Talos is a specialist Linux-based operating system for running Kubernetes, an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerised applications. Minimal, immutable and hardened, it does not offer any shell or interactive console; instead, all system management is done via remote Application Programming Interface (API) calls, where messages sent from a client application are protected with mutual Transport Layer Security TLS (mTLS) authentication. Talos also delivers atomic updates, thus maintaining the Linux and Kubernetes versions up-to-date. Talos is developed in the USA by Sidero Labs, Inc.
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Thomas Ward has published
an update about the future of the Ubuntu MATE project, which did not have a
26.04 release with the other Ubuntu flavors in
April:
There is a new team working on Ubuntu MATE who have stepped up to
help take over flavor management. They haven't formally introduced
themselves yet, but I can safely say that other developers HAVE
stepped up for the future of the MATE flavor, despite its prior team
lead having stepped down.
[...] Ultimately, this means that they are working to cover the
missed items and gaps, and may quite possibly have a 26.10 release in
October of 2026, which I believe they most likely are targeting.
This also means that bugs in the MATE environment and in packages
they normally would have shipped had they have a 26.04 release are
still going to get attention and fixes. So, effectively, nothing has
changed. The only difference is that there was no 26.04 installer
image released.
For those looking to install a MATE desktop on a "clean" install of
Ubuntu 26.04, Ward suggests installing Ubuntu Server and then
installing the ubuntu-mate-desktop package.
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, Mike Fiedler walked the audience
through why trusted publishing exists, how it works, and made the case
for its adoption. It is not a silver bullet against all attacks, but
it does offer protection against theft of long-lived credentials used
to publish to package registries.
SolydX and SolydK are Debian-based distributions with the Xfce and KDE desktops respectively. SolydXK aims to be simple to use, providing an environment that is both stable and secure. SolydXK is an open-source alternative for small businesses, non-profit organisations and home users. The project started as an unofficial variant of Linux Mint's "Debian" edition with KDE as the default desktop, but it was later given its own identity as SolydK. SolydX was added after Linux Mint dropped its Debian-based flavour that used the Xfce desktop. The project also has a rolling release branch, called Enthusiast's Editions, which used Debian Testing as a base.
The Asahi Linux project,
which brings Linux support to Apple Arm-based Macs, has warned
its users not to upgrade to the macOS 27 "Golden Gate"
beta.
Apple has changed how the boot picker and Startup Disk applications
detect valid OS boot volumes. When using either from macOS 27, your
Asahi partition will not be visible! We believe this to be a bug, and
have filed a report (FB22994760).
If you have already upgraded to the beta and noticed that your
Asahi partition has disappeared, do not stress. Your Asahi partition
is still there, and you have not lost any data.
The Asahi Linux installer has been patched to prevent use with
macOS 27 for now, but any users already bitten by the change will
need to use macOS 26 to restore access to Asahi Linux.
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 fundamental approach to simple for loops has not
changed.
When it encounters a loop, it evaluates it, iteration by iteration, until reaching
an exit condition — a process that can cause the verifier to mistakenly hit the
limit on the number of allowed instructions where a better implementation
would not.
Eduard Zingerman
spoke at the 2026
Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management, and BPF Summit
about his in-progress work on improving the verifier's treatment of loops, especially nested
loops.
StratOS Linux is an Arch-based Linux distribution which uses scripts from Bedrock Linux to include various packages and repositories from other Linux distributions. It provides several desktop variants featuring the GNOME desktop as well as the Hyprland and the Niri Wayland compositors. The project also develops several custom tools, such as StratVIM (a fork of the Neovim text editor), Rockers (a custom package manager wrapper able to fetch and install binary and source packages from other Linux distributions and from Flatpaks), Stratmacs (a custom Emacs configuration), grab (a fetch script), and Maneki-Neko (a Welcome application).
