Discord, the popular instant messaging and VoIP communication platform, announced some significant improvements being made to their Linux client...

DeepComputing has launched the DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard III for the Framework Laptop 13, a modular RISC-V platform based on the SpacemiT K3 processor. The board combines an eight-core RISC-V CPU, up to 60 TOPS of AI acceleration, LPDDR5 memory, and compatibility with the Framework Laptop 13 ecosystem. The platform is built around the SpacemiT K3 […]

KDE has secured over €1 million from the Sovereign Tech Fund to enhance Plasma, KDE Linux, testing, security, and core infrastructure.

FreeBSD 15.0 had aimed to provide a KDE desktop install option from its text-based OS installer to make for a more compelling FreeBSD out-of-the-box desktop experience. That was then delayed to FreeBSD 15.1 but that didn't end up materializing. Now the KDE desktop install option is diverted to FreeBSD 15.2...

LibreOffice 25.8.7 is the final update in the 25.8 series, providing crash fixes, document handling improvements, and security updates.

For those making use of OpenZFS on Linux or FreeBSD, OpenZFS 2.4.2 is out today as the newest stable release of this ZFS file-system implementation...

COSMIC Desktop 1.0.13 brings compositor, Files, setup, OSD, media player, and workspace fixes, plus translation and dependency updates.

Use-after-free bug in Exim’s GnuTLS BDAT handling lets remote attackers corrupt memory, with no workaround other than upgrading to version 4.99.3.

An IBM engineer posted the first set of patches enabling the Rust programming language support for the Linux kernel to be built on the s390 architecture...

The Document Foundation announced LibreOffice 25.8.7 today as the seventh and last maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.8 office suite series with various bug fixes.

GitLab has confirmed workforce reductions and organizational changes as it shifts its platform strategy to focus on AI agents.

This article will explain what a shell is and provide a list of its implementation programs, or different types of Linux shells.

For nearly a week now people wait to find out what this was all about. Uncertainly contributed to the panic.

KDE Plasma 6.6.5 fixes bugs across KWin, KScreen, Plasma Desktop, Workspace, Discover, Powerdevil, Spectacle, and more.

It's been nearly one year to the week since Intel introduced Project Battlematrix as their initiative for improving their Linux driver support for the Arc Pro B-Series with enhancements such as bettering the multi-GPU support in allowing up to eight Arc Pro GPUs per system as well as other open-source driver optimizations in the era of AI. Recently with the Arc Pro B70 in having four review samples for testing I was finally able to try out the multi-GPU state of the Arc (Pro) graphics cards on Linux with their open-source driver code.

At Red Hat Summit 2026, we’re announcing Fedora Hummingbird — a new container-based rolling Fedora Linux distribution. This distribution provides access to the latest software as soon as it’s available upstream, which ensures that it’s up to date and secure. Fedora Hummingbird primarily utilizes an image-based workflow, similar to containers, but also runs in virtual […]

The upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel will be adding support for Microchip's Switchtec PCIe Gen6 switches...

Tails 7.7.3 fixes the Dirty Frag Linux kernel vulnerability with kernel 6.12.86 and updates Tor Browser, Tor, and Thunderbird.

A few weeks back we reviewed the redesigned System76 Thelio Mira with a brand new chassis design and powered by the AMD Ryzen 9000 series. This was an interesting Linux-powered desktop manufactured in Colorado while for those needing a bit more performance, since then the redesigned Thelio Major launched. The new System76 Thelio Major provides an updated Thelio case design like Mira while comes packed with the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series and AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics for delivering a very powerful, all-AMD and open-source high-end Linux workstation.

GStreamer 1.28.3 has been released today as the third maintenance update to the latest and greatest GStreamer 1.28 series of this powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform multimedia framework.

At the beginning of the month was the surprise milestone of AMD posting AMDGPU kernel driver patches for HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support. The HDMI FRL patches have since been updated to also enable HDMI 2.1's Display Stream Compression (DSC) functionality for higher resolutions and higher refresh rates with the open-source AMDGPU driver...

The Debian 14 “Forky” release is about halfway through the development cycle, and more features have surfaced, including support for the LoongArch64 architecture and reproducible builds.

RPM 6.1 RC1 introduces the first test build for the 6.1 package manager series, with updates across macros, builds, signing, and verification.

The SparkyLinux team announced the release and general availability of SparkyLinux 8.3 as the latest stable update in the SparkyLinux 8 “Seven Sisters” series of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution.

Photoflare 1.7 returns after years without a release, adding Qt 6, G’MIC filters, a rewritten canvas engine, and many editing improvements.

Sculpt OS as the general purpose operating system built off the Genode OS Framework is out with a new feature release...

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Parrot OS 7.2, Manjaro 26.1 Preview, Hyprland 0.55, KDE Gear 26.04.1, COSMIC Desktop 1.0.12, Linux kernel killswitch proposed, and more.

Here in Europe, 15 years ago Nokia was a top contributor to Linux (#3). Then Microsoft's Ballmer and Elop infiltrated the company and destroyed it. Nowadays Nokia is a hostile company that lobbies for software patents and infiltrates courts that assess patentability and violate constitutions.

The beta version of the upcoming Audacious 4.6 open-source media player has been released today for public testing with a bunch of exciting new features, new plugins, and many other improvements.