Linux Lite 8.2 has been released today as the second installment in the Linux Lite 8 series of this Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the lightweight Xfce desktop environment.

Linux Mint is out with their October 2026 status report to outline various initiatives they have underway in their lead-up to the Linux Mint 27 stable release happening on/around Christmas…

Collabora says a ministry merger paused the test, while the ministry says it was interrupted when the election was called.

Enlightenment 0.28 has been released today by Carsten Haitzler as a major update to this free and open-source lightweight and modern desktop environment and window manager for Linux and BSD systems.

NVIDIA software engineers released CUDA Oxide 0.3 for closing out October. CUDA Oxide as a reminder is their experimental Rust to CUDA compiler that has been seeing a lot of activity in recent months…

Learn how to install the Yarn package manager on Ubuntu using NPM, Corepack, and the APT repository with practical examples.

Adjusting active noise cancellation (ANC) on Nothing or CMF earbuds means taking out your phone to use the official mobile app. EarA, a new open-source tool, that. It’s a GTK4 app (with a CLI for those who prefer the terminal), and it controls settings on earbuds like the Nothing Ear (a) and CMF Buds 2, from your Linux desktop. Noise control/ANC levels can be switched with a click. There are…

Tails 7.16 updates Tor Browser to version 16, upgrades the Tor client, and fixes OpenPGP support in Thunderbird.

This kickstart guide will teach you the distinctions between Zip and Tarball and the installation of Zip and Unzip on your chosen Linux system, with command examples.

On October 27, LLM provider Anthropic reported on a remotely exploitable use-after-free bug affecting systems with multipath TCP listeners open. The bug works by triggering a response to a retransmitted SYN packet at the same moment that the TCP connection is established in another thread, causing the first thread to access the connection's options structure after the second thread has freed it.…

Labwc 0.20.3 introduces custom pointer acceleration, new input settings, and fixes for screen locking, XWayland, and window management.

The RISC-V architecture changes were merged today for the Linux 7.4 kernel with one nice optimization standing out…

Quickly bulk rename files or directories using a simple yet powerful tool named Szyszka on Linux, Windows, and macOS.

Wine 11.21 improves WoW64 OpenGL performance, introduces a Voice Capture DSP library, and fixes 20 bugs affecting games and applications.

Even before a bug received its CVE identifier or an upstream fix, the local privilege escalation vulnerability exploit found its way into the wild.

Shelly 3.1.10 improves AUR dependency handling, system upgrades, error reporting, and desktop usability for Arch Linux users.

Development on Ubuntu 27.04, codenamed ‘Tenacious T-Rex’, has officially begun. The tenacious archive is now open (30 October 2026), with auto-sync from Debian set to pull in a tranche of updated packages since the Ubuntu 26.10 release. Over the course of the next six months, those will be tested, set and form the basis of the final, stable release. Ubuntu 27.04 is scheduled for release on 22…

Shelly 3.1.10 has been released 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, with AUR build and upgrade improvements.

The de facto subreddit for all things open source has not only banned AI-related projects but also users who "don't speak English."

Over the past decade, the timing of PostgreSQL major releases has become very predictable: no earlier than the middle of September, and no later than the middle of October. This year is going to be different. PostgreSQL 19 most likely won’t be released until November, and it’s not impossible that the project could decide to postpone the release further.

Pulsar 1.133 improves terminal integration, fixes large-file editing slowdowns, upgrades to Electron 32, and redesigns file watching.

This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. This community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from Oct. 23 - 29. This week highlights five Tumbleweed snapshots for week 43 headlined by KDE Plasma 6.8.0, Qt 6.12.0, Linux Kernel 7.2.11 and PHP 8.5.12,…

With today's AI/LLM capabilities, there is almost a new operating system heard about each week "coded from scratch" predominantly via AI agents. This week was no exception with another project hitting our email inbox. Though most of them are open-source, this one is closed-source in the name of security…

This guide covers the two ways to run Linux on a Chromebook, ten distros worth your time, and the checks that save you a wasted afternoon.

An unfinished Collabora trial has been cast as an open source failure. The timeline tells a different story.

Spooky season is officially upon us. Check out this self-playing Ouija board built by one of our colleagues.

If you run your own music streaming server via Jellyfin or Navidrome/Subsonic, you’ll want a decent desktop player – Gelly is a solid choice for GNOME. It bills itself as “native, lightweight music player” for the aforementioned streaming servers (and compatible ones). It’s written in Rust and GTK4/libadwaita and, as a good players should, it lets you browse, play and control music playback.…

Yay 13.1 improves dependency resolution performance, package search accuracy, repository handling, and Lua scripting capabilities.

Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers unveiled today the 15th generation (Gen15) of the TUXEDO Nano Pro mini PC powered by an Intel CPU and featuring full Linux support.

A change merged for Linux 7.4 is showing some mighty big speed-ups for the FAT32 file-system…