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Oct 192026
For decades, the Linux virtual console has relied on the kernel fbcon driver, to draw the framebuffer, to manage fonts, and to handle keyboard layout.
Oct 182026
Hello everybody! We’re excited to announce the release of MocaccinoOS v26.10. We hope you enjoy this release and the improvements it brings.
The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation (RESF) is proud to announce OpenCourant as an RESF Incubator Project. OpenCourant is an open source finite el...
Oct 172026
Release Date: October 17, 2026Base: Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) Introduction The FunOS team is proud to announce the release of FunOS 26.10, built on top of Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray).
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. 9 - 15.
Oct 162026
A new Linux kernel vulnerability, nicknamed PwnEscape ( CVE-2026-99999), has been disclosed. It is a guest-to-host virtual machine (VM) escape: anyone who controls a guest VM can send specially crafted network packets…
Fedora Linux 45 is almost here! Developers, packagers, and quality assurance engineers are hard at work putting the remaining polish on Fedora 45, which means it’s time for our Global Virtual Release Party!
This October I attended both the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and Open Source Summit Europe 2026 in Prague, practically back to back. Two conferences, two continents and one very long trip.
Oct 152026
This change has been a long time coming, and I’m excited to tell you about it. The Marketing SIG is now the Promo SIG! If you haven’t run into us before, the Marketing SIG is one of the many SIGs (Special Interest…
Thanks to the hard work from our contributors, Lubuntu 26.10 has been released. With the codename Stonking Stingray, Lubuntu 26.10 is the 31st release of Lubuntu, the 17th release of Lubuntu with LXQt as the default…
Hi everyone! It’s that time again. I am happy to announce that Ubuntu Cinnamon 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” has been released! This release comes with […]
The latest interim release of Ubuntu previews privacy conscious speech-to-text, enables post-quantum package signing, completes the rollout of Rust coreutils, and improves enterprise identity integration.
### New - Added a Gallery feature that supports adding photo sources and browsing photos and videos together in a chronological timeline - Added intelligent search, allowing users to find photos using natural language…
Oct 142026
Stonking Stingray is out. Here’s the stack, how to upgrade, a Virtual Desktops tip and a Discover pick. Kubuntu 26.10, codenamed Stonking Stingray, is out today, Thursday 15 October 2026, released on the same day as…
Kubuntu 26.10 Release Notes October 15, 2026 The Latest KDE Plasma on Ubuntu’s Newest Interim Release The Kubuntu team is happy to announce the release of Kubuntu 26.10, codenamed “Stonking Stingray”!
Introduction On 7 October 2026, Daniel Stenberg published a blog post describing a plan to release a new version of curl on 14 October 2026 in order to address 22 known security vulnerabilities.
IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 204 is now available for download. It is a housekeeping release that brings a healthy dose of updates across the entire operating system and fixes a regression in our recent migration to Knot…
There were a few software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed ARM this month with snapshots reaching the ARM port. The second half of September and the first half of October carried the Linux kernel from 7.2.6…
Oct 132026
What's new in Ubuntu MATE 26.10 (Stonking Stingray)
AlmaLinux has grown a lot since we started, and I want to make sure the work we take on next is the work you need from us. That means that before we decide, I want to hear from you!
Many thanks to all of you for your donations and your amazing support. Please note that the features presented in this blog post are a preview.
Oct 122026
This week's development centers on expanded board support and vendor kernel work, mainline kernel progression to 7.3 with CI resilience improvements, and a substantial refresh of the Armbian Imager.
The Xen Project has released one or more Xen security advisories (XSAs). The security of Qubes OS is not affected. XSAs that DO affect the security of Qubes OS The following XSAs do affect the security of Qubes OS…
The Atomic SIG has just released v13 of atomic-ci, and it’s the biggest change to our build tooling in quite some time. When we started the Atomic SIG last year, we built our images with the best tools available at the…
A few months ago, we introduced Myna, our project to bring private, local speech-to-text dictation to Ubuntu Desktop. Named after the speech-mimicking myna bird, Myna is an optional Ubuntu 26.10 feature that offers…
Today we would like to talk about PepVoid, a build branch we have been actively working. This effort began as an exploration to apply the Peppermint approach to the rolling release philosophy of Void Linux.
Oct 102026
We have a very exciting month behind us. Our very first conference happened and was a huge success thanks to the amazing people who operated the video equipment, organized the event, gave talks, helped out in other…
Oct 82026
The Xen Project has released one or more Xen security advisories (XSAs). The security of Qubes OS is not affected. XSAs that DO affect the security of Qubes OS The following XSAs do affect the security of Qubes OS…
Guix is all about empowering people, so it should come as no surprise that one can extend it with new guix commands. You can show the commands available in your current Guix through the help command: $ guix help If you…
