📰 Kontainer Brings a Native KDE GUI to Distrobox Container Management

Kontainer is a new KDE frontend for Distrobox that gives Plasma users a simpler way to create and manage Linux containers.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kontainer-brings-a-native-kde-gui-to-distrobox-container-management/

#kde #linux #plasma

📰 Fake Linux leader using Slack to con devs into giving up their secrets

Google Sites lure leads to bogus root certificate Imagine getting asked to do something by a person in authority. An unknown malware slinger targeting open source software developers via Slack impersonated a real Linux Foundation official and used pages hosted on Google.com to steal developers' credentials and take over their systems.…

🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/linux_foundation_social_engineering/

#linux #opensource

📰 GreenBoost Memory Orchestrator For NVIDIA GPUs Introduces GreenBoost-Proton For Gaming

Last month we showcased GreenBoost as an open-source means of augmenting NVIDIA GPU vRAM with system RAM and NVMe storage. This memory tiering solution for NVIDIA GPUs was developed by an open-source developer with a focus on CUDA and allowing larger LLMs to be handled on graphics cards with smaller vRAM capacities.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GreenBoost-Proton-NVIDIA-vRAM

#opensource

📰 user.* xattrs On Sockets Merged For Linux 7.1 As Sought By GNOME & systemd Developers

On this first day of the Linux 7.1 merge window, among the early pull requests merged were beginning to land the various VFS pull requests submitted by Christian Brauner. Among that code merged is enabling support for user.* extended attributes on sockets...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-User-xattrs-Sockets

#gnome #linux #systemd

📰 Stolen Rockstar Games analytics data leaked by extortion gang

Rockstar Games has suffered a data breach linked to a recent security incident at Anodot, with the ShinyHunters extortion gang now leaking the stolen data on its data leak site.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/stolen-rockstar-games-analytics-data-leaked-by-extortion-gang/

#security

📰 Scribus 1.6.6 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released with Bug Fixes

Scribus 1.6.6 free and open-source desktop publishing software is now available for download with various bug fixes and improvements.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/scribus-1-6-6-open-source-desktop-publishing-app-released-with-bug-fixes

#opensource

📰 SteamVR Beta 2.16.3 brings Linux fixes for VRLink

Seems SteamVR for Linux really is getting some more attention recently, after a number of fixes in the previous Beta we have a few more here.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/steamvr-beta-2-16-3-brings-linux-fixes-for-vrlink/

#linux

📰 Sentinel is an achievement watcher for non-Steam games on Linux

Love achievement hunting but play games outside of Steam on Linux? Sounds like Sentinel is an open source tool you'll want to see.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/sentinel-is-an-achievement-watcher-for-non-steam-games-on-linux/

#linux #opensource #steam

📰 KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years

A request made a KDE user all the way back in June 2005 on KDE 3.3.2 is finally resolved. After being sought after for 21 years, the latest KWin code now has support for per-screen virtual desktops...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Per-Screen-Virt-Desktops

#kde

📰 Latest Raspberry Pi OS Release Disables Passwordless sudo by Default

Raspberry Pi OS 2026-04-13 is now available for download with a much-improved Control Center app, passwordless sudo disabled by default, Chromium enhancements, and many other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/latest-raspberry-pi-os-release-disables-passwordless-sudo-by-default

#chromium #raspberry

📰 Latest Raspberry Pi OS Release Disables Passwordless sudo by Default

Raspberry Pi OS 2026-04-13 is now available for download with a much-improved Control Center app, passwordless sudo disabled by default, Chromium enhancements, and many other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/latest-raspberry-pi-os-release-disables-passwordless-sudo-by-default

#chromium #raspberry

📰 X.Org Server 21.1.22 Released Due To Five New Security Vulnerabilities

X.Org Server 21.1.22 is out today and driven by five new security vulnerabilities being disclosed for the aging codebase. In turn these vulnerabilities also impact XWayland too and thus necessitating the XWayland 24.1.10 release...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-21.1.22

#security

📰 Tributary is a GTK4 reimagining of Rhythmbox music player

Ever wondered what a GTK4/libadwaita version of Linux music player Rhythmbox might look like? A new app in development imagines just that. Tributary is billed a “high-performance, Rhythmbox-style media manager written in pure Rust with GTK4 and libadwaita”. It’s more than a way to play local audio files, too. Tributary can access and stream music from Jellyfin, Plex, DAAP/iTunes shares, internet radio stations and Subsonic/Navidrome setups as...

