Open-source News

The legacy xf86-video-nv driver for user-space mode-setting on old NVIDIA GPUs is out with a rather rare release and the first in over two years with a collection of different bug fixes...

Introducing Proactive Hardening and Attack Surface Reduction (PHASR) for Linux and macOS  Security Boulevard

Introducing Proactive Hardening and Attack Surface Reduction (PHASR) for Linux and macOS  Bitdefender

BleachBit 6.0 Introduces New Cookie Manager, Improves Browser Cleaning  9to5Linux

There's a Linux command that shows you exactly what any running process is doing  MakeUseOf

Void Linux Switches Main NVIDIA Package to Open Kernel Modules  Linuxiac

LACT, one of the leading open-source solutions to provide a graphics card management GUI that works across AMD / NVIDIA / Intel graphics hardware on Linux, is out with a major update this weekend...

LACT 0.9 Released With UI Updates, Voltage-Frequency Curve Editor For NVIDIA  Phoronix

I got all the benefits of a tiling WM without ever leaving GNOME  MakeUseOf

Call for Applications: Shubhra Kar Linux Foundation Training (LiFT) Scholarship Program 2026  Global South Opportunities

Critical Vulnerability Exposes Linux Systems To Root-Level Takeover  LinkedIn

Niri 26.04 is out today as the latest feature update to this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor...

This app fixed my Linux audio in ways I didn't think a free app could  MakeUseOf

France is switching 2.5 million government computers to Linux and the rest of Europe is watching  Startup Fortune

I tested the 3 most popular Linux distros of April 2026—here's how I rank them  How-To Geek

The internet from your terminal: 8 ways to use cURL  How-To Geek

Microsoft's in-house Azure Linux operating system used within Azure and for WSL and other purposes is reportedly pursuing an overhaul where it would be derived from Fedora Linux...

Following last week's Linux 7.1 sound subsystem feature pull that added bus keeper support in working toward better Apple Silicon support along with a variety of other new audio hardware support, a secondary set of sound updates were merged as we approach the end of the Linux 7.1 merge window...

Linux 7.1 Brings Audio Support For The Line6 POD HD PRO & NexiGo N930W Webcam  Phoronix

With the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release due out tomorrow to cap off the Linux 7.1 merge window, one of the most notable additions this cycle is the introduction of the new NTFS driver that aims to provide better performance and more modern features than the existing NTFS3 in-kernel driver that was originally contributed by Paragon Software...