Released at the beginning of the month was a new version of HarfBuzz, a widely-used, open-source text shaping engine. With this HarfBuzz 14.0 release it introduced a GPU-based text rasterization library that supported GLSL shaders as well as HLSL, WGSL, and APple's Metal MSL. Since then this GPU-accelerated library has been seeing more improvements...

Canonical’s next major Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 26.10, has been dubbed the “Stonking Stingray,” and it now has a release schedule with a release date set in stone for October 15th, 2026.

A fork created amid claims of censorship and anti?DEI posturing is now in the news for the same reason: not how it renders pixels, but how it treats people.

Google previews Android CLI as agentic development continues to snowball Google has introduced a new Android command-line interface built specifically for AI agents, claiming a 70 percent cut in token usage and three times reduction in task completion time.…

Git 2.54 introduces the experimental git history command, config-based hooks, and more efficient repository maintenance by default.

LXQt 2.4 releases with improved multi-monitor Wayland behavior, refined power management, and several fixes across desktop components.

Today, Mozilla has published the final builds of the Firefox 150 web browser ahead of its official unveiling on April 21st, 2026, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.

The four freedoms granted by the license are supreme and paramount, and their protection must be ensured. GPLv3 was structured to prevent licensors from using additional terms as a backdoor to reintroduce restrictions that the licence was intended to eliminate.

The intent behind GPLv3, and by extension AGPLv3, is unusually well-documented. The drafting process was explicitly aimed at preventing licensors from imposing downstream restrictions that would inhibit modification, redistribution, or independent development.

Banana Pi has provided initial details about the BPI-OM7 3D camera kit, which combines the BPI-M7 single-board computer with an Orbbec Gemini 2 3D camera for computer vision, robotics, and spatial perception applications. The system is built around the Rockchip RK3588 processor, which integrates four Cortex-A76 cores clocked at up to 2.4 GHz and four […]

Bcachefs 1.38 fixes mount stalls, improves discard handling, and speeds up snapshot-heavy systems with journal and allocator changes.

Sruthi Chandran has been elected the new Debian Project Leader "DPL" after running unopposed in this year's elections...

M5Stack has teased the CardputerZero, a compact handheld system built around the Raspberry Pi CM0. The device integrates a display, keyboard, battery, and wireless connectivity into a credit card-sized form factor intended for portable Linux-based development and command-line tasks. The platform uses the Broadcom BCM2837 SoC, featuring a quad-core Cortex-A53 processor operating at up to […]

Following last month's GIMP 3.2 feature release that was followed by the GIMP 3.2.2 point release at the end of March, out now is GIMP 3.2.4 to ship more fixes to users of this open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop and other imaging applications...

GIMP 3.2.4 is out now as the second maintenance update to the latest GIMP 3.2 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform image editing software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Solus 4.9, Zorin OS 18.1, COSMIC Desktop 1.0.10, Wine 11.7, Linux 7.1 merges new NTFS driver, Fedora 44 faces second release delay, and more.

The popular Arch Linux based CachyOS has now rolled out the Linux 7.0 kernel to its users. But beyond re-basing against the latest upstream kernel version it is also carrying some extra patches...

Scribus 1.6.6 free and open-source desktop publishing software is now available for download with various bug fixes and improvements.

GhostBSD 26.1-R15.0p2 released today as a big upgrade for this desktop-focused, BSD operating system derived from FreeBSD...

Shelly developer Zoey Bauer released Shelly 2.1 today as the latest stable version of this reimagined package manager for Arch Linux with support for AUR, Flatpak, and AppImage apps.

For pairing nicely with the GNOME 50 desktop release last month, a number of GNOME-associated apps have been seeing new features and refinements...

KDE Plasma 6.7 will enhance multi-monitor workflows by allowing each screen to switch between virtual desktops independently.

For those making use of the WireGuard open-source, secure VPN tunnel software, WireGuard For Windows 1.0 is finally available...

KDE Gear 26.04 open-source software suite is now available with improvements for many of your favorite KDE applications. Here’s what’s new!

Merged this week for Linux 7.1 was a rework of the high resolution timer "HRTIMER" subsystem for reducing the overhead of frequently-armed timers, such as the HRTICK scheduler timer. The HRTICK scheduler timer is useful for enhancing system responsiveness and fairness...

openSUSE Tumbleweed get the GNOME 50 desktop environment, systemd-boot as the default bootloader for new UEFI installs, and better Full Disk Encryption.

The AMD Machine Check Exception "mce_amd" driver as part of the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem is introducing support for new SMCA bank types on AMD platforms. Given the timing these new bank types are presumably for AMD's upcoming Zen 6 / EPYC Venice hardware...

Fedora 44 missed its second release target after April 21 was declared a no-go, and the distro is now officially aiming for April 28.

Today, the Solus team released Solus 4.9 (codename Serenity) as the latest stable snapshot of this independent Linux distro featuring Budgie, GNOME, KDE Plasma, and Xfce flavors.

Loongson's LoongArch processors are running decent in our recent Loongson 3B6000 benchmarks but even better performance is on the way with the next GNU C Library "glibc" release...

This comprehensive guide walks you through the simple steps to install Brave Browser on Linux, ensuring ad and tracker-free browsing for a safer internet experience.