 pm
After using it for a while, I understood why Ubntu and Fedora opted for Ptyxis as their new default terminal....
- Ubuntu’s old Unity desktop remade in Wayfire and Libadwaita6 May 2026, 10:31 pm
If Canonical hadn’t burned through cash and goodwill during its smartphone detour in the mid-2010s, Ubuntu would likely still ship with the Unity desktop today – albeit in an evolved form. What would that form actually look like? Well, you don’t have to shut your eyes and imagine, thanks to Ubuntu community member Muqtxdir, who’s experiment in “re-building ubuntu’s unity shell in a wayfire session through gtk4-layer-shell and libadwaita widgetry” (sic) gives us a sideways glimpse. ...
- Orion for Linux adds a content blocker and download manager5 May 2026, 7:36 pm
A new beta build of Orion for Linux is available, with the v0.3 update ready for ‘broader, real-world use and feedback’, according to Kagi, the company behind it. Orion for Linux is a native GTK4/libadwaita web browser powered by WebKitGTK, aiming for feature parity with established macOS version (platform-specific features notwithstanding). It launched an alpha in early 2026 and an initial beta in March. In the months since the last beta, Kagi say Orion for Linux has “evolved into a much ...
- gThumb is barely recognisable in its GTK4/libadwaita port3 May 2026, 2:25 pm
gThumb, the open-source image viewer and organiser, has been rewritten in Vala and ported to GTK4/libadwaita – and compared to the old UI, it’s barely recognisable. An alpha build of gThumb 4.0 is available for testing. Alongside the visual revamp, this brings support for WEBP and PNG animations, lets you export images in the JXL format and includes a censor filter to pixelate or blur out parts of an image. But it’s the visual changes that mark this update out. Sure, any port from GTK3 to ...
- Attack knocks Ubuntu websites, services and Snap store offline1 May 2026, 7:54 am
If you’re having trouble accessing the Ubuntu website, the Snap store or Launchpad then you’re not alone: Canonical’s websites are currently facing a “sustained, cross-border” attack. The company says it is “working to address” the attack and will provide more details shortly. Websites and services have been affected since around 6PM (UK time) 30 April. What is and isn’t affected right now The Ubuntu APT repos are not offline, as they’re mirrored across multiple locations, coun...
- Linux App Release Roundup (April 2026)1 May 2026, 3:18 am
April 2026 has been and gone, but not before delivering an array of Linux software updates, including new versions of popular FOSS video editor Kdenlive and Oracle’s virtualisation offering VirtualBox. We also got Firefox 150 with GTK emoji picker support and split tab improvements, and a modest bug fix update to the GIMP image editor, albeit resolving an annoying on-canvas text tool quirk. Below, I list other notable Linux app releases to arrive in April. While these didn’t merit a dedicate...
- Linux Mint’s new HWE ISOs improve hardware support30 April 2026, 7:50 pm
Linux Mint’s switch to a longer development cycle – the next release is coming at Christmas – has a knock on effect for people trying to install it on newer hardware that requires a newer kernel. So, a solution has been found. A new set of ISO images dubbed HWE (Hardware Enablement have been published to “address compatibility issues with brand new hardware”, says Linux Mint project lead Clement Lefebvre. The new Linux 22.3 HWE image contains the Linux 6.17 kernel. The team will, from ...
- Someone got Ubuntu running on a PS5 – and played Steam30 April 2026, 2:37 am
A newly launched project lets you boot Ubuntu on a PlayStation 5 to play Steam games, though only if your console is on old enough firmware. The hack is the work of security engineer Andy Nguyen, who this week announced a public release of his ps5-linux-boot project so more people can turn their “…PS5 Phat console on 3.xx and 4.xx [Firmware] into a fully functional Linux PC gaming device”. Obviously, this is all unofficial. The project exploits a patched hypervisor vulnerability to give L...
- Enabling Ubuntu Pro in Security Center is super easy29 April 2026, 9:59 pm
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS dropped the Software & Updates utility from default installs and added Ubuntu Pro settings to the Security Center app. But is the setup experience any better? The short answer is yes, mostly. The range of options still mirrors what was found in the old Software & Updates > Ubuntu Pro tab, but the layout is less cramped, with more room for concise explanations of what each setting and toggle does. Ubuntu Pro is free for personal use on up-to five devices. A paid s...
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS security support has ended – unless you pay28 April 2026, 2:53 pm
If you’re still running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), heads up: Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) ended this month and your system is no longer receiving security updates. Having debuted in April 2016, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS received five years of standard support with a further 5 years of security coverage available through ESM by enabling Ubuntu Pro. ESM for 16.04 ended April 2026, meaning action is needed to stay protected. The most straightforward thing to do is to upgrade to a more recent ...
- Canonical is ‘ramping up’ AI in Ubuntu this year27 April 2026, 2:10 pm
AI features are coming to Ubuntu in 2026, though Canonical has made clear that the distro is not becoming an AI product. In a community post, Jon Seager, VP of engineering at Canonical, says the company is “ramping up its use of AI tools in a focused and principled manner” this year, with a bias toward local inference and open-weight models whose licence terms match Canonical’s values. AI features in Ubuntu will take one of two forms. Implicit features improve existing capabilities using o...
- Mesa 26.1 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New6 May 2026, 9:10 pm
Mesa 26.1 open-source graphics stack is now available for download with new features and improvements across all supported drivers. Here’s what’s new!...
- Videos: Recent Shows and Clips About GNU/Linux6 May 2026, 7:13 pm
Relayed via Invidious...
- Inkscape 1.4.4 SVG Editor Released with a New Palette, Performance Improvements6 May 2026, 5:48 pm
Inkscape 1.4.4 open-source SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editor is now available for download with a new palette, performance improvements,and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!...
- Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers6 May 2026, 2:29 pm
Freedom focus today...
- Web Related News and Frameworks (Including RSS Raves)6 May 2026, 2:28 pm
WWW centric news...
- GNU/Linux Leftovers6 May 2026, 2:27 pm
GNU/Linux picks...
- Updates on Development of EasyOS (Operating Systems Like Puppy)6 May 2026, 2:25 pm
a couple of BK posts...
- Programming Leftovers6 May 2026, 2:24 pm
Development picks...
- Games: RPCS3 on PS5, Omarchy 3.7.0 for Gamers, and Review of Ink Inside6 May 2026, 2:22 pm
gaming news...
- KDE: Ojas Maheshwari on Font Subsetting and KeepSecret 1.1 Development/Release6 May 2026, 2:20 pm
a couple of updates...
- Implementing Secure Zero-Touch Provisioning in AI and Edge Infrastructure11 March 2026, 1:00 pm
By Juha Holkkola, FusionLayer Group How DHCP Changed Connectivity In the late 1990s, the DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) quietly catalyzed a revolution in digital connectivity. Before DHCP was introduced, connecting devices to a network involved manual entry of IP addresses, DNS servers, subnet masks, and gateways. Networks were fragile, prone to errors, and severely […]
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- From DHCP to SZTP – The Trust Revolution25 February 2026, 2:00 pm
By Juha Holkkola, FusionLayer Group The Dawn of Effortless Connectivity In the transformative years of the late 1990s, a quiet revolution took place, fundamentally altering how we connect to networks. The introduction of DHCP answered a crucial question, “Where are you on the network?”, by automating IP address assignment. This innovation eradicated the manual configuration […]
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- Celebrating the Second Year of Linux Man-Pages Maintenance Sponsorship15 January 2026, 2:29 pm
Sustaining a Core Part of the Linux Ecosystem The Linux Foundation has announced a second year of sponsorship for the ongoing maintenance of the Linux manual pages (man-pages) project, led by Alejandro (Alex) Colomar. This critical initiative is made possible through the continued support of Google, Hudson River Trading, and Meta, who have renewed their […]
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- Disaggregated Routing with SONiC and VPP: Lab Demo and Performance Insights – Part Two29 October 2025, 1:45 pm
In Part One of this series, we examined how the SONiC control plane and the VPP data plane form a cohesive, software-defined routing stack through the Switch Abstraction Interface. We outlined how SONiC’s Redis-based orchestration and VPP’s user-space packet engine come together to create a high-performance, open router architecture. In this second part, we’ll turn […]
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- Disaggregated Routing with SONiC and VPP: Architecture and Integration – Part One22 October 2025, 1:44 pm
The networking industry is undergoing a fundamental architectural transformation, driven by the relentless demands of cloud-scale data centers and the rise of software-defined infrastructure. At the heart of this evolution is the principle of disaggregation: the systematic unbundling of components that were once tightly integrated within proprietary, monolithic systems. This movement began with the separation […]
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- Kubernetes on Bare Metal for Maximum Performance14 October 2025, 1:00 pm
When teams consider deploying Kubernetes, one of the first questions that arises is: where should it run? The default answer is often the public cloud, thanks to its flexibility and ease of use. However, a growing number of organizations are revisiting the advantages of running Kubernetes directly on bare metal servers. For workloads that demand […]
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- How to Deploy Lightweight Language Models on Embedded Linux with LiteLLM6 June 2025, 10:53 am
This article was contributed by Vedrana Vidulin, Head of Responsible AI Unit at Intellias (LinkedIn). As AI becomes central to smart devices, embedded systems, and edge computing, the ability to run language models locally — without relying on the cloud — is essential. Whether it’s for reducing latency, improving data privacy, or enabling offline functionality, local AI […]
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- Automating Compliance Management with UTMStack’s Open Source SIEM & XDR13 May 2025, 12:17 pm
Achieving and maintaining compliance with regulatory frameworks can be challenging for many organizations. Managing security controls manually often leads to excessive use of time and resources, leaving less available for strategic initiatives and business growth. Standards such as CMMC, HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOC2 and GDPR demand ongoing monitoring, detailed documentation, and rigorous evidence collection. Solutions […]
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- A Simple Way to Install Talos Linux on Any Machine, with Any Provider27 April 2025, 11:40 pm
Talos Linux is a specialized operating system designed for running Kubernetes. First and foremost it handles full lifecycle management for Kubernetes control-plane components. On the other hand, Talos Linux focuses on security, minimizing the user’s ability to influence the system. A distinctive feature of this OS is the near-complete absence of executables, including the absence […]
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- Using OpenTelemetry and the OTel Collector for Logs, Metrics, and Traces4 April 2025, 6:16 pm
OpenTelemetry (fondly known as OTel) is an open-source project that provides a unified set of APIs, libraries, agents, and instrumentation to capture and export logs, metrics, and traces from applications. The project’s goal is to standardize observability across various services and applications, enabling better monitoring and troubleshooting. Read More at Causely
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- Noid 202605066 May 2026, 10:20 pm
Noid Linux is a Void-based minimalist Linux distribution with Xfce as the preferred desktop. It includes a long-term supported Linux kernel, the Calamares system installer, the Brave web browser, support for Flatpak packages, and a custom Welcome screen. The project also provides its own repository for Void's XBPS packages with additional software....
