A few days back I wrote about Google's Eric Biggers spearheading an AVX-512 implementation of xor_gen() as the Linux kernel function used for generating and validating parity blocks such as for RAID5/RAID6. That initial implementation was yielding up to 41% better performance while a new implementation has now been posted for scoring some additional victories...

If you've been waiting for the Ubuntu Desktop 26.10 daily build ISO images to take them for a spin on your personal computer, you can now do so as Canonical has started publishing daily builds.

Microsoft’s UEFI CA 2011 expires this June, pushing Linux distributions to update shim signing for future Secure Boot support.

Linus Torvalds just released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel and it's coming a half-day early thanks to his travel plans...

Arch says it’s scrubbed all known malicious commits, but the 1,500?plus affected AUR packages are a fresh reminder to “trust but verify.”

Just a day after Arch Linux developers believed they got their malware AUR incident under control with 1,500+ packages affected by malware, another round of of AUR malware is now being discovered. This latest round is more sophisticated as with code obfuscation to better conceal the intent...

Ahead of the much anticipated Plasma 6.7 desktop release next week, KDE developers have been busy putting final touches on it, mostly in the form of bug/regression fixes...

HackerBox has released Issue 0127, titled “Sea Five.” The kit showcases Espressif’s ESP32-C5 wireless SoC and centers around a custom dual-microcontroller platform designed for wireless scanning, GPS positioning, and portable data logging. The hardware platform supports dual-band Wi-Fi connectivity, GNSS positioning, onboard storage, and battery-powered operation. The Sea Five board incorporates two ESP32-C5 modules, each […]

Canonical announced this week that the interim Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” release is reaching the end of its supported life next month on July 9th, 2026.

Today I took a first look at Audacity 4 since it just entered public beta phase, so I wanted to see what’s new and improved in this long-anticipated upgrade of one of the most popular open-source audio editors.

Valve released a new stable Steam Client update today that further improves support for the new Steam Controller while also addressing some bugs affecting downloads and remote play.

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system now enables Advanced Vector Extensions 512 on capable Intel/AMD CPUs. A number of other hardware driver improvements were also merged for this interesting OS during the last month...

Shelly developer Zoey Bauer released Shelly 2.3.3 today as a new stable update to this open-source graphical package manager for Arch Linux-based distributions, adding more new features and improvements.

Earlier this month I wrote about Intel working on function multi-versioning support for APX and AVX10.2 with the GCC compiler. This allows developers to write optimized code paths specifically targeting Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) or Advanced Vector Extensions 10.2 capabilities of future processors while being able to otherwise fall-back to generic or other optimized code paths for other ISA target features. This work is now merged for GCC 17...

KDE is preparing Plasma 6.7 for release next Tuesday, with fixes for crashes, broken animations, widget glitches, and several desktop regressions.

Released on Friday was the newest version of Intel Thermald, the thermal daemon developed by Intel for their processors on Linux for monitoring and helping control temperatures across modern Intel-powered laptops and desktops. Catching me immediately by surprise was Intel Thermald 2.5.12 introducing support for ARM...

Framework’s next-gen Linux-friendly, repair-it-yourself laptop hits a speed bump, with shipping pushed from June to July over last-minute touchpad and display fixes.

Wine 11.11 replaces TomCrypt with bundled SymCrypt, adds layered windows in the Wayland driver, and fixes 25 bugs.

Meet Antergos NeXT, a modern revival of the Antergos Linux distribution based on Arch Linux and featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment.

Among the changes being considered for the in-development Fedora 45 is a lightened version of the GRUB UEFI bootloader that would focus on being a minimal implementation suitable for confidential computing...

Last year when releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, Red Hat announced a RHEL 10.0 developer preview for RISC-V. Since then that RISC-V developer preview hadn't been updated but now Red Hat has published a new developer preview snapshot based on RHEL 10.2...

Chrome closes another path for classic uBlock Origin as Chromium removes a leftover Manifest V2 flag from the browser codebase.

Among the many new features planned for Ubuntu 26.10 is switching the default D-Bus implementation over to using the high performance Dbus-Broker drop-in replacement...

Yserver is a new X11 server written in Rust, with working support for MATE, Xfce, Cinnamon, and classic window managers.

OpenZFS 2.4.3 is out today as the newest stable point release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation as well as point releases for the OpenZFS 2.3 and 2.2 series too...

The T2 Linux team released today T2 Linux 26.6 (codenamed “Mythos”) as a hefty update to this highly portable source-based Linux distribution, bringing some of the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies.

The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware. Now in ending out the day they believe all affected commits have been addressed. But it ended up being more than 1,500 affected packages...

The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 6.27 as the monthly update to this collection of more than 80 add-on libraries to Qt and a companion to the KDE Plasma desktop environment and KDE Gear software suite.

Flock to Fedora is more than a conference – it’s where the Fedora community comes alive. As part of the In the CommitHistory campaign, we sat down with confirmed Flock 2026 speakers to hear their stories: what brought them to Fedora, what Flock means to them personally, and what they’re hoping for in Prague this […]

The Btrfs filesystem continues to receive significant performance tuning, and one of the latest areas of focus is snapshot deletion performance. While Btrfs snapshots have long been praised for their speed, flexibility, and efficient use of storage, deleting large numbers of snapshots has historically been one of the filesystem’s most resource-intensive operations.