The first QSOE release delivers a QNX-inspired open-source OS with shared userspace across two microkernel variants for 64-bit RISC-V hardware.

Linux 7.2 is continuing the trend of removing obsolete hardware drivers for which the code hasn't seen any maintenance in years and there are no believed users left of said drivers, especially those that would be running modern mainline versions of the Linux kernel. The char/misc changes merged dropped two more obsolete drivers from the Linux source tree...

Linux hardware vendor Purism announced the launch of Librem 16 as the world’s most private and secure Linux laptop designed chip-by-chip and line-by-line to respect and protect your digital life.

Coreboot 26.06 is out today as the latest quarterly feature release for this software project providing open-source system firmware support for a growing number of platforms...

Collabora has merged Kraid into Mesa, a ground-up Rust rewrite of the Panfrost shader compiler for Arm Mali GPUs. The existing compiler, originally built for Bifrost-era hardware, had accumulated too many structural limitations to fix incrementally. Kraid replaces it with a cleaner IR, a new SSA-based register allocator, and an encoder derived from Arm-provided XML rather than years of hand-reverse-engineered descriptions.

Daily ISOs of Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" continue to be published, but for those preferring something a bit more regulated, out today is Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 as the second monthly ISO image...

Think today’s Gimp is complicated? Try the 1996 Motif version, now resurrected as a Flatpak so you can suffer for nostalgia’s sake.

Podman 6.0 drops CNI, cgroups v1, iptables, slirp4netns, Windows 10, and Intel Mac support while adding new machine and Quadlet features.

Way back in 2017 for the Linux 4.12 kernel the Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi driver was added to the kernel's staging area. Nearly a decade later, it's still being cleaned-up to suit the more rigorous non-staging area of the kernel in the formal networking subsystem. For Linux 7.2, the staging pull request is once again dominated by clean-ups to this Realtek WiFi driver...

Fooyin 0.11 music player adds remote stream playback, a new Radio Browser plugin, spectrum visualization, and playlist improvements.

Valve released a new stable Steam Client update today that further improves the PipeWire session logic on Linux, as well as Steam Input, Remote Play, In-Game Overlay, and Friends & Chat features.

Crowd Supply recently featured QuadRF, a 4×4 MIMO software-defined radio platform designed for spatial RF visualization, beamforming, and phased-array experimentation. The platform includes four coherent transmit/receive channels, swappable dual-polarization antennas, an integrated Raspberry Pi 5, and a browser-based interface for viewing nearby wireless activity. QuadRF uses four coherent antennas to measure differences in signal arrival […]

QSOE 0.1 has made its debut as a QNX-inspired, dual kernel architecture open-source operating system just targeting RISC-V...

The KaOS Linux team has officially released KaOS Linux 2026.06 today as the first ISO snapshot of this independent distribution using Dinit as the default init system instead of systemd.

The many memory management "MM" related improvements were recently merged to Git for the Linux 7.2 kernel. As typical most kernel cycles, some of the low-level improvements can yield nice efficiency wins and better performance in different areas...

Fish 4.8 command-line shell is out now with fixes for history search, completions, vi mode, and cd behavior.

The June 2026 release of DietPi v10.5 updates the dietpi-config display options, with several Raspberry Pi-specific changes related to graphics drivers, camera support, and display configuration. The release also adds ARMv7 support for the RustDesk Client package and includes several bug fixes affecting NanoPi K2, RTC configuration, and ownCloud Infinite Scale installations. DietPi: DietPi is […]

Ventoy 1.1.14 updates its Secure Boot shim file to address the UEFI CA 2023 issue, alongside VentoyPlugson changes.

LILYGO has listed the T-Impulse Plus, a low-power wristband-style development board based on the Nordic nRF52840 microcontroller. The device offers LoRa connectivity, Bluetooth 5 support, GNSS positioning, an IMU, a small OLED display, power management, and a vibration motor in a compact wearable enclosure. The T-Impulse Plus is designed around the nRF52840, which provides a […]

With the help of Claude Opus 4.6, the Linux 7.2 kernel added protections to fend off specially crafted or corrupted perf data for the perf tool that could cause a number of issues for the running system...

ProtonUp-Qt 2.15.1 improves GE-Proton architecture detection, updates Luxtorpeda sources, and enables proton-cachyos for Lutris.

A one line code change to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for its generic x86 tuning is benefiting modern Intel and AMD processors...

Software Freedom Conservancy says AI-assisted FOSS contributions should be reviewed, understood, and disclosed by humans.

KaOS Dinit 2026.06 arrives as the first stable ISO after the project’s systemd-to-Dinit transition reached its final stage.

While the Linux 7.2 merge window doesn't wrap up until this weekend as the feature cut-off for new material, I have already begun some early benchmarks of the code currently staged for this next version of the Linux kernel. Linux 7.2 already was looking quite exciting with cache aware scheduling and other exciting new features while an unexpected surprise in my early testing this week was seeing some local network/socket performance improvements...

Brave Origin is a minimalist Brave edition that costs $59.99 on other platforms but is free for Linux users.

Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.1 today as the latest stable version of this Rust-based desktop environment for Pop!_OS Linux and other GNU/Linux distributions.

Canonical Livepatch now supports Arm64 systems, reducing urgent reboot needs for Ubuntu servers, cloud, and edge devices.

GNU nano 9.1 (codename “met een hongerig paard aan ons been“) has been released today as the latest stable version of this popular, free, and open-source command line editor for Linux.

For those that happen to still be running a 22+ year old Apple Power Mac such as those from 2004 with an IBM PowerPC processor and ATI Radeon 9600 XT or 9800 XT graphics, there are open-source driver improvements for Linux still happening in 2026 to benefit this vintage hardware...