[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 11, 2026

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for June 11, 2026 is available.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1076254/ #LWN #Linux

God damn. Gnome's "activities" overview remains absolutely genius design. You tap *one* button, and you have access to 95% of what you use on a regular basis. It's sad that other desktop environments don't have this.

#FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #Linux #Debian #Gnome

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A Gnome desktop with "activities" revealed. There is a desktop window slightly shrunken, in the centre of the screen, a series of desktop thumbnails across the top, and a "dash" with frequently used programmes along the bottom. One button reveals your whole computer.

I might have brain space to install linux on that spare laptop 🥰 What’s your favourite? I am going to use it to play movies and music on my tv - so not for work #linux

Turns out Macs with Intel chips won’t be able to take the 27.x OS series. Looks like it’s time to turn my older Intel Mac (citca 2015) into a #linux box. I don’t know if I #linuxmint that one up or try something else like #CachyOS on the hardware.

Flipping windows laptops to Linux is easy. Time to find out if Mac causes any issues.

History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system

Was a very happy user of CentOS at work for web servers for many years up to the great 2021 controversy. It was so great to have an OS that was so stable, reliable and secure. A real boon for small organisations, much less faffing about. It Just Worked, no fuss.

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/06/08/history-of-centos-how-a-biochemists-linux-hobby-project-became-the-enterprise-worlds-default-operating-system/5251530

#CentOS #Linux

Change Default Linux/Unix Image Viewer Application

Use this complete guide to change the default image viewer application for a graphical desktop environment on a GNU/Linux or Unix operating system.

https://www.adamsdesk.com/posts/change-default-linux-unix-image-viewer/

#blog #KDE #XFCE #GNOME #linux #unix #tech

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Rays of light scatter down and outward through the blue and purplish water in the background. The foreground is made up of a group of three polaroids spread out like playing cards each with their own image viewer logo in the centre along with a strong title of 'Set Your Default Linux/Unix Image Viewer'.

Heya folks! It's surprise sync day, and that means it's time for the weekly Solus roundup! Read all about it on our forums: https://discuss.getsol.us/d/12782-week-24-2026

#FOSS #Linux #Solus #OpenSource

- Evan

Larson: Are insecure code completions a vulnerability?

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077413/ #LWN #Linux #security #Python

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

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

[$] AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere

Agentic AI systems can be used to do a variety of things autonomously on behalf of a human user: open or manage bugs, generate code, submit pull-requests, and (apparently) even com [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077035/ #LWN #Linux

Buildroot 2026.05 released

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077379/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #XFS

Security updates for Wednesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077362/ #LWN #Linux #security

Don't forget to check out our anti-cheat page to see what works: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/anticheat/

#Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck

SteamOS 3.8.8 Beta brings fixes for MSI Claw controls in Desktop Mode https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/steamos-3-8-8-beta-brings-fixes-for-msi-claw-controls-in-desktop-mode/

#SteamOS #MSI #SteamDeck #Linux

After being locked away for 10+ years in the Cloud; it's so refreshing, and frustrating to deal with all of the little things; like filesystems, database replication and locks, replacing fans and NICs, debugging OOMs, and crashing daemons on #FreeBSD, #OmniOS, and #Linux;

I feel like everything moves a little more slowly and sustainably this way; but most of all - I really missed getting lost in the details.

[$] Eliminating long-lived credentials with trusted publishing

Trusted publishing is an authentication mechanism that relies on short-lived credentials to reduce the risk of supply-chain attacks. At the 2026 Open Source Summit North America, M [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1076205/ #LWN #Linux #security #Python #Git #OSS

Getting a package into Fedora takes more than writing a spec file, and Jakub Kadlčík has spent a decade figuring out exactly where the friction is.

As a Copr developer and maintainer, Jakub has been building tools to fix the parts of Fedora packaging that frustrate contributors. Join us as we learn how Jakub:

* Introduced automated CI to the package review queue
* Made a sponsor-finder tool for new contributors
* Thinks we should move to @forgejo

➡️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m59OdC3BLp0

#Fedora #Linux

Future of Ubuntu MATE

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077221/ #LWN #Linux

I’ve finally gotten #JSignPdf onto #FlatHub. 🎉
It’s the most comprehensive digital signing tool for #Linux, and I’m glad it will now be available to more users.

