Going back to last year the Igalia open-source consulting firm has been working on enhancing the Linux kernel to help Steam Play gaming on ARM64 and ensuring the FEX emulator is operating efficiently for x86/x86_64 games running on the likes of the Steam Frame. After other kernel work in recent months, there's finally an updated round of the FUTEX get_robust_list2 and set_robust_list2 system call patches...

Nginx Proxy Manager 2.16 introduces a new web UI log viewer, per-path access lists, security fixes, networking improvements, and updated Certbot support.

A new blog post published on Thursday covers the experimental support for SIMD with the Go programming language. This expanding Go SIMD support also includes a platform-independent API for making use of SIMD with modern processors...

OBS Studio 33 has entered public beta testing today as a major release of this open-source, cross-platform, and free video recording and live streaming software that promises new features and improvements.

ARK Electronics recently showcased the ARKV6X-RT, an NDAA-compliant flight controller based on the FMUV6X-RT and Pixhawk Autopilot Bus open standards. The module uses an NXP i.MX RT1176 microcontroller and includes three synchronized IMUs, onboard FRAM, a secure element and PX4 Autopilot support. For context, the i.MX RT1176 integrates a 1GHz Arm Cortex-M7 core and a […]

The Redox OS open-source, Rust-based operating system has seen a lot of activity in recent weeks with many notable improvements landing...

The new systemd-report collects system facts and runtime metrics into unified, timestamped JSON reports for monitoring and fleet management.

AlmaLinux’s new certification platform aims to make finding out how well your hardware and software will work with AlmaLinux as easy as looking at its certification catalog.

The coffee window is closing. Going back many years with the time it's taken to compile the Linux kernel has been a well known opportunity for a coffee break or even eating a meal during the lengthy Linux kernel build process. Even when the Linux kernel was much smaller than it is today, with the hardware at the time it would often be a very time consuming process... Thus incredible to think that we are now on the horizon of a ten second clean, default kernel build on Linux x86_64.

Shelly 3.1.5 is out today as a new maintenance update in the Shelly 3.1 series of this modern, open-source, and free pacman alternative for Arch Linux and derivatives.

Navidrome is an open-source music server that lets you stream your personal audio collection anywhere. It gives you freedom to listen to your music collection from any browser or mobile device. It’s like your personal Spotify! In this guide, we will explore how to get Navidrome up and running securely using Podman on Fedora Linux. […]

Orange Pi has published hardware details for the OrangePi O1, a 90 × 70mm SBC based on the Sophgo BM1688 processor. It pairs eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores with a RISC-V C906 coprocessor and a 16-TOPS INT8 TPU, along with up to 16GB of LPDDR4/LPDDR4X memory. The BM1688 integrates eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores operating at up […]

WUD 9.0 arrives with a new SQLite-based persistence layer, three user roles, personal API tokens, and improved OIDC support.

While the Linux kernel continues to be bombarded with patches from AI/LLM agents, to date the kernel hasn't carried an AGENTS.md Markdown file with instructions catering to AI/LLM agents. But a patch set out today would finally introduce one...

Linux hardware vendor and Pop!_OS Linux maker System76 released COSMIC 1.9 today as the latest stable version of this Rust-based desktop environment for modern GNU/Linux distributions.

Mozilla is expanding Firefox Smart Window, an optional AI-powered browsing mode with page summaries, research tools, tab grouping, and local memories.

Advantages of the YaST Installer - Extreme Customization During Setup: Unlike many rigid Linux installers that force you to accept default software or partitioning, YaST lets you modify virtually every parameter - including complicated BTRFS/XFS disk layout, provides builtin interlace for additional subvolumes decouple if it appears to be required, adding or removing specific software packages, desktop environments, and multimedia codecs before the installation even begins.

For those with a Framework Laptop 13 Pro or another Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release is delivering some nice out-of-the-box improvements over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.

One of the livelist Fedora Discourse community discussions in recent days -- or even in quite a period of time for that matter -- comes down to a user having suggested that Fedora replace LibreOffice by default with the downstream Collabora Office...

SparkyLinux 2026.09 is out based on Debian Forky Testing, featuring Linux kernel 7.2 and a new lightweight Labwc Wayland edition.

Yesterday Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 as quite an interesting mobile SoC. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 features Adreno 850 graphics and already one-day later their engineers are out with initial Linux kernel patches for bringing up the A850 with the MSM kernel driver...

Canonical is switching Ubuntu kernel updates to overlapping two-week cycles, resulting in new kernel releases every week.

NTFS-3G 2026.9.18 is out today as the latest stable release of this free, open-source, and cross-platform file system driver that provides full read and write access to NTFS partitions on Linux systems.

Qualcomm at their Snapdragon Summit taking place in Hawaii are talking up the forthcoming Linux support for Snapdragon X2 series laptops...

Wireshark 4.6.9 has been released today as yet another minor update in the Wireshark 4.6 series of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform network protocol analyzer.

With Debian voting to allow the responsible use of generative AI, there is now a new initiative funded by Scaleway to make it easier for Debian contributors to leverage AI: the Debian Inference Portal...

Sublime Text 4213 updates its plugin runtime to Python 3.14, adds file icon themes, Git improvements, and several Linux-specific fixes.

With the recent release of Java/OpenJDK 27 I began some fresh benchmarks in not having looked at the OpenJDK Java performance in a few years. Carried away, I ended up re-testing all the major OpenJDK versions going back to the venerable JDK 8.

Today, the KeePassXC project released the beta version of the upcoming KeePassXC 2.8 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform password manager for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

wolfSSL has detailed several embedded security updates covering deterministic networking, post-quantum cryptography and automotive hardware security. The updates include the wolfIP TCP/IP stack, NIST-validated post-quantum algorithms in wolfCrypt, native Falcon and FrodoKEM implementations, and wolfHSM support for Infineon’s AURIX TC4xx family. The networking portion centers on wolfIP, a lightweight TCP/IP stack designed for bare-metal and […]