Systemd 260 has been released, bringing one of the most disruptive updates in recent cycles. It removes long-deprecated legacy components, raises baseline requirements, and introduces new frameworks for modern Linux systems.
The most notable change is the complete removal of System V init script support. Components like systemd-sysv-generator, systemd-sysv-install, and rc-local.service are gone, ending compatibility with legacy init scripts. Systems and software that still rely on SysV must now provide native systemd unit files to continue working.
Systemd 260 also raises minimum requirements across the stack. The baseline Linux kernel moves to version 5.10, with newer kernels recommended for full functionality. Several core dependencies have been updated, including glibc 2.34, OpenSSL 3.0, and Python 3.9, reflecting a shift toward newer platform standards.
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Open-source developer Andy Nguyen recently demonstrated porting Linux to the Sony PlayStation 5. The PS5 notably uses a custom AMD SoC and with some patches is able to play nicely with the open-source AMD graphics driver stack.
Beyond just demonstrating an experimental Linux port for the Sony PlayStation 5, Andy Nguyen has followed through and begun upstreaming some of the patches where relevant. Recently there have been AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and Mesa patches for dealing with the Sony PlayStation 5 GPU that is a combination of IP from different generations and on the CPU side is Zen 2 derived.
The Arch-based Linux distribution EndeavourOS Titan is out now, bringing with it plenty of nice sounding upgrades and some comments on age verification.
With lots of the Linux / FOSS community not happy about all the age verifications laws appearing, more distributions have been chiming in to give their thoughts. So it’s pleasing to see the EndeavourOS devs also comment on this too. Here’s what they said in the release announcement
The KDE team has released Plasma 6.6.3, the third bugfix update in the Plasma 6.6 series. A significant portion of this update focuses on KWin, KDE’s Wayland compositor. The release addresses several crashes, including a segmentation fault in the zoom plugin and output handling issues.
Additional improvements enhance input handling, screencasting, display management, and support for monitor modes and DDC/CI quirks on specific hardware.
The Discover software center receives several usability fixes, resolving issues with category selection, refresh behavior, and icon consistency.
Some handy CLI tricks:
Check SSL certificate expiry:
echo | openssl s_client -connect example.com:443 2>/dev/null | openssl x509 -noout -datesMonitor a webpage for changes:
watch -d -n 300 "curl -s https://example.com/ | md5sum"Generate a QR code from terminal:
qrencode -t UTF8 "https://your-url.com/"Quick JSON formatting:
echo "{\"key\":\"value\"}" | python3 -m json.toolDecode a JWT token:
echo "your.jwt.token" | cut -d. -f2 | base64 -d 2>/dev/null | jq .If you want these as quick web tools (useful when SSHd into a box without these packages), I threw together a free API toolkit that does all of this over HTTP: JSON formatting, JWT decoding, QR generation, UUID gen, hashing, etc.
What are your go-to one-liners?
At one point it seemed like Manjaro Linux would be the most popular Arch-based distribution, but after many missteps it appears to be at breaking point.
By now most people in the Linux sphere will have seen the issues - like how they have repeatedly let their SSL certificate expire bringing their entire website down. Something that is easily solved, but shows how the structure behind Manjaro is not particularly stable.
On the Manjaro Linux official forum, their team have put up a “Manjaro 2.0 Manifesto” with backing from multiple developers and people on their community team. They say that the leadership behind Manjaro does not line up with the actual developers and community involved in it, noting that Manjaro has become “one individual’s personal project, and everything is centralized around this single individual” (the founder, Philip Müller) and how the attempts to turn it into a business have mostly failed and so they want to see big changes.
Another fresh release of the free and open source OpenRazer has arrived, with v3.12.0 adding support for even more Razer devices on Linux. Who needs direct vendor support with their bloated apps anyway? The community provides!
The list of devices supported by OpenRazer is already quite long, to the point that you should be able to buy mostly anything from Razer and get playing with it right away.
