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Last week was the main feature pull of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.0 kernel merge window. Most notable with that pull was Rust officially concluding its "experimental" in now treating Rust for Linux kernel/driver programming as stable and here to stay. Sent out today was a round of Rust fixes for Linux 7.0 that includes preparations for the upcoming Rust 1.95 release...

Ubuntu Touch OTA 1.2 update is now rolling out with improvements to VoLTE support and fixes for boot issues on Sony Xperia X devices.

The AppArmour security module for the Linux kernel, which most notably is backed by Canonical for Ubuntu, has some small improvements and fixes for Linux 7.0...

For those making use of the Ceph open-source, distributed storage platform, with the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel they are introducing support for the AES256K key type...

Calibre 9.3 open-source e-book manager is now available for download with improved support for the Hanvon N10 e-reader and other changes. Here’s what’s new!

KDE Plasma 6.7 will introduce virtual desktop switching in Overview using scroll or Page Up/Page Down keys, along with a new multi-printer print queue viewer.

The mkdir command is used to create single or multiple directories while also setting a permission when they are created in a Linux system.

PipeWire 1.6 open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux is now available for download with new features and improvements.

The open-source ollama project that makes it easy to get up and running with a variety of LLMs under Windows, macOS, and Linux is out with a new release. The ollama v0.17.0 release is driven by new functionality around enhancing the OpenClaw onboarding process...

A community fork revives MinIO after the official repository was archived, restoring removed features and continuing open-source development.

Transmission 4.1.1 open-source BitTorrent client is now available for download with numerous bug fixes and various improvements.

Canonical engineer Utkarsh Gupta announced today on the behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team that the Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" has entered its feature freeze...

Transmission 4.1.1 fixes over 20 bugs from version 4.1 and brings performance improvements to all platforms.

Collabora has announced GStreamer 1.28, expanding its machine learning and AI inference capabilities for media pipelines. The release adds new inference engines, broader tensor decoder support, improved metadata handling, and tooling aimed at simplifying object detection, classification, and segmentation workflows on embedded Linux systems. Support for ONNX Runtime has been improved, including a refactor from […]

Drgn is the programmable debugger developed by Meta engineer Omar Sandoval that has proven quite versatile and popular with Linux kernel developers and others. After nearly two dozen releases already, Drgn v0.1 was released this week as another big step forward for this open-source debugger...

The Podman team and the Fedora Quality Assurance team are organizing a Test Week from Friday, February 27 through Friday, March 6, 2026. This is your chance to get an early look at the latest improvements coming to Podman and see how they perform on your machine. What is Podman? For those new to the […]

The open-source wearable ecosystem just received a major upgrade. AsteroidOS 2.0 has officially been released, bringing new life to Linux-based smartwatches and giving aging hardware a fresh purpose. Built by a passionate community of developers, AsteroidOS continues to push the idea that wearable technology can remain open, customizable, and free from vendor lock-in.

The micro-computer maker’s shares surged this week after an X post tied the AI agent to Pi demand opinion Beloved British single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi has achieved meme stock stardom, as its share price surged 90 percent over the course of a couple of days earlier this week. It's settled since, but it’s still up more than 30 percent on the week.…

While we are on the horizon of seeing PCI Express 6.0 devices, there are already early Linux kernel patches beginning to surface for PCI Express 7.0...

'Just trust us' – Big Tech's hackneyed catchphrase makes an unwelcome return The Electronic Frontier Foundation says it will accept LLM generated code from contributors to its open source projects but will draw the line at non-human generated comments and documentation.…