- HackerOS 4.66 May 2026, 11:14 am
HackerOS is a live Linux distribution based on Debian's "Testing" branch and designed for regular users, gamers and cybersecurity enthusiasts. Some of its features include an optimised XanMod Linux kernel for faster boot times and reduced resource usage, out-of-the-box support for NVIDIA graphics cards, and a collection of cybersecurity tools, such as enhanced firewalls and intrusion detection software. The distribution uses the KDE Plasma desktop....
- HAOS 17.36 May 2026, 10:16 am
Home Assistant OS (HAOS) is an independently-developed, Linux-based operating system optimised to run Home Assistant, an open-source home automation tool. It focuses on local control and privacy. HAOS uses Docker as its container engine and deploys Home Assistant Supervisor as a container. Home Assistant Supervisor in turn uses the Docker container engine to control Home Assistant Core and Apps in separate containers. The product is available for various single-board computers, like Raspberry P...
- extrox 202605066 May 2026, 9:23 am
extrox is a set of Linux distributions based either on MX Linux or Arch Linux, featuring custom art and theme, careful application selection, various user-friendly improvements, and an audio filter (developed in-house) for enhanced sound quality in music playback and streaming. The distribution uses the Xfce desktop with the Compiz compositing window manager....
- Argent 1.5.3-RC75 May 2026, 11:58 pm
Argent Linux is a Gentoo-based Linux distribution featuring the KDE Plasma desktop and designed for workstations and servers. It uses the systemd service manager which, as it is not available in the upstream Gentoo repositories, the project itself provides in the form of binary packages. The distribution favours the epkg package manager, a highly simplistic wrapper over portage, specially designed for precompiled binaries. Argent Linux maintains a semi-rolling release model, with a stable branc...
- umbrelOS 1.7.25 May 2026, 6:42 pm
umbrelOS is a Debian-based Linux distribution for home servers. It is available for standard 64-bit and Raspberry Pi computers. The distribution features a web-based user interface and an online app store with a large range of applications, anything from web hosting, productivity and finance to media streaming, networking, automation, artificial intelligence, development and Bitcoin mining. umbrelOS is developed by the US-based Umbrel, Inc., which also sells palm-sized personal home computers w...
- MocaccinoOS 26.055 May 2026, 5:23 pm
MocaccinoOS is an independently-developed Linux distribution that has its origins in source-based Gentoo Linux and Sabayon Linux. It uses a custom-built package manager called "Luet", which acts as a front-end for container-based software. The distribution's main features are minimalism and small footprint, ease of use, native vanilla Linux kernels, and support for most important cloud technologies. MocaccinoOS is offered in several variants, including live images with GNOME, KDE Plasma, MATE a...
- Manjaro 26.1.0-pre5 May 2026, 9:05 am
Manjaro Linux is a fast, user-friendly, desktop-oriented operating system based on Arch Linux. Key features include intuitive installation process, automatic hardware detection, stable rolling-release model, ability to install multiple kernels, special Bash scripts for managing graphics drivers and extensive desktop configurability. Manjaro Linux offers Xfce as the core desktop options, as well as KDE, GNOME and a minimalist Net edition for more advanced users. Community-supported desktop flavo...
- ToaruOS 2.3.15 May 2026, 1:00 am
ToaruOS is a built-from-scratch hobby operating system with a bootloader, kernel, drivers, C library and userspace. It includes a composited graphical user interface, a dynamic linker, a syntax-highlighting text editor and a network stack. Some of the features of ToaruOS include virtual machine integration for absolute mouse and automatic display sizing in VirtualBox and VMware Workstation, a Unix-like terminal interface including a feature-rich terminal emulator and several familiar utilities,...
- SolydXK 13-2026055 May 2026, 12:00 am
SolydX and SolydK are Debian-based distributions with the Xfce and KDE desktops respectively. SolydXK aims to be simple to use, providing an environment that is both stable and secure. SolydXK is an open-source alternative for small businesses, non-profit organisations and home users. The project started as an unofficial variant of Linux Mint's "Debian" edition with KDE as the default desktop, but it was later given its own identity as SolydK. SolydX was added after Linux Mint dropped its Debia...
- Mesa 26.1 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New7 May 2026, 1:47 am
The Mesa 26.1 open-source graphics stack has been released today as the first major point update to the Mesa 26 series, introducing new features and improvements across most of the included graphics drivers....
- Inkscape 1.4.4 SVG Editor Released with a New Palette, Performance Improvements7 May 2026, 12:15 am
Inkscape 1.4.4 has been released today as the fourth maintenance update to the Inkscape 1.4 series of this open-source, cross-platform, and free SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows....
- openSUSE Board Sees Changing of the Chair6 May 2026, 10:44 pm
Out with the old; in with the new. Gerald Pfeifer’s nearly seven?year run as chair ends with SUSE veteran Jeff Mahoney moving into the role....
- Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance6 May 2026, 9:12 pm
When having the HP Z6 G5 A workstation in the lab for benchmarking, one of the curiosity-driven tests was seeing how well the latest open-source and upstream Nouveau driver stack is competing against the latest official NVIDIA R595 driver for workstations. The official NVIDIA Linux driver stack remains the best positioned software solution for RTX (PRO) hardware but Nouveau continues evolving while awaiting the Nova kernel driver to reach the limelight....
- COSMIC Desktop 1.0.12 Brings More Desktop Polish6 May 2026, 5:50 pm
COSMIC Desktop 1.0.12 brings fixes across the compositor, Files, Settings, Store, Terminal, and Edit apps....
- What is Korn Shell (KSH) in UNIX/Linux System6 May 2026, 4:18 pm
Korn shell (or KSH) is a UNIX shell (that complies with POSIX 2) developed in the late 1980s by David Korn at Bell Labs, way earlier than Bash shell....
- Engicam expands MicroGEA lineup with 25 x 25 mm NXP i.MX 93 module6 May 2026, 2:47 pm
Engicam has expanded its MicroGEA family with the new MicroGEA MX93, a compact system-on-module based on the NXP i.MX 93 processor. The 25 × 25 mm module combines dual Arm Cortex-A55 cores, LPDDR4X memory, onboard eMMC storage, and industrial temperature support. The launch follows earlier MicroGEA modules based on STM32MP1 processors, continuing the company’s focus […]...
- FreeRDP 3.26 Released with CVE Fixes and Android Client Overhaul6 May 2026, 1:15 pm
FreeRDP 3.26 is now available as a maintenance release with three high-ranking CVE fixes, macOS H.264 VideoToolbox support, and Android client improvements....
- COSMIC 1.0.12 Desktop Brings Improvements to Files, Terminal, and More6 May 2026, 9:13 am
Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.0.12 today as the latest stable update to this Rust-based desktop environment used by default on the Pop!_OS Linux distribution....
- PHP Officially Retires Its Legacy License6 May 2026, 7:42 am
PHP officially retires its legacy PHP License 3.01 after completing the move to the standard BSD 3-Clause license....
- Perfect Server Automated ISPConfig 3 Installation on Debian 12 and Debian 13, Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.0431 January 2026, 10:01 am
This tutorial shows you how to easily set up a web, email and DNS server with ISPConfig 3 using the ISPConfig auto-installation script....
- How to install PHP 5.6 and 7.0 - 8.4 with PHP-FPM and FastCGI mode for ISPConfig 3.2 with apt on Debian 11 to 123 November 2025, 9:28 pm
In this guide we will take you through installing additional PHP versions (5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4) on a Debian server with ISPConfig....
- How to install PHP 5.6 and 7.0 - 8.4 with PHP-FPM and FastCGI mode for ISPConfig 3.2 with apt on Ubuntu 22.04 - 24.043 November 2025, 9:26 pm
When using ISPConfig, by default, you only have the main PHP version for your distribution. This guide will show you how to install additional PHP versions (5.6, 7.0 - 7.4, 8.1 - 8.4) on an Ubuntu server with ISPConfig....
- Update the ISPConfig Perfect Server from Debian 11 to Debian 123 November 2025, 9:24 pm
This tutorial will take you through updating a server managed by ISPConfig from Debian 11 (bullseye) to Debian 12 (bookworm). This guide works for both single- and multiserver setups....
- How to Install CSF (Config Server Firewall) on Debian 126 October 2025, 10:58 am
CSF or Config Server Firewall is a Stateful Packet Inspection (SPI) firewall based on IPtables and Perl. it provides a daemon process that will monitor your services for failure authentication....
- How to Install Wiki.js on Debian 1226 June 2025, 8:04 pm
Wiki.js is free and open-source wiki software based on Node.js, Git, and Markdown. In this article, we'll show you how to install Wiki.js on a Debian 12 system....
- ISPConfig Perfect Multiserver setup on Ubuntu 24.04 and Debian 1219 June 2025, 5:43 pm
This tutorial will take you through installing your own ISPConfig 3 multiserver setup with dedicated servers for the panel, web, DNS, mail, and webmail using the new ISPConfig auto-installer. This tutorial is compatible with Debian 12 and Ubuntu 24.04....
