LXQt 2.5 Released With Enhanced QTerminal, Removing The Final LXDE Dependency
LXQt 2.5 released today as the newest feature update to this lightweight, Qt6-based desktop environment...
Read moreDay: November 5, 2026
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 5, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Kernel cells; Debian LLM reviews; glibc system-call wrappers; Binder in Rust; Kernel CVE flood; Fedora KDE and X11 removal;...
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X says its updated web app is way faster
X is introducing a new version of its web app that it says is much faster than before, and it's now rolling out the updated app...
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The Elder Scrolls 6 is reportedly more than two years away, and some fans are not coping well
Theories that Bethesda is hinting at an earlier launch are already surfacing, and a few of them are pretty good.
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Beautiful Laser Harp Hides Some Neat Tricks
Laser harps aren’t quite a right of passage, in that not everyone builds them, but it’s likely everyone at least contemplates building one at one time...
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Ubuntu users blast Canonical for slow kernel security fix
Canonical is fixing a critical Linux kernel flaw in Ubuntu, weeks after Debian and other distros did – and users aren’t happy about the wait. As...
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No GTA 6 November: Here’s what you can play on PC instead
World of Warcraft: Forever, Warhammer Survivors, and a batch of fresh updates.
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Amazon S3 Tables now offer managed migration of Apache Hive tables to Apache Iceberg
You can now migrate existing Apache Hive datasets in Amazon S3 to fully managed Apache Iceberg tables in Amazon S3 Tables, with no pipelines to build...
Read moreDOJ Admits Its ‘Illegal Voter’ Lists Can’t Be Trusted, Leading To Three Court Losses In 24 Hours
A last minute attempt to throw the midterm election into chaos failed. Leading up to this point, the signs were never good in the Magic 8...
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The Blue Wave Has Tech Bros Scrambling for Data Centers in Space
After Democrats won big in Texas and other AI infrastructure hot spots on Tuesday, data center enthusiasts looked for comfort in low Earth orbit.
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Share e-mail tags between KMail and Thunderbird
Problem: KMail tags ≠ Thunderbird tags¶ Due to technical issues1 at work, I had to temporarily switch to using Thunderbird – or rather, Betterbird – and...
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