New story! Immich 2.5 Released With Free Up Space, Web Backups

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jan 29, 2026 9:35 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Immich 2.5, a self-hosted photo and video management platform, introduces Free Up Space, non-destructive editing, web-based backups, and more.

New story! Systemd Founder Lennart Poettering Announces Amutable Company

Systemd founder and lead developer Lennart Poettering announced the creation of a new company called Amutable. The Amutable company being led by Chris Kühl (CEO), Christian Brauner (CTO) and Lennart Poettering (Chief Engineer) will be focused on delivering determinism and verifiable integrity to Linux systems...

New story! OPNsense 26.1 Open-Source Firewall Released With Threat Intelligence Feeds

OPNsense 26.1 open-source firewall and routing platform boosts security with threat intelligence, host discovery, and clearer real-time firewall visibility.

New story! GNOME 50 Finally Lands Improved Discrete GPU Detection

The upcoming release of GNOME 50 to be found in the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 will feature improved discrete GPU detection within the GNOME Shell. This effort has been two years coming and finally merged this week...

New story! How to Fix “A Stop Job is Running” Message During Shutdown in Linux

  • Make Tech Easier; By Haroon Javed (Posted by damien on Jan 29, 2026 3:29 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Let's understand the "A stop job is running" Linux shutdown message, the reason behind it, and how to reduce the Systemd timeout safely.

New story! GNU gettext Reaches Version 1.0 After 30+ Years In Development - Adds LLM Features

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jan 29, 2026 1:58 AM EDT)
  • Groups: GNU, Sun; Story Type: News Story
Sun Microsystems began developing gettext in the early 1990s and the GNU Project began GNU gettext development in 1995 for this widely-used internationalization and localization system commonly for multi-lingual integration. While GNU gettext is commonly used by countless open-source projects and adapted for many different programming languages, only an hour ago was GNU gettext 1.0 finally released...

New story! An Ambitious Life Manager That Tries to Do It All… and Almost Succeeds

Lotti is an open?source journal and life manager that aims to integrate tasks, notes, and local AI without relying on the cloud.

New story! AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Linux Performance

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jan 28, 2026 10:55 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Ahead of tomorrow's official availability of the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D at $499 USD, today the review embargo lifted. This faster variant to the existing Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been undergoing lots of Linux benchmarking the past two weeks for seeing the performance capabilities of this fastest 8-core 3D V-Cache processor.

New story! Sipeed MaixCAM2 combines 4K imaging and edge AI in an open camera platform

The device is designed as an open system for rapid deployment of vision, audio, and AIoT applications, aimed at researchers, and developers requiring more capable on-device inference and improved image quality than typical DIY camera setups. MaixCAM2 is built around an Axera AX630-series SoC with dual Arm Cortex-A53 cores running Linux, paired with a small […]

New story! FreeRDP 3.22 Released With Overhauled SDL-Based Client UI

FreeRDP 3.22 was just released as the newest version of this Apache-licensed open-source Remote Desktop protocol (RDP) implementation for interfacing with another computer over the network...

New story! Krita 5.2.15 Released With Crash Fixes and Tablet Improvements

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jan 28, 2026 6:21 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Krita 5.2.15, a free and open-source digital painting app, is out with crash fixes, improved tablet handling, and stability improvements for everyday creative work.

New story! Raspberry Pi Preparing To Introduce A Smart Display Module

Raspberry Pi is gearing up to launch another new product: a Raspberry Pi Smart Display Module...

New story! Transmission 4.1 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Released as a Massive Update

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 28, 2026 3:18 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Transmission 4.1 has been released today as a major update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform BitTorrent client that features GTK and Qt-based interfaces, a headless daemon, and a web UI.

New story! Xfce Begins Work on xfwl4, a Rust-Based Wayland Compositor

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jan 28, 2026 1:46 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Xfce
Xfce says the first development release of its new Wayland compositor xfwl4 is expected around mid-2026, with work already underway.

New story! Open Invention Network Shifts to Tiered Funding and Expands Linux System

After two decades of endowment?backed patent defense, Open Invention Network is moving to a tiered funding model and expanding its Linux System coverage.

