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Distributions and Operating Systems: EasyOS, Tumbleweed, Nitrux, and More
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Barry Kauler ☛ Search for fuzzy translations
In EasyOS, language translations may be found as ".mo" files, in path /usr/share/locale
It is possible that these mo files may contain translations that are incorrect for some reason, and are marked as "fuzzy". Forum member don570 has created a script to find fuzzy translations:
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SUSE/OpenSUSE
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OpenSUSE ☛ Tumbleweed Monthly Update - September 2026
September delivered a stacked month of snapshots across the desktop, developer tooling, and security surface. KDE Plasma 6.7.5 landed with fixes for KWin display management and taskbar refinements, while KDE Frameworks 6.30.0 and KDE Gear 26.08.1 delivered new features and bugfixes across the KDE ecosystem. glibc jumped to 2.44 with Transparent Huge Pages tunables and optimized math functions, and LLVM 23.1.1 arrived with important bugfixes. Mesa progressed from 26.2.2 to 26.2.3 and the Linux kernel advanced through 7.2.5 to 7.2.7 with a sustained focus on security. Later in the month the GNOME desktop picked up 50.5 across gnome-shell and mutter, GIMP advanced to 3.2.6, coreutils jumped to 9.12, and rsync arrived at 3.5.1 after a sweeping audit of its path handling and daemon protocol. curl addressed seven CVEs, pcre2 patched six security issues, and ffmpeg rolled up more than 20 CVEs in one pass.
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Debian Family
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Distro Watch ☛ Distribution Release: Nitrux 7.0.0
Uri Herrera has announced the release of Nitrux 7.0.0, a significant update of the project's Debian-based Linux distribution featuring an immutable base and the Hyprland Wayland compositor: [...]
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Devices/Embedded
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Coreboot (Official) ☛ Announcing the coreboot 26.09 release – coreboot
The coreboot project is pleased to announce the release of coreboot 26.09. In the three months since the 26.06 release, 120 authors (including 29 contributors landing their first patches) merged over 1300 commits across the tree. We thank everyone who wrote code, reviewed patches, tested on hardware, or reported bugs during this cycle.
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Mobile Systems/Mobile Applications
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Kevin Boone ☛ System-level ad-blocking in Android in 2026
The Internet has become an advertising platform. Users of mobile devices are acutely aware of this, because mobile operating environments and apps force ads on their users, in addition to those that pollute the Web. It’s getting harder to avoid the ads on Android handsets, as Android is increasingly locked down and difficult to customize. It’s certainly not in Google’s interest to make it easy to block ads.
It’s still possible, though, to suppress most advertising, even in 2026.
This article is specifically about blocking ads at the system level, that is, in the Android platform itself, rather than in any particular app. Some Android apps, particularly web browsers, have their own methods of blocking ads, or can have such features added using third-party plug-ins. Oddly, though, the DuckDuckGo browser, whilst blocking the tracking that accompanies targeted advertising, doesn’t specifically block ads – you need something more.
If you block ads at the system level, all apps – and the system itself – are protected. Moreover, methods for blocking ads can usually be extended to protect against trackers and other kinds of malware.
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