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bind and libyang), Debian (keystone and openssl), Fedora (mingw-objfw, objfw, sentencepiece, and tailscale), Mageia (packagekit and suricata), Oracle (bind, bind9.16, go-toolset:ol8, ImageMagick, kernel, samba, and vim), SUSE (apache-commons-lang3, apache-commons-text, apache-commons- configuration2, apache-commons-cli, apache-commons-io, apache-commons-codec, avahi, busybox, chromedriver, chromium, csync2, firewalld, frr, gleam, helm, kernel-devel, keybase-client, libmozjs-140-0, libopenvswitch-3_7-0, libsoup, memcached, mutt, openjpeg2, ovmf, perl-HTML-Parser, perl-Net-CIDR-Set, perl-Protocol-HTTP2, postgresql-jdbc, postgresql17, python-CairoSVG, python-Flask, python-pip, python-pyOpenSSL, python-python-multipart, python-Twisted, python-urllib3, python-urllib3_1, python-uv, python311, rsync, tomcat, and tree-sitter), and Ubuntu (alsa-lib, cups, inetutils, isc-kea, jpeg-xl, libnet-cidr-lite-perl, netatalk, netty, nginx, node-shell-quote, php-twig, pillow, poppler, rsync, strongswan, systemd, and transmission).
Heise is carrying
a
report from the Linux App Summit, held in Berlin in May.
The slightly more than a dozen talks were symbolically framed
between the opening keynote by systemd creator Lennart Poettering
and the closing talk by Jorge Castro, initiator of the Universal
Blue project, from which the modern Linux systems Bluefin and
Bazzite emerged. Both Castro and Poettering call for a fundamental
rethink of how Linux operating systems are delivered but pursue
different approaches.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.0.12, 6.18.35, and 6.12.93 stable kernels. Each contains
important fixes throughout the tree. Users are advised to upgrade.
Bluestar Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution that is based on Arch Linux. The Bluestar distribution features up to date packages, a full range of desktop and multimedia software in the default installation and a live desktop DVD.
RefreshOS is a user-friendly Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch and featuring the KDE Plasma desktop. Some of its main features include extended driver support, a polished user experience, and a refined system performance. The distribution ships with the Brave web browser, LibreOffice office suite, GIMP image editor and various popular applications for productivity and creativity tasks. RefreshOS maintains a clean environment that is free of Snap and Flatpak packages.
NuTyX is a French Linux distribution (with multi-language support) built from Linux From Scratch and Beyond Linux From Scratch, with a custom package manager called "cards". The package manager can install individual binary packages, a group of related binary packages (e.g. desktop packages, such as KDE or Xfce), and compile source packages from "ports". The distribution is designed for intermediate and advanced Linux users.
Berserk Arch is an Arch Linux-based, rolling-release distribution designed primarily for power users, security researchers and developers. It boots into a command-line interface with an option to start a text-mode installation wizard which offers a choice of desktop environments (GNOME, KDE Plasma, Xfce), window managers (dwm, i3, Openbox) and Wayland compositors (Hyprland). The distribution offers a modular environment with pre-configured desktop profiles, secure package infrastructure and curated toolsets.
Dharma Linux is a Devuan-based distribution featuring the lightweight MATE desktop. It is entirely localised into Spanish. Some of the distribution's features includes the Refracta system installer, Zen web browser, and several custom applications, such as Dharma Welcome, Dharma Updater and Dharma AppCenter.
SysLinuxOS is a Debian-based GNU/Linux live distribution designed for system administrators and system integrators. It offers a complete networking environment that is organised to integrate various software tools and has a friendly graphical interface using the MATE and GNOME desktops. SysLinuxOS was built to work right out of the box, with all networking tools already installed by default. It includes all major Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), several remote control clients, various browsers, as well as WINE, Wireshark, Etherape, Ettercap, PackETH, Packet Sender, Putty, Nmap, Cutecom, Packet Tracer, tools for serial console, and the latest stable Linux kernel.
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