New story! TUXEDO Computers Unveils Intel-Powered InfinityBook Max 15 Gen10 Linux Laptop

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 28, 2026 10:43 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers unveiled today the Intel variant of the InfinityBook Max 15 Linux-powered laptop, which was previously only available for purchase with an AMD processor.

New story! Transmission 4.1 BitTorrent Client Released With Performance Improvements

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jan 27, 2026 9:09 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Transmission 4.1 BitTorrent client is out with faster downloads, lower CPU usage, improved IPv6 support, and hundreds of fixes.

New story! Proton 10.0-4 Released with Support for Drop Dead: The Cabin, Quantum Threshold

Valve released today an updated Proton 10 version, Proton 10.0-4, as the latest stable release of this open-source compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components for playing Windows games on Linux.

New story! Updated Linux Patches For Managing Out-Of-Memory Behavior Via BPF

Being worked on since last year by Google engineer Roman Gushchin was the latest attempt for the Linux kernel to support managing the out-of-memory "OOM" behavior using BPF programs. It's been a while since there has been anything new to report on that front but published overnight is the latest iteration of those patches...

New story! Solseek TUI Package Manager Is Now Officially Available in Solus

Solus has added Solseek to its stable repositories, bringing a fast, keyboard-driven TUI package manager to users.

New story! Succession: Linux kernel community gets continuity plan for post-Linus era

Conclave doc outlines path to eternal releases The Linux kernel project has finally answered one of the biggest questions gripping the community: what happens if Linus Torvalds is no longer able to lead it?…

New story! Godot 4.6 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Workflow Improvements

Godot 4.6, a free and open-source game engine, is out with improvements to the editor, performance optimizations, and usability enhancements across everyday game development tasks.

New story! ASRock Rack PAUL PCIe IPMI Card Sees DT Patches For The Mainline Linux Kernel

ASRock Rack's PAUL is a low-profile PCIe IPMI card built around the widely-used ASPEED AST2500 controller for providing IPMI/BMC capabilities for any platform. New patches provide mainline Linux kernel support for ASRock Rack PAUL with the necessary Device Tree bits...

New story! Dabao Evaluation Board to Showcase Open-RTL Baochip-1x RISC-V MCU

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Jan 27, 2026 9:12 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Baochip has previewed the Baochip-1x, a mostly open RTL, RISC-V–based microcontroller fabricated on TSMC’s 22 nm process. Designed with openness and verifiability in mind, the MCU integrates a VexRiscv application core running at up to 350 MHz, alongside a quad-core I/O accelerator cluster clocked at 700 MHz. The Baochip-1x uses a VexRiscv RV32IMAC processor with […]

New story! Just the Browser is just the beginning: Why breaking free means building small

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jan 27, 2026 7:41 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
Privacy tools are a start, but real freedom lives in the digital outskirts of the web Opinion The Net is born free, but everywhere is in chains. This is a parody of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1762 book The Social Contract where he said the same about humans, but it's nonetheless true. The Net is built out of open, free protocols and open, free code. Yet it and we are bound by the rulemakers who build the services and set the laws of the places we go and the things that we do, not to our advantage.…

New story! Seven Years After, Stallman Is Still Stallman

Nearly seven years after Richard Stallman left MIT under pressure and resigned the presidency of the Free Software Foundation he founded, he’s back on a U.S. campus giving a talk that is pure RMS — and fundraising for FSF in the process.

New story! GParted 1.8 Partition Editor Improves FAT Handling

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jan 27, 2026 4:38 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
GParted 1.8 partition editor is out with multiple crash fixes, improved FAT handling, and safer file system copying.

New story! How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C

Robin Rowe talks about coding, programming education, and China in the age of AI feature TrapC, a memory-safe version of the C programming language, is almost ready for testing.…

New story! AMD Radeon Linux Driver Introduces Low-Latency Video Decode Option

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jan 27, 2026 1:35 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for next quarter's Mesa 26.1 release is introducing a new low-latency video decode mode. This lower-latency video decoding comes with a trade-off of increased GPU power consumption...

New story! How to Make Persistent Changes to Docker Images Instantly

  • Make Tech Easier; By Anees Asghar (Posted by damien on Jan 27, 2026 12:03 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Learn how docker commit captures changes in a running container, make it persistent and create new images without altering the original Docker image.

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