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The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware. Now in ending out the day they believe all affected commits have been addressed. But it ended up being more than 1,500 affected packages...
Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) this week and rewrote their build scripts to install a credential stealer on any machine that built them. The malware is a Rust binary built to harvest developer secrets. When it lands with root, it can …
Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) this week and rewrote their build scripts to install a credential stealer on any machine that built them. The malware is a Rust binary built to harvest developer secrets. When it lands with root, it can …
More than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) are distributing a Linux rootkit and infostealer malware targeting credentials and access tokens. [...]
Last year when releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, Red Hat announced a RHEL 10.0 developer preview for RISC-V. Since then that RISC-V developer preview hadn't been updated but now Red Hat has published a new developer preview snapshot based on RHEL 10.2...
Among the many new features planned for Ubuntu 26.10 is switching the default D-Bus implementation over to using the high performance Dbus-Broker drop-in replacement...
Hundreds of orphaned packages hosted by the Arch User Repository (AUR) have been compromised by an attacker who has added a malicious npm package (atomic-lockfile) that can exfiltrate sensitive data. The project is currently working on cleaning up the mess. There is a list of aff…
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, bind, expat, httpd:2.4, kernel, kernel-rt, mod_http2, openssl, poppler, redis, redis:7, samba, and unbound), Debian (ironic, kernel-wedge, libinput, linux-base, and neutron), Fedora (kernel, openssl, v…
The Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these user-supplied packages being compromised...
You’ll be able to customise the look of LibreOffice’s Tabbed UI in the free office suite’s next major release, which his due out in August 2026. LibreOffice 26.8’s Tabbed UI (also known as the Notebookbar and modelled after the Ribbon in Microsoft Office) can show a colourful bac…
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Gaming Linux FR has announced the release of GLF OS Quasar, a major update of the project's NixOS-based distribution focused on gaming. This version updates the GNOME desktop to version 50 and introduces numerous en…
Due to recent and ongoing threats to Red Hat and it's ecosystem, I'm seriously considering moving from Fedora to OpenSUSE for general use, light coding, and gaming. Hoping for advice, observations, etc from the community before committing to the many hours of reconfigure, set up,…
Hey r/linux, A month ago I posted my little file organizer on Reddit and it got way more attention than I expected. Since then, the #1 request was always Linux support. https://www.reddit.com/r/software/comments/1tis5yj/mouzi_organize_downloads_folder_automatically/ Well, it's he…
With Canonical engineers again experimenting with x86_64-v3 package builds for Ubuntu Linux using an "amd64v3" archive for the current Ubuntu 26.10 development, I decided to see how these latest amd64v3 packages comparing to their conventional Ubuntu 26.10 amd64 packages.
In May, a Fedora developer discovered that an allegedly rogue agent had been pestering the project in a number of ways: reassigning bugs, fabricating unhelpful replies to bugs, and even persuading maintainers to merge questionable code into the Anaconda installer. It also submitt…
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Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, podman, poppler, and postgresql-jdbc), Debian (chromium, jackson-core, libdbi-perl, and libinput), Fedora (httpd, rust, and xmlstarlet), Mageia (openssh, postfix, and roundcubemail), Oracle (frr, kerne…
Hi, I might get burnt at the stakes for this, but after having been on Mac OS for 17 years I wanted to give Linux on the desktop another try. I used to run Linux as my main driver for about 8 years (2001 - 2009), back when I was young and had all the time in the world. Then thing…
I'm currently using Debian Stable on an old MacBook Pro 8.1, and although I have the latest kernels thanks to the backport repository, I'd also like to have the updated desktop environment (KDE or Gnome) and I'm undecided whether to switch to Debian Testing or Fedora... what do y…