- Securing your ISPConfig 3 managed mailserver with a valid Let's Encrypt SSL certificate19 June 2025, 5:18 pm
If you're running your own mailserver, it's best practice to connect to it securely with a SSL/TLS connection. You'll need a valid certificate for these secure connections. In this tutorial, we'll set up a Let's Encrypt certificate for our mailserver that renews automatically....
- How to Install OpenEMR on Ubuntu 24.04 Server29 May 2025, 4:19 pm
OpenEMR is an open-source health records and medical practice management solution. It is a fully integrated electronic health record and practice management, scheduling, electronic billing, and internationalization support....
- How to Install Moodle LMS on Debian 12 Server29 May 2025, 4:15 pm
Moodle is an open solution for the Learning Management System (LMS). It is a platform for educational purposes, from creating online courses, managing online schools, managing content, and offering collaborative learning....
- Download of the day: GIMP 3.0 is FINALLY Here!18 March 2025, 3:45 am
Wow! After years of hard work and countless commits, we have finally reached a huge milestone: GIMP 3.0 is officially released! I am excited as I write this and can't wait to share some incredible new features and improvements in this release. GIMP 2.10 was released in 2018, and the first development version of GIMP 3.0 came out in 2020. GIMP 3.0 released on 16/March/2025. Let us explore how to download and install GIMP 3.0, as well as the new features in this version.
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- Ubuntu to Explore Rust-Based “uutils” as Potential GNU Core Utilities Replacement16 March 2025, 12:17 pm
In a move that has sparked significant discussion within the Ubuntu Linux fan-base and community, Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has announced its intention to explore the potential replacement of GNU Core Utilities with the Rust-based "uutils" project. They plan to introduce new changes in Ubuntu Linux 25.10, eventually changing it to Ubuntu version 26.04 LTS release in 2026 as Ubuntu is testing Rust 'uutils' to overhaul its core utilities potentially. Let us find out the pros and cons a...
- Critical Rsync Vulnerability Requires Immediate Patching on Linux and Unix systems15 January 2025, 6:04 pm
Rsync is a opensource command-line tool in Linux, macOS, *BSD and Unix-like systems that synchronizes files and directories. It is a popular tool for sending or receiving files, making backups, or setting up mirrors. It minimizes data copied by transferring only the changed parts of files, making it faster and more bandwidth-efficient than traditional copying methods provided by tools like sftp or ftp-ssl. Rsync versions 3.3.0 and below has been found with SIX serious vulnerabilities. Attackers ...
- ZFS Raidz Expansion Finally, Here in version 2.3.014 January 2025, 9:19 am
After years of development and testing, the ZFS raidz expansion is finally here and has been released as part of version 2.3.0. ZFS is a popular file system for Linux and FreeBSD. RAIDz is like RAID 5, which you find with hardware or Linux software raid devices. It protects your data by spreading it across multiple hard disks along with parity information. A raidz device can have single, double, or triple parity to sustain one, two, or three hard disk failures, respectively, without losing any d...
- lnav – Awesome terminal log file viewer for Linux and Unix16 June 2024, 11:04 am
It is no secret that whether you are a developer or sysadmin, you need to use log files to troubleshoot errors on your Linux and Unix systems. You use tools like grep, tail, cat, or journalctl to view log files. However, you may need help with so many log files. These essential Unix tools are suitable for basic text but fall short when dealing with many log files. You can get tired from sifting through endless lines of log files. The lnav utility is here to the rescue! It is a powerful log file ...
- sttr – Awesome Linux & Unix tool for transformation of the string24 May 2024, 9:17 pm
sttr demo
The sttr is a free and open-source command-line tool in Golang that lets you easily change and modify text. You can perform transformation operations on the string, such as hashing text, string manipulation, and more. sttr is beneficial for developers and *nix users requiring swift modification to strings or files directly via the command line or TUI. It is helpful in your scripting, data processing, and automation tasks at the CLI.
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- How to block AI Crawler Bots using robots.txt file29 September 2023, 8:40 pm
Are you a content creator or a blog author who generates unique, high-quality content for a living? Have you noticed that generative AI platforms like OpenAI or CCBot use your content to train their algorithms without your consent? Don't worry! You can block these AI crawlers from accessing your website or blog by using the robots.txt file.
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- Debian Linux 12.1 released with Security Updates23 July 2023, 9:30 am
Debian Linux project announces the first update of the Debian project's stable distribution, Debian 12 (codename "bookworm") named Debian 12.1. This update mainly addresses security issues and significant problems. Security advisories have been published and are now available to download.
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- Setting up VSCode for Ansible Lightspeed AI in Ubuntu 22.04 desktop22 July 2023, 2:01 pm
Red Hat launched the Ansible Lightspeed Code Assistant Generative AI with IBM Watson Code Assistant in May 2023. This preview is now available to all Ansible users, allowing them to explore the technology, provide feedback to Red Hat, and further train the AI model. In this brief blog post, I will share my personal experience with installing and utilizing Ansible Lightspeed AI to create playbooks in VSCode using Ubuntu Linux 20.04 LTS desktop.
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- How to upgrade FreeBSD 13.1 to 13.2 release12 April 2023, 1:55 am
The FreeBSD Release Engineering Team is announcing the availability of FreeBSD version 13.2-RELEASE on 11/April/2023. It is the third release of the stable/13 branches. I updated my FreeBSD version 13.1 to 13.2 using the CLI over an ssh-based session. Here are my quick notes.
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- PaloAlto init-cfg.txt Bootstrap Config file Layout with Examples19 May 2022, 3:30 am
When you install and configure the PaloAlto firewall, when the firewall boots up for the first time, it does the bootstrapping process. PaloAlto uses the settings defined in the bootstrap files, including the init-cfg.txt and bootstrap.xml under the config folder to configure the initial state of the firewall. For example, during the bootstrap process, it […]...
- 21 Examples to Manage Secrets using AWS Secrets Manager CLI16 March 2022, 2:00 am
Using AWS Secrets manager you can store, retrieve, rotate and manage secrets such as database credentials, API keys and other sensitive information used by your application. Secrets are rotated without any disruption to your application, and you can also replicate secrets to multiple AWS regions. You can manage secrets from AWS console, SDK, CLI, or […]...
- 13 Examples to Manage S3 Bucket Replication Rules using AWS CLI9 December 2021, 3:30 am
Using S3 replication, you can setup automatic replication of S3 objects from one bucket to another. The source and destination bucket can be within the same AWS account or in different accounts. You can also replicate objects from one source bucket to multiple destination buckets. If you want to have a second copy of your […]...
- 5 Python Examples to Read and Write JSON files for Encode and Decode1 April 2021, 4:00 am
JSON stands for JavaScript Object Notation, which is a format for structuring data that is very similar to the concept of maps in computer programming. Maps consists of keys and corresponding values. A key has to be unique within a map. JSON is light-weight format of representing data as text in a file, whose syntax […]...
- 8 Examples to Add Static Routes in PAN-OS PaloAlto from CLI and Console10 March 2021, 4:00 am
Managing routes is an essential configuration task for network admins who are managing firewalls. If you are using the PaloAlto firewall, this tutorial explains how to add static routes using both the PAN-OS command line interface and from the PaloAlto Firewall Console. 1. CLI – View Current Routes Before adding a route, view all current […]...
- 3 Methods to Create Jenkins Pipeline – Classic UI, BlueOcean, Git7 January 2021, 3:30 am
Jenkins is a DevOps tool which can be used to automate your build, test and delivery of software code. If you are new to Jenkins, this tutorial will help you to understand how to create Jenkins pipeline using one of the following methods: Classic Jenkins User Interface Jenkins Blue Ocean User Interface which reduces clutter […]...
- 12 Examples to Manage AWS Transit Gateway Route Table from CLI7 October 2020, 3:00 am
Apart from the default route table that gets created when you create a transit gateway, you can also create additional route tables. This helps you to associate a specific attachment with a specific route table. The attachments can propagate their routes to one or more route tables. You can also add static routes to the […]...
- 10 Examples to Manage PaloAlto Firewall Users from PAN-OS CLI23 September 2020, 3:00 am
This tutorial explains how to manage PaloAlto users from CLI. You’ll learn about user and role related functionalities including how to create a new user, assign a role to an user, make regular user as an admin user, list all existing users, delete an user, etc., 1. Enter PaloAlto CLI Configuration Mode First, login to […]...
- 24 Examples to Manage AWS Transit Gateway and Attachments from CLI16 September 2020, 3:00 am
AWS Transit gateway acts as a hub to connect multiple VPC and on-prem networks. Apart from attaching a VPC to transit hub and routing traffic, you can also attach a VPN connection or Direct Connect gateway to your transit gateway. You can also peer two transit gateways and route traffic between them. In a multi-account […]...
- 5 Steps to Upgrade PaloAlto PAN-OS Firewall Software from CLI or Console9 June 2020, 3:30 am
PaloAlto releases software updates on an on-going basis. It’s essential that you stay current with the latest stable release of firewall. On a high-level the following are 5 easy steps to upgrade PaloAlto firewall: Pre-install: Verify current software version Check Available Software Versions Download Latest Version of PaloAlto Install the Latest version of Firewall Software […]...
- Skip entry-level luxury SUVs—this Toyota makes more sense6 May 2026, 9:31 pm
This Toyota gives you luxury comfort and features for less, making entry-level luxury SUVs feel a bit overkill....
- Why buy a new Toyota Corolla when this 275-horsepower hot hatch costs less?6 May 2026, 8:30 pm
A budget-friendly buy with serious performance credentials....
- Blink's new video doorbells make it even easier to see what's at your door6 May 2026, 8:10 pm
The Amazon devices offer 2K and AI alerts at a lower price....
- Modern PCs traded utility for tempered glass (why I desperately miss the "beige box")6 May 2026, 8:00 pm
5 dead PC hardware features that make me miss the beige box era...
- Vinyl vs. CDs—Which retro format is more fun to collect?6 May 2026, 7:46 pm
The hunt, the artwork, the ritual, the sound. Vinyl is still the retro format that rewards collectors every time—CDs will never catch up....
- The 9 best Google Pixel exclusive features, ranked6 May 2026, 7:30 pm
Some Pixel exclusives are so good they're a dealbreaker. Others just feel like Google experimenting with ideas....
