KDE Plasma 6.8 is shaping up with Union theming, Kup backup integration, lower remote desktop latency, and new Wayland-related improvements.

Amid Intel cutting back on open-source projects over the past two years as cost cutting measures at the company, their latest open-source project on the chopping block was the peculiar font they developed a few years back. The project was archived this week only to change course two days later...

Elecrow’s ThinkNode M9 is a handheld LoRa communication terminal built around an ESP32-S3 processor and Semtech LR1110 transceiver. The device includes a 2.4-inch color display, full QWERTY keyboard, GNSS positioning, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, USB Type-C, and a 2300mAh battery. The ThinkNode M9 is based on an ESP32-S3R8 dual-core processor operating at up to 240MHz. […]

The EROFS read-only file-system popular for embedded systems, containers, and other use-cases has resorted to temporarily disabling its LZ4 rolling decompression support due to data corruption concerns...

GNOME, KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, COSMIC and more, compared side by side so you can pick the Linux desktop environment that actually fits how you work.

The KaOS Linux team has officially released KaOS Linux 2026.09 today as the first ISO snapshot of this independent distribution using Dinit as the default init system instead of systemd.

DietPi 10.7 debuts the new dietpi-network utility, adds LubanCat 4 support, new container images, and several hardware fixes.

Often times when testing different Linux distributions or comparing Windows vs. Linux it's on leading flagship desktop or server hardware, but today we are looking at the Ubuntu vs. CachyOS vs. Windows performance at the opposite end of the spectrum. With the new CHUWI UniBook $449 laptop powered by Intel Core 3 Wildcat Lake and with 8GB of system memory, here is a look at how those three operating systems compare across a variety of workloads.

Intel's Thermald released on Thursday as the newest update to this daemon for thermal monitoring on Intel hardware that was also recently extended for beginning to support Qualcomm/ARM hardware too. The main change with Thermald 2.5.13 is adding back Intel Wildcat Lake platform support after it was accidentally removed in the prior release...

Agama 24 improves storage device selection, regional settings, network configuration, accessibility, and AutoYaST compatibility.

For those in pursuit of a graphical Git client for GNOME or the Linux desktop at large, the GTK4-powered Gitte continues advancing rather well and out this week is its v0.10 release...

The openSUSE project released version 24 of its Agama web-based installer for Tumbleweed, Slowroll, and MicroOS distributions with various improvements across networking, theming, storage, and internationalization.

The Mold high performance linker that typically outperforms the likes of LLVM lld, GNU LD, Wild, and others is being rewritten in the Rust programming language and also has an ambitious goal of being adopted as the default linker on Linux systems...

GNU Automake’s first update in 15 months adds an optional archive-format feature and fixes a 14-year-old distribution bug.

Linux block subsystem maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe continues to uncover new opportunities for making the wonderful IO_uring framework even more performant within the Linux kernel. For ending out the week he's posted some "crazy" patches delivering some significant gains...

Kdenlive 26.08.1 is out with fixes for several crashes, ripple editing issues, Effects Zones, transcoding, and theme handling.

Since being merged back during the Linux 7.2 cycle, the Cache Aware Scheduling code continues seeing more fixes as users test out this scheduling enhancement on different processors and system configurations...

Tired of systemd running the show? These 10 Linux distros prove you still have options, with real pros, cons, and picks for every type of user.

Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS arrives with a Linux 7.0-based HWE stack, refreshed installation media, and the latest security and maintenance updates.

While still ultimately working toward Git 3.0 with SHA-256 hashes by default and the "main" branch name by default, among other breaking changes (and potentially coming around the end of 2026), Git 2.56-rc0 is now available for testing...

For those continuing to rely on the GCC 13 compiler in production that debuted more than three years ago, GCC 13.5 released today with more than 265 bug fixes. GCC 13.5 also caps off the GCC 13 series as the last planned point release...

Linux 7.4 is now set to reach the elusive milestone of HDMI 2.1 support for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver. After the HDMI Forum previously rejected HDMI 2.1 for the AMDGPU open-source driver implementation going back years, earlier this year something changed -- widely speculated to be with Valve's involvement -- that HDMI 2.1 patches began appearing for the AMDGPU driver. With the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle, the bulk of that work will now be in place and enabled by default...

The Linux Mint project published today the monthly newsletter for August 2026 introducing several new apps as part of the XApp project, as well as various improvements to existing apps.

Canonical released Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS today as the fifth and probably last point release of the long-term supported Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series.

Last month I covered Intel posting a new driver named "BFF" for the Linux kernel. This BFF driver is for a new hardware feature debuting with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors for better dealing with aging CPU silicon where some bits may become stuck over time...

Calamares 3.4.3 has been released as a new maintenance update in the latest Calamares 3.4 series of this popular graphical installer for Linux distros, with various improvements to disk partitioning, locale, and Wayland support.

In addition to August bringing the long-awaited Haiku R1 Beta 6 release, there was also a lot of development progress on this BeOS-inspired operating system too during the course of the past month...

Noctalia 5.1 introduces a screenshot editor with annotations, alongside cellular connectivity, enterprise Wi-Fi support, and numerous fixes.

For those continuing to make use of the Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support "LTS" series, Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS is out today as the newest point release...

Linux hardware vendor System76 officially released COSMIC 1.8 today after being tagged yesterday as a “pre-release” version with no release notes, so here’s what’s new in this update.