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Dropping descenders to achieve a perfect baseline Nostalgia fans rejoice – a new monospaced display font has made its debut, and this time every glyph shares the same baseline height with no descenders to interfere with the character flow.…

While the Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) so far is just found on newer Xeon server processors, prior Linux patches acknowledge IAA being found on at least select Panther Lake SoCs. New patches ready for merging to the Linux 6.18 kernel are indicating IAA accelerator(s) will also be found on at least some of the lower-cost Wildcat Lake SoCs too...

The NFS server (NFSD) improvements were merged today for the Linux 6.18 kernel. Most exciting is a new experimental feature that can help with scaling NFSD both for low-end/low-cost servers up through high-end larger server platforms...

WGDashboard 4.3, a web-based WireGuard management UI, adds a client-side dashboard and plugin support.

Fedora 43 is working its way toward release in the coming weeks and is now going through a very late change. A change was announced and accepted today for increasing the size of the /boot partition. This is driven by the ever-increasing number of firmware files needed for different devices to function under Linux with open-source drivers. A large motivator to this change was the very large and growing NVIDIA GPU firmware file sizes for Nouveau and the future Nova driver...

A patch series posted today for Nouveau, the open-source NVIDIA kernel driver within the mainline Linux tree, can help overcome some performance obstacles currently observed with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver...

Ubuntu 25.10 is looking quite nice in the performance department ahead of its official release later this week. On various systems tested thus far, Ubuntu 25.10 is delivering nice gains over Ubuntu 25.04 and compared to the current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The latest Ubuntu 25.10 benchmarking at Phoronix is looking at the Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake performance using the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition laptop.

The NVIDIA Driver is a program needed for your NVIDIA Graphics GPU to function with better performance. It communicates between your Linux operating system, in this case Fedora, and your hardware, the NVIDIA Graphics GPU.

Tired of paying the equivalent of $10,000 per gallon for inkjet cartridges, and throwing away printers that aren’t fixable? According to the Open Printer project, a solution is on the way.

At the start of the year, a new GCC compiler front-end was proposed for the half-century old ALGOL 68 programming language. Not exactly a popular programming language in recent decades and ahead of the GCC 15 release it was decided to not merge it yet to GCC. Even with that setback, development on the ALGOL 68 GCC compiler continues...

Under the sea, under the sea... bit barnacle's better, down where it's wetter, take it from me China is persevering with underwater datacenters - a deployment off the coast near Shanghai is expected to save on the energy costs of cooling compute infrastructure thanks to ocean currents.…

OpenSSH 10.1 is now available, featuring DSCP handling changes, security fixes, and plans to deprecate SHA1 SSHFP.

gem.coop server promises continuity after Ruby Central’s takeover of key repos A team including maintainers removed without notice from the RubyGems.org project has formed the Gem Cooperative and created a new gem server called gem.coop, compatible with RubyGems.…

FreeBSD 15.0 continues working its way toward a stable release in early December and out today is the fifth alpha release...

Catch up on the latest Linux news: openSUSE Leap 16, Raspberry Pi OS based on Debian 13, KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta, Immich 2.0, Mint showcases a redesigned menu, how to get notified on SSH logins, and more.

The past several months has seen AMD engineers working on a new RDMA driver for Ionic hardware through which they acquired Pensando a few years ago. That AMD-Pensando Ionic RDMA driver is now part of the upstream Linux 6.18 kernel...

GIMP 3.0.6 has been released as the latest stable version of this open-source, cross-platform, and free image editing software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.

Adding to the Linux storage/file-system excitement for Linux 6.18 is enhancements to some of the core FUSE code for supporting file-systems in user-space...

A Simple Dark & Orange KDE Plasma 6 Theme

Looking for a clean, modern, and cozy desktop setup? This KDE Plasma 6 theme combines a dark base with vibrant orange accents to create a visually appealing and easy-on-the-eyes interface. Perfect for daily use, it keeps your desktop organized while adding a touch of personality

The FSF celebrates four decades of software freedom with a new president and the LibrePhone initiative for privacy-focused mobile computing.