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/tributary-music-player-gtk4

#linux

📰 Your home server monitor dies with your server — an old Android phone fixed this for free

Monitoring dashboards are a useful way to keep an eye on your self-hosted services. You think you are covered, but monitoring dashboards are dependent on the same infrastructure. I have hosted many services, such as Immich, Jellyfin, and Nextcloud, on my home server, and Uptime Kuma for the uptime monitoring of these services on the same server. Everything looked alright, a few self-hosted services and a monitoring tool to watch over them. On...

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/home-server-monitor-dies-with-server-old-android-phone-fixed/

#android #immich

📰 Nginx 1.30 Released With Multipath TCP, ECH & More

Nginx 1.30 was just released as the newest stable version of this popular web server. Nginx 1.30 incorporates all of the changes from the Nginx 1.29.x mainline branch to provide a lot of new functionality like Multipath TCP (MPTCP)...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nginx-1.30-Released

#nginx

📰 Opera GX for Linux arrives on Flathub & Snap store

Installing Opera GX on Linux is now easier, with official packages available on the Canonical Snap Store and Flathub. Opera GX made its debut Linux release in March 2026, with the gaming-centric web browser porting over many of the novel features that have helped to make it a modest hit on Windows and macOS. That includes CPU, RAM and network controls provided, background sounds, themes and eye-candy like web shaders.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/opera-gx-linux-snap-flathub

#linux

📰 Ubuntu 26.04 Delivers Great Performance Improvements For AMD Strix Point, Especially For RDNA 3.5 Graphics

As part of my ongoing testing around the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 release I have been running a lot of benchmarks. After recently showing some nice performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" with Ubuntu 26.04, several Phoronix readers inquired about any performance uplift from the more modest but still powerful Strix Point laptops like the popular Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 SKU. Here are benchmarks showing the performance of Ubuntu 26.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-strix-point

#amd #ubuntu

📰 Fedora 44 Release Delayed as Final Blocker Bugs Remain Open

Fedora 44 missed its April 14 release target after final blocker bugs forced a delay, pushing the expected launch to at least April 21.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/fedora-44-release-delayed-as-final-blocker-bugs-remain-open/

#fedora

📰 LLM-Assisted Patches For Linux 7.1 May Have Negative Impact On 32-bit Systems

Code now merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel may provide some negative performance implications for those still running modern Linux kernels on 32-bit hardware. A fundamental change can present cache line alignment and slab sizing implications for 32-bit Linux OS users but will provide for cleaner code with modern 64-bit computing...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-VFS-Kino-32-bit

#kernel #linux

📰 AMD ROCm 7.2.2 Brings Optimization Guide For Ryzen AI / RDNA 3.5 Hardware

ROCm 7.2.2 is out today as a small point release to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack. There are a few code changes but most notable is arguably on the documentation side...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-7.2.2

#amd #opensource

📰 PocketTerm35 is a Raspberry Pi-powered handheld with a 3.5 inch screen and QWERTY keyboard

Waveshare’s new PocketTerm35 is a handheld computer with a 3.5 inch, 640 x 480 pixel touchscreen IPS display, a 67-key keyboard for thumb typing, dedicated buttons for gaming, and a stereo speaker. Designed to use a Raspberry Pi for brains, the system also has four USB Type-A ports, Gigabit Ethernet, a microSD card reader, headphone .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/pocketterm35-is-a-raspberry-pi-powered-handheld-with-a-3-5-inch-screen-and-qwerty-keyboard/

#raspberry