I've been experimenting with the NPU in my Ryzen 7 8845HS laptop (Hawk Point / XDNA1) on Fedora Linux. A lot of the current AMD Ryzen AI documentation focuses on XDNA2 hardware, and community projects like FastFlowLM don't currently support XDNA1. I was curious whether the hardwa…
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Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Suspicious AI activity in Fedora; fork() + exec(); splice() + vmsplice(); BPF loop verification; fanotify; trusted publishing. Briefs: CA age bill; Bundler cooldowns; insecure code completion; Asahi and macOS 27 beta; Buildroot 20…
I recently move from Windows 11 to Linux (for obvious reasons), and after some research i decided to use Debian 13. I work from home, and in my job they only allows workers to use Windows 11 (for compliance reasons), so i split my NVMe, maintaining around ~300GB for Windows, whil…
I am not sure if this is the correct place to put this but here I go. I like many others had the issue of hating windows and wanting to switch to Linux but could not make the switch for various reason. I do not like the idea of duel booting, having to switch my OS every time I ne…
Dual booting fedora and windows and swapping between them by restarting means something usually goes wrong! Either audio not working at all or WiFi not working at all! Usually then works if I restart again but it's quite annoying any advise? submitted by /u/Commercial_Shoe4156 [l…
Hardware: Medion Signium 14 S1 OLED (MSN 30040793 / ML-230007) BIOS: American Megatrends RPL336_S_V0.13 (04/15/2025) CPU: Intel Core 5 120U (Raptor Lake-U) The internal keyboard is completely non-functional on any Linux distribution. The touchpad works fine, an external USB keybo…
Microsoft has released Coreutils for Windows, allowing a stack of familiar “Linux-like” command-line utilities to run natively on Windows. The project is based on uutils, the Rust-based reimplementation of GNU coreutils that Ubuntu (mostly) has adopted in recent releases. Microso…
Agentic AI systems can be used to do a variety of things autonomously on behalf of a human user: open or manage bugs, generate code, submit pull-requests, and (apparently) even complain about rejection. In May, a Fedora developer discovered that an allegedly rogue agent had been …
so basically im running a ported ubuntu touch on my redmi 10c . but i never thought of what next . this aint my daily driver and i wanna kinda fk around and find out with it. anyone have any recommendations? submitted by /u/karenkiller069 [link] [comments]
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (poppler), Debian (dnsmasq, mistral, okular, openssl, poppler, and strongswan), Fedora (exim, firefox, pcs, putty, and xorg-x11-server), Mageia (freeciv, golang-x-net, jq, libssh, libxmp, libxpm, minetest, ruby-net-ssh, tor, and wire…
yesterday I turn my imac 🖥️ into a linux Mint (cinnamon) and works so fast and just feel really good, maybe I’m exited because I like linux too much and also first time doing this, but I’m running in to a problem, don’t know if is going to be a big problem or small , I having tro…
After years of distro-hopping I moved my R9 5900HX + RTX 3080 laptop from Windows 11 to Fedora 44, and two problems I had just accepted as normal disappeared. Heat: on Windows it sat at 90C+ and throttled constantly. Fedora's newer kernel and out-of-the-box power management dropp…
So. My laptop is moderately old. 2017. It was my parents before. I kinda left it to die this January ( I got a real gaming pc.) Its like 2am I have an assignment to do. So I go to grab my laptop. Try to turn it on. It wouldn't work. I saw some text flashing before a loading scree…
just joking, im running an ai on my pc with a ubuntu server vm and using it at my phone by ssh, its ollama qwen3:4b, because im growing the level of the ai, because i cant put on a super duper cool ai and it gives me a problem because im not using too many cores of my i7-14700k, …
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Alpine Linux development team has announced the release of Alpine Linux 3.24.0, a significant update of the project's independently-developed, general purpose Linux distribution designed primarily for power user…
Alpine Linux, the Linux distribution popular especially for containers / micro-services and embedded devices, is out with its newest feature release...
