PipeWire 0.3.74 Released
This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous 0.3.x releases.
Tux Machines
Do you waddle the waddle?
Do you waddle the waddle?
Powered by Linux kernel 7.2.7, the Arch Linux 2026.10.01 ISO snapshot ships as a refreshed installation image that incorporates all the security patches, bug fixes, and updated packages that have been pushed to the Arch Linux software repositories throughout September 2026.
Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.2 kernel series, OpenMandriva Lx 26.09 ROME features the latest KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment with the KDE Gear 26.08.1 and KDE Frameworks 6.29 software suites, as well as GNOME 50.3, Xfce 4.20, LXQt 2.4, MATE 1.28, Spectrwm, Hyprland 0.56.2, COSMIC 1.7, Sway 1.12, and others.
Coming more than four months after Nitrux 6.1, the Nitrux 7.0 release is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.2 kernel series with CachyOS patches, namely Linux 7.2.6, and uses the Hyprland 0.55.4 Wayland compositor with the Lüv 0.8.9 icon theme, KDE Frameworks 6.26 software suite, and MauiKit 4.0.4.
Mozilla Thunderbird 157 introduces two new enterprise policies, namely DisableChat and DisableFileLink, to disable the Thunderbird Chat functionality and the Thunderbird FileLink functionality, respectively, makes the IMAP/POP manual configuration port field optional, and updates the built-in Thundermail add-on to version 2.0.16.
Audacity 4.0.1 adds support for exporting each track or each labelled region to its own file, restores the missing keyboard shortcuts from the Audacity 3 series, adds clickable carousel dots on the Welcome screen, adds a Liquid Glass app icon on macOS, and adds an “Open in file manager” option to the Cloud projects tab.
Coming three months after Archinstall 4.4, the Archinstall 4.5 release introduces AArch64 support for GRUB and Limine EFI installations, AArch64 root partition type GUID support, RT kernel variants from upstream, optdepends support for the linux-firmware package, and Norwegian, Serbian, and Vietnamese translations.
Still based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series, antiX Linux 26.1 ships with updated packages from the upstream Debian Stable repositories and updated kernels across all supported architectures, namely the customised Linux 5.10.256 LTS kernel for the core edition and the Linux 6.6.139 LTS kernel for the 64-bit full edition.
Coming a month after OpenSSL 4.0.2, the OpenSSL 4.0.3 release is here to address several important security vulnerabilities, including a use-after-free in X.509 extension cache under concurrent use (CVE-2026-84783), and a potential CPU DoS via O(n^2) fragment reassembly in QUIC (CVE-2026-42772).
To ensure a safe upgrade process for existing Ubuntu LTS users, Canonical delayed the upgrade path by about three weeks, but now it’s officially open, allowing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and enjoy its new features and improvements.
“Smart” phone is not a “Musical Instrument”
Where did time go?
Notorious for not paying anything
Is this still about sports?
OK, good start?
It’s coming
Can one trust air crews?
Yes, in Europe
his coming February marks 5 years since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began. It (same month) also marks the time I quit all social control media ‘cold turkey’.
OK only for Qatar?
Shenzhen Graperain Technology has featured an Allwinner A733 development platform with a gold-finger system-on-module and carrier board. It provides an octa-core Arm processor, 3-TOPS NPU, LPDDR5 memory, M.2 storage, GbE and multiple display and camera interfaces.
Makerfabs has added a 7.5-inch model to its MaTouch E Ink family, pairing an 800 × 480 four-color electrophoretic display with an ESP32-S3 controller, four-microphone array, six-axis IMU, microSD storage and optional camera. The board is intended for applications including information displays, voice-controlled interfaces and low-power dashboards.
ASRock Industrial has announced four compact platforms based on Intel Core Series 3 “Wildcat Lake-U” processors. The lineup includes the NUC BOX-320 and NUC BOX-304 mini PCs, alongside the NUC-320 and NUC-304 motherboards, with up to 40 TOPS of AI performance, DDR5 memory, dual 2.5GbE networking, and multi-display support for embedded applications.
Forlinx Embedded has listed an M.2 AI accelerator card based on Rockchip’s RK1820 and RK1828 processors, providing 20 TOPS of INT8 computing performance and up to 5GB of integrated DRAM. The module uses an M.2 2280 interface and is designed to handle local AI inference, including large language models, vision-language models, and computer vision workloads on embedded Linux and Android systems.
The open Internet is made up of countless interconnected networks. At its best, it is resilient enough to withstand disruptions. But even narrow policy and commercial choices can have ripple effects that shape what people can access, how information moves, and who gets to participate online.
How can we best help people have a safe and secure experience online? How can we help them protect themselves from scams? Detect false information? Protect their data and systems?
This version includes important security updates to Firefox.
The Persistent Storage on the USB stick will be lost if you install instead of upgrading.
This version includes important security updates to Firefox.
This is a quick bugfix release that is API and ABI compatible with previous 0.3.x releases.