The Khronos Group today released the newest revision of the OpenCL specification with a handful of changes...

Of all the Arch-based distros in the Linux universe, this week's Distro of the Week -- Artix Linux -- stands out as one of the few free of systemd, giving the user the option of either OpenRC and dinit in its place.

Hat & Hammer has launched a Crowd Supply campaign for OpenMote, a programmable universal remote built around an ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 module. The device supports infrared transmission and reception, Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi, motion sensing, audio, haptic feedback, and Qwiic/STEMMA QT expansion, while also targeting smart-home and game-controller applications. The OpenMote is based on an ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 module with […]

Canonical released Snapshot 4 of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) release as the fourth and last development milestone targeting early adopters and application developers who want to test their apps.

Days after the recent release of GNU Coreutils 9.12, Rust Coreutils 0.12 was released overnight for advancing this alternative Rust-based implementation of these core utilities...

The Fedora CoreOS and QA teams are gearing up for Fedora 45, and we need your help! We are organizing a Fedora CoreOS Test Week starting on September 21, 2026. This event is a great opportunity for the community to test Fedora CoreOS (FCOS) based on Fedora 45 content before it officially reaches the testing […]

For those hopeful of running Linux well on the ASUS Zenbook A14 or A16 laptops powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 SoC, a new ASUS EC driver has been developed for enhancing the support...

Tails 7.13 is now available with Tor Browser 15.0.23, Tor 0.4.9.12, and a simplified shutdown process that removes unnecessary confirmation prompts.

Krita 5.3.4 adds Android animation and timelapse rendering, while Krita 6.0.4 continues the Qt 6 transition with newer Wayland support.

My honest hands-on review of JOPDF for Linux. I evaluate its PDF conversion tools, annotation features, edit utilities, performance, and limitations.

Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.18 today as the ninth maintenance update to the latest VirtualBox 7.2 series of their open-source, free, and cross-platform virtualization software for Linux, Solaris, macOS, and Windows.

Canonical recently began producing Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 daily ISOs to complement their experimental amd64v3 package archive that they have been trialing the past few release cycles. While we still don't know what any official plans are for amd64v3 with Ubuntu 26.10, the performance gains can be very worthwhile over the generic amd64 binaries even for low-end/budget hardware.

The GNOME Project released GNOME 51 (codename A Coruña) today as the latest stable version of this widely used desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions, a major release that introduces exciting new features.

Omarchy 4.0.4 switches users to the project’s own Linux kernel, with desktop responsiveness, gaming, Btrfs, power management, and hardware fixes in focus.

Fedora CoreOS 45 Test Week begins Monday, giving Linux users a straightforward way to help test the container-focused distro.

Unicode 18.0 is now available with 13,007 new characters, three new scripts, new currency symbols, nine emoji, and updated text-processing rules.

With the release of Firefox 156 rolling out to all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 157, to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.

OpenAPV as the open-source reference implementation of the Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec today saw its v1.1.1 release, succeeding v0.3.0 as the prior release...

MSI has detailed the MS-C9ZA, a compact fanless Edge AI Box PC based on NVIDIA’s Jetson Orin Nano 8GB module. The industrial system provides dual Gigabit Ethernet, 256GB SSD storage, M.2 NVMe expansion, isolated GPIO, CAN, UART and I2C interfaces, along with optional IEEE 802.3af PSE, 5G, and out-of-band management expansion. The system is built […]

A new patch series being worked on is enhancing the Linux kernel's hibernation allocator to allow for faster performance when hibernating the system...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation published today a new version of its Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS Linux distribution for Raspberry Pi computers with dock support, a new screenshot tool, and more.

Mozilla has published the final builds of the Firefox 156 open-source web browser today, ahead of its official unveiling on September 15th, 2026, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.

In addition to Usama Arif's recent Linux patches for addressing a major inefficiency within the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code, he also has a separate patch series destined for Linux 7.4 to further enhance the Zstd compression/decompression performance by avoiding redundant initialization...

Linux Mint previews a new Calendar app, EPUB reader, redesigned Library, and other XApp improvements planned for its next release.

Ahead of the stable release of Plasma 6.8 due out on 14 October that also marks the 30th anniversary of the KDE project, out today is the much anticipated beta release...

Immich 3.2 is out with a redesigned search experience, Search API v2, cross-user face clustering, improved workflows, and a new Memories page.

Linux 7.1 brought some performance improvements for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", Linux 7.2 enhanced the performance for the integrated Arc B390 Xe3 graphics, and now for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel are various performance improvements at large. Today's article is looking at the performance of the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel compared to Linux 7.2 stable using the Core Ultra X9 388H within the Framework Laptop 13 Pro.

OpenRGB 1.0 is out with a redesigned profile system, background service support, Qt 6, PawnIO, hotplugging, and expanded hardware support.

GNU Coreutils 9.12 is out with performance improvements for several widely used commands, a new env option, safer terminal output, and many bug fixes.

Earlier this month I wrote about a patch series posted to the Linux kernel mailing list that addressed a lot of "hideous code" to make Linux kernel builds faster. A number of single-threaded bottlenecks were tracked down and fixed within the Linux kernel thanks to the assistance of AI. A second revision of those patches hit the mailing list this morning and there is hope they could be upstreamed for Linux 7.4...