[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 18, 2026

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 18, 2026 is available.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077459/ #LWN #Linux

Fedora F44 election results

https://lwn.net/Articles/1078366/ #LWN #Linux

NVIDIA 595.84 released as the new Recommended Driver for Linux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/nvidia-595-84-released-as-the-new-recommended-driver-for-linux/

#NVIDIA #Linux #LinuxGaming

Everything security at PyCon US 2026

https://lwn.net/Articles/1078361/ #LWN #Linux #security #Python

Update on the ARC Raiders situation, a fix is in a Proton Experimental Beta: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/arc-raiders-is-broken-for-some-linux-steamos-players-but-a-fix-is-on-the-way/

#ARCRaiders #Proton #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS

[$] Some buffer-heads cleanup work

Jan Kara has been working on cleaning up how buffer heads are used by some kernel filesystems. In a short filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Ma [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077767/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #SUSE #BPF

I was hoping the Ubuntu STT project would be relevant to projects outside of Ubuntu, but it apparently is being vibe-coded and depends on Snap. 🙃

https://github.com/canonical/myna/blob/testbed-and-service-api/CLAUDE.md

#Linux #Ubuntu #myna

FairScan 2.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1078242/ #LWN #Linux #Android

Security updates for Wednesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1078339/ #LWN #Linux #security

If your desktop has a system tray, that *is* the correct place to surface background apps! Nice work, KDE.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.0/#background-apps-in-the-system-tray

This will help GNOME as well as more apps will be incentivized to use modern cross-desktop APIs that are less prescriptive with exactly *how* things are displayed.

#GNOME #KDE #Linux #Flatpak

Our anti-cheat page for Linux / SteamOS has hit over 220 games listed: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/anticheat/

#Linux #SteamOS

Wine Wayland gains fractional scaling support https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/wine-wayland-gains-fractional-scaling-support/

#Wine #Linux #OpenSource #Wayland

Open source RTS game Beyond All Reason signs publishing deal with Hooded Horse https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/open-source-rts-game-beyond-all-reason-signs-publishing-deal-with-hooded-horse/

#BeyondAllReason #RTS #OpenSource #Gaming #Linux

I love that feeling you get when you finish tuning your Linux desktop box with everything optimized and "just so" and nothing left to mess with or install. Colours, wallpaper, apps, hardware acceleration, menus, widgets/plasmoids, filesystems backed up, etc.

Oh, that's just me?

Never mind. Carry on.

#Linux #AlpineLinux

Step 1: Open terminal
Step 2: Type `alias nano='vim -c "smile"'`
Step 3: Enjoy this whenever someone type `nano`!

#SysAdmin #Linux #FreeBSD

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This screenshot shows green ASCII art of the Vim ester eggs on a dark retro terminal screen, with the "Press ENTER or type command to continue" prompt displayed at the bottom when you type nano at the cli via bash alias: alias nano='vim -c "smile"'

Thank you to Arm for sponsoring Flock 2026 at the Silver level!

Arm designs the chips that power billions of devices worldwide, and they are interested in enabling better Linux support as well!

#FlockToFedora #Flock2026 #Fedora #OpenSource #Arm #Linux

ARC Raiders is broken for some Linux / SteamOS players - but a fix is on the way https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/arc-raiders-is-broken-for-some-linux-steamos-players-but-a-fix-is-on-the-way/

#ARCRaiders #AntiCheat #Linux #SteamOS #Bazzite

The LWN public topics list

https://lwn.net/Articles/1078039/ #LWN #Linux

Minecraft Java Edition 26.2 'Chaos Cubed' has landed https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/minecraft-java-edition-26-2-chaos-cubed-has-landed/

#Minecraft #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux #SteamOS

Funny meme number released https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.7.0/

#KDE #KDEPlasma #Linux

[$] The state of Fedora in 2026

On June 15 at Fedora's Flock conference, held in Prague, Fedora Project Leader (FPL) Jef Spaleta delivered a short "State of Fedora" keynote that provided a bit of insight into the [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077832/ #LWN #Linux #RedHat #Bazzite

Firefox 152.0 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1078191/ #LWN #Linux #Firefox

KDE Plasma 6.7 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1078160/ #LWN #Linux

@funkylab

For #FreeBSD (on that same box), I found a shell script that uses sysctl to get the ACPI name for the battery, and runs acpi_call from ports to set the thresholds, which survives a reboot.
On #OpenBSD, I believe you set the thresholds directly through sysctl.
On #Linux, you set it with something like echo 80 > /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_stop_threshold

Security updates for Tuesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1078158/ #LWN #Linux #security

KDE Plasma 6.7 out with per-screen virtual desktops, Wayland upgrades, better support for background apps https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/kde-plasma-6-7-out-with-per-screen-virtual-desktops-wayland-upgrades-better-support-for-background-apps/

#KDE #KDEPlasma #Linux #OpenSource

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#Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck #OpenSource

The new Steam hardware is getting close, Arch Linux’s AUR is compromised, and curl is having a month off from vulnerability reports. Plus updates on using the Kagi search engine, retro handhelds, and 3D printing.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-390/

#linux #podcast #opensource

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Late Night Linux artwork

[$] Development statistics for the 7.1 kernel

Linus Torvalds released the 7.1 kernel as expected on June 14. This development cycle brought in a lot of new features — and a lot of new developers as well. The time has come for [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077425/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #SUSE #RedHat #ArchLinux #Rust #Git #io_uring

History of #CentOS: How a biochemist's #Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system https://theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/06/08/history-of-centos-how-a-biochemists-linux-hobby-project-became-the-enterprise-worlds-default-operating-system/5251530 by @sjvn

CentOS has been unsupported for years now, but it's still widely used, as are its kids: AlmaLinux & Rocky Linux.

Stenberg: curl summer of bliss

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077946/ #LWN #Linux #security

Security updates for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077945/ #LWN #Linux #security

Alpine Linux Merchandise... Does it exist?

Quick search shows some random stuff around but no indication that any proceeds get back to the project.

Don't see anything called out on the website but I could be blind.

#Linux #AlpineLinux

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟲/𝟭𝟱 (Valuable News - 2026/06/15) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/15/valuable-news-2026-06-15/

Past releases: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/news/

#verblog #vernews #news #bsd #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #linux #unix #zfs #opnsense #ghostbsd #solaris #vermadenday

Linux kernel 7.1 out now with new NTFS driver, lots of hardware improvements -> https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/linux-kernel-7-1-out-now-with-new-ntfs-driver-lots-of-hardware-improvements/

#Linux #OpenSource #Kernel

Honestly, I'm surprised AUR hasn't been shut down at this point.

#archlinux #linux

We get into the process of working on and with formal protocol specifications, something Andy is familiar with from his work on Matrix.

https://linuxdevtime.com/linux-dev-time-episode-152/

#podcast #linux #development

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