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Woodpecker CI 3.20 Released with Pipeline Improvements, Security Fixes
Woodpecker CI 3.20 adds manual workflow selection, tighter agent restrictions, faster queue scheduling, and security improvements.
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Linux Mint Devs Introduce New System Monitor and Terminal Emulator Apps
The Linux Mint devs keep working on new features and apps for the upcoming Linux Mint 27 “Adrien” release, due out in Christmas 2026, and they just unveiled new system monitor, terminal emulator, and archive manager tools today.
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Haruna 1.9 Media Player Improves YouTube Handling and Playlist Management
KDE's Haruna 1.9 optimizes YouTube URL processing, changes how playlists load at startup, and adds new customization options.
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GNU Mtools 4.0.50 Released With Security Fix
The longtime GNU utility collection lets users work with DOS disks and FAT filesystems without mounting them.
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Securing Internet-Critical Software: How We Could Have Backdoored Bash
A shell injection hidden in an email address gave us code execution on GNU Savannah, then root, then the ability to push to the upstream Bash repository. We reported it, kept auditing, and helped the FSF fix 26 vulnerabilities in the forge that hosts GNU.
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Linux Lite 8.2 Released with Linux Kernel 7.3, Based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Linux Lite 8.2 has been released today as the second installment in the Linux Lite 8 series of this Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the lightweight Xfce desktop environment.
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Linux Mint Developing New Apps For Terminal & System Monitoring
Linux Mint is out with their October 2026 status report to outline various initiatives they have underway in their lead-up to the Linux Mint 27 stable release happening on/around Christmas…
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Denmark’s Collabora Pilot Was Never The Microsoft Replacement it Was Made Out to Be
Collabora says a ministry merger paused the test, while the ministry says it was interrupted when the election was called.
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Enlightenment 0.28 Desktop Adds PipeWire Support, NetworkManager Module
Enlightenment 0.28 has been released today by Carsten Haitzler as a major update to this free and open-source lightweight and modern desktop environment and window manager for Linux and BSD systems.
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CUDA Oxide 0.3 Vastly Improves Rust Support For NVIDIA CUDA Programming
NVIDIA software engineers released CUDA Oxide 0.3 for closing out October. CUDA Oxide as a reminder is their experimental Rust to CUDA compiler that has been seeing a lot of activity in recent months…
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How to Install Yarn on Ubuntu 24.04 (via 3 Methods)
Learn how to install the Yarn package manager on Ubuntu using NPM, Corepack, and the APT repository with practical examples.
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This app lets you manage Nothing & CMF earbuds on Linux
Adjusting active noise cancellation (ANC) on Nothing or CMF earbuds means taking out your phone to use the official mobile app. EarA, a new open-source tool, that. It’s a GTK4 app (with a CLI for those who prefer the terminal), and it controls settings on earbuds like the Nothing Ear (a) and CMF Buds 2, from your Linux desktop. Noise control/ANC levels can…
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Tails 7.16 Privacy-Focused Linux Distro Released with Tor Browser 16
Tails 7.16 updates Tor Browser to version 16, upgrades the Tor client, and fixes OpenPGP support in Thunderbird.
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Mastering Zip and Unzip Commands on Linux
This kickstart guide will teach you the distinctions between Zip and Tarball and the installation of Zip and Unzip on your chosen Linux system, with command examples.
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Remote code execution on Linux systems with multipath TCP
On October 27, LLM provider Anthropic reported on a remotely exploitable use-after-free bug affecting systems with multipath TCP listeners open. The bug works by triggering a response to a retransmitted SYN packet at the same moment that the TCP connection is established in another thread, causing the first thread to access the connection's options…
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Labwc 0.20.3 Wayland Compositor Adds Custom Pointer Acceleration
Labwc 0.20.3 introduces custom pointer acceleration, new input settings, and fixes for screen locking, XWayland, and window management.
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RISC-V Has A Nice Portable Performance Optimization With Linux 7.4
The RISC-V architecture changes were merged today for the Linux 7.4 kernel with one nice optimization standing out…
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Szyszka: A Bulk File Renamer Written in Rust with GTK 4 for Linux
Quickly bulk rename files or directories using a simple yet powerful tool named Szyszka on Linux, Windows, and macOS.
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Wine 11.21 Improves WoW64 OpenGL Performance, Fixes 20 Bugs
Wine 11.21 improves WoW64 OpenGL performance, introduces a Voice Capture DSP library, and fixes 20 bugs affecting games and applications.
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Working Exploit for a Linux Kernel Flaw Made Public
Even before a bug received its CVE identifier or an upstream fix, the local privilege escalation vulnerability exploit found its way into the wild.
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Shelly 3.1.10 Arch Linux Package Manager Improves AUR Builds
Shelly 3.1.10 improves AUR dependency handling, system upgrades, error reporting, and desktop usability for Arch Linux users.
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Ubuntu 27.04 ‘Tenacious T-Rex’ opens for development
Development on Ubuntu 27.04, codenamed ‘Tenacious T-Rex’, has officially begun. The tenacious archive is now open (30 October 2026), with auto-sync from Debian set to pull in a tranche of updated packages since the Ubuntu 26.10 release. Over the course of the next six months, those will be tested, set and form the basis of the final, stable release. Ubuntu…
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Shelly 3.1.10 Brings More Reliable AUR Builds and a New “Shell” Progress Bar
Shelly 3.1.10 has been released today as a new maintenance update in the Shelly 3.1 series of this modern, open-source, and free pacman alternative for Arch Linux and derivatives, with AUR build and upgrade improvements.
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r/opensource Bans AI-Assisted and AI-Related Projects
The de facto subreddit for all things open source has not only banned AI-related projects but also users who "don't speak English."
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Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault
Over the past decade, the timing of PostgreSQL major releases has become very predictable: no earlier than the middle of September, and no later than the middle of October. This year is going to be different. PostgreSQL 19 most likely won’t be released until November, and it’s not impossible that the project could decide to postpone the release further.
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Pulsar 1.133 Code Editor Brings Better Terminal Integration, Faster Editing
Pulsar 1.133 improves terminal integration, fixes large-file editing slowdowns, upgrades to Electron 32, and redesigns file watching.
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Planet News Roundup
This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. This community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from Oct. 23 - 29. This week highlights five Tumbleweed snapshots for week 43 headlined by KDE Plasma 6.8.0, Qt 6.12.0, Linux Kernel 7.2.11 and PHP 8.5.12,…
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Another Week, Another Vibe Coded OS; Closed-Source In The Name Of Security
With today's AI/LLM capabilities, there is almost a new operating system heard about each week "coded from scratch" predominantly via AI agents. This week was no exception with another project hitting our email inbox. Though most of them are open-source, this one is closed-source in the name of security…
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Best Linux Distros for Chromebooks in 2026 (10 Picks Compared)
This guide covers the two ways to run Linux on a Chromebook, ten distros worth your time, and the checks that save you a wasted afternoon.
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Denmark’s Digital Sovereignty Effort Stalls Amid Government Shakeup
An unfinished Collabora trial has been cast as an open source failure. The timeline tells a different story.