This is your friendly reminder that Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” reached the end of its supported life today, July 9th, 2026, and it is no longer supported by Canonical with software and security updates.

Orbitiny Desktop Pilot X brings a brand-new dynamic theming system, panel docking improvements, a redesigned Control Panel, and many X11-focused fixes.

Going back to February there was a bug report around the xHCI controller dieing on resume from s2idle when using an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Framework Desktop. In turn all USB devices behind the xHCI controller are lost on resume, but unbinding and binding the driver can restore the functionality without a reboot. After months of back and forth communication, it looks like a solution has been figured out and comes down to a nuance of the PCI spec with needing a brief wait...

Rust 1.97 is out, enabling the v0 symbol mangling scheme by default on stable, adding Cargo warning controls, and surfacing linker messages.

A dust-up in OpenMandriva’s dev ranks escalates from abusive chats to vanished repositories and a ‘saboteur’ package that threatens Gnome and Cosmic users.

Today's batch of AMDGPU Display Code "DC" updates bring a few noteworthy items for benefiting modern hardware under Linux...

While Wireshark 4.8 is still in the works, Wireshark 4.6.7 has been released today as yet another minor update in the Wireshark 4.6 series of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform network protocol analyzer.

In addition to Weston 16 nearing release and its release candidate out today, the Wayland 1.26 release candidate was just issued with a few notable changes on top of the more typical bug fixing...

CVE-2026-43499, dubbed GhostLock by Nebula Security, exposes a long-standing Linux kernel futex bug that can lead to local root access.

The only elephant in the room isn’t in the oval office. For enterprises dependent on IT — meaning every enterprise on the planet these days — there’s an elephant in every server and in every data center.

Vivaldi 8.1 is now available for desktop users, focusing on bug fixes, tab refinements, and improvements to its distraction-free UI auto-hide feature.

Newer Lenovo ThinkPad systems feature a security feature called USB-C Security Restricted Mode that is in the process of being wired up for reporting under Linux...

The next Linux Mint 23.0 release is planned for Christmas 2026, with Cinnamon gaining fully supported Wayland sessions.

The KDE Project has officially released KDE Plasma 6.7.1, the first maintenance update for the Plasma 6.7 desktop environment. Rather than introducing major new features, this point release focuses on polishing the desktop with a broad collection of bug fixes, translation updates, and performance improvements aimed at making Plasma 6.7 more reliable for everyday use.

GStreamer 1.28.5 is now available as a recommended stable-series update, delivering security fixes, build corrections, memory leak fixes, and playback improvements.

GStreamer 1.28.5 has been released today as the fifth maintenance update to the latest and greatest GStreamer 1.28 series of this powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform multimedia framework.

The Linux Mint distribution has published their June development summary that most notably includes work on Cinnamon's Wayland support where it's now ready to graduate...

The Atari Jaguar joins the list of unlikely Linux machines, booting a NOMMU Linux kernel and BusyBox shell from cartridge ROM.

GL.iNet’s Comet X is a quad-port remote KVM designed for centralized management of up to four servers or PCs. The device features browser- or app-based remote access, Power over Ethernet, 4K HDMI passthrough, local console access, and onboard storage for system images or recovery files. The Comet X, model GL-RM4PE, is powered by a quad-core […]

The OpenMandriva project put out a statement today concerning an attempted distribution sabotage effort. Part of the OpenMandriva GitHub repository was deleted and there was an empty package push made to OpenMandriva's Cooker repository in trying to obsolete all GNOME and COSMIC packages...

Deepin 25.2 brings over 20 Treeland fixes, better multi-monitor handling, improved file indexing, and updated security components.

The Document Foundation today announced the first beta release of the LibreOffice 26.8 open-source office suite set for its stable debut in August...

LILYGO has listed two compact development boards for wireless IoT applications: the T-Display C5, a small ESP32-C5-based board with a color LCD and dual-band Wi-Fi 6, and the T-Echo Card, a rugged LoRa-enabled device with GNSS, Bluetooth, NFC, solar charging, and an IP66-rated enclosure. The LILYGO T-Display C5 is built around the ESP32-C5, providing 2.4GHz […]

Linux Mint project Clement Lefebvre revealed today in the monthly newsletter some of the new features and improvements coming to the next major version of the Cinnamon desktop environment, such as full Wayland support.

Intel has formally archived some more of their now-unmaintained open-source projects this week...

We get down and dirty with Collabora Office 26.04, the new desktop twin to Collabora Online, to see how it stacks up against LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, Euro?Office and, yes, Microsoft Office.

here are some benchmarks of single versus dual channel memory on an Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus "Arrow Lake" desktop.

Valve released Proton 11 today as the latest stable version of this open-source compatibility tool for Steam Play, based on Wine and additional components for playing Windows games on Linux systems.

TUXEDO Computers is rebuilding its Linux distribution on Debian Testing, citing Ubuntu’s growing complexity, Snap focus, and backporting challenges.

That didn't take long... Mere minutes after NVIDIA confirmed some basic Rosa CPU details and its "Rigel" CPU core, merged to the upstream GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) codebase is initial enablement on the NVIDIA Rigel core...