Open-source News

You may recall the news last month around no one was left on Debian's data protection team and other volunteer staffing challenges with different Debian efforts in the past. Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille has been looking at the issue of the challenges that arise when Debian's all-volunteer developers quietly drift away either due to time commitments, other interests, or other reasons but don't properly communicate it to the Debian project...

Eric Engestrom is out with another on-time Mesa release. Mesa 26.0-rc3 provides the latest week's worth of bug fixes as we work toward the stable Mesa 26.0 release as soon as next week...

Linux Users, Do You Use Non-Free Software?  Linuxiac

Discord is getting a speed boost on Windows, Mac, and Linux  How-To Geek

Secure Linux Distros  Trend Hunter

In recent months Intel Linux engineers have been quite active in preparing for next-gen Nova Lake processors. That work has included initial Xe3P graphics support and enabling display support and related display/graphics functionality. The newest now is enabling Nova Lake P including the Xe3P_LPG graphics support...

Intel Sends Out Initial Linux Patches For Xe3P_LPG Graphics With Nova Lake P  Phoronix

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Users Get Linux 6.17 and Mesa 25.2 Ahead of Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS  9to5Linux

IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, and other IDEs are getting a Wayland upgrade on Linux  How-To Geek

Ubuntu 26.04 surprised me - this upcoming release is seriously secure  ZDNET

While link-time optimizations "LTO" can deliver some nice performance benefits out of this compiler optimization technique, it can make debugging said binaries more challenging. Due to various bugs in Mesa being attributed to the use of compiler link-time optimizations when compiling Mesa, the builds are being blocked on using LTO...

Linux Backup Solution Adoption Rates 2026  commandlinux.com

CIQ's NSS Module First to Achieve CAVP Certification for Post-Quantum Cryptography Algorithms  Yahoo Finance Singapore

ConnectSecure Unveils Unified Linux Security Patching for Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS  01net

At embedded world 2026, Linutronix to Present IGLOS Secure Industrial Grade Linux OS  Embedded Computing Design

Zorin OS vs. Linux Mint: Which is the better Linux distro for Windows converts?  How-To Geek

With GIMP 3.2 releasing soon, GIMP developer Ondřej Míchal presented at FOSDEM 2026 this past weekend on some of the feature work being eyed for post-3.2 developments...

Linux users report Microsoft's Visual Studio Code Snap package isn't actually deleting files  TechRadar

Hackers target Linux servers with new variant of major RAT, 10,000 IPs hijacked  Cybernews

While Vulkan Video is a cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode and decode API that is beginning to gain traction by multimedia applications and frameworks, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver has for now taken a step-back on its encode support with newer hardware. Newer Intel graphics hardware is seeing Vulkan Video encode support disabled due to insufficient testing...