Saturday, October 31, 2026 13 stories in the last seven days
Oct 72026
It’s official! Please join us in welcoming Tristan Théroux and Muuhh (Munehiro) Ikeda to the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board! Meet the New Board Members A connection between our members and the board is incredibly…
We have published Qubes Security Bulletin (QSB) 120: Two CTAP proxy vulnerabilities. The text of this QSB and its accompanying cryptographic signatures are reproduced below, followed by a general explanation of this…
The Podman and Fedora Quality teams are organizing a test week from Monday, October 12, through Sunday, October 18, 2026. We want your help testing conmon v3, the Rust-based container monitor used with Podman.
Gentoo Linux is made possible by many community donations and sponsors, together with the enthusiastic work of our developers. Unfortunately, this year several long-running sponsors were unable to continue their prior…
Oct 62026
A lot of people have been commenting on this over time so I figured I would put together a little post summarizing my thoughts on the matter and everything else. The post is going to be quite large.
Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” arrives at a time when AI tools are accelerating vulnerability discovery. Patching faster is essential, but the resilience of the underlying operating system must also limit what an…
This week's work centers on expanded board and SoC support, build and repository infrastructure modernization, and refinements to user-facing tooling and documentation.
Oct 52026
One of the best things about Rust is how easy it is to get started. It takes just a second to snap install rustup; rustup default stable, and from there you have a whole toolchain ready to compile Rust code.
Oct 32026
ZUPT, an open source backup, compression, and data protection utility, has officially been accepted into openSUSE Factory, bringing a new security-focused backup option to the openSUSE ecosystem.
The mandatory beta is on cdimage. Here is how to test it without risking your daily machine, and how to file a bug someone can actually fix. Episode 24 walks the same steps.
General News: Adrian has put a lot of work into mx-viewer, which started life as a quick-and-dirty html browser that for viewing documents.
Oct 22026
Oct 12026
We’re pleased to announce the stable release of Qubes OS 4.3.2! This patch release aims to consolidate all the security updates and bug fixes that have occurred since the previous stable release.
The 9th monthly Sparky project and donate report of the 2026: – Linux kernel updated up …
There were several software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed during the month of September and with openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 about to begin, we are bringing the monthly review to you early.
Sep 302026
The Kubuntu team is proud to announce the Beta release of Kubuntu 26.10 — Stonking Stingray, stepping toward our October 2026 release.
Welcome to the latest Armbian Newsletter: your source for the latest developments, community highlights, and behind-the-scenes updates from the world of open-source ARM and RISC-V computing.
Armbian builds for hundreds of boards. A kernel bump that is clean on one SoC can leave another unbootable and no build log will tell you. So there is a rack, and the rack boots them. Compiling is not evidence.
Running Gemma 4 E2B on a Mali GPU with LiteRT-LM This guide should work on any armbian minimal/console (trixie) system with a working Mali-g610 GPU.
The wait is almost over! 🎉 The openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 will begin on Oct. 3-4 at UIN Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta. On behalf of the organizing committee, we would like to warmly welcome everyone to Yogyakarta and to…
Sep 292026
Changes and updates Update Tor Browser to 15.0.24. Update the Tor client to 0.4.9.13. Update the Linux kernel to 6.12.111. Fixed problems Fix the default keyboard input method when starting a session in Korean.
Whether you’re a first-time Linux user, experienced developer, academic researcher, or enterprise administrator, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is the best way to benefit from the latest advancements in the Linux…
Sep 282026
We have shown that running mainline Linux on your phone is a real possibility for highly invested Linux enthusiasts. Now how do we get from there to making it usable for everybody else who just wants a working phone?
This week's work centers on Rockchip platform maturation, kernel and toolchain modernization, and board-level enablement across vendors.
This week, we’ve been concocting a potion using a few ingredients provided by our brilliant team of developers and packagers. The way applications are managed and packaged in Mageia, compared to other competitors…
The openSUSE.Asia Summit Organizing Committee has extended the deadline for the Call for Host to submit proposals for the 2027 Summit. Communities now have until 30 November, 2026 to apply.
A customer building a FedRAMP-compliant deployment found that Ubuntu Pro 22.04 FIPS container images were silently failing on standard, mainline Linux kernels, the kind used by managed Kubernetes environments such as…
Entering RC Phase openSUSE Leap 16.1 has entered the Release Candidate phase. Release Candidate images can be found at get.opensuse.org.
Sep 272026
As we have reported before, the Nura team has been working for a long while in the creation of a legal entity. That process was recently finished, and there now exists a legal entity whose goal is to support our mission!
Sep 262026
After a one and a half year selection process, the new name of the operating system formerly known postmarketOS has been announced during the mystery talk of our very own conference.
