DistroWatch.com: AbeirOS Last Update: 2026-07-01 16:53 UTC AbeirOS is a Void-based Linux distribution featuring a vanilla KDE Plasma desktop. Its main feature is the use of the musl C library (instead of GNU’s glibc library used by most Linux distributions), considered a lightweight and efficient alternative to glibc but with some compatibility challenges, more suitable…
KDE Gear 26.04.3, the third maintenance update in the 26.04 series, is now available. As usual with point releases in the Gear series, this is not a feature-heavy update but focuses on fixing issues. Here are the most important ones. Among the highlighted changes, Elisa now properly changes its output device when the global audio…
The Linux Foundation says that it intends to launch the Agent Name Service (ANS), an open standard that extends DNS to give AI agents a way to prove who they are. In practice, that means being able to look up an agent and check who’s actually operating it, what it’s cleared to do, and whether…
If you’ve ever needed to install Fedora Linux on a headless server, a Raspberry Pi, or any machine without a monitor attached, you’ve probably reached for VNC or RDP. They work – but as the installer moves to a web-based interface, there’s a new opportunity to do something more native to that model. We’re building…
One less reason to go with a traditional console for gaming – Sony announced they’re killing off physical PlayStation media. When will it happen? It will take effect from January 2028, after that – PlayStation goes digital-only. Why? In the blog post announcement they said: “This is a natural direction for Sony Interactive Entertainment to…
Firefox is adding hardware-accelerated Vulkan Video decoding, saving Nvidia users on Linux the hassle of manually configuring the nvidia-vaapi-driver package. The change will be included in Firefox 153, out July 21, but it will not be enabled by default – not to start with. Instead, users will be able to flip a pair of preferences in about:config…
22.04 LTS jammy linux-image-5.15.0-1052-nvidia-tegra-igx – 5.15.0-1052.52 linux-image-5.15.0-1052-nvidia-tegra-igx-rt – 5.15.0-1052.52 linux-image-5.15.0-1063-nvidia-tegra – 5.15.0-1063.63 linux-image-5.15.0-1063-nvidia-tegra-rt – 5.15.0-1063.63 linux-image-5.15.0-1094-gkeop – 5.15.0-1094.102 linux-image-5.15.0-1103-intel-iot-realtime – 5.15.0-1103.105 Real-time Real-time kernel available with Ubuntu Pro. linux-image-5.15.0-1103-kvm – 5.15.0-1103.108 linux-image-5.15.0-1105-ibm – 5.15.0-1105.109 linux-image-5.15.0-1106-intel-iotg – 5.15.0-1106.112 linux-image-5.15.0-1106-nvidia – 5.15.0-1106.107 linux-image-5.15.0-1106-nvidia-lowlatency – 5.15.0-1106.107 linux-image-5.15.0-1107-gke – 5.15.0-1107.113 linux-image-5.15.0-1108-oracle – 5.15.0-1108.114 linux-image-5.15.0-1110-realtime – 5.15.0-1110.119 Real-time Real-time kernel available with Ubuntu Pro. linux-image-5.15.0-1111-aws – 5.15.0-1111.118 linux-image-5.15.0-1111-aws-64k – 5.15.0-1111.118 linux-image-5.15.0-1111-aws-fips – 5.15.0-1111.118+fips1 FIPS…
48 Liam’s Desktop UX Brief: Running Linux desktops for over a decade teaches you one thing fast: your package manager is the single most important tool on your system. It handles everything from security patches to new software installs, and choosing the right one (or knowing how to use multiple ones) can make or break…
Sustaining a Core Part of the Linux Ecosystem The Linux Foundation has announced a second year of sponsorship for the ongoing maintenance of the Linux manual pages (man-pages) project, led by Alejandro (Alex) Colomar. This critical initiative is made possible through the continued support of Google, Hudson River Trading, and Meta, who have renewed their…
When you type rm *.log and the shell deletes every log file in the directory, the rm command never saw the *. The shell expanded the pattern into a list of matching file names first, then handed those names to rm. This expansion is called globbing, and the special characters that drive it are wildcards….
