📰 KaOS 2026.02 Debuts Niri Wayland Desktop While Exploring Life Beyond Systemd
KaOS 2026.02 is released without Plasma on the ISO, introducing the Niri and Noctalia Wayland desktops. Plasma 6 remains available in the repositories.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kaos-2026-02-debuts-niri-wayland-desktop/
#wayland#systemd#plasma
📰 KaOS 2026.02 Debuts Niri Wayland Desktop While Exploring Life Beyond Systemd
KaOS 2026.02 is released without Plasma on the ISO, introducing the Niri and Noctalia Wayland desktops. Plasma 6 remains available in the repositories.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kaos-2026-02-debuts-niri-wayland-desktop/
#wayland#systemd#plasma
📰 KDE Plasma 6.7 Ready With Wayland Session Management, Other New Improvements
KDE Plasma 6.7 enjoyed a lot of recent feature development work thanks to a developer sprint in Graz, Austria. Also because of that developer sprint, This Week In Plasma wasn't published last week and so in turn a new issue is now available to highlight the changes over the past two weeks...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Session
#kde#plasma#wayland
📰 KDE Plasma 6.6.4 Released with Wayland, KWin, and Spectacle Fixes
KDE Plasma 6.6.4 desktop environment fixes Wayland scaling, Spectacle crashes, KWin bugs, and several Plasma Desktop regressions.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-6-4-released-with-wayland-kwin-and-spectacle-fixes/
#kde#wayland#plasma
📰 T2 Linux 26.3 Is Out with Fully Reproducible Wayland-Based KDE Plasma Experience
T2 Linux SDE 26.3 “Desktop Edition” is now available as a massive update for this highly portable source-based Linux distribution. Here’s what’s new!
🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/t2-linux-26-3-is-out-with-fully-reproducible-wayland-based-kde-plasma-experience
#plasma#linux#kde#wayland
📰 KaOS 2026.03 Released With Major Move Away From systemd Components
KaOS 2026.03 removes systemd-boot and mkinitcpio, adopts Limine and Dracut, and introduces a new Niri-based desktop environment.
🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kaos-2026-03-released-with-major-move-away-from-systemd-components/
#systemd
📰Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support
The project removes the birthDate field systemd added last week in response to age verification laws.
🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17304579/systemd-fork-strips-out-age-verification
#systemd
📰 SysV Init 3.16 Released With Cleanups, Improved systemd Unit To SysV Script Conversion
For any holdouts still running SysV Init instead of systemd or other alternatives like OpenRC, SysV Init 3.16 is out as the first release in a half-year and bringing a few refinements...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/SysV-Init-3.16
#systemd
📰 systemd 260-rc1 Released: New "mstack" Feature, System V Service Scripts No Longer Supported
The first release candidate of systemd 260 is now available for testing. Systemd 260 finally does away with System V service scripts support. Also notable to systemd 260 is the work around the new "mstack" feature...
🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-260-rc1
#systemd
systemd birthDate Merge: Corporate Filings & Governance Failure
Investigation pulled Amutable's founding documents from the German Handelsregister
The corporate filings show three equal shareholders, no outside investors, and self-dealing exemptions that let any founder sign contracts between the company and their own personal entities All three founders were employed at Microsoft when they signed the founding deed. A hidden shareholders' agreement referenced three times in the Articles of Association but never filed publicly governs economic rights, IP assignment, and vesting terms the public cannot see.
Three decisions put the birthDate field into #systemd. Each was made by someone with a direct financial interest in the outcome No one disclosed those interests. systemd has no conflict-of-interest policy, no steering committee, no community veto, and no disclosure requirements. The project that boots every major Linux distribution has less formal governance than a typical mid-size open source project.
Lennart Poettering intends to replace "sudo" with #systemd's run0. Here's a quick PoC to demonstrate root permission hijacking by exploiting the fact "systemd-run" (the basis of uid0/run0, the sudo replacer) creates a user owned pty for communication with the new "root" process.
This isn't the only bug of course, it's not possible on Linux to read the environment of a root owned process but as systemd creates a service in the system slice, you can query D-BUS and learn sensitive information passed to the process env, such as API keys or other secrets.
https://fixupx.com/hackerfantastic/status/1785495587514638559
Nitter mirror: https://xcancel.com/hackerfantastic/status/1785495587514638559
📰 The One Trick That Made Immutable Linux Easier For Me
There's a systemd utility that lets you "inject" tools into a read-only OS at runtime, without rebooting the system. Here's my exploration.
🔗 Source: https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17309280/systemd-sysext
#linux#systemd