A new proposal being discussed is introducing a Linux user-space API to be able to specify frame rate targets for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) handling on the Linux desktop...

Giada 1.6 is out today as a major update to this open-source, free, minimalist, hardcore music production app designed for DJs, live performers, and electronic musicians.

Valve is testing Pyrowave, a new low-latency Steam Remote Play codec available on Linux and SteamOS through the experimental SteamRT3 client.

The Omarchy project announced today that Alibaba Cloud will be contributing a total of three million USD to their foundation for helping development of this Linux distribution and working to make it an "ideal agentic operating system"...

VLC 3.0.24 has been released today as the latest stable version of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform media player software for GNU/Linux, Android, macOS, tvOS, and Windows systems.

Last week I ran some benchmarks showing performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" on Ubuntu 26.10. Then shortly after that testing on its daily state, which used the Linux 7.2 kernel, Canonical switched to Linux 7.3 as the Ubuntu 26.10 kernel. Here are some Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" with the Framework Desktop...

KDE’s 2026–2028 goals include stronger enterprise support, consolidated documentation, and a unified styling system.

The company’s permanently free security platform for up to 25 machines is now available to organizations running Debian and Ubuntu, as well as AlmaLinux.

AMD sent out their latest Linux kernel graphics driver patches today for enabling some new hardware IP blocks. And as part of that, preparing for GDDR7 video memory with the AMDGPU driver...

DavMail 7.0 improves Microsoft 365 and Exchange connectivity with faster IMAP synchronization, better Graph API stability, and calendar enhancements.

With the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel showing some nice performance improvements over Linux 7.2 in different areas, Linux 7.2 also having brought some nice gains especially for I/O, and the preceding kernels also having seen some nice performance optimizations this year, I wanted to measure how far the Linux kernel performance has evolved so far in 2026. Today's article is looking at that with how the Linux kernel performance has evolved since the Linux 6.18 LTS kernel at the end of 2025 to the current Linux 7.3 kernel.

Lepton is Valve’s new open-source project for bringing Android games to Linux, with Steam Frame as its main target.

There's a new Linux distribution focused on supporting Linux on Apple Silicon Macs. Gravity Linux is this new distribution that is a spin of Fedora Remix and is catering to the still-experimentally-supported Apple M4 Macs and newer. In addition to leveraging Asahi Linux code and reverse engineering, Gravity Linux also leverages OpenAI Codex and Claude Code...

Rspamd 4.2 expands attachment inspection, redesigns symbol scheduling, speeds up public suffix lookups, and improves the WebUI.

While the downstream Asahi Linux kernel has offered working speaker support and headset jack capabilities on Apple Silicon Macs, the mainline Linux kernel hasn't supported this functionality. But a set of 28 patches sent out today on the Linux kernel mailing list are working toward mainlining this important functionality for using Apple Macs on the upstream Linux desktop...

From Timeshift to Kopia: the best backup software for Linux in 2026, compared side by side with real pros and cons for every pick.

The openSUSE Project released new important updates for the openSUSE Tumbleweed ARM port with the latest and greatest Linux 7.2 kernel, as well as improvements for Raspberry Pi, Rockchip, i.MX, NXP, and other SBCs.

Amazon released the Kindle 4 back in 2011 with a 6-inch E-ink display, 2GB internal storage, and running a modified version of Linux. In the years since the Amazon Kindle 4 has been jail-broken and there are some customized Linux distributions with a patched kernel to run on the Kindle 4. Now in 2026 there are patches on the Linux kernel mailing list looking to mainline support for that fifteen year old e-reader device...

Kitty 0.49 introduces official custom shader support alongside broad performance improvements delivering 15–35% higher real-world throughput.

GNU Wget 2.3 is out today as the latest version of this free and open-source, multithreaded successor to the GNU Wget command-line downloader, bringing security hardening, bug fixes, and improved Wget1.x compatibility.

The AMD BC-250 as the product designed at the time for cryptocurrency mining and based on a cut-down Sony PlayStation 5 APU continues having an interesting second-life being re-tasked for Linux use from general purpose workloads to AI. Sent out this weekend were the latest Linux kernel patches for continuing to enable more of the BC-250...

Rsync 3.5.1 addresses several regressions from version 3.5 while introducing protocol 33 and new 4 KiB logical block statistics.

Clicks is preparing the Communicator, a compact Android smartphone built around a physical keyboard and a 4.03-inch AMOLED touchscreen. The device uses MediaTek’s 4nm Dimensity 8300 platform, includes 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, and is designed to operate either as a standalone phone or alongside another smartphone. The MediaTek Dimensity 8300, identified by […]

Clonezilla Live maintainer Steven Shiau released Clonezilla Live 3.3.3-37 today as the latest stable version of this partition and disk imaging/cloning live Linux system based on Debian GNU/Linux.

Garuda Nix is now available, offering NixOS installations with Garuda Dr460nized and Mokka desktop environments.

SECO has added two compact industrial platforms based on Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ-2390 processor: the Compact Vision 5 Dragonwing IQ-2390, a 5-inch panel-mounted HMI, and the SBC-Dragonwing-IQ-2390, a 47 × 114mm single-board computer for custom embedded systems. Both platforms support on-device AI, industrial connectivity and SECO’s Yocto Linux-based Clea OS. The Dragonwing IQ-2390 integrates application processing, […]

TUXEDO OS is switching its base to Debian, and the team just released a new Beta ISO. I tested it, and here is a breakdown of the key improvements.

More than 30 years after its debut, GNU gzip receives fixes for bugs that have existed since the project’s earliest releases.

We compared password managers with real Linux apps, from Bitwarden to self-hosted Vaultwarden. See features, pricing, and honest pros and cons.

There's more coming in the next few weeks, with some people already knowing their last date/day.