📰 AnduinOS is Windows without the frustration, and it just cracked the top 15 distros

AnduinOS has beocme a very popular Linux distro, and it's easy to see why Windows users might want to switch to it.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/anduinos-windows-without-frustration-cracked-top-15-distros/

#distro #linux

📰 FFmpeg Lands H.265 Vulkan Encode Performance Optimizations

The FFmpeg multimedia library can now enjoy faster H.265/HEVC video encoding with the Vulkan-powered encode path. With the optimizations merged today, the H.265 encode performance should be roughly at parity to the H.264 encode speed...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Faster-HEVC-Encode

#ffmpeg

📰 Aura Glass Gives the GNOME Desktop a Complete Frosted-Glass Makeover

Aura Glass gives the GNOME Desktop a polished glassmorphism makeover with dynamic blur, multiple color schemes, custom styling, and an interactive installer.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/aura-glass-gives-the-gnome-desktop-a-complete-frosted-glass-makeover/

#gnome

📰 Wordbook is a modern offline dictionary for GNOME

They say never judge a book by its cover, and few do if said book is a dictionary – but what about desktop dictionary apps? I recently discovered Wordbook, a modern English-English dictionary powered by OpenEnglish WordNet and eSpeak for pronunciations, that works entirely offline. Wordbook is in GNOME Circle; the GTK4/libadwaita UI is a good fit for the desktop.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/gnome-wordbook-dictionary-offline

#gnome

📰 EFS & FreeVxFS File-Systems Get Booted While FailFS Merged For Linux 7.3

Among the early pull requests merged today by Linus Torvalds for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle were removal of some ancient file-systems while adding in a new pseudo file-system...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-File-System-Changes-7.3

#kernel #linux

📰 Ubuntu’s App Center doesn’t know what went wrong

I recently re-encountered my favourite ‘error’ dialog in Ubuntu, which is thrown by the distro’s App Center (snap-store), which is the default GUI software management tool. I don’t see it often, but when I do it (un)helpfully informs me: “Something went wrong. We’re sorry, but we’re not sure what the error is.” While I sympathise with its honesty and the general sense of unease in imparts – I say something similar, looking at the state of the...

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-app-center-something-went-wrong

#distro #ubuntu

📰 CISA Flags Actively Exploited Ray Flaw That Can Trigger Browser-Based RCE

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical flaw impacting Ray to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.Ray is an open-source, Python-native distributed computing framework designed to scale artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. As of writing, the GitHub project has more than.

🔗 Source: https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cisa-flags-actively-exploited-ray-flaw.html

#opensource #python

📰 I Found an Easy Way to Make GNOME More Colorful

Rewaita makes it easy to recolor GTK and Libadwaita apps with popular palettes, custom colors and a few extra visual effects.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17422068/rewaita

#gnome

📰 Lenovo Lands New Watchdog Driver In Linux 7.3 For Their SE30G2 + SE60 Edge AI Computers

When it comes to the watchdog driver changes for Linux 7.3, standing out is the new Lenovo driver for their upcoming ThinkEdge AI edge computing systems...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Watchdog

#linux

📰 The Xen Project is Serious About Safety, So It Formed a Committee

Founding members AMD, EPAM, and Renesas already put in the groundwork, and there's a new Premier Plus membership tier to go with it.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17422118/xen-project-safety-committee

#amd

📰 Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment

Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/18/sponsor-gives-kde-plasma-66-the-lts-treatment/5288531

#kde #plasma

📰 Rust For Linux 7.3 Begins Seeing Fixes To Prepare For Rust's GCC Backend

In addition to the POWER/PowerPC code adding Rust kernel support, the main set of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.3 kernel have now been submitted. Most notable are early fixes toward eventually allowing the experimental Rust GCC back-end to be used as an alternative to the official rustc compiler with LLVM code generation...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-For-Linux-7.3

#kernel #linux

📰 IOmap Improvement For Linux 7.3 Takes EXT4 & XFS Performance Further

As part of the VFS pull requests now merged to the Linux 7.3 development kernel was an improvement to the IOmap framework used by various file-systems for mapping logical file byte offsets in memory to their physical locations on storage. With the now-merged code, this modern block mapping framework is allowing better performance at least for the EXT4 file-system...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/IOmap-Linux-7.3-Faster

#kernel #linux

📰 This Solo Dev Already Built a Popular Distro. Now He's Trying It Again

Built on AlmaLinux with bootc, it promises atomic updates and zero manual upkeep.

🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17422317/stillos-review

#distro

📰 VirtualBox 7.2.16 Improves Shared Clipboard in Wayland, Adds FRED Support

VirtualBox 7.2.16 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with improvements to shared clipboard handling in Wayland, improved support for RHEL 9.8 kernels, and more.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/virtualbox-7-2-16-improves-shared-clipboard-in-wayland-adds-fred-support

#opensource #wayland

📰 Framework Laptop 12 Updated For Intel Wildcat Lake, Shipping Starts In October

Last year Framework Computer launched the Framework Laptop 12 as an upgrade-friendly and Linux-compatible 2-in-1 laptop. The Framework Laptop 12 was originally powered by Intel Core 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" low-end processor while now Framework is adding Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake" as an upgrade or for new Laptop 12 orders...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Laptop-12-WCL

#intel #linux

📰 Mozilla Firefox 155 Enters Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect

Firefox 155 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with support for Happy Eyeballs v3 for faster page loading and many other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-155-enters-public-beta-testing-heres-what-to-expect

#firefox #opensource

📰 COSMIC Epoch 1.6 Released With Per-App Volume Control, Remote Desktop Preparations

COSMIC Epoch 1.6 was released this evening as the latest milestone for this open-source, Rust-based desktop environment led by System76 as part of the work on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.6

#linux #opensource

📰 Mojo Programming Language Goes Fully Open Source

Just days after Mojo 1.0 arrived, Modular has opened the language’s compiler and toolchain source code under the Apache 2.0 license with LLVM exceptions.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/mojo-programming-language-goes-fully-open-source/

#opensource

📰 Someone made a Raspberry Pi D&D DM cyberdeck that tracks campaigns, rolls dice, and generates NPCs

There's nothing like being put on the spot as a D&D dungeon master when your players ask to talk to someone you haven't made notes for. And you know you can't just make up a random name and backstory, because your players will somehow make that one NPC a bigger part of the story than your planned villain.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-made-a-raspberry-pi-dd-gm-cyberdeck-that-tracks-campaigns-rolls-dice-and-generates-npcs/

#raspberry