- This sleek EV is cheaper than a Kia Niro—and its built by a luxury brand6 May 2026, 7:00 pm
Premium design and features without the premium price tag....
- VW is now Rivian's largest investor, not Amazon6 May 2026, 6:41 pm
Rivian is also exploring US-made self-driving sensors....
- I connected Claude with Habitica and it completely gamified my life6 May 2026, 6:31 pm
You don’t need to stop playing video games to enjoy your life. You just need to turn your life into a video game....
- After a year of introductory pricing, Plex Remote Watch Pass gets a 50% price bump6 May 2026, 6:08 pm
Moving towards the 'normal' subscription....
- The tools are ready. So why are most cloud native teams still running three observability stacks?6 May 2026, 11:00 am
I’ve spent enough time in and around cloud native infrastructure to know that we’re reasonably good at standardizing the theory. OpenTelemetry for instrumentation, Prometheus for metrics, Jaeger and Tempo for distributed tracing, Fluentd or Loki for......
- Announcing Kyverno release 1.18!5 May 2026, 11:00 am
We’re excited to announce the release of Kyverno 1.18, our first release since graduating within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. This release builds on Kyverno’s growing role as a Kubernetes-native policy engine, with major investments in......
- Securing GitHub Actions CI dependencies: Recipe card4 May 2026, 11:00 am
Recipe GitHub Actions CI dependencies Target audience (the chef) Project maintainers and developers who need practical, concrete steps to efficiently secure CI dependencies within their GitHub Actions workflows Scope (ingredients) Dependencies within the GitHub Actions, Github......
- AI sandboxing is having its Kubernetes moment30 April 2026, 7:37 pm
Recently, Anthropic announced that its new model, Mythos, had autonomously found and exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in every major operating system and web browser – including a 27-year-old bug that had survived decades of human review and......
- The state of AI in CNCF projects: A first look at the data29 April 2026, 11:00 am
At CNCF TAG Developer Experience, we recently set out to understand how Artificial Intelligence is shaping open-source development. The response from the community has been impressive in its scale, with nearly half of our initial responses......
- Kubernetes for platform teams: Leveraging k0s and k0rdent27 April 2026, 11:00 am
In our previous blog, we explored a GitOps use case for on-premises infrastructure, managing multiple clusters hosted on the k3s Kubernetes distribution using k0rdent. But the platform engineering ecosystem is vast, and one blog barely scratches......
- From Ingress NGINX to Higress: migrating 60+ resources in 30 minutes with AI23 April 2026, 1:37 pm
With the official retirement of Ingress NGINX that took place in March 2026, enterprise platform teams are facing an urgent security and compliance mandate. Remaining on a retired controller leaves critical infrastructure vulnerable to unpatched security......
- Auto-diagnosing Kubernetes alerts with HolmesGPT and CNCF tools21 April 2026, 3:06 pm
What a two-person SRE team learned building an AI investigation pipeline. Spoiler: the runbooks mattered more than the model. Why we built this At STCLab, our SRE team supports multiple Amazon EKS clusters running high-traffic production......
- From public static void main to Golden Kubestronaut: The Art of unlearning20 April 2026, 10:50 am
Ten years ago, my entire world fit inside a public static void main. I was a Java developer. Infrastructure? That was someone else’s problem a black box where my JAR files went to live, or quietly......
- K3s on On-Prem Infrastructures the GitOps Way: Writing a Custom k0rdent Template from Scratch17 April 2026, 11:59 am
Kubernetes turns 12 this year. In that time, it’s gone from a Google side project to the operating system of modern infrastructure running everywhere from mainframes to GPUs, across multi-cloud, hybrid, on-prem, and edge environments. The......
- Kubernetes v1.36: Server-Side Sharded List and Watch6 May 2026, 6:35 pm
As Kubernetes clusters grow to tens of thousands of nodes, controllers that watch
high-cardinality resources like Pods face a scaling wall. Every replica of a
horizontally scaled controller receives the full stream of events from the API
server, paying the CPU, memory, and network cost to deserialize everything, only
to discard the objects it is not responsible for. Scaling out the controller
does not reduce per-replica cost; it multiplies it.
Kubernetes v1.36 introduces server-side sharded list...
- Kubernetes v1.36: Declarative Validation Graduates to GA5 May 2026, 6:35 pm
In Kubernetes v1.36, Declarative Validation for Kubernetes native types has reached General Availability (GA).
For users, this means more reliable, predictable, and better-documented APIs. By moving to a declarative model, the project also unlocks the future ability to publish validation rules via OpenAPI and integrate with ecosystem tools like Kubebuilder. For contributors and ecosystem developers, this replaces thousands of lines of handwritten validation code with a unified, maintainable fram...
- Kubernetes v1.36: Admission Policies That Can't Be Deleted4 May 2026, 6:35 pm
If you've ever tried to enforce a security policy across a fleet of
Kubernetes clusters, you've probably run into a frustrating chicken-and-egg
problem. Your admission policies are API objects, which means they don't
exist until someone creates them, and they can be deleted by anyone with
the right permissions. There's always a window during cluster bootstrap
where your policies aren't active yet, and there's no way to prevent a
privileged user from removing them.
Kubernetes v1.36 introduces an ...
- Kubernetes v1.36: Pod-Level Resource Managers (Alpha)1 May 2026, 6:35 pm
Kubernetes v1.36 introduces
Pod-Level Resource Managers
as an alpha feature, bringing a more flexible and powerful resource management
model to performance-sensitive workloads. This enhancement extends the kubelet's
Topology, CPU, and Memory Managers to support pod-level resource specifications
(.spec.resources), evolving them from a strictly per-container allocation
model to a pod-centric one.
Why do we need pod-level resource managers?
When running performance-critical workloads such as machin...
- Kubernetes v1.36: In-Place Vertical Scaling for Pod-Level Resources Graduates to Beta30 April 2026, 6:35 pm
Following the graduation of Pod-Level Resources to Beta in v1.34 and the General Availability (GA) of In-Place Pod Vertical Scaling in v1.35, the Kubernetes community is thrilled to announce that In-Place Pod-Level Resources Vertical Scaling has graduated to Beta in v1.36!
This feature is now enabled by default via the InPlacePodLevelResourcesVerticalScaling feature gate. It allows users to update the aggregate Pod resource budget (.spec.resources) for a running Pod, often without requiring a co...
- Kubernetes v1.36: Tiered Memory Protection with Memory QoS29 April 2026, 6:35 pm
On behalf of SIG Node, we are pleased to announce updates to the Memory QoS
feature (alpha) in Kubernetes v1.36. Memory QoS uses the cgroup v2 memory
controller to give the kernel better guidance on how to treat container memory.
It was first introduced in v1.22 and updated in v1.27. In Kubernetes v1.36, we're introducing: opt-in memory reservation, tiered
protection by QoS class, observability metrics, and kernel-version warning for memory.high.
What's new in v1.36
Opt-in memory reservation wit...
- Kubernetes v1.36: Staleness Mitigation and Observability for Controllers28 April 2026, 6:35 pm
Staleness in Kubernetes controllers is a problem that affects many controllers, and is something may affect controller behavior
in subtle ways. It is usually not until it is too late, when a controller in production has already taken incorrect action, that
staleness is found to be an issue due to some underlying assumption made by the controller author. Some issues caused by staleness
include controllers taking incorrect actions, controllers not taking action when they should, and controllers ta...
- Kubernetes v1.36: Mutable Pod Resources for Suspended Jobs (beta)27 April 2026, 6:35 pm
Kubernetes v1.36 promotes the ability to modify container resource requests and limits
in the pod template of a suspended Job to beta. First introduced as alpha in v1.35, this
feature allows queue controllers and cluster administrators to adjust CPU, memory, GPU,
and extended resource specifications on a Job while it is suspended, before it starts
or resumes running.
Why mutable pod resources for suspended Jobs?
Batch and machine learning workloads often have resource requirements that are not
p...
- Kubernetes v1.36: Fine-Grained Kubelet API Authorization Graduates to GA24 April 2026, 6:35 pm
On behalf of Kubernetes SIG Auth and SIG Node, we are pleased to announce the
graduation of fine-grained kubelet API authorization to General Availability
(GA) in Kubernetes v1.36!
The KubeletFineGrainedAuthz feature gate was introduced as an opt-in alpha
feature in Kubernetes v1.32, then graduated to beta (enabled by default) in
v1.33. Now, the feature is generally available and the feature gate is locked
to enabled. This feature enables more precise, least-privilege access control
over the kub...
- Kubernetes v1.36: User Namespaces in Kubernetes are finally GA23 April 2026, 6:35 pm
After several years of development, User Namespaces support in
Kubernetes reached General Availability (GA) with the v1.36 release.
This is a Linux-only feature.
For those of us working on low level container runtimes and rootless
technologies, this has been a long awaited milestone. We finally
reached the point where "rootless" security isolation can be used for
Kubernetes workloads.
This feature also enables a critical pattern: running workloads with
privileges and still being confined in the ...
- Generate Images Locally with Docker Model Runner and Open WebUI5 May 2026, 1:00 pm
We've all been there: you need to generate a few images for a project, you fire up an AI image service, and suddenly you're wondering what happens to your prompts, how many credits you have left, or why that "safe content" filter rejected your perfectly reasonable request for a dragon wearing a business suit. What......
- Precision Container Security with Docker and Black Duck5 May 2026, 8:00 am
The complexity of modern containerized applications often leaves developers drowning in a sea of "noise"—vulnerabilities that exist in the file system but pose zero actual risk to the application. The integration between Black Duck and Docker Hardened Images (DHI) provides a definitive answer to this challenge. By combining Docker’s secure-by-default foundations, using VEX (Vulnerability Exploitability eXchange)......
- A Virtual Agent team at Docker: How the Coding Agent Sandboxes team uses a fleet of agents to ship faster1 May 2026, 1:00 pm
I work on Coding Agent Sandboxes, aka “sbx” at Docker. The project provides secure, microVM-based isolation for running AI coding agents like Claude Code, Gemini, Codex, Docker Agent and Kiro. Agents get full autonomy inside a sandbox (their own Docker daemon, network, filesystem) without touching your host system. Over the past couple of weeks, we......
