One of the most widely deployed Linux kernels has officially reached the end of its lifecycle. The maintainers of the Linux kernel have confirmed that Linux 5.4, once a cornerstone of countless servers, desktops, and embedded devices, is now end-of-life (EOL). After years of long-term support, the branch has been retired and will no longer receive upstream fixes or security updates.

RPM 6.0.1 package manager addresses crashes, crypto issues, and build problems introduced in RPM 6.0.

The past several months Intel software engineers have been quite busy with LLM-Scaler as part of Project Battlematrix. LLM-Scaler is a Docker-based solution for AI workloads on Intel graphics hardware to ship an optimized vLLM stack and other AI frameworks. Out today is a new LLM-Scaler-Omni release to help enhance ComfyUI performance on Intel hardware...

The Linux Mint team released today the Cinnamon 6.6 desktop environment, which will be the default in the upcoming Linux Mint 22.3 (Zena) release expected in late December 2025 or in early 2026.

Given the recent release of FreeBSD 15, I started off my testing in looking at how FreeBSD 15.0 improves performance versus FreeBSD 14.3. Now it's onto the next important question: how is FreeBSD 15.0 performing relative to Linux on servers? Here are some benchmarks exploring that topic today.

The GNU C Library's malloc implementation is now enabling 2MB Transparent Huge Pages (THP) by default for AArch64 Linux. This is being done in the name of better performance -- a healthy 6.25% performance improvement is noted for SPEC with this change...

Released as UnitedXR wraps up in Brussels, this latest update to the cross-platform Open-Source OpenXR runtime delivers major improvements across hand tracking, device support, and the core runtime infrastructure. Whether you are an XR platform maker, XR OEM, researcher, developer, or XR enthusiast, version 25.1.0 introduces new capabilities that make Monado even more reliable, more flexible, and better prepared for tomorrow’s XR experiences.

This week’s App of the Week takes a fresh look at VLC 3.0.22, from dark mode on Plasma and Cosmic to niche perks like proper playback of classic Doom and Hexen music files

In addition to approving Fedora Cloud switching /boot to a Btrfs subvolume, another change approved this week by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) is for shipping the Budgie 10.10 desktop packages in Fedora 44...

In Linux, the rename command is an amazing utility that allows you to rename single or multiple files at once, based on a set of rules or regular expressions you specify.

In a nutshell, they eventually figure out it's not 'free hosting' but a trap

With the release of the Firefox 146 web browser earlier today, the Mozilla Thunderbird 146 open-source email client is out now as well, introducing various new features and plenty of improvements.

Generative AI systems are changing the way people interact with computers. MCP (model context protocol) is a way that enables generate AI systems to run commands and use tools to enable live, conversational interaction with systems. Using the new linux-mcp-server, let’s walk through how you can talk with your Fedora system for understanding your system […]

The AerynOS team released AerynOS 2025.12 today as the latest development ISO snapshot of this independent distribution created by ex-Solus maker Ikey Doherty.

Trixie may have gone 64-bit for installs, but WMLive still ships an i686-bootable build Window Maker Live 13.2 is stubbornly keeping 32-bit PCs alive on Debian 13 "Trixie," shipping a new release that boots on i686 hardware.…

With Firefox 146 released, which is exciting for delivering fractional scaling on Wayland, Firefox 147 Beta is now available and it's also quite exciting to Linux users for another reason...

Pebble Index 01 is an open source smart ring that captures quick voice notes instantly and privately with on-device processing and years of battery life.

Today, Ubuntu maker Canonical announced that it will package and distribute the AMD ROCm software stack within Ubuntu’s repositories for AMD GPU users.

The RISC-V CPU architecture changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.19 kernel...

Over 3,200 backers secure the future of Jolla’s upcoming Linux phone, pushing the project beyond its initial funding milestone.

The developers of the ParrotOS ethical hacking and penetration testing distribution announced today the general availability of the beta version of the upcoming Parrot 7.0 release with major changes.

Actiona is a Linux GUI automation tool that automates mouse clicks, keyboard actions, and file tasks to automate your Linux desktop.

For the past 15 years the Smatch static analysis tool has been routinely run for uncovering countless bugs within the Linux kernel. Dan Carpenter who authored Smatch and has been routinely analyzing the Linux kernel with it has authored more than 5,568 patches over the years to become one of the top bug fixers for the kernel. But his funding at Linaro has been cut and the project's future now in question...

In this video, I showcase a Super Easy KDE Plasma 6 Customization using a clean and natural forest vibe. This setup uses the Layan theme combined with Kvantum Layan-Breath, creating a smooth and modern look with soft green tones. For the icons, I use Yet Another Monochrome, giving the desktop a minimal and consistent appearance. The forest wallpaper is forest illustration, so the visual style feels more personal and unique.

Yesterday I noted some early performance regressions I've found on the Linux 6.19 kernel compared to Linux 6.18 LTS stable. Those initial benchmarks were on an AMD EPYC server. Since then I've seen many of the same workloads regressing similarly on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation between Linux 6.18 and Linux 6.19 Git. Given the significant impact and AMD Threadripper processors always helping out to speed-up Linux kernel build times to make for a quicker and more manageable kernel bisecting experience, here is a look at some of the results for the Linux 6.19 performance regressions.

In this article, you will learn about the vipw and vigr commands that let you safely edit the configuration files related to users or groups in your favorite text editor.

Since Showtime replaced Totem as the default video player of GNOME, the desktop has lacked thumbnail capabilities for audio and video files. But to address that defect, the Rust-based gst-thumbnailers project has been in development to leverage GStreamer and paired with Rust to provide safe thumbnail generation capabilities for audio and video content...

Learn common Docker mistakes, from bloated images to security risks, and how to fix them for safer, faster containers.

Apply now for the Flock to Fedora 2026 Call for Proposals (CfP) at cfp.fedoraproject.org. This year, the submission deadline for the Flock CfP is Monday, February 2nd, 2026. Flock 2026 registration is open Last month we announced that we’ll be convening again in Prague for Flock 2026 in June. Everyone interested in attending can head […]

Today, the KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.5.4 as the fourth maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop environment series with more improvements and bug fixes.