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The openSUSE project has announced the release of openSUSE Leap 16.1. The release is notable f [...]

The Debian project has wrestled with the topic of LLM usage for years, which culminated in a general-resolution vote this August. The project voted in favor of the fifth, out of eight, option: "Responsible Use of Generative AI". With the door open to ...

Fedora Linux 45 has been released. This includes all editions: Fedora Workstation, Fedora KDE P [...]

The 7.4 merge window, which closed on November 1, included a record-breaking 18,591 non-merge changesets. That is almost as many as the entire 7.3 development cycle, which had 18,765, itself a record breaker. Of those, 11,838 landed after the article ...

The Google Threat Intelligence blog describes, in great detail, the XCPE botnet, which has just [...]

We recently looked at how the kernel community is dealing with the firehose of vulnerability reports, but said little about how users of the kernel are responding. At the 2026 Linux Plumbers Conference, Amazon employees Dylan Johnson and Justinien ...

Version 16.0 of the Tor Browser has been released. This is the first stable version based on Fi [...]

The 7.4-rc1 kernel prepatch is out, and the merge window is closed for this development cycle. [...]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.15 kernel, with a handful of updates. [...]

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 11.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, aspell, bind, bind9.18, container-tools:1.0, container-tools:rhel8, curl, dogtag-pki, ignition, java-21-openjdk, python-pillow, tomcat, and virt:rhel, virt ...