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 But as prominently noted there, what's shipped right now in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is already months out of date compared to upstream ROCm.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 […]

Microsoft today announced their newest open-source creation... Under the MIT license it's the Intelligent Terminal...

Vim Classic 8.3 arrives as a long-term support fork of Vim, based on Vim 8.2 and maintained without generative AI tools.

From what we can gather but are unable to verify, as many as 500+ at Red Hat lost their job; at first we heard 300+, then some insiders said 400+. Someone says it's now 500+ (maybe more impacted later?)...

Flock to Fedora is more than a conference – it’s where the Fedora community comes alive. As part of 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 June. This […]

At the beginning of the year Canonical announced a Steam Snap package for Ubuntu ARM64 that leverages the FEX emulator for running x86/x86_64 games on ARM64. After months of testing and improvements, they now consider their Steam Snap for ARM64 to be stable...

HyprLTM-Net v0.4 is here with custom theme support, MAC Randomization, a built-in Speed Test, improved Wi-Fi handling, and several under-the-hood optimizations.

CachyOS ships with a good Linux kernel configuration by default balancing the different features as well as performance. But they also ship a variety of other kernel builds for those preferring a more leading-edge kernel or the current LTS series, a hardened kernel configuration, and more. In this article are some fresh benchmarks of the Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution with some of its main kernel flavors.

86Box 6.0 updates the open-source retro PC emulator for running DOS, Windows 98, Windows 2000, OS/2, BeOS, and early Linux systems.

There are nine new security vulnerabilities impacting the X.Org Server as well as the XWayland component. Yep, more than a decade after X.Org Server security issues began coming to light with a security research acknowledging it's a disaster and "it's worse than it looks", it continues holding true...

Valve’s latest Steam Client update adds a Linux workaround for Steam Controller gamepad emulation and fixes several input-related issues.

Shotcut 26.6 is now available in beta form as this latest feature update for this popular, open-source and cross platform video editor...

Jensen Huang used his Computex keynote today to formally announce RTX Spark as their new superchip for compact desktop PCs and laptops...

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 202 hardened Linux firewall distro is now available for download with OpenVPN 2.7, security patches for Dirty Frag and Copy Fail vulnerabilities, and other changes.

Yesterday AMD kicked off Computex 2026 in announcing the Radeon RX 9070 GRE alongside a number of other product announcements. With the Radeon RX 9070 GRE going on sale today, the review embargo has now lifted on this new RDNA 4 consumer graphics card slated to be priced around $549 USD. Here is an initial look at the Linux performance benchmarks of this new AMD graphics card offering.

Nginx Proxy Manager 2.15 updates Debian, OpenResty, Certbot, Python, and Node dependencies, with caution advised before upgrading.

Ahead of Intel Diamond Rapids server processors launching in 2027, the Linux kernel continues getting into shape for these next-gen Xeon processors. The latest enablement work taking place for Diamond Rapids is readying the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver support for propagating memory errors/correction information under Linux...