Last month we showcased GreenBoost as an open-source means of augmenting NVIDIA GPU vRAM with system RAM and NVMe storage. This memory tiering solution for NVIDIA GPUs was developed by an open-source developer with a focus on CUDA and allowing larger LLMs to be handled on graphics cards with smaller vRAM capacities. There was a setback to the project due to NVIDIA legal but now the project is going in new form and also has introduced GreenBoost-Proton for helping Linux gaming on NVIDIA hardware...

The Linux 7.0 kernel is now out, and it’s one of the most impactful releases in years for networking professionals. Key improvements include:

Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification (AccECN) now default UDP performance boost IPv6 enhancements CAKE MQ (Common Applications Kept Enhanced) network scheduler integration

France is transitioning government desktops to Linux, with each ministry required to formalize its implementation plan by autumn 2026.

A big infrastructure grant from Anthropic, and an investment from the Linux Foundation's Alpha-Omega, quietly become seed money for Apache’s new “responsible AI” push.

DavMail 6.6 improves Exchange and Office 365 access on Linux with authentication fixes, XDG config support, and packaging updates.

The open-source, Rust-based Servo browser engine has been improving its Servoshell demo browser application while one of the most promising potentials for this engine is around embedded use as an alternative to the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). With the latest moves by Servo developers, they are making for a more compelling story for its use...

Linux 7.0 has been officially released, and while it will soon be available on the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Racoon) release, due out on April 23rd, 2026, you can install it right now on your Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) system.

Is AI coming for your sysadmin job? We analyzed 7,120 Linux job postings to find out. The answer: infrastructure skills aren't being replaced - they're being built on. But the floor of what you need to know is rising fast. AI appears in just 15.5% of listings while Docker and Kubernetes remain the tightest skill pair in the dataset. The real story is where the money is going - and which skills get you there.

Linux kernel 7.0 is now available, featuring stable Rust support and updates to filesystems, networking, virtualization, and security.

The Trisquel Project released Trisquel GNU/Linux 12.0 LTS (codename Ecne) today as the latest stable version of this 100% free operating system for home users, small enterprises, and educational centers.

Cage as the Wayland compositor providing a kiosk mode for single, maximized apps is out with a new feature release more than six months after its prior version...

The 287th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending April 12th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

As expected the stable Linux 7.0 kernel was just released today in marking this next kernel release. The Linux 7.0 milestone comes due to Linus Torvalds' preference of bumping the major version number after hitting X.19 as opposed to any single major change, but in any event there are a lot of great improvements and changes to find with this new kernel version. Linux 7.0 is also what's powering the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release...

Calibre 9.7 open-source e-book management software is now available for download with support for grouping results by any field in the annotations browser and other changes.

Once a fixture on the lecture circuit, GNU’s creator — and the father of Free Software — is slowly re?emerging in the US, updating his message for the 2020s.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Linux kernel 7.0, Trisquel 12.0, COSMIC Desktop 1.0.9, Nano 9.0, France launches government Linux desktop plan, AerynOS gets a new logo, and more.

Linux kernel 7.0 is now available for download, as announced today by Linus Torvalds himself, featuring enhanced hardware support, filesystem and networking improvements, security enhancements, and many other changes.

For those sticking to absolute free software ideals, Trisquel 12.0 was released this weekend for this Free Software Foundation (FSF) approved distribution for only containing free software and foregoing loadable microcode/firmware and running on the Linux-libre kernel even with its reduced scope in hardware support...

KDE Frameworks 6.25 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop environment. Here’s what’s new!

FreeBSD has started public laptop testing as part of its larger effort to improve hardware support and become a stronger option for everyday desktop use.

With Linux 7.0 expected for release later today, in turn the Linux 7.1 merge window will kick off for the two week period of landing all sorts of exciting new features, changes, and removal of old features from the kernel. Here is a look at some of what is on the table for the Linux 7.1 merge window...

Hyprland arrives in Debian 13 (Trixie) backports, giving stable users an official way to install the dynamic Wayland compositor.

Waveshare recently featured the PocketTerm35-Pi5, a handheld Linux terminal based on the Raspberry Pi 5, with an integrated display, keyboard, and battery in a compact form factor. It supports command-line interaction, development workflows, and portable system access without external peripherals. Internally, the system includes a Raspberry Pi 5 (1GB variant in this configuration), along with […]

Trisquel 12 (Ecne) becomes the project’s new Ubuntu 24.04-based LTS release for users seeking a fully free system.

D7VK as the open-source project that began as a fork of DXVK in adding support for Direct3D 7 atop Vulkan has with time extended its range to also supporting Direct3D 6, 5, and 3 APIs. Out today is D7VK 1.7 in continuing to better support those vintage versions of Microsoft's Direct3D API...

GParted Live 1.8.1-3 Debian-based live system for performing disk partitioning tasks using the GParted partition editor is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.19.

In addition to their efforts around the Lemonade SDK itself, AMD software engineers working on their AI initiatives continue to be investing quite a bit into the Lemonade-using GAIA, the project that originally stood for "Generative AI Is Awesome". AMD's GAIA now allows building your own custom AI agents via chatting with GAIA as well as becoming a "true desktop app" so it's easier to deploy across Windows, Linux, and macOS environments...

GStreamer 1.28.2 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with caching support for the nvcodec plugin to speed up initialization and many other changes.

In this article, you will learn how to find similarities and differences between two files in Linux with practical examples from the CLI and GUI methods.

Zoey Bauer was kind enough to inform me about Shelly, a new package management tool for Arch Linux that aims to be more intuitive and user-friendly than what’s already on the market.