- From Security Blocked to Prod Ready: ClickHouse on Docker Hardened Images30 April 2026, 3:55 pm
In November 2025, a team self-hosting Langfuse, an open-source LLM observability platform, on Kubernetes uploaded their ClickHouse image to AWS ECR as part of their production preparation. They found that the pipeline scanner had returned three critical vulnerabilities - not in ClickHouse, but in the base image. Their security team saw the findings and blocked......
- Trivy, KICS, and the shape of supply chain attacks so far in 202623 April 2026, 3:32 pm
Catching the KICS push: what happened, and the case for open, fast collaboration In the past few weeks we've worked through two supply chain compromises on Docker Hub with a similar shape: first Trivy, now Checkmarx KICS. In both cases, stolen publisher credentials were used to push malicious images through legitimate publishing flows. In both......
- Why MicroVMs: The Architecture Behind Docker Sandboxes16 April 2026, 5:14 pm
Last week, we launched Docker Sandboxes with a bold goal: to deliver the strongest agent isolation in the market. This post unpacks that claim, how microVMs enable it, and some of the architectural choices we made in this approach. The Problem With Every Other Approach Every sandboxing model asks you to give something up. We......
- Why We Chose the Harder Path: Docker Hardened Images, One Year Later14 April 2026, 9:48 pm
We're coming up on a year since launching Docker Hardened Images (DHI) last May, and crossing a milestone earlier this month made me stop and reflect on what we've actually been building. Earlier this month, we crossed over 500k daily pulls of DHIs, and over 25k continuously patched OS level artifacts in our SLSA Build......
- How to Analyze Hugging Face for Arm64 Readiness13 April 2026, 3:59 pm
This post is a collaboration between Docker and Arm, demonstrating how Docker MCP Toolkit and the Arm MCP Server work together to scan Hugging Face Spaces for Arm64 Readiness. In our previous post, we walked through migrating a legacy C++ application with AVX2 intrinsics to Arm64 using Docker MCP Toolkit and the Arm MCP Server......
- Reclaim Developer Hours through Smarter Vulnerability Prioritization with Docker and Mend.io8 April 2026, 6:23 pm
We recently announced the integration between Mend.io and Docker Hardened Images (DHI) provides a seamless framework for managing container security. By automatically distinguishing between base image vulnerabilities and application-layer risks, it uses VEX statements to differentiate between exploitable vulnerabilities and non-exploitable vulnerabilities, allowing your team to prioritize what really matters. TL;DR: The Developer Value Proposition......
- Defending Your Software Supply Chain: What Every Engineering Team Should Do Now2 April 2026, 6:14 pm
The software supply chain is under sustained attack. Not from a single threat actor or a single incident, but from an ecosystem-wide campaign that has been escalating for months and shows no signs of slowing down. This week, axios, the HTTP client library downloaded 83 million times per week and present in roughly 80% of......
- When Retries Become a Denial-of-Wallet6 May 2026, 8:00 pm
There's a particular kind of incident that doesn't show up in your error dashboards. No alerts fire. Latency looks fine, actually — or fine-ish, in that flickering, indeterminate way that makes you suspicious but not certain. What shows up, days later, is a billing anomaly. A line item that's 4x what you budgeted. And when you dig, you find it: retries. Hundreds of thousands of them. Loyal, tireless, utterly pointless retries, hammering a dependency that was never going to recover within the r...
- ARC: The Architecture for Reasoning Control6 May 2026, 7:00 pm
Three Lessons from an AI Makeathon
I recently participated in a makeathon focused on building AI-powered applications. Over 2–3 intense days, I watched teams go from idea to demo — and the patterns that separated working products from frustrated debugging sessions were remarkably consistent, especially for teams building AI agents.
From this makeathon and from my experience working with teams building AI applications and agents, here are the three lessons I took away on how to build reliable...
- Designing Agentic Systems Like Distributed Systems6 May 2026, 6:00 pm
Agentic development is rapidly becoming one of the most talked-about paradigms in software development. The talk is not just of using AI to assist in coding but of using systems where an AI agent is capable of planning, executing tasks, and even deciding.
From a surface-level perspective, agentic systems are a new abstraction. But if we look under the hood, we find something that looks rather familiar: distributed systems....
- The Hidden Failure Modes of AI Systems (That Traditional Monitoring Misses)6 May 2026, 5:00 pm
One of the most unsettling characteristics of AI systems is how often they appear perfectly healthy. Infrastructure dashboards report stable CPU utilization, normal latency levels, and acceptable throughput. No alerts are triggered. From an operational standpoint, the system is functioning exactly as designed.
Yet the outputs are wrong. In many AI deployments, engineers eventually encounter this situation: a recommendation system begins suggesting irrelevant items, a support chatbot produces inc...
- Top JavaScript/TypeScript Gen AI Frameworks for 20266 May 2026, 4:30 pm
The generative AI tooling ecosystem has exploded over the past two years. What started as a handful of Python libraries has grown into a rich, opinionated landscape of frameworks spanning multiple languages, deployment targets, and philosophical bets. As a developer who has shipped production applications using all five of the frameworks covered in this article, Genkit, Vercel AI SDK, Mastra, LangChain, and Google ADK, I want to offer a practical, hands-on view of where each one excels, where ea...
- Cost-Aware Routing for RAG: Fetch Less, Spend Less, Answer Better6 May 2026, 4:00 pm
You have a knowledge base full of PDFs. Someone asks: "What do you know about RAG?" Your RAG system dutifully searches all the documents, retrieves 10 passages, stuffs them into the prompt, and generates the answer. The problem? The LLM already knew the answer. You just paid for 10 passages you did not need.
This is the silent tax of static RAG — and most teams do not realize they are paying it on every single query....
- Why PostgreSQL CDC Breaks in Production6 May 2026, 3:30 pm
Keeping two PostgreSQL databases in sync sounds simple. Until it isn’t.
At first, everything looks fine:...
- The Rise of AI Orchestrators6 May 2026, 3:00 pm
“They have not written a single line of code since December,” and now “only generate code and supervise it.” That is how Spotify co-CEO Gustav Söderström described some of the company’s most senior engineers on Spotify’s Q4 2025 earnings call. He added that the change is “real” and “happening fast.”
That remark matters not because it is provocative, but because it points to a broader shift in engineering work. As code generation becomes faster and cheaper, the differentiato...
- AI in Software Engineering: 3 Critical Mistakes to Avoid (and What to Do Instead)6 May 2026, 2:30 pm
The term tool comes from the Old English tōl, meaning an instrument to achieve a purpose. Historically, every major shift in engineering — from the steam engine of the Industrial Revolution to the rise of modern computing — has followed the same pattern: tools amplify human capability, but they do not replace judgment. Artificial intelligence is no exception. It promises acceleration, abstraction, and productivity, yet it also carries a familiar risk: when misunderstood or misapplied, it sc...
- Difference Between EnvironmentObject, StateObject, ObservedObject and Observable6 May 2026, 2:00 pm
@StateObject, @EnvironmentObject, and @ObservedObject
I’ve decided to dedicate this week to exploring data flow in SwiftUI. In this article, we’ll discuss the differences between the @StateObject, @EnvironmentObject, and @ObservedObject property wrappers. From my experience, this is often the most confusing topic for developers just starting out with SwiftUI.
Why do we need property wrappers in SwiftUI?
SwiftUI uses immutable struct types to describe the view hierarchy. Every view provided b...
- Sam Altman's Management Style Comes Under the Microscope At OpenAI Trial7 May 2026, 3:30 am
Sam Altman's management style came under scrutiny on the seventh day of Elon Musk's high-stakes OpenAI trial, as former OpenAI figures Mira Murati, Shivon Zilis, and Helen Toner took the stand to testify about their experiences working with him. Their testimony resurfaced many of the criticisms that first emerged during Altman's brief ouster as CEO in 2023. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Business Insider: The first witness was Mira Murati, OpenAI's former chief technology officer and n...
- Microsoft Edge Stores Passwords In Plaintext In RAM6 May 2026, 11:00 pm
Longtime Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes: Security researcher Tom Joran Sonstebyseter Ronning has found that Microsoft Edge stores passwords in plaintext in RAM. After creating a password and storing it using Edge's password manager, Ronning found that he could dump the RAM and recover his password which was stored in plaintext. Part of the issue is Edge loads all passwords to all sites upon a single verification check, even if the user was not visiting a specific site. This is very differe...
- Google's AI Search Results Will Now Turn To Reddit For 'Expert Advice'6 May 2026, 10:00 pm
Google is updating AI Overviews and AI Mode to more prominently surface "Expert Advice" from public discussions, social platforms, forums, blogs, and Reddit. Engadget reports: Via a new "Expert Advice" section that can appear in AI responses, Google will display "a preview of perspectives from public online discussions, social media and other firsthand sources." In the sample screenshot the company provided, quotes from forums, WordPress blogs and Reddit were arranged above links to their respec...
- Valve Releases Steam Controller CAD Files Under Creative Commons License6 May 2026, 9:00 pm
Valve has released CAD files for the new Steam Controller and its Puck under a Creative Commons license. "The idea is to let enterprising modders create their own Steam Controller add-ons, like skins, charging stands, grip extenders or smartphone mounts," reports Digital Foundry. From the report: The Valve release includes files for the external shell ("surface topology") of the Controller and Puck, with a .STP, .STL and engineering diagram of each device, with the latter showing areas that must...
- Morgan Stanley Undercuts Rivals On Pricing In Crypto Trading Debut6 May 2026, 8:00 pm
Morgan Stanley is adding crypto trading to E*Trade, with a pilot now underway and a broader rollout planned for the platform's 8.6 million customers later this year. The bank is reportedly undercutting rivals with a 50-basis-point trading fee as it bets traditional finance and DeFi will converge.
