The February 21, 2026 release of DietPi v10.1 introduces new hardware support, expands the software catalog with the WhoDB database management tool, and includes a range of enhancements and bug fixes across supported single-board computers. DietPi: DietPi is a lightweight, Debian-based operating system optimized for single-board computers and embedded devices. It focuses on minimal resource […]

Fwupd/LVFS lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today released Fwupd 2.0.20 with continuing to advance firmware updating on Linux systems...

Tails 7.5, a privacy-focused Linux distro, upgrades Tor Browser to 15.0.7, updates the Tor client to 0.4.9.5, and improves Thunderbird security.

Building off January's GStreamer 1.28 release with many new features, GStreamer 1.28.1 was released today as a point release bringing various fixes and minor additions to this open-source multimedia framework...

Tired of emailing yourself snippets and files between Linux systems? ClusterCut replaces those hacks with a secure, LAN-based shared clipboard.

Wireshark 4.6.4 network protocol analyzer resolves three security vulnerabilities, including a USB HID memory exhaustion flaw.

With yesterday's stable release of the LLVM Clang 22 compiler it didn't take long for Phoronix readers to begin asking about the performance of this half-year feature update to this prominent open-source C/C++ compiler. What I am seeing so far are no big surprises with the performance largely being similar to Clang 21 across various open-source C/C++ workloads in the testing thus far. This initial round of reference benchmark results between LLVM Clang 22, Clang 21, and Clang 20 were done on an AMD EPYC Turin (Zen 5) Linux server.

Big news for Rockchip users: Upstream Linux now supports VDPU381 and VDPU383 hardware decode! This brings mainline H.264/HEVC acceleration, improved IOMMU-reset recovery, and new HEVC V4L2 controls that work with Vulkan Video.

In this article, you will learn how to use the uname command and its options to print kernel, hardware, and operating system information.

Anthropic fixed the flaws - but the AI-enabled attack surfaces remain Security vulnerabilities in Claude Code could have allowed attackers to remotely execute code on users' machines and steal API keys by injecting malicious configurations into repositories, and then waiting for a developer to clone and open an untrustworthy project.…

Following the Firefox 148 release with the new AI controls, Mozilla promoted Firefox 149 to beta today...

A root or normal user can easily switch to another user account using the su command if they know their current or another user's password.

Manjaro-based Mabox Linux 26.02 introduces a new W-a audio menu, a fully rewritten Cava Colorizer module, fixes for screen recording, and more.

Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in with a new open source build tool A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude, spending about $1,100 on tokens.…

Following the big OpenZFS 2.4 release back in December, OpenZFS 2.4.1 was released overnight to ship support for the latest Linux 6.19 stable kernel plus a variety of different bug fixes...

People who have long defamed Richard Stallman (RMS) do not want us to have computer security, so they brand back doors "security".

Following the release of Firefox 148, the Mozilla Thunderbird open-source email, news, chat, calendar, and addressbook client has been updated today to version 148.

It's not chatbot psychosis, it's 'math and engineering and neuroscience' The latest project to start talking about using LLMs to assist in development is experimental Linux copy-on-write file system bcachefs.…

The embargo just lifted on an interesting new industry consortium... CoreCollective. The CoreCollective consortium is focused on open collaboration in the Arm software ecosystem and to a large extent what Linaro has already been doing for the past decade and a half. Interestingly though with CoreCollective for open collaboration in the Arm software ecosystem, AMD is now onboard as a founding member along with various other vendors...

While Thunderbird 148 improves MS Exchange support and sign-on security It's not the only new feature in Firefox 148 yet one thing is very definitely the big news: the global off switch for its AI features that the company announced earlier this month is now included.…

LLVM/Clang 22.1 was released overnight as the first stable release of the LLVM 22 series. This is a nice, feature-packaged half-year update to this prominent open-source compiler stack with many great refinements...

WINSYSTEMS’ SBC-ZETA-3950 is a rugged mini single board computer based on the Intel Atom Apollo Lake E3950, designed for industrial and space-constrained applications. It combines a COM Express Mini Type 10 module with a rugged carrier board in an 84 x 55 mm form factor. The SBC-ZETA-3950 uses the quad-core Intel Atom E3950 processor running […]

Wine 11.3 brings Mono 11.0, VKD3D 1.19, better DirectSound, and 30 bug fixes to improve how Windows apps and games run on Linux.

37 groups urge the company to drop ID checks for apps distributed outside Play Soon, developers who just want to make Android apps for sideloading will have to register with Google. Thirty-seven technology companies, nonprofits, and civil society groups think that the Chocolate Factory should keep its nose out of third-party app stores and have asked its leadership to reconsider.…

The Document Foundation has revived LibreOffice Online, resuming development after formally reversing its 2022 decision to freeze the project.

Google Cloud recently launched their N4A series powered by their in-house Axion ARM64 processors. In that launch-day benchmarking last month was looking at how the N4A with Axion compared to their prior-generation ARM64 VMs powered by Ampere Altra. There were dramatic generational gains, but how does the N4A stand up to the AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon instances? Here are some follow-up benchmarks I had done to explore the N4A performance against the Intel Xeon N4 and AMD EPYC N4D series.

Apache NetBeans 29 cross-platform IDE released with Java performance improvements, PHP fixes, and updated Git integration.

Ardour 9.2 has been released today as the latest stable version of this powerful, free, cross-platform, and open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.6.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment series with an initial batch of improvements and bug fixes.

The Alliance for Open Media has started developing OAC, a new open-source audio codec intended as the long-term successor to Opus.