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Submission + - KaOS Linux Drops KDE Plasma After 12 Years for Niri/Noctalia to Escape systemd (9to5linux.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: "After using the KDE/Plasma desktop environment by default for more than 12 years since its initial release under the name of KdeOS, the KaOS Linux distribution will no longer ship with its unique Plasma desktop setup, as the devs do not want to use the systemd init system anymore in the distro," reports Linux news site 9to5Linux.

"The KaOS Linux devs explain that dropping KDE Plasma to escape systemd was necessary because they can no longer build a usable ISO with recent versions of systemd, such as 257, as full support for a split /usr setup like KaOS is using is no longer there. The devs now consider moving to the Dinit init system."

"Everything is built on the latest Qt 6.10.2 open-source application framework, as KaOS aims to stay a Qt-focused distribution. To complete this setup, the devs also added options like cliphist, seatd, ddcutil, pavucontrol-qt, qt6ct, and xwayland-satellite, and I have to admit that the result is amazing and fast!"

Submission + - Linux 7.0 Kernel Confirmed by Linus Torvalds, Expected in Mid-April 2026 (9to5linux.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Linus Torvalds has confirmed the next major kernel series as Linux 7.0, reports Linux news website 9to5Linux.com: "So there you have it, the Linux 6.x era has ended with today’s Linux 6.19 kernel release, and a new one will begin with Linux 7.0, which is expected in mid-April 2026. The merge window for Linux 7.0 will open tomorrow, February 9th, and the first Release Candidate (RC) milestone is expected on February 22nd, 2026."

Submission + - Wine 11 Officially Released with NTSync Support, Vulkan H.264 Decoding, and More (9to5linux.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A report from the Linux news site 9to5Linux.com: "Coming a year after Wine 10, the Wine 11 release introduces support for the NTSync driver for fast synchronization, Vulkan H.264 decoding, clipboard support in the Wayland driver, initial Vulkan video decoder support in WineD3D, and support for larger page sizes on ARM64 (AArch64)."

"Wine 11 also adds support for the Wow64 mode to be enabled dynamically, support for setting thread priorities, pairing support in the Bluetooth driver, %GS register swapping on macOS, PBKDF2 algorithm in Bcrypt, a new lexer in Command Processor, and support for Float format conversions in WindowsCodecs."

"Also new in Wine 11 is support for DirectX Intermediate Language (DXIL) shaders, initial support for geometry shaders in the HLSL compiler, initial support for generating Windows Runtime metadata in WIDL, support for compiler-based exception handling with Clang, and EGL library support for all supported graphics drivers."

Submission + - Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features (9to5linux.com) 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From a report on 9to5Linux.com:

"On Tuesday, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo was named the new CEO of Mozilla Corporation, the company behind the beloved Firefox web browser used by almost all GNU/Linux distributions as the default browser."

"In his message as new CEO, Anthony Enzor-DeMeo stated that Firefox will grow from a browser into a broader ecosystem of trusted software while remaining the company’s anchor, and that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser and support a portfolio of new and trusted software additions."

"What was not made clear is that Firefox will also ship with an AI kill switch that will let users completely disable all the AI features that are included in Firefox. Mozilla shared this important update earlier today to make it clear to everyone that Firefox will still be a trusted web browser."

Submission + - System76 Launches First Stable Release of COSMIC Desktop and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS (9to5linux.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From a report on 9to5linux.com: "Based on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series, Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS ships with the brand-new COSMIC desktop environment written in the Rust programming language, designed and developed by System76 for all GNU/Linux distributions."

"Previous Pop!_OS releases used a version of the COSMIC desktop that was based on the GNOME desktop environment. However, System76 wanted to create a new desktop environment from scratch while keeping the same familiar interface and user experience built for efficiency and fun."

"COSMIC Launcher lets users launch and navigate apps quickly and efficiently with features like web search, calculator, and file search. Moreover, COSMIC supports both dual-panel and single-panel layouts, workspaces, advanced window tiling and stacking, and new theming options."

Submission + - Cinnamon 6.6 Desktop Environment Released with Redesigned Application Menu (9to5linux.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: 9to5linux.com reports: "The Linux Mint team released today the Cinnamon 6.6 desktop environment, which will be the default in the upcoming Linux Mint 22.3 (Zena) release expected in late December 2025 or in early 2026. The biggest change in Cinnamon 6.6 is a redesigned application menu applet that now lets you toggle between symbolic or full color icons for categories, support for color system buttons on hover, configurable Places and Bookmarks, as well as many visual changes."

