PostmarketOS 25.06: “the one with systemd”

The postmarketOS project, which creates a Linux distribution for mobile devices, announced it was working on adding a version with systemd last March. That day has arrived with the announcement of version 25.06: We considered supporting an upgrade from OpenRC to systemd in our upgrade script, but then decided against it as such an upgrade

Linux Media Summit 2025 recap (Collabora blog)

The Collabora blog has a summary, written by Nicolas Dufresne, about the Linux Media Summit held on May 13 in Nice, France. It was co-located with the Embedded Recipes conference and had sessions on stateless video encoders, camera support, staging drivers, memory accounting, and a multi-committer model for the media subsystem. “Our largest Media Summit

[$] GNOME deepens systemd dependencies

Adrian Vovk, a GNOME contributor and member of its release team, recently announced in a blog post that GNOME would be adding new dependencies on systemd, and soon. The idea is to shed GNOME’s homegrown service manager in favor of using systemd, and to improve GNOME’s ability to run concurrent user sessions. However, the move

Security updates for Monday

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (libblockdev and open-vm-tools), Debian (debian-security-support, gdk-pixbuf, konsole, and node-send), Fedora (apache-commons-beanutils, chromium, clamav, dotnet9.0, libblockdev, mediawiki, mingw-python-setuptools, pam, perl-File-Find-Rule, python-pycares, python-setuptools, spdlog, udisks2, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Mageia (chromium-browser-stable), Oracle (apache-commons-beanutils, container-tools:ol8, gimp:2.8, idm:DL1, perl-FCGI:0.78, and postgresql), Red Hat (container-tools:rhel8, delve, git-lfs, go-toolset:rhel8, grafana, kernel, mod_auth_openidc, and spice-client-win), SUSE (apache-commons-beanutils,

Intehill 13.4″ 4K+ Touchscreen Portable Monitor U13ZT Review

The Intehill 13.4″ 4K+ Touchscreen Portable Monitor is an inexpensive, extremely lightweight, very slim, monitor designed to be moved around. Here’s my verdict. The post Intehill 13.4″ 4K+ Touchscreen Portable Monitor U13ZT Review appeared first on Linux Today.

Arch Linux Shifts to Pure WoW64 Builds for Wine and Wine-Staging

Arch Linux transitions wine and wine-staging packages to pure WoW64 builds, removing the multi-lib dependency. Thus, Wine on Arch can now run 32-bit Windows applications seamlessly on 64-bit systems without requiring separate 32-bit libraries. The post Arch Linux Shifts to Pure WoW64 Builds for Wine and Wine-Staging appeared first on Linux Today.

lstr: The Blazing-Fast Directory Tree Viewer in Rust

lstr is a fast, minimalist and feature-rich tree command alternative to get a clean, uncluttered directory tree view with optional icons, permissions, file sizes, and .gitignore support for a superior experience. The post lstr: The Blazing-Fast Directory Tree Viewer in Rust appeared first on Linux Today.

How to Run GUI-Based Applications in Docker

Do you want to isolate your applications from the system? Learn how to run GUI-based applications, like Firefox, in Docker containers. The post How to Run GUI-Based Applications in Docker appeared first on Linux Today.