COSMIC Desktop’s long-awaited Frosted Glass effect is no longer simply an attractive preview or an unfinished feature hidden in development branches. It is now available to Pop!_OS 24.04 users through the regular update process. And after trying it myself, I can say it looks genuinely beautiful. To get it, open COSMIC Store and install all…
A new version of miracle-wm, the Wayland compositor built on Mir with an i3/Sway style tiling window manager, has been released. Developer Matthew Kosarek, a Canonical engineer developing this keyboard-driven UX in his free time, says the new v0.10.0 release sees the plugin system introduced in the April 2026 release “getting better and better everyday”. Plugins…
DistroWatch.com: LinuxCNC Last Update: 2026-06-28 16:05 UTC LinuxCNC is a Debian-based Linux distribution designed to control computer numerical control (CNC) machines. It can drive milling machines, lathe machines, 3D printers, laser cutters, plasma cutters, robot arms, hexapods and more. It is compatible with many popular machine control hardware interfaces and it supports rigid tapping, cutter…
12 Arjun’s Systems Brief: I have spent the better part of a decade managing production server fleets where a single incompatible flag in a core utility can cascade into failed deployments and midnight incident calls. When Ubuntu announced its switch to Rust coreutils, I watched the transition closely because my team relies on automated image…
Open source is awesome, and tools like the DLSS Updater can be incredibly useful and the Linux support just keeps on getting better. What exactly is DLSS Updater? Don’t let the name fool you, it covers a lot more than just NVIDIA DLSS! Using this app you can scan your system to detect games with…
The familiar read, write, and execute permissions cover most of what you do with files, but Linux has three more permission bits that change how programs run and how shared directories behave. They explain why an ordinary user can change their own password with a tool owned by root, why files created in a team…
It was discovered that LibRaw incorrectly handled certain Nikon RAW imagefiles. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause LibRaw to crash,resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-5342) It was discovered that LibRaw had an integer overflow in its DNG imageloader. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause LibRaw tocrash, resulting in…
Most microcontroller boards on the market today rely on Python, usually in the form of MicroPython or CircuitPython. If you’ve ever wanted something leaner without giving up that no-compile, REPL-driven workflow, Lua is the option worth considering. But then most microcontroller boards are not built for Lua even if you can run Lua on them….
DistroWatch.com: HardenedBSD Last Update: 2026-07-10 22:41 UTC Founded in 2014 by Oliver Pinter and Shawn Webb, HardenedBSD is a security-enhanced fork of FreeBSD. The HardenedBSD Project is implementing many exploit mitigation and security technologies on top of FreeBSD. The project started with Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) as an initial focal point and is now…
Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was initial support for booting Linux on the Apple M3 SoC devices. But just the barebones suppport for booting with not yet any accelerated graphics or other typical function needed for daily use of M3 Apple devices on Linux, just booting to a console. Now this work is complemented…
