Following last week's main set of sound subsystem updates for Linux 7.3 that brought a lot of new audio hardware support, a second round of sound updates were merged this weekend ahead of today's Linux 7.3-rc1 release...

In a wide-ranging interview, the founder of the Free Software Movement discusses GNU, Linux, the open-source split, large language models, SaaSS, digital surveillance, and why software freedom remains a moral issue.

When the open-source Kubernetes cloud-native project got started more than a decade ago, AI was not a major concern. Times have changed.

Kubernetes 1.37 is now out, extending its networking and scheduling capabilities as more organizations run AI and machine learning workloads on the platform.

KDE’s upcoming Plasma 6.8 adds early QtWidgets support to the Union theming system, plus lower screencasting latency and better HDR handling.

This week was extremely eventful in the GNOME space with GPU reset recovery for GNOME Mutter now largely wrapped up and the merge request opened to facilitate the code review. There was also the announcement of the half million Euro Sovereign Tech Agency investment into Flatpak. Plus on the application side were a few more interesting advancements this week.'..

California lawmakers have approved AB 1856, requiring age signals from covered operating systems while keeping its open-source carve-out intact.

Security teams typically don’t struggle to find vulnerabilities as much as they have in the past. The harder part usually begins after the report arrives, once dozens of findings land in front of engineering teams already juggling patch schedules, production deadlines, and internal disagreements about urgency. Platforms like XBOW, OffSec, and Cobalt have entered that environment as organizations started rethinking what they actually need from pentesting vendors beyond annual compliance exercises.

A new Libgcrypt release focuses on maintenance and speed, while improving interoperability through an additional elliptic-curve identifier.

Ahead of FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE hopefully debuting on 8 September, FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 is out today as the final scheduled development release...

ReactOS 0.4.16 introduces a graphical installer, improved hardware support, a new ATA driver, and ongoing modernization toward Wine 10.

Last October I highlighted an interesting post on the Linux kernel mailing list around an x86 corporate entity other than Intel or AMD that left mysterious intrigue. The developer that detailed those x86 opcode/CPUID/MSR allocations back in July then detailed 16-tile and 32-tile AMX implementations again for something outside the current scope of Intel/AMD processors. Today another message is being relayed from that "corporate entity other than Intel/AMD."..

Mabox Linux 26.08 introduces new system remastering tools, switches its F12 terminal to Kitty, and adds the Yazi file manager.

Debian developers have chosen a middle path on AI, allowing its use while keeping contributors fully accountable for their work.

New bidirectional-text tools, better OOXML round-tripping, and no built-in AI show why LibreOffice is accountable to users rather than product-market calculations.

DXVK 3.1 was released today as the latest stable version for this Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine, bringing new features and improvements for several games.

Canonical today published Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS as their first point release in the long-term support series for the "Resolute Raccoon"...

EndeavourOS releases Titan Nova with refreshed hardware support and installer fixes while development continues on the Wayland-based Triton release.

MSI has detailed the XpertStation WS300T60L, a tower workstation based on NVIDIA’s DGX Station architecture and GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra platform. The system is aimed at AI development, data science, inference, AI agents, and physical AI workloads, with a 72-core Arm processor, Blackwell Ultra GPU, up to 748GB of coherent memory, and dual 400GbE connectivity. […]

The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) subsystem changes for the Linux 7.3 kernel are centered around code clean-ups and improvements being made as a precursor toward TrenchBoot support...

Artix Linux is discontinuing XLibre support only months after adopting it as the default X server, alongside refreshed August 2026 ISOs.

The EndeavourOS team announced today the general availability for download of EndeavourOS Titan Nova as the latest stable snapshot of this Arch Linux-based distro featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment.

The voting is over and there is a winner now known in the much-debated Debian General Resolution voting over an AI policy for the Linux distribution...

Canonical ships the first Resolute Raccoon point release while delaying automatic 24.04 LTS upgrades to address regressions.

With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel's vast codebase, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel release. After typically being around 500 CVEs fixed per release, we are now approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed per release and perhaps will break that threshold for Linux 7.3...

Orange Pi has shown the Orange Pi Zero 4, a compact single-board computer based on the Allwinner A733 SoC. The board combines an octa-core Arm CPU, a PowerVR GPU, a 3 TOPS NPU, up to 16GB of LPDDR5/LPDDR4X/LPDDR4 memory, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and multiple display and camera interfaces in a 50 x […]

Canonical has published the Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS ISO images today for all official flavors as the first point release to the long-term supported Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) operating system series.

The USB and Thunderbolt changes have been merged for Linux 7.3. Two changes stand out for me in the USB subsystem code with Linux 7.3. First, the kernel arguably being long overdue for checking USB-C cables capabilities whether they support alt-modes. Second, a new low-latency USB4STREAM option for lower latency data transfers between USB4-connected systems...

This post is an immediate follow up for "Sparky Linux 2026 06 OverlayFS BTRFS with Timeshift setup" . Modern virtual machines use OVMF (Open Virtual Machine Firmware) to simulate an industry-standard UEFI environment rather than an old legacy BIOS.The Role of NVRAM: UEFI requires a non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) variables store to keep track of boot orders, hardware configurations, and Secure Boot certificates.

Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency is investing €508,640 in Flatpak development, targeting stronger sandboxing, new portals, and infrastructure improvements.

Asahi Linux says M3 support is almost ready for an official release, with webcams, microphones, USB 3.0, and Thunderbolt now working across the lineup.