The GNOME project continues refining one of its most frequently used applications: GNOME Files (formerly known as Nautilus). Recent development efforts have focused heavily on improving the file manager’s search capabilities, making it easier to locate documents, media files, and folders across increasingly large storage volumes.

With this week's launch day review of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE, Ubuntu 26.04 with its Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.0 default driver stack was used for testing. That choice was made since the Ubuntu 26.04 release is still fresh, the RDNA4-based RX 9070 GRE was working without issue there, and from other RDNA4 testing knowing there isn't much uplift from the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel or the current stable Mesa 26.1 OpenGL RadeonSI / Vulkan RADV drivers. But for those interested, here are those tests...

KDE Gear 26.04.2 arrives as a maintenance update with fixes for Dolphin, Kate, Kdenlive, KDE Connect, NeoChat, Tokodon, and more.

Earlier this week I ran benchmarks of different CachyOS Linux kernel flavors that proved interesting from the performance overhead of their hardened kernel build to various other interesting performancr takeaways. One kernel flavor I hadn't tested though was their build with the BORE scheduler. Given the interest and feedback from Phoronix readers, here is an article focused on looking at the performance of the BORE scheduler for the Linux kernel on CachyOS.

A new HTTP/2 Bomb DoS attack can exhaust memory on major web servers, causing denial-of-service in seconds.

For those interested in the prospects of running Snapdragon X2 laptops on Linux rather than Windows 11 on ARM, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 has emerged as one of the initial X2 laptops with tentative Device Tree handling to allow Linux to boot on this latest-generation Qualcomm-powered laptop,..

The KDE project released KDE Gear 26.04.2 today as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 26.04 series of this open-source software suite for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and the Linux ecosystem.

Blender 5.2 is now available in beta form for this leading open-source 3D modeling software...

What's noteworthy here is that, according to TechCrunch, Microsoft was "threatening [the] security researcher with criminal investigation" for merely doing the right thing

Tails 7.8.1 has been released as the latest version of this Debian-based distribution designed to protect you against surveillance and censorship by leveraging the Tor anonymous network.

AMD's GAIA open-source project geared for building AI agents that run locally on your PC is out with a significant new feature release for Windows and Linux systems...

The Blender Foundation released today the beta version of the upcoming Blender 5.2 LTS series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform 3D computer graphics software suite.

Levente “anthraxx” Polyak has been re-elected as Arch Linux Project Lead for another two-year term after the 2026 leadership election.

Back in March Steam on Linux skyrocketed to 5.33% with more than double the Steam gaming marketshare of macOS. Then for April Steam on Linux pulled back to a still-great 4.52%, well above the times when Steam on Linux was at 2% or less for many years. Now the May 2026 figures have been published overnight by Valve...

Flock to Fedora is more than a conference — it’s where the Fedora community comes alive. As part of the #In the CommitHistory campaign, we sat down with confirmed Flock 2026 speakers to hear their stories: what brought them to Fedora, what Flock means to them personally, and what they’re hoping for in Prague this […]

Rsync 3.4.3 is under scrutiny after backup regressions surfaced alongside wider debate over recent AI-assisted development work.

COSMIC Desktop 1.0.15 brings fixes for tray icons, Bluetooth status, Steam Big Picture Mode, gaming cursor behavior, and more.

Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.0.15 today as the latest stable update to this Rust-based desktop environment used by default on the Pop!_OS Linux distribution.

As noted back in April, with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS it's now possible to simply "apt install rocm" on Ubuntu Linux for installing AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. But as prominently noted there, what's shipped right now in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is already months out of date compared to upstream ROCm. Fortunately, Canonical shared today that moving forward they plan to ship newer ROCm versions as stable release updates (SRUs)...

Clonezilla Live maintainer Steven Shiau released today Clonezilla Live 3.3.2 as the latest stable version of this partition and disk imaging/cloning live Linux system based on Debian GNU/Linux.

After announcing the AMD EPYC 8005 "Sorano" series back in February, AMD recently began shipping these Zen 5 successors to the EPYC 8004 "Siena" line-up. With the EPYC 8005 product stack ranging from 8 to 84 cores and being drop-in upgrades for EPYC 8004 servers after a BIOS update, these are quite some interesting processors for those after a single socket, performant server. Up today are benchmarks of the EPYC 8635P as the flagship 84 core Sorano CPU.

Radxa has introduced the Dragon Q8B, a compact single-board computer built around the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 Compute Platform. The board combines an 8-core processor, up to 29 TOPS of AI performance, dual 2.5GbE networking, and multiple PCIe expansion options in a 100 × 75 mm form factor for edge computing, robotics, industrial automation, […]

This update adds a feature LibreOffice should have probably added many years ago: real scientific Python.

LibreOffice has lagged behind Excel in data science workflows. With my recent work in WriterAgent, you can now leverage the full Python ecosystem: Run NumPy in Calc, generate pandas DataFrames from Writer, or let AI agents create scripts and insert results into your documents.

In the 'Free World', people identify problems and pursue fixes, which they can do provided willpower and perseverance; the code is, after all, fully available and the licence permits improvements.

Yes, the Fedora 43 upgrade brought an interesting revelation for all Outlook users—one that Microsoft is unlikely to be thrilled about. Outlook was not encrypting email connections, even though SSL/TLS was clearly enabled in the account settings. It looks like, that bug dates back to at least Outlook 2007, which is the oldest Outlook version […]

Fastfetch 2.64 introduces a new Codec module for detecting hardware-accelerated video codec support across major platforms.

Giada 1.4.2 has been released today as a new stable version of this open-source, minimalistic, and hardcore loop machine and music production software designed for DJs, live performers, and electronic musicians.

Orange Pi closes the year by unveiling new details about the Orange Pi AI Station, a compact board-level edge computing platform built around the Ascend 310 series processor. The system targets high-density inference workloads with large memory options, NVMe storage support, and extensive I/O in a small footprint. The AI Station is powered by an […]

Transmission 4.1.2 has been released today as the second maintenance update to the latest Transmission 4.1 series for this popular open-source BitTorrent client, addressing various bugs and also adding a couple of improvements.

Maybe it was a one-line typo fix in the docs. Perhaps it was a package you’d been maintaining in secret for months before you finally submitted it. Maybe it was completely terrifying, or maybe it just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Whatever it was we want to hear about it. Ahead […]