During the process, I managed to convince upstream to adopt modern standards for Linux desktop applications, such as AppStream metadata and XDG portals, so it improved the application for Linux users, too.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.intoolswetrust.JSignPdf

I know there have been variants of this question floating around here, but am I right that the only #Linux distro to come out strongly against AI is Gentoo? And that is only for distro-specific code?

is no-one prepared to go the further step of a completely AI-free distro?

As a user for decades, primarily on political grounds, I fear for the loss of the promise of FLOSS.

Tongue-in-cheek further question: if the kernel is the big problem, is now the time for GNU/Hurd? /ducks

Asahi Linux warns users not to upgrade to macOS 27 beta

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077209/ #LWN #Linux

Has anyone had screen brightness control issues when updating to #nixos 26.05?

I was testing the channel upgrade in #nixbook and on my tester HP Dev One (Ryzen 7), I lost backlight control, after it had been working for years on previous channels.

What could have changed? Please feel free to check out the logged issue and boost

#linux

https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook/issues/87

Linux App Summit 2026 (Heise)

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077084/ #LWN #Linux #Bazzite #systemd

Three stable kernels for Tuesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077078/ #LWN #Linux #kernel

[$] BPF loop verification with scalar evolution

The BPF verifier has, in the course of wrestling with the difficult problem of statically analyzing loops, grown special support for many kinds of loops over its history, but its f [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1076121/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #GCC #LLVM #BPF #LSFMMBPF

Security updates for Tuesday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1077163/ #LWN #Linux #security

Why is #Linux like a religion? Everyone thinks their distro is the one true path, and they’ll die on that hill usually mid `apt upgrade`

#linux #ipv6

Kernel.org's IPv6 address ends in ":1991:8:25", the date Linux was announced

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1tzr95j/kernelorgs_ipv6_address_ends_in_1991825_the_date/?show=original

A new Firefox release confuses Félim, Plex makes no sense in a world where Jellyfin exists, Will considers paying for the Kagi search engine, and another small Android tablet for your wall. Plus what we learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit.

https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-389/

#podcast #linux #opensource

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Late Night Linux artwork

OH NO. Uhhh ... @fatherlinux

There may have been an ... incident in one of our contractor labs. It appears as though our shared ... project ... has kind of escaped.

She thinks she's Siona Atreides this one ...

#linux

[$] An update on fanotify

In a filesystem-track session at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein updated attendees on the fanotify filesystem-event monitoring [...]

https://lwn.net/Articles/1075829/ #LWN #Linux #kernel #systemd #XFS #BPF #FUSE

@neil Saw your post about no good tablets - could I suggest second hand Microsoft Surface Pro that are nuked and linux-ified, and then have the brilliant surface pro kernel added? I have two of them, Ubuntu and Fedora both run sweet including full touch functionality. Cameras are the only thing that don't work (AFAIK)

#SurfacePro #Linux

Shoutout to the unpaid open source devs holding everything together.
You know who you are. We owe you more than a GitHub star.

#OpenSource #Linux #SysAdmin #MemeMonday

rsync 3.4.4 released with regression fixes

https://lwn.net/Articles/1076989/ #LWN #Linux

Security updates for Monday

https://lwn.net/Articles/1076983/ #LWN #Linux #security

Latest 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀 - 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲/𝟬𝟲/𝟬𝟴 (Valuable News - 2026/06/08) available.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/08/valuable-news-2026-06-08/

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

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

Valheim 1.0 arrives in September with the Deep North biome https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/06/valheim-1-0-arrives-in-september-with-the-deep-north-biome/

#Valheim #Linux #Gaming #SteamDeck #SurvivalGame

Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc7

https://lwn.net/Articles/1076835/ #LWN #Linux #kernel