"Cinnamon 6.6 also modernizes keyboard handling and the virtual keyboard with a new button for switching the layout, a context menu shortcut for accessing the Keyboard Accessibility settings, improved theme support, improved suggestions visibility, and a fade-in/out effect when hiding and showing the keyboard."

"The Settings app received some attention as well in Cinnamon 6.6 with a new Thunderbolt module, a new tab for tiling in the Windows module, a suspend option to battery-critical actions in the Power module, support for manual scheduling in the Night Light module, and support for the new System Information tool."

Submission + - Linux Kernel 5.4 Reaches End of Life After More Than Six Years of Maintenance (9to5linux.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From a report on 9to5Linux.com: "Originally released on November 24th, 2019, the long-term supported (LTS) Linux 5.4 kernel series received six years of support, from November 2019 until December 2025. The last maintenance update is Linux 5.4.302, released today by renowned kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman."

"This morning, an announcement on the Linux kernel mailing list published by Greg Kroah-Hartman stated that Linux 5.4.302 is the last maintenance update to the long-term supported Linux 5.4 kernel series, which is now marked as EOL (End of Life) on the kernel.org website."

“As of this point in time, there are 1539 documented unfixed CVEs for this kernel branch, and that number will only increase over time as more CVEs get assigned for kernel bugs," said Greg Kroah-Hartman, who added that Linux 5.4 should not be used by anyone, anymore!"

Submission + - Linux Kernel 6.18 Officially Released, Could Be the Next LTS Kernel Series (9to5linux.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From a report on 9to5Linux.com: "Highlights of Linux 6.18 include the removal of the Bcachefs file system, support for the Rust Binder driver, a new dm-pcache device-mapper target to enable persistent memory as a cache for slower block devices, and a new microcode= command-line option to control the microcode loader’s behavior on x86 platforms."

"Since Linux 6.18 is the last kernel release of the year, it could be the next LTS (Long-Term Support) kernel series, supported for at least a couple of years. However, we now need to wait to see if renowned Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman confirms the LTS status for Linux 6.18, so stay tuned!"

Submission + - Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" Releases with Linux Kernel 6.17 and GNOME 49 (9to5linux.com)

Submitted by prisoninmate
prisoninmate writes: A report from 9to5Linux: "Dubbed Questing Quokka, Ubuntu 25.10 is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.17 kernel series for top-notch hardware support and ships with the latest GNOME 49 desktop environment, defaulting to a Wayland-only session for the Ubuntu Desktop flavor, meaning there’s no other session to choose from the login screen.

Ubuntu Desktop also ships with two new apps, namely GNOME’s Loupe instead of Eye of GNOME as the default image viewer, as well as Ptyxis instead of GNOME Terminal as the default terminal emulator. Also, there’s a new update notification that will be shown with options to open Software Updater or install updates directly."

Submission + - GNOME 49 "Brescia" Desktop Environment Released (9to5linux.com)

Submitted by prisoninmate
prisoninmate writes: From a report by 9to5Linux: "Highlights of GNOME 49 include a new “Do Not Disturb” toggle in Quick Settings, a dedicated Accessibility menu in the login screen, support for handling unknown power profiles in the Quick Settings menu, support for YUV422 and YUV444 (HDR) colour spaces, support for passive screen casts, and support for async keyboard map settings.

GNOME 49 also introduces support for media controls, restart, and shutdown actions on the lock screen, support for dynamic users for greeter sessions in the GNOME Display Manager (GDM), and support for per-monitor brightness sliders in Quick Settings on multi-monitor setups."

Submission + - Linux Kernel 6.14 Released (9to5linux.com)

Submitted by prisoninmate
prisoninmate writes: From a report from 9to5linux: "Highlights of Linux 6.14 include Btrfs RAID1 read balancing support, a new ntsync subsystem for Win NT synchronization primitives to boost game emulation with Wine, uncached buffered I/O support, and a new accelerator driver for the AMD XDNA Ryzen AI NPUs (Neural Processing Units).