The Early Beta Build of Orion for Linux is Now Available!
We know many of you have been eagerly waiting for a chance to try Orion Browser on Linux, and we’ve been hard at work to make progress behind the scenes. After months of building the foundations, we’re excited to share this early beta with you. It’s our first opportunity to let you get hands-on with the new features we’ve been developing.
What’s included in this early beta
Browsing made smoother
The core of Orion is fully connected to the Linux UI, and basic browsing is ready: you can navigate pages, use back, forward, and refresh actions, and start exploring multiple tabs. This milestone lays the groundwork for a more flexible and powerful tab system.
Staying organized and secure
We’ve added password management, history tracking, and Dark Mode and Focus Mode, giving you more control over your browsing experience. Custom search engines can be defined in Settings > Search, making it easy to search directly from the address bar.
Stability and polish
This early beta also brings several fixes that improve reliability - from preventing crashes when closing pinned tabs to resolving freezes in Website Settings, and ensuring new installations allow creating new tabs without issues.
Note:
Kagi Sync and webKit Extensions are still in development and not supported in Beta
✴ Try the Early Beta ✴
You can download the Flatpak build of Orion Browser for Linux here: Download Orion Early Beta (Flatpak)
What’s next
This early beta is just the beginning. Over the coming weeks, we’ll continue refining tab management, expanding WebExtension support and improving stability and usability.
We’d love to hear from you
As always, your thoughts, questions, and suggestions are welcome. They guide us in shaping the future of Orion on Linux, and we’re excited to have you on this journey with us. Go to our dedicated Orion Feedback Website: https://orionfeedback.org/
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SparkyLinux has published new installation images for its semi-rolling branch with the release of SparkyLinux 2026.03, code-named “Tiamat.” These updated ISOs are based on Debian Testing “Forky” and include the latest updates from both Debian and Sparky repositories as of March 14, 2026.
Consistent with Sparky’s semi-rolling approach, this release updates the installation media without introducing a new version. Existing rolling edition users do not need to reinstall; a standard system update will provide the latest packages.
The updated images include Linux kernel 6.19.6 by default. Additional kernel versions, such as 7.0-rc3, 6.19.8, 6.18.18-LTS, and 6.12.77-LTS, are available through the Sparky repositories.
Kent Overstreet today released Bcachefs 1.37 as the newest feature release to this out-of-tree file-system driver and user-space tooling for this next-gen, copy-on-write file-system.
The Bcachefs erasure coding functionality, which has been in the works for several years and has seen a lot of refinements in new Bcachefs updates over the past two years, is now considered stable. Bcachefs erasure coding is a data redundancy feature that allows for errors to be corrected. The erasure coding is akin to RAID implementations. It’s further explained on the Bcachefs Wiki for those interested in all the technical details on the implementation. With the experimental tag dropped on it, all core functionality around it is now considered complete.
Bcachefs also now is able to handle automatic recovery from devices with bad flush/fua support, faster recovery from unclean shutdowns, and better performance for multi-device file-systems.
Ageless Linux is a new project with an unconventional goal even by open-source standards. Instead of offering technical innovations, it serves as a platform for protest against emerging age-verification regulations that may affect operating systems and software distribution.
Right off the bat, one thing needs to be clear: Ageless Linux, based on Debian, is not a traditional distribution. It is just a minor modification applied to an existing Debian installation.
Users install Debian, then run a script from the project that rebrands the system as Ageless Linux and applies a few changes reflecting the project’s legal position. That’s it.
In addition to GNOME OS seeing recent improvements, KDE Linux continues seeing more enhancements too for this leading reference platform for showcasing the KDE Plasma desktop.
KDE developer Nate Graham published the latest issue of This Month In KDE Linux to outline some of the recent improvements to this general purpose OS for showcasing the KDE desktop stack
Thanks, yea I was going to yesterday when it replied to its own (what would have been anyways) OC content like it never seen it but forgot lmao