"By contrast, Robinhood Markets' (HOOD) fees start at 95 bps, Coinbase Global's (COIN) begins at 60 bps, and Charles Schwab (SCHW) will charge 75 bps," notes Seeking Alpha. Morgan Stanley's head of we...
- Claude Managed Agents Can Engage In a 'Dreaming' Process To Preserve Memories6 May 2026, 7:00 pm
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: At its Code with Claude developers' conference, Anthropic has introduced what it calls "dreaming" to Claude Managed Agents. Dreaming, in this case, is a process of going over recent events and identifying specific things that are worth storing in "memory" to inform future tasks and interactions. Dreaming is a feature that is currently in research preview and limited to Managed Agents on the Claude Platform. Managed Agents are a higher-level ...
- ReactOS Unifies Installation Media, Introduces GUI Installer and New ATA Driver6 May 2026, 6:00 pm
jeditobe writes: Developers of ReactOS told Phoronix that the project has introduced a unified BootCD, replacing its previously separate installation media and LiveCD images. The new image combines the traditional text-mode installer with a LiveCD mode in a single medium. Within this unified BootCD, the updated LiveCD mode now includes an option to launch a first-stage GUI installer. The graphical interface is intended to make installation more approachable for new users compared to the long-sta...
- Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement6 May 2026, 5:00 pm
Five major publishers and author Scott Turow have sued Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that Zuckerberg "personally authorized and actively encouraged" massive copyright infringement by using pirated books, journal articles, and web-scraped material to train Meta's Llama AI systems. Meta denies wrongdoing and says it will fight the case, arguing that courts have recognized AI training on copyrighted material as potentially fair use. Variety reports: "In their effort to win the AI 'arms race' a...
- Silicon Valley Bets $200 Million On AI Data Centers Floating In the Ocean6 May 2026, 4:00 pm
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Silicon Valley investors such as Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel have bet hundreds of millions of dollars on deploying AI data centers powered by waves in the middle of the world's oceans -- a move that coincides with tech companies facing mounting challenges in building AI data center projects on land. The latest investment round of $140 million is intended to help the company Panthalassa complete a pilot manufacturing facility near Portlan...
- Microsoft Gives Up On Xbox Copilot AI6 May 2026, 3:00 pm
Microsoft is winding down Xbox Copilot on mobile and ending development of Copilot on console, reversing plans to bring the gaming-focused AI assistant to current-generation Xbox consoles this year. "The move follows [new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma's] reorganization of the Xbox platform team earlier on Tuesday, which added executives from Microsoft's CoreAI team -- where Sharma worked before taking over Xbox -- to the Xbox side of the company," reports The Verge.
Sharma said in a post on X: Xbox nee...
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- Astronomers May Have Detected an Atmosphere Around a Tiny, Icy World Past Pluto5 May 2026, 7:00 am
"The Associated Press is reporting on a new study in Nature Astronomy suggesting that a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto harbors a thin, delicate atmosphere that may have been created by volcanic eruptions or a comet strike," writes longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot. From the report: Just 300 miles (500 kilometers) or so across, this mini Pluto is thought to be the solar system's smallest object yet with a clearly detected global atmosphere bound by gravity, said lead researcher Ko Arimatsu of th...
- Scientists Discover 27 Potential New Planets That Orbit Two Stars4 May 2026, 4:00 pm
Astronomers have identified 27 potential new circumbinary planets -- worlds that orbit two stars, like Star Wars' Tatooine. "To date, only about 18 circumbinary planets ... had been identified in the universe," reports the Guardian. "More than 6,000 planets have been discovered that orbit single stars, like Earth does around the sun." The Guardian reports: In a timely publication for May 4, also known as Star Wars Day, scientists have identified nearly 30 more candidate planets, whose distances ...
- Infrasound Waves Stop Kitchen Fires, But Can They Replace Sprinklers?4 May 2026, 3:00 pm
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In a makeshift demonstration kitchen in Concord, California, cooking oil splatters in and around a frying pan, which catches fire on an unattended gas stove. Within moments, a smoke detector wails. But in this demonstration, something less common happens: An AI-driven sensor activates and wall emitters blast infrasound waves toward the source of the fire in an attempt to put it out. The science of acoustic fire suppression, which has long be...
- Carbon Pollution Is Making Food Less Nutritious, Risking the Health of Billions3 May 2026, 10:29 pm
A new meta-analysis found nutrients in food decreased over the last 40 years, reports the Washington Post. "Many of humanity's most important crops — including wheat, potatoes, beans — contain fewer vitamins and minerals than they did a generation ago."
"The invisible culprit behind this damaging phenomenon? Carbon dioxide pollution."
Surging concentrations of carbon in the atmosphere, caused largely by burning fossil fuels, have produced potent changes in the way plants grow — from inc...
- Former NASA Engineers Create Ingenious Way To Save Homes From Wildfires Using Noise3 May 2026, 1:34 am
"Scientists have created a miraculous new way to stop fires from spreading through neighborhoods using nothing but sound," reports the New York Post:
Former NASA engineers with California-based Sonic Fire Tech found that using sound waves can snuff out blazes and potentially be used to stop another Pacific Palisades inferno... The technology works by targeting oxygen molecules using low-frequency sound waves that vibrate them, stopping the fire from growing. "Sound waves vibrate the oxygen fast...
- An Amateur Just Solved a 60-Year-Old Math Problem - by Asking AI2 May 2026, 6:34 pm
Slashdot reader joshuark writes: Scientific American reports that a ChatGPT AI has proved a conjecture with a method no human had developed. A 23-year-old student Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. The new solution that Price got in response to a single prompt to GPT-5.4 Pro was posted on www.erdosproblems.com, a website devoted to the Erds problems. The question Price solved — or prompted ChatGPT to solve—concerns sp...
- Retina Scan for Diabetes Could Also Reduce Deaths During Pregnancy in Developing Countries2 May 2026, 4:34 pm
This week Bill Gates wrote a blog post about a special camera from medtech startup Remidio, which delivers high-resolution images of a patient's retina in seconds. The camera plugs into a phone running an AI system that watches for early signs of diabetes — all without needing a blood draw, eye dilation, or a dibetes specialist. It's already been used in 40 countries for more than 15 million patients.
But that same hardware, with different software, can also flag the conditions that drive s...
- New Lithium-Plasma Engine Passes Key Mars Propulsion Test2 May 2026, 7:00 am
NASA engineers have tested a next-generation lithium-plasma electric propulsion system that reached 120 kilowatts, a new U.S. record and about 25 times the power of the electric thrusters on NASA's Psyche spacecraft. "Designing and building these thrusters over the last couple of years has been a long lead-up to this first test," said James Polk, who is a senior research scientist at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It's a huge moment for us because we not only showed the thruster works, but we ...
- In Real-World Test, an AI Model Did Better Than ER Doctors At Diagnosing Patients30 April 2026, 10:00 pm
A new study from Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess found that an OpenAI reasoning model outperformed experienced ER doctors at diagnosing and managing patient cases using messy, real-world emergency department records. Researchers say the results don't support replacing doctors, but they do suggest AI could meaningfully reshape clinical workflows if tested carefully in prospective trials. NPR reports: The researchers ran a series of experiments on the AI model to test its clinical...
- Convicted Former Harvard Scientist Rebuilds Brain Computer Lab In China30 April 2026, 6:07 pm
Reuters reports that Charles Lieber, the former Harvard scientist convicted of lying to U.S. authorities about payments and ties to China, is now leading China's state-funded i-BRAIN lab in Shenzhen, where he has access to advanced nanofabrication tools and primate research facilities for brain-computer interface work. From the report: Charles Lieber, 67, is among the world's leading researchers in brain-computer interfaces. The technology has shown promise in treating conditions such as ALS and...
- Beyond the Virtualization Tax: Future-Proofing Your SAP Infrastructure6 May 2026, 5:40 pm
The era of “business as usual” in virtualization has come to an abrupt end. Organizations running SAP workloads are increasingly facing a significant virtualization tax, introduced by the change in Broadcom/VMware business model—the combination of escalating costs, unpredictable renewal cycles, and complex proprietary licensing that can even lead to contract cancellations. In our recent webinar […]
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- How vGPU passthrough works in SUSE Virtualization6 May 2026, 5:24 am
SUSE Virtualization is for running virtual machines, whether they are legacy applications, cloud-native workloads, or a combination of the two. SUSE Virtualization has supported PCIDevice passthrough to VM workloads since v1.1.x vGPU support was added with v1.3.x, with MIG-backed vGPU Devices added in v1.7.x How device passthrough works in SUSE Virtualization All device passthrough types […]
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- Virtualization changed. Download the Gartner® Market Guide.5 May 2026, 9:20 pm
Enterprise infrastructure has changed and you don’t want to be left behind. At the same time, containers have become ubiquitous with most now operating across data centers, cloud, and edge. This isn’t a small adjustment. It’s a broader reset of how infrastructure is designed, operated, and governed. The question is how to build an architecture […]
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- Data Sovereignty Meets Kubernetes: DBaaS Platform with SUSE Rancher Prime and KubeDB5 May 2026, 6:53 pm
GUEST BLOG ARTICLE BY: Tamal Saha is the Founder and CEO of AppsCode and a pioneering contributor to the Kubernetes ecosystem, best known for creating KubeDB, a leading Kubernetes-native Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) platform. An early adopter of Kubernetes during his time at Google in 2015, Tamal has since driven the development of several influential cloud-native […]
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- Beyond the Patch: How to Prepare Your Linux Fleet Against AI Exploits4 May 2026, 4:32 pm
The recent coverage surrounding Anthropic’s new Mythos model—and its ability to autonomously discover and exploit vulnerabilities like the 17-year-old FreeBSD bug (CVE-2026-4747) has sent shockwaves through the cybersecurity community. The headlines are full of “zero-day machines,” and the industry anxiety is palpable. The most recent “copy.fail” CVE-2026-31431 vulnerability has shown the need to apply workarounds […]
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- Addressing copy.fail in SUSE Virtualization30 April 2026, 9:32 am
Copy Fail (tracked as CVE-2026-31431) is a critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel that allows a local non-root user to gain full root access to the system. It is considered extremely dangerous because it is a pure logic error – unlike other known holes like Dirty Pipe or Dirty COW, it does not require complex […]
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- The Path to Data Sovereignty: CYBERTEC and SUSE Unite for Open Source30 April 2026, 9:03 am
SUSE and CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International are proud to announce a strategic partnership aimed at modernizing data solutions and infrastructure. This partnership unites two important players in the open source world: SUSE’s proven leadership in secure enterprise Linux and cloud-native Kubernetes management with SUSE Rancher Prime and CYBERTEC’s deep, specialized expertise in PostgreSQL performance and management. […]
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- SUSE responds to the copy.fail vulnerability30 April 2026, 7:13 am
Copy Fail (tracked as CVE-2026-31431) is a critical vulnerability in the Linux kernel that allows a local non-root user to gain full root access to the system. It is considered extremely dangerous because it is a pure logic error – unlike other known holes like Dirty Pipe or Dirty COW, it does not require complex […]
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- Empowering Our Ecosystem: Enhancing Security and Sovereignty with SUSEID28 April 2026, 9:48 pm
At SUSE, our commitment to the open source community goes beyond the software we build. It also extends to how we protect our users and uphold the principles of digital sovereignty. As we continue to evolve our digital infrastructure, I am proud to announce the launch of SUSEID, our new, unified authentication system designed specifically […]
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- Extract GitHub repository URLs from BlackArch tools pages12 February 2026, 8:38 am
$ curl -sL blackarch.org/{tools,recon}.html | awk -F'"' '$4 ~ /^https:\/\/github\.com\// { print $4 }'
Downloads BlackArch tool pages and prints only GitHub links using pure awk filtering.