Mozilla has added support for Google’s Play Integrity API, known for blocking custom ROMs and rooted device from accessing banking apps, to Firefox for Android. According to a resolved issue in Mozilla’s public tracker, a new lib-integrity-googleplay library has been added to Fir…
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Franco Conidi has announced the release of SysLinuxOS 13.2, an updated build of the project's Debian-based distribution made primarily for system integrators and network administrators. The new version uses the Btrf…
Thomas Ward has published an update about the future of the Ubuntu MATE project, which did not have a 26.04 release with the other Ubuntu flavors in April: There is a new team working on Ubuntu MATE who have stepped up to help take over flavor management. They haven't formally in…
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. eXybit Technologies has announced the release of RefreshOS 3-0, a major update of the project's beginner-friendly, desktop Linux distribution based on Debian 13 and featuring the KDE Plasma desktop: "RefreshOS 3 'Co…
The experimental online office suite gets AI tools across all three editors and a lot more in this release.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind and libyang), Debian (keystone and openssl), Fedora (mingw-objfw, objfw, sentencepiece, and tailscale), Mageia (packagekit and suricata), Oracle (bind, bind9.16, go-toolset:ol8, ImageMagick, kernel, samba, and vim), SUSE (apach…
I made a tool that simplifies RPM & DEB (others coming soon) packaging and distribution — https://omnipackage.org It builds native packages for multiple distros and uploads them to an S3 bucket that serves as a repository. The developer creates one config file and templates for t…
Hi I have decided to tag a release of ReterminateVT, which used to be called fakekmscon, until I renamed it when kmscon became active again. fakekmscon has been around since 2020, with kmscon actually being brought back, I have renamed it to ReterminateVT. I don't know the best m…
Back in March, Martin Wimpress stepped down as the longtime Ubuntu MATE leader and was looking for contributors to keep this Ubuntu derivative going with its GNOME2-derived desktop. That change in leadership paired with no Ubuntu MATE 26.04 release having occurred led to some con…
Following the official Fedora 44 images released one month ago, Fedora 44 RISC-V images were published today for those wanting to run this newest Fedora Linux on RISC-V hardware...
rsync recently garnered controversy due to regressions introduced in the last release (3.4.3). Many people (rightly or wrongly) have attributed these regressions to the use of LLM tools. This most recent release claims to fix those regressions. Based on the rsync changelog, it wa…
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. RELIANOID, a Debian-based Linux distribution featuring an open-source load-balancer, has reached version 7.10.0: "We are glad to present both RELIANOID 7.10.0 Community edition and RELIANOID 8.6 Enterprise edition, …
Would it be realistic or feasible to run sunshine to stream games from my beefy server ? I’m planning experiment with use my rig (RTX5080) as a server, to run ollama among other things. Now I was wondering if running sunshine to stream games like stadia to my living room tv or so…
Sandboxed LLM dev environments lead the show, but accessibility may be the real prize
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Euro-Office launches its stable 1.0 release on June 9, billed as a ‘truly open’ sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office – a claim riling The Document Foundation, makers of LibreOffice. In an open letter published today, TDF’s Italo Vignoli takes issue with the upstart productiv…
Canonical engineers are again evaluating the impact of building the Ubuntu Linux archive for the x86-64-v3 "amd64v3" micro-architecture feature level for its performance benefits on modern Intel and AMD systems. An amd64v3 archive is available of Ubuntu 26.10 for testing with the…
Andrew Tridgell has announced the release of rsync 3.4.4 with fixes for the regressions introduced in the 3.4.3 release. He also notes there will be an rsync 3.5.0 soon, with many more security updates: As part of the 3.5.0 release update I have created a [email protected]…
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Flatpak 1.18 is out today for providing the latest improvements to this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech. Flatpak 1.18 brings improved error handling and better printed output from the flatpak-coredumpctl command. The output from flatpak update has also be…
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind, bind9.16, frr, kernel, kernel-rt, libexif, mysql, php, and unbound), Debian (apache2, chromium, glibc, gsasl, jackson-core, libxml2, nginx, request-tracker4, request-tracker5, tomcat10, tomcat11, and tomcat9), Fedora (chromium…
Flatpak 1.18 is out today for providing the latest improvements to this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech...
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I've been a long-time Debian user. I used it on my homelab, and it's been rock solid and honestly, zero problems. Recently, I've been looking into NixOS because of ease of management and reproducibility. What are your thoughts? submitted by /u/ElectricalPanic1999 [link] [comments…