In this article, you will learn what an inode is, how to check an inode and its size on Linux, and their roles in soft/hard links and system updates.

Archinstall 4.0 Arch Linux menu-based installer is now available for download with a new TUI (text-based user interface), new features, and various improvements.

Following an April Fools' Day tease of Gentoo claiming they were going to switch to GNU Hurd as their primary kernel moving forward, they have now acknowledged the joke but in fact also announcing there are now experimental Gentoo GNU/Hurd images available...

The development team behind Artix Linux has released today the Artix Linux 2026.04 ISO refresh for this Arch Linux-based, systemd-free distribution, which features multiple editions and init systems.

Command-line utility "aqtinstall" enables plotting in Python 3.14.3t by automating the installation of Qt binaries (e.g., PyQt6 ) , which are required by libraries like Matplotlib to render interactive graphs. It serves as a command-line alternative to the official Qt installer, facilitating the setup of necessary GUI frameworks, often in CI environments or specific Python versions.

A few Linux kernel releases have passed since there have been any new features to talk about for the AMD P-State driver for CPU frequency scaling / power management with modern AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors. But for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel there are some new features now ready for mainline...

Source code with a side of Vidar stealer and GhostSocks Tens of thousands of people eagerly downloaded the leaked Claude Code source code this week, and some of those downloads came with a side of credential-stealing malware.…

Linux continues its rise on Steam, reaching for the first time a record 5% share in Valve’s March 2026 Hardware and Software Survey.

The MX Linux project has taken a firm stance in a growing controversy across the Linux ecosystem: mandatory age-verification requirements at the operating system level. In a recent update, the team made it clear, they have no intention of implementing such measures, citing concerns over privacy, practicality, and the core philosophy of open-source software.

OBS Studio 32.1.1 has been released today as the first maintenance update to the latest OBS Studio 32.1 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform live streaming and screen recording software.

More than a novelty from north of the 49th, this Debian?based distro uses Canadian and EU privacy principles to offer a telemetry?free, ready?to?work Cinnamon desktop.

Parrot Linux publishes an official statement against age verification as opposition grows across the Linux and open-source world.

If Valve's latest Steam Survey monthly figures are accurate, Steam on Linux enjoyed a very wild month of March. Steam on Linux is now above the 5% threshold and more than twice the size of the Steam on macOS marketshare...

And other handy tools that could save your data in a crisis The latest update to the handy SystemRescue is here with a new kernel. There's also a new GParted Live, and some other handy utilities.…

The CentOS project has established the Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement "AIE" special interest group with a focus on providing a "fast lane" for "in-flight" patches. This CentOS AIE SIG is particularly focused on carrying the code needed for enabling NVIDIA AI factories...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a new 3GB variant of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B, priced at $83.75, alongside a set of price increases affecting multiple products across its lineup. The changes are attributed to a sharp rise in LPDDR4 memory costs, which the company reports have increased seven-fold over the past year. […]

OpenSSH 10.3 introduces security fixes, new SSH features, and improvements to agent forwarding, multiplexing, and key handling.

Cloudflare continues to be full of open-source surprises. Today Cloudflare announced EmDash as an open-source "spiritual successor" to WordPress with an emphasis on better security...

Nitrux developer Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Netrunner 26 (codename Twilight), more than a year after the release of Netrunner 25, with a new Debian base and updated packages.

Longtime Linux developer David Woodhouse sent out a patch series today to "deprecate legacy IP" support within the Linux kernel. While some of his commentary his April 1st-esque, he does acknowledge much of this work has merit. Ultimately it can allow for building a Linux kernel with IPv6-only support and working on allowing "legacy" IPv4 support to be disabled as part of the kernel build...

I've been writing on @OpenStack since day one. Now its 15 years later and it keeps on adding features that cloud operators need. Oh and even now - just as it was a decade ago, going after VMware users is still a primary target.

“VMware escapees represent currently a lot of the new deployments that are coming to OpenStack right now,”

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" this week rejected a change proposal for Fedora 45 that would use systemd's environment generator functionality for managing per-user environment variables...

Coreboot 26.03 open-source firmware is now available for download with full support for Intel PantherLake SoCs and other changes. Here’s what’s new!

LibreOffice is increasingly at the center of Europe’s push toward open-source adoption and digital independence. Backed by The Document Foundation, the widely used office suite is playing a key role in helping governments, institutions, and organizations reduce reliance on proprietary software while strengthening control over their digital infrastructure.

Arch Linux April 2026 ISO includes Linux kernel 6.19, systemd 260, updated firmware, and refreshed core packages from March.

The Arch Linux project released Arch Linux 2026.04.01 today as the April 2026 ISO snapshot for the Arch Linux distribution, which features a new version of the Archinstall text-based installer, a new kernel, and the latest updates.

HarfBuzz is the open-source text shaping engine originally born out of the FreeType project and now widely-used by GNOME, KDE, Java, Flutter, Godot, Chromium, LibreOffice, and countless other applications. HarfBuzz 14.0 released today and making this release quite exciting is introducing a GPU-accelerated text rendering library...

Gentoo has a Hurd port you can boot today, plus a straight-faced promise to ditch Linux by year’s end. We’re guessing only one of those things is real.

Inventor Bjarne Stroustrup argues feature is neither minimal nor viable The ISO C++ committee (WG21) has approved the C++26 standard, described by committee member Herb Sutter as the most compelling release since C++11, and including Contracts, despite opposition to the feature from C++ inventor Bjarne Stroustrup, among others.…

AerynOS 2026.03 is now available as the newest release of this from-scratch Linux distribution originally known as Serpent OS. With this month's update comes GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6.3, and various Wayland compositor updates alongside other software improvements...