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- Import a wireguard configuration into networkmanager11 February 2026, 8:31 pm
$ nmcli connection import type wireguard file wireguard_config.conf
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- Print a full-width horizontal line using the current terminal width (custom character supported)11 February 2026, 6:27 pm
$ printf '%*s\n' "${COLUMNS:-80}" '' | tr ' ' "${1-_}"
This is good when the other option on this site not includes ´tput´ like on minimal shell
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- Send a file to the first reachable KDE Connect device3 February 2026, 3:10 am
$ kdeconnect-cli -d $(kdeconnect-cli -a --id-only) --share kdeconnect-cli-send-file.sh
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- Play raw entropy noise via ALSA (bypass PulseAudio/PipeWire)27 January 2026, 1:25 pm
$ cat /dev/urandom | play -q -t raw -r 8000 -e unsigned-integer -b 8 -c 1 -t alsa default
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- Trigger a notification on USB device insertion using udev27 January 2026, 12:24 pm
$ udevadm monitor --udev --subsystem-match=usb | gawk '/add/ { system("espeak \"USB device attached\"") }'
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- Minimal Runtime Kernel Module Dependency View26 January 2026, 7:00 pm
$ lsmod | awk 'NR>1 && $4!="-" {print $1; split($4,a,","); for(i in a) print " -> used by:", a[i]; print ""}'
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- Go to the Nth line of file25 November 2025, 6:40 pm
$ awk 'NR==13' /etc/services
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- Quick way to sum every numbers in a file written line by line25 November 2025, 6:21 pm
$ awk '{sum += $0} END {print sum}' file
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- Show tcp connections sorted by Host / Most connections25 November 2025, 6:15 pm
$ netstat -ntu | tail -n +3 | awk '{print $5}' | sed 's/:[0-9]*$//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
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- 6 May 2026, 5:47 pm
This month in Linux Voice....
- The Latest Quirky and Creative Linux Distros5 May 2026, 5:13 pm
This month we explore Zenclora OS 2.0, MocaccinoOS 26.03, NebiOS 10.2, and CachyOS 260308....
- Is the Ghost CMS Ready to Replace WordPress?5 May 2026, 5:12 pm
Ghost is a powerful CMS for beginners and professionals who want to grow a business around their content....
- Exploring the Matrix Communication Protocol5 May 2026, 5:12 pm
Corporate communication platforms might be convenient, but they put your privacy at risk. The Matrix open communication standard offers a different approach....
- 5 May 2026, 5:12 pm
This month we explore the top FOSS, including the ultimate FTP client, a 6502 Assembly Environment, and open source levels for Doom....
- Prime Numbers5 May 2026, 5:12 pm
As I write this, the San Francisco Superior Court has denied Amazon's motion for a summary judgment on a claim in its defense of a State of California lawsuit alleging anticompetitive behavior....
- Harden Your Systems with OpenSCAP5 May 2026, 5:12 pm
If you're operating a large collection of Linux servers, OpenSCAP can help with regular auditing and system hardening....
- Open Source Machine Translation Service5 May 2026, 5:12 pm
Run your own machine translation service with Argos Translate and LibreTranslate....
- Malware Problems in Linux App Stores5 May 2026, 5:12 pm
Fake cryptocurrency wallets in the Snap Store have cost users hundreds of thousands of dollars. A community project aims to create more transparency for Snap package users....
- Share Data Between Small Low-End Devices5 May 2026, 5:12 pm
With memcached, you can establish communication between Arduinos, Pi Picos, handhelds, and other small microcontrollers....
- Canonical Unveils Ubuntu AI Strategy: Local Models, User Control, and Smarter Workflows28 April 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
Canonical has officially revealed its long-anticipated plans to bring artificial intelligence features into Ubuntu, marking a significant shift for one of the world’s most widely used Linux distributions. Rather than rushing into the AI wave, Canonical is taking a measured, privacy-focused approach, one that aims to enhance the operating system without compromising its open-source values.
The rollout is exp...
- Thunderbird 150 Lands on Linux: Smarter Encryption, Better Tools, and a Polished Experience23 April 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
Mozilla has officially rolled out Thunderbird 150.0, the latest version of its open-source email client, bringing a mix of security-focused enhancements, usability upgrades, and workflow improvements for Linux and other platforms. Released in April 2026, this update continues Thunderbird’s steady evolution as a powerful desktop email solution.
For Linux users, Thunderbird 150 delivers meaningful updates that...
- Linux Kernel 6.19 Reaches End of Life: Time to Move Forward21 April 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
The Linux kernel continues its fast-paced release cycle, and with that comes an important milestone: Linux kernel 6.19 has officially reached end of life (EOL). For users and distributions still running this branch, it’s now time to upgrade to a newer kernel version.
This isn’t unexpected, Linux 6.19 was never intended to be a long-term release, but it does serve as a reminder of how quickly non-LTS kernel...
- Archinstall 4.2 Shifts to Wayland-First Profiles, Leaving X.Org Behind16 April 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
The Arch Linux installer continues evolving alongside the broader Linux desktop ecosystem. With the release of Archinstall 4.2, a notable change has arrived: Wayland is now the default focus for graphical installation profiles, while traditional X.Org-based profiles have been removed or deprioritized.
This move reflects a wider transition happening across Linux, one that is gradually redefining how graphical e...
- OpenClaw in 2026: What It Is, Who’s Using It, and Whether Your Business Should Adopt It14 April 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
“probably the single most important release of software, probably ever.”
— Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA
Wow! That’s a bold statement from one of the most influential figures in modern computing.
But is it true? Some people think so. Others think it’s hype. Most are somewhere in between, aware of OpenClaw, but not entirely sure what to make of it. Are people actually using it? Yes. Who’s using it? Mo...
- Linux Kernel Developers Adopt New Fuzzing Tools9 April 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
The Linux kernel development community is stepping up its security game once again. Developers, led by key maintainers like Greg Kroah-Hartman, are actively adopting new fuzzing tools to uncover bugs earlier and improve overall kernel reliability.
This move reflects a broader shift toward automated testing and AI-assisted development, as the kernel continues to grow in complexity and scale.
What Is Fuzzing an...
- GNOME 50 Reaches Arch Linux: A Leaner, Wayland-Only Future Arrives7 April 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
Arch Linux users are among the first to experience the latest GNOME desktop, as GNOME 50 has begun rolling out through Arch’s repositories. Thanks to Arch’s rolling-release model, new upstream software like GNOME arrives quickly, giving users early access to the newest features and architectural changes.
With GNOME 50, that includes one of the most significant shifts in the desktop’s history.
A Major GN...
- MX Linux Pushes Back Against Age Verification: A Stand for Privacy and Open Source Principles2 April 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
The MX Linux project has taken a firm stance in a growing controversy across the Linux ecosystem: mandatory age-verification requirements at the operating system level. In a recent update, the team made it clear, they have no intention of implementing such measures, citing concerns over privacy, practicality, and the core philosophy of open-source software.
As governments begin introducing laws that could requ...
- LibreOffice Drives Europe’s Open Source Shift: A Growing Push for Digital Sovereignty31 March 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
LibreOffice is increasingly at the center of Europe’s push toward open-source adoption and digital independence. Backed by The Document Foundation, the widely used office suite is playing a key role in helping governments, institutions, and organizations reduce reliance on proprietary software while strengthening control over their digital infrastructure.
Across the European Union, this shift is no longer ex...
- From Linux to Blockchain: The Infrastructure Behind Modern Financial Systems26 March 2026, 4:00 pm
by George Whittaker
The modern internet is built on open systems. From the Linux kernel powering servers worldwide to the protocols that govern data exchange, much of today’s digital infrastructure is rooted in transparency, collaboration, and decentralization. These same principles are now influencing a new frontier: financial systems built on blockchain technology.
For developers and system architects familiar with Linux and ...
- Enhance Your Expertise Anytime with Unlimited Online Courses — Now $19.976 May 2026, 1:00 pm
Topics include growth hacking, game design, blockchain, AI, digital marketing, cybersecurity, copywriting, and big data.
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- Level Up Your Career with Global Courses and Verified CPD Certificates6 May 2026, 8:51 am
Accelerate your professional development plans with a one-year subscription to ExpertEase Global for 74% off.
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- Wearables for Blood Sugar Tracking: What Works Now and What’s Still Coming5 May 2026, 7:07 pm
Compare Apple Watch, Garmin, Oura, Samsung, Withings, Huawei, and Evie Ring in the race to bring blood sugar data to wearables.
