Other Sites

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tails 7.6

Tor bridges are secret Tor relays that hide that you are connecting to Tor. If connecting to Tor is blocked from where you are, you can use a bridge as your first Tor relay to circumvent this censorship.

9to5Linux

Calibre 9.6 Adds New Card-Based View of Full-Text Search Results with Book Covers

Coming two weeks after Calibre 9.5, the Calibre 9.6 release updates the full text search feature with a new card-based view of full text search results that includes book covers. To perform a full-text search, click the “FT” button on the left of the search bar.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Is Out Now with Linux Kernel 7.0 and GNOME 50

Powered by the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel series and using the Mesa 26.0 graphics stack, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta ships today with the latest and greatest GNOME 50 desktop environment, with the addition of graphical Ubuntu Insights management controls in the Telemetry panel of the GNOME Settings app.

Tails 7.6 Privacy-Focused Linux Distro Released with Automatic Tor Bridges

The monthly Tails releases continue with Tails 7.6, which introduces support for automatic Tor bridges, a feature that lets the Tor Connection assistant ask about Tor bridges based on your region. According to the devs, this feature uses the same technology as Tor Browser’s connection assistant.

LibreOffice 26.2.2 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 80 Bug Fixes

Coming a month after LibreOffice 26.2.1, the LibreOffice 26.2.2 release brings more bug fixes to address various issues, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users, as well as stability improvements contributed by LibreOffice’s global community of developers, QA engineers, and ecosystem companies.

Firefox 150 Promises Support for the GTK Emoji Picker on Linux, Beta Out Now

Firefox 150 promises new features like support for the GTK emoji picker on Linux, allowing users to insert emoji by using the Ctrl+. keyboard shortcut (see it below in action), and the ability to reorganize PDF pages directly in the Firefox PDF viewer, including moving, copying, and deleting pages.

FreeCAD 1.1 Released with Improved Wayland Support, New Tools, and More

Coming a year and four months after FreeCAD 1.0, the FreeCAD 1.1 release promises to improve Wayland support, implement three-point lighting to improve the rendering of 3D models, add a search bar to the Preferences Editor, and support transparent Part Design previews.

LinuxGizmos.com

Pine64 FOSDEM 2026 Update Details PineNote and PineTab2 Progress

Pine64 has published a community update following FOSDEM 2026, outlining recent development activity, hardware demonstrations, and production challenges affecting its device lineup. The update highlights progress on PineNote and PineTab2 software, early work on PineTime Pro, and the impact of the ongoing DRAM shortage on several products.

Book Explores ELBE Workflows for Embedded Linux Systems

A new book titled Building Embedded Systems with Raspberry Pi, Linux, and ELBE by Krishna Pattabiraman describes approaches for developing reproducible Debian-based embedded Linux systems using the ELBE build environment. The content focuses on structured system design, image generation, and long-term maintainability for Raspberry Pi–based platforms.

DietPi March 2026 Update Adds Immich, uv, and RustDesk Client

The March release of DietPi v10.2 introduces new software options including Immich, uv, and the RustDesk Client, along with a range of enhancements and bug fixes across supported single-board computers.

Internet Society

US Supreme Court Unanimously Defends Internet Access for Millions

The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of protecting people’s Internet access on Wednesday, 25 March.

original

Switching Switches

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 27, 2026

About three hours ago a switch got replaced^*. We were relieved to hear this because our offsite backup system has experienced sporadic issues in recent days and we speculated it was the fault of some router or switch, knowing the issue impacted two different ISPs in two different countries.

The issue - assuming this indeed is the core cause - was identified, corrected, and is now being monitored (we hope this will tackle the issue we've been experiencing).

Now back to normal. █

____

^* We do not outsource to American companies or GAFAM "cloud", so we get updates more locally.

Switch failure in 1 rack - Reading N17
Monitoring - We will continue to monitor over the next couple of hours

Mar 27, 2026 - 13:10 GMT

Update - The switch has now been replaced, and the rack is back online

Mar 27, 2026 - 13:08 GMT

Identified - Our monitoring has identified a failed network switch in our Reading datacentre rack N17 affecting a small number of dedicated server customers in that rack. The switch is currently under replacement and we expect servers to return online soon. We will post a further update once complete.

Image source: Networking in progress

Tux Machines