Firefox 155 has arrived quietly, speeding up page loads with Happy Eyeballs v3 and QUIC v2. And the timing is perfect for you to switch. Google just removed uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store, leaving Firefox one of the last non-Chromium
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Linux 7.3’s merge window is still open, but what’s already confirmed looks like the foundation for one of the more performance-heavy releases in a while. Btrfs direct I/O is pushing close to 95% of theoretical throughput, EXT4 is hitting 2.19 million IOPS
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LightDM 1.33.0 is out after a four-year gap, now under community maintainership rather than Canonical’s. Two new maintainers, one behind Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix and the other a long-time Fedora and openSUSE contributor, have stepped up. Nitrux has given a name to what
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Linux Mint is getting automatic old kernel cleanup in the next release, a feature Fedora has handled through DNF’s installonly_limit for years. And I did not even know that Mint doesn’t do it. The Document Foundation has put up a write-up (part
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The entire debate in the Linux and open source world these days is if AI generated code should be used or not. As Linus told AI critics to fork the project or walk away, GKH took a more surgical approach. AI patches
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Let’s see what’s happening in the Linux and open source world this week. Ubuntu 26.04 quietly stopped notifying users about available updates, and it turns out that was intentional. The tray icon was switched off by design, and without it, the notifier
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Ready for another round of latest happenings in Linux world? Here, we go. Vocalinux 0.14 beta adds custom recording shortcuts, fixes Wayland text injection on GNOME, and handles CPU usage better on hybrid laptops. It didn’t run cleanly during testing, but it’s
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Linux Mint has taken the slow road to Wayland while everyone else rushed ahead, and it looks like that paid off. Cinnamon’s Wayland session is dropping the experimental label with Mint 23 this Christmas, shipping alongside X11 as a fully supported option.
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Recently, Microsoft reluctantly agrred that a bug was eating up uo to 500 GB of disk space in Windows 11. They knew about the bug for months, no fix came. Germany may not have kicked right in the Paraguay match, but it
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