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- New WhatsApp Flaws Could Affect Billions of Users After Meta Security Patch5 May 2026, 5:38 pm
Meta patched two WhatsApp flaws affecting iOS, Android, and Windows users, including bugs tied to risky files, links, and Reels previews.
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- Google AppSheet Abuse Helped Phish 30,000 Facebook Accounts5 May 2026, 4:46 pm
Hackers abused Google AppSheet to send Meta phishing emails, compromising 30,000 Facebook business accounts across 50 countries.
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- Google Update: Android Flaw Could Put Billions of Devices at Risk5 May 2026, 4:29 pm
Google patched an Android zero-click RCE flaw affecting multiple versions. Here’s what IT teams should know and how to reduce mobile risk.
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- Samsung Display Reveals Screens That Measure Health, Stretch, and Fight Glare5 May 2026, 3:56 pm
Samsung Display unveiled OLED, sensor, quantum dot, and stretchable screen prototypes that preview brighter phones, health tracking, and car displays.
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- iOS 26.5 to Introduce Encrypted RCS, Maps Changes, and New EU Features5 May 2026, 1:46 pm
Apple’s iOS 26.5 release candidate points to RCS encryption, Maps ad changes, EU device support, and App Store subscription updates.
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- What If Your Digital Footprint Could Shrink?5 May 2026, 1:23 pm
Get Surfshark One+ with Incogni for $91.99 (reg. $500.40) and cover VPN, alerts, antivirus, and data removal.
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- Power Through Projects with the Microsoft Office 2024 Home & Business5 May 2026, 1:00 pm
The newest Office version is here and includes a variety of updates to help you work more efficiently.
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- Fedora Community Blog: Community Update – Week 18, 20266 May 2026, 2:37 pm
This is a report created by the CLE Team, which is a team containing community members working in various Fedora groups, for example, Infrastructure, Release Engineering, Quality, etc. This team is also moving forward with some initiatives inside the Fedora project.
Week: 27 April – 01 May 2026
Fedora Infrastructure
This team is taking care of day to day business regarding Fedora Infrastructure.It’s responsible for services running in Fedora inf...
- Fedora Infrastructure Status: s390 builder outage6 May 2026, 12:00 pm
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- Peter Czanik: Fedora 44, CentOS 7 and Amazon Linux syslog-ng questions6 May 2026, 11:28 am
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- Fedora Community Blog: Join Us for Podman 6.0 Test Days – May 11-15, 20265 May 2026, 11:56 am
The Fedora QA team invites you to participate in the Podman 6.0 Test Days from Monday, May 11-15, 2026.
Podman 6.0 is a major modernization release that removes legacycomponents and finalizes previously announced deprecation:
What’s New in Podman 6.0
Modern networking: Netavark switches from iptables to nftables,aligning with current Fedora defaults
Simplified architecture: Removal of slirp4netns (replaced by Pasta)and BoltDB (replaced by SQLi...
- Fedora Infrastructure Status: Restart of Copr servers5 May 2026, 10:00 am
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- Justin Wheeler: Why the Fedora AI-Assisted Contributions Policy Matters for Open Source4 May 2026, 8:00 am
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- Marcin Juszkiewicz: New Fedora package: fedora-active-user4 May 2026, 6:37 am
During my work on the RISC-V 64-bit architecture port of Fedora, I created
several pull requests to Fedora packages. And some were stalled…
Non-responsive maintainer process
Fedora project has a process called ‘non-responsive maintainer’.
You check is maintainer on vacation, check latest activity and open a bug asking
for action.
The problem was that it linked to fedora_active_user.py script
which does not work since Fedora 41. During cycle of that re...
- Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits last of april 20262 May 2026, 5:41 pm
I'm back from my vacation, so time for another weekly recap...
Vacation
Week before last I had a lovely time away in hawaii (The big island).
I saw volcanoes (we missing lava fountaining by like 15minutes), lava
tubes (really cool (literally) and dark), botanical gardens (unreal flowers),
had a dinner/sunset cruise with history and finally a sunset/stargazing
trip to the top of mona kea. Super fun! Wish I had another week there to
lounge on the beach. If you...
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You’ve just completed a cPanel server migration. The accounts are transferred, DNS is propagating, everything looks good… until you check the AutoSSL logs and see this staring back at you: WARN AutoSSL failed to create a new certificate order because the server's Let's Encrypt account (https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/acme/acct/XXXXXXX) has reached a rate limit. (429 urn:ietf:params:acme:error:rateLimited) Every domain […]...
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If you have recently migrated to AlmaLinux 9 (or any RHEL 9 derivative) and run ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF) with Login Failure Daemon (LFD), you have probably noticed your inbox filling up with alerts like these: Time: Wed Feb 19 03:14:22 2025 Account: root Resource: Virtual Memory Size Exceeded: 384 > 256 (MB) Executable: […]...
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If you have recently tried to migrate a cPanel server and watched every single database import fail with ERROR at line 1: Unknown command '\-', you are not alone. This error has been quietly biting sysadmins for the better part of a year, and cPanel still has not published a word about it. Here is […]...
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The post ProjectLibre Major Release: Day One downloads in 150+ countries… replacing Microsoft Project appeared first on SourceForge Community Blog....
- Display an Interactive Demo on your SourceForge Business Software Listing2 April 2024, 11:20 pm
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The post Display an Interactive Demo on your SourceForge Business Software Listing appeared first on SourceForge Community Blog....
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The post Project Web Hosting Database Upgrade Notice appeared first on SourceForge Community Blog....
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The post GitHub is Ending Subversion (svn) Support: Subversion and SourceForge appeared first on SourceForge Community Blog....
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The post ProjectLibre Recognized With Open Source Excellence Award on SourceForge appeared first on SourceForge Community Blog....
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SourceForge does not have malware or viruses. All projects, downloads, and releases served from SourceForge are scanned for malware and viruses, so you can rest assured that your ...
The post Does SourceForge have malware? appeared first on SourceForge Community Blog....
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- kea >= 1:3.0.3-6 update requires manual intervention7 April 2026, 4:50 pm
The kea package has moved all services to run as a dedicated kea user (instead of root) for improved security. This change requires permission updates to the runtime files created by the kea services.
Users upgrading from an existing kea installation should therefore run the following commands after the upgrade:
chown kea: /var/lib/kea/* /var/log/kea/* /run/lock/kea/logger_lockfile
systemctl try-restart kea-ctrl-agent.service kea-dhcp{4,6,-ddns}.service
Accounts that need to interact with kea se...
- iptables now defaults to the nft backend5 April 2026, 6:28 pm
The old iptables-nft package name is replaced by iptables, and the
legacy backend is available as iptables-legacy.
When switching packages (among iptables-nft, iptables, iptables-legacy),
check for .pacsave files in /etc/iptables/ and restore your rules if needed:
/etc/iptables/iptables.rules.pacsave
/etc/iptables/ip6tables.rules.pacsave
Most setups should work unchanged, but users relying on uncommon xtables
extensions or legacy-only behavior should test carefully and use
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- NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support; main packages switch to Open Kernel Modules20 December 2025, 6:53 pm
With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs or older. We will replace the nvidia package with nvidia-open, nvidia-dkms with nvidia-open-dkms, and nvidia-lts with nvidia-lts-open.
Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages on systems with Pascal, Maxwell, or older cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a broken graphical environment.
Intervention required for Pascal/older users: Users with GTX 10xx series and older cards must switc...
- .NET packages may require manual intervention11 December 2025, 7:01 am
The following packages may require manual intervention due to the upgrade from 9.0 to 10.0:
aspnet-runtime
aspnet-targeting-pack
dotnet-runtime
dotnet-sdk
dotnet-source-built-artifacts
dotnet-targeting-pack
pacman may display the following error failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) for the affected packages.
If you are affected by this and require the 9.0 packages, the following commands will update e.g. aspnet-runtime to aspnet-runtime-9.0:
pacman -Syu aspnet-runtime...
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As a result, the upgrade may conflict with the unowned files created in previous versions. If you encounter errors like the following during the update:
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waydroid: /usr/lib/waydro...
- dovecot >= 2.4 requires manual intervention31 October 2025, 9:20 pm
The dovecot 2.4 release branch has made breaking changes which result
in it being incompatible with any <= 2.3 configuration file.
Thus, the dovecot service will no longer be able to start until the
configuration file was migrated, requiring manual intervention.
For guidance on the 2.3-to-2.4 migration, please refer to the
following upstream documentation:
Upgrading Dovecot CE from 2.3 to 2.4
Furthermore, the dovecot 2.4 branch no longer supports their
replication feature, it was removed.
For...
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We want to provide an update on the recent service outages affecting our infrastructure. The Arch Linux Project is currently experiencing an ongoing denial of service attack that primarily impacts our main webpage, the Arch User Repository (AUR), and the Forums.
We are aware of the problems that this creates for our end users and will continue to actively work with our hosting provider to mitigate the attack. We are also evaluating DDoS protection providers while carefully considering factors in...
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zabbix-server
zabbix-proxy
zabbix-agent (also used by the zabbix-agent2 package)
zabbix-web-service
This shared zabbix user account is provided by the newly introduced zabbix-common split package, which is now a dep...
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Unfortunately, this coincided with upstream reorganizing the symlink layout of the NVIDIA firmware, resulting in a situation that Pacman cannot handle. When attempting to upgrade from 20250508.788aadc8-2 or earlier, you will see the following errors:
linux-firmware-nvidia: /usr/lib/firmware/nvidia/ad103 exists in filesystem
linux-f...
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On Plasma 6.4 the wayland session will be the only one installed when the users does not manually specify kwin-x11.
With the recent split of kwin into kwin-wayland and kwin-x11, users running the old X11 session needs to manually install plasma-x11-session, or they will not be able to login. Currently pacman is not able to figure out your personal setup, and it wouldn't be ok to install plasma-x11-session and kwin-x11 for every
one using Plasma.
tldr: Install plasma-x11-session if you are still ...
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