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The fourth weekly release candidate of the Linux 7.2 kernel is now available for testing. It’s been another brisk week of fixes for the Linux kernel, many of which continue to be uncovered by AI/LLMs. A wide variety of different fixes were merged though not many particularly notable. Linus Torvalds wrote in the 7.2-rc4 announcement:…
Welcome to Week 29 of Linuxiac’s 2026 Weekly Roundup, your source for Linux and open-source news. Below are the key Linux and FOSS highlights from July 13 to 19. Linux Distributions On the distro release front, this week brought just one update in the Linux world, which I covered in the article below. Software Updates…
The Desktop Icons NG (aka DING) GNOME Shell extension Ubuntu uses to put icons on your literal desktop, has been busy – it finished its port to GTK4, patched memory leaks and improved a few of its lesser-known features. The GTK4 port landed in v51.0.0, released this month, alongside early support for GNOME 51 (since…
37 Arjun’s Systems Brief: FreeBSD 16 just killed the last piece of GPL code in its base system. The dialog utility is gone, the GNU subtree is deleted, and the entire OS core now runs on pure BSD licensing. I spent the last few days digging through the Phabricator tickets, the GitHub commits, and the…
Running out of disk space normally means that a filesystem has no free bytes left. Sometimes, however, a command fails with “No space left on device” while df -h still shows available space. One possible cause is inode exhaustion: the filesystem can store more data, but it has no free metadata records for new files….
I recently bought an external Dell keyboard that came with a dedicated Copilot key. Since I don’t use Microsoft’s Copilot, the key was doing nothing useful. My new Dell Keyboard comes with a CoPilot key So, I decided to map it to the YouTube Music web app. There is no such app, but I created…
The Legion Y700 Gen4 is an Android tablet that debuted last year and powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. This 8.8-inch tablet is now seeing patches for enabling Linux support outside the confines of Android and will hopefully end up in the mainline kernel. The Lenovo Legion Y700 Gen 4 is a capable,…
Gitea, a lightweight and open-source Git hosting platform designed for simplicity and ease of self-hosting, has released version 1.27. A key change in this release is improved handling of reusable Actions workflows. Workflows referenced with uses: are now parsed directly by Gitea, with each called workflow expanded into separate jobs. These jobs have individual entries…
When a Bash script needs to change directory, adjust variables, or set temporary environment values for one task, those changes can easily leak into the rest of the script. A subshell gives you a clean boundary. Bash runs the commands in a child shell environment, and any changes made there disappear when that child exits….
Elon Musk has announced that X’s entire codebase will go open source once xAI wraps up an internal review for security vulnerabilities. He says they will publish the whole thing without holding anything back. Further stating that they are inviting third-party reviewers to confirm that what gets published actually matches what’s running in production. Once…
