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One of the biggest surprises this year was IBM collaborating with Arm for "dual architecture" hardware. In addition to the IBM s390 hardware side, this "dual architecture" support for running ARM64 instructions on s390 also requires Linux KVM virtualization support with patches we've seen the past number of months and initial code merged for Linux 7.4…

ZigZag turns SVG art into stitches, exports five file formats, and can send designs over Bluetooth to an app-controlled Brother embroidery machine.

Very basic support for the Apple M5 SoC base model is expected to be merged for the Linux 7.5 kernel now that it's been queued into the "apple-soc/dt-7.5" Git branch…

Nextcloud launches its Euro-Office-powered desktop app, offering offline editing, Microsoft Office format support, and cloud collaboration.

Canonical is giving Ubuntu Pro subscribers early access to AI-generated patches for known security flaws, available through a new opt-in archive called Edge. To get fixes out faster to customers and users, the company has built a multi-agent system called Surge to backport fixes for vulnerabilities in software package. Surge is not being used to patch kernel vulnerabilities – those see faster…

When deploying openSUSE Tumbleweed on bare-metal hardware using the Agama installer, certain GPU and HDMI monitor combinations can stall at the SDDM login screen after the first reboot. Below is one practical method which brings you to text login with screen resolution 1920x1080 and automatically starts KDE Plasma 6.8.2 upon login into system.

Norwegian Dropbox rival Jottacloud is finally working on a desktop app for Linux. Jottacloud, run by Jotta Group AS, has been around since 2008, offering file and photo backup, syncing and sharing via official Windows, Apple and Android apps. What it hasn’t had, until now, is a ‘proper desktop app’ on Linux (it does offer a CLI to create automatic backups of folders, but the terminal-based tool…

Cloudflare releases Kitesurf under Apache 2.0, offering a lightweight, Rust-based browser engine designed for AI agents and automation.

Shelly 3.3 has been released today for this modern, open-source, and free pacman alternative for Arch Linux and derivatives, bringing various improvements.

Red Hat engineers are working through a few possible approaches to enhance memory tiering for QEMU-based virtual machines to help in conserving memory. Ultimately they are after leveraging NVMe SSDs in more scenarios for QEMU VMs to save on RAM usage given today's sky high memory pricing…

KDE Plasma 6.9 will introduce on-demand XWayland startup, faster widget loading, redesigned settings pages, and desktop improvements.

The Rust-based Redox OS open-source operating system is now out with its October development summary that highlights recent software ports, progress on NUMA, and other enhancements made to this from-scratch platform…

Your distro’s default terminal works fine, but these don’t just work, they’re faster, more capable, and free. Here’s the full 2026 ranking, FOSS and paid.

As of today, November 14th, 2026, Canonical has published the first daily build ISO images of the upcoming Ubuntu 27.04 (codename Tenacious T-Rex) release for early adopters, application developers, and general public testing.

Since 2023 I and many open-source advocates have been very eager for AMD's openSIL project for delivering open-source CPU silicon initialization as a replacement to the traditional AGESA code. With Zen 5 there was proof-of-concept support that we have enjoyed with Coreboot on an MSI Ryzen motherboard and a Gigabyte EPYC server motherboard thanks to the Coreboot-based Dasharo ports by 3mdeb. The…

Manjaro developers establish a German nonprofit association following months of governance disputes and concerns over project leadership.

Euro-Office, the Nextcloud-backed fork of ONLYOFFICE, is now available to download and install on desktops, as Nextcloud Office Desktop. Announced in March 2026 as a European-based alternative to Microsoft 365, Euro-Office is a fork of ONLYOFFICE. Like that suite, it’s something users can host (or pay someone to host) and then access via a web browser or mobile. Nextcloud Office Desktop is…

Pimoroni now lists the UNA Watch, a modular GPS smartwatch built around an open-source software platform and replaceable hardware components. The wearable combines an STMicroelectronics STM32U595 microcontroller, multi-satellite GPS, fitness sensors, and a public C++ SDK for developing custom applications. Originally introduced through a Kickstarter campaign in April 2025, the UNA Watch also…

This was a busy weekend in Brno! It started on Friday with Open Open and continued on Saturday with openALT 2026. Two events, new partnership opportunities for openSUSE and SUSE, and this time my kids came along too. Open Open 2026, Brno Friday started at 9am with Open Open, an…

Earlier this year Cloudflare announced Kitesurf as a stateless web browser for AI agents. After building out its features, they have now made good on their word to open-source it…

Cincoze recently expanded its CV-200/P Series of industrial panel PCs with 28 new configurations spanning 10.1-inch to 18.5-inch displays. The additions complement the existing 21.5-inch models, combining Intel Core, N-series, and Atom processors with modular display technology for industrial HMI and automation applications. The lineup includes high-performance CV-200/P2000 models powered by…

Anthropic ships its Claude Desktop beta for Linux only as a .deb. This article shows how to install that same package on Fedora with a small MIT-licensed script that verifies it first, installs it without root, and removes it cleanly.

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 Nov. 6 - 12. This week highlights the 2026 Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit, a malware warning about a third-party Plasma wallpaper, the openSUSE News…

From secure execution and intelligent caching to persistent memory and elastic data services, openEuler is building an infrastructure foundation for large-scale, production-ready AI agents.

In an era where software defines vehicle value, engineering teams face a friction bottleneck. They spend hours fighting dependency conflicts, toolchain mismatches, and integration failures instead of writing vehicle features. As vehicles effectively become data centers, teams waste hours resolving dependency conflicts across desktop workstations, cloud, and physical targets. This article explores…

Linux kernel 7.4-rc2 includes numerous AI-assisted fixes, as Torvalds highlights encouraging progress in reducing kernel bugs.

Slax now runs on Debian 13 with a built-in AI assistant, and it can boot with Secure Boot on compatible PCs.

A massive Microsoft outage has left people around the world without access to Outlook email, Teams meeting tools and other staples of modern office life... And there was no quick fix. As of 3:30 a.m. GMT on Friday, the outage was still widespread, affecting untold millions of people.

Compulab has detailed its IOT-GATE-IMX8PV2, a fanless industrial IoT gateway powered by NXP’s i.MX8M Plus processor. The small-form-factor system combines dual Gigabit Ethernet, optional Wi-Fi 6 and LTE connectivity, and isolated industrial I/O in a 105 × 80 × 30mm aluminum enclosure. The gateway uses a quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 processor running at up to 1.8GHz,…

Every year, the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Mentor Summit brings together open source maintainers, community leads, and mentors from across the globe. It is an energizing unconference where the diversity of open source can be touched. This is a unique occasion to share what works (and what doesn’t) across…