Also new is DRM panic support for the AMDGPU driver, reflink and reverse-mapping support for the XFS real-time device, Intel Clearwater Forest server support, support for SELinux extended permissions, FUSE support for io_uring, a new fsnotify file pre-access event type, and a new cgroup controller for device memory."

https://9to5linux.com/linux-ke...

Submission + - GNOME 48 Released (9to5linux.com)

Submitted by prisoninmate
prisoninmate writes: GNOME 48 desktop environment has been released after six months of development with major new features that have been expected for more than four years, such as dynamic triple buffering, HDR support, and much more. 9to5Linux reports:

"Highlights of GNOME 48 include dynamic triple buffering to boost the performance on low-end GPUs, such as Intel integrated graphics or Raspberry Pi computers, Wayland color management protocol support, new Adwaita fonts, HDR (High Dynamic Range) support, and a new Wellbeing feature with screen time tracking.

GNOME 48 also introduces a new GNOME Display Control (gdctl) utility to view the active monitor configuration and set new monitor configuration using command line arguments, implements a11y keyboard monitoring support, adds output luminance settings, and it now centers new windows by default."

Submission + - Xfce 4.20 Desktop Environment Released with Experimental Wayland Support (9to5linux.com)

Submitted by prisoninmate
prisoninmate writes: A report from 9to5Linux.com: "Two years after the release of Xfce 4.18, Xfce 4.20 is here as another major update to this light and fast desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions. Xfce 4.20 is packed with lots of new features and improvements like experimental support for Wayland with support for the Labwc and Wayfire compositors, improved support for HiDPI displays, and libxfce4windowing as a new abstraction library to present windowing concepts in a windowing-system-independent manner."
"Thunar, Xfce's file manager, received support for IPv6 remote URLs, the ability to create symbolic links on remote locations, new toolbar buttons, search improvements, support for specific type descriptions and emblems for mount points, and an option to use client-side decorations (CSD). Moreover, Thunar received a new option to display the number of hidden files in the status bar, a new option to use symbolic icons in the side pane, as well as colored icons in the toolbar, and new Recently Used Files behavior where only successfully opened files are shown and no directories."

Official announcement page: https://alexxcons.github.io/bl...

Submission + - Linux 4.19, the Last Supported Kernel of the Linux 4.x Series, Reaches EOL (9to5linux.com)

Submitted by prisoninmate
prisoninmate writes: From a report: "Linux kernel 4.19, the last of the Linux 4.x kernel series, has now reached the end of its supported life as announced earlier on the Linux kernel mailing list by kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman. The Linux 4.19 kernel branch was released more than six years ago, on October 22nd, 2018, and it received no less than 325 maintenance updates, the last one being Linux 4.19.325. The biggest highlights of Linux kernel 4.19 were initial Wi-Fi 6 support, the EROFS file system, and a union mount filesystem implementation.

Greg Kroah-Hartman also said that the Linux 4.19 kernel is plagued with hundreds of “unfixed” CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), urging companies that still use it in their products to upgrade immediately to a newer LTS (Long-Term Support) kernel series, such as Linux kernel 6.12, which has been officially confirmed as LTS. He added that even if most of these CVEs have been patched by now in recent kernels, no one will backport them to the Linux 4.19 branch."

Submission + - Linux Kernel 6.12 Confirmed as LTS, Will Be Supported for "Multiple Years" (9to5linux.com)

Submitted by prisoninmate
prisoninmate writes: From a report: "Renowned Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced today that the Linux 6.12 kernel series has been officially marked as LTS (Long Term Support) on the kernel.org website with a predicted life expectancy of at least two years. Linux 6.12 has been included in the list of long-term release kernels and will receive maintenance updates with bug and security fixes at least until December 2026.

Linux kernel 6.12 was released on November 17th, 2024, and introduces new features like real-time “PREEMPT_RT” support, a new scheduler called sched_ext, and DRM panic messages as QR codes, as well as numerous new and updated drivers for better hardware support. Linux kernel 6.12 joins the many other long-term support kernel branches, namely Linux 6.6 LTS, Linux 6.1 LTS, Linux 5.15 LTS, Linux 5.10 LTS, and Linux 5.4 LTS. Apart from the latter, the rest of them, including Linux kernel 6.12, will be officially supported until the end of December 2026."

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