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The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.2.7 as the seventh and last maintenance update in the LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series.

TypeScript now ranks #1 on GitHub, while Python and JavaScript continue to grow strongly across AI and web projects.

The shell is nothing more than a program that carries the user typed commands or instructions from the terminal to the kernel.

Learn what drop-in (.d) directories are in Linux and how they help manage configuration files safely.

The Qt Project released today Qt Creator 18 as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

With performance boosts and seamless cloud connections, Zorin OS 18 is quickly becoming the top gateway for Windows refugees.

On Monday the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 officially arrived at Internet retailers and is successfully selling at the $1299 price point. Some models have sine sold out but as of writing two days later some Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics cards remain available at that competitive price point. On Monday I provided some initial benchmarks of the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 for vLLM AI inferencing with more AI benchmarks on the way... While the craze is all about AI in 2025, the Radeon AI PRO R9700 does work for other non-AI workloads too and in this article is a look at its competitive OpenCL performance with great value compared to the NVIDIA RTX competition.

After updating KDE Plasma to version 6.5, I noticed that the overall appearance of the desktop became much brighter than before. Initially, I thought it was just a visual change, but the real cause turned out to be the blur effect. The default blur was causing this brighter look

Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.2.6 as the newest bi-weekly stable update to this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers widely used on Linux systems for 3D support...

Team begs for help as teenage dev who revived Canonical’s old Unity desktop prioritizes studies The Ubuntu Unity project is in trouble because its maintainer, a Linux whiz kid, has had less time to work on it due to his studies. Now other team members are appealing to the wider Ubuntu community for help. …

Following last month's Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS beta and COSMIC desktop beta, System76 has now shared their stable release plans for this long-awaited LInux distribution release with their Rust-written custom desktop...

Petition seeks to rally community opposition and alert regulators Starting next year, Google plans to require all apps installed on certified Android devices, including sideloading, to come from developers it has verified. Many Android developers see the move as a power grab and have started a movement to "Keep Android Open."…

This is your friendly reminder that, as of today, October 29th, 2025, Canonical has opened the upgrade path for Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) users to the latest release, Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka).

In Part One of this series, we examined how the SONiC control plane and the VPP data plane form a cohesive, software-defined routing stack through the Switch Abstraction Interface.  We outlined how SONiC’s Redis-based orchestration and VPP’s user-space packet engine come together to create a high-performance, open router architecture. In this second part, we’ll turn […] The post Disaggregated Routing with SONiC and VPP: Lab Demo and Performance Insights – Part Two appeared first on Linux.com.

While in many ways coming from behind, Red Hat unveiled CUDA integration, security-hardened images, and DPU support at Nvidia's GTC in Washington, DC.

System76 CEO Carl Richell has revealed the COSMIC desktop will debut on December 11, 2025, bringing a fresh vision to the Linux desktop world.

An engineer on Apple's static security tools team announced publicly that they have prototyped a tool to apply security hardening across entire C++ codebases. Ultimately their plan is to open-source and upstream this static analysis based tool into LLVM...

Windows 10 support has ended, but Bottles offers a reliable bridge to keep favorite Windows apps running for those who are shifting to Linux.

Wisu is a blazing-fast, Rust-based interactive directory viewer built for developers working with large codebases.

SUSE today formally announced SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16. Given we are in the year 2025, SUSE is heavy on hyping up AI capabilities with SLES 16...