Meson 1.8 was released this afternoon as the newest update to this popular, cross-platform and open-source build system / build automation tool...

4MLinux developer Zbigniew Konojacki announced today the release and general availability of 4MLinux 48.0 as the latest stable version of this mini Linux distribution featuring the lightweight JWM window manager.

The OS came first, the foundation later – so what does it do? Interview Many FOSS projects are backed by nonprofit foundations. One such example is the FreeBSD Foundation, started by Meta software engineer Justin T Gibbs. He spoke with The Register about the project's copyright philosophy, what the foundation does, and why it matters.…

The Trinity Desktop Environment as a long ago fork of the KDE 3.5 desktop released TDE R14.1.4 on Sunday as the newest maintenance release with various bug fixes and minor feature improvements...

Kdenlive 25.04 is out today as the newest feature release to this KDE/Qt-aligned non-linear, open-source video editing application...

Kali Linux users must manually install a new archive signing key after the previous one was lost, impacting system updates until resolved.

But what it can't do is 'unilaterally claw back a community project and its infrastructure, assets, and branding'. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has filed a petition with the US Patent and Trademark Office to prevent Synadia from using the logo and domain for NATS, the open source messaging system.…

Separate from last week in uncovering a big performance regression on Linux 6.15 affecting workloads like Nginx and that regression getting fixed, I unfortunately discovered another heavy-hitting regression on Linux 6.15. This latest performance regression has been bisected and a possible fix is being thought through by the relevant party, but for the moment has yet to be fixed upstream and affects modern AMD processors.

qBittorrent 5.1 has been released as a major update to this open-source, cross-platform, and free BitTorrent client that introduces several new features and other enhancements.

Trinity Desktop Environment (TDE) R14.1.4 desktop environment has been released for nostalgic KDE 3.5 users with various new features and enhancements.

For the last several decades, India has been quietly developing its economic independence muscles as it morphs into an IT leader with global prowess.

Wayland Protocols 1.44 released on Sunday and with it comes one new protocol addition...

Mozilla published today the final build of the Firefox 138 open-source web browser for all supported platforms ahead of the April 29th, 2025, official release, so it’s time to take a look at what’s new.

Linux 6.15-rc4 is now available after a rather eventful week and about one month to go until the stable Linux 6.15...

The 237th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on April 27th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Talos Linux is a specialized operating system designed for running Kubernetes. First and foremost it handles full lifecycle management for Kubernetes control-plane components. On the other hand, Talos Linux focuses on security, minimizing the user’s ability to influence the system. A distinctive feature of this OS is the near-complete absence of executables, including the absence […] The post A Simple Way to Install Talos Linux on Any Machine, with Any Provider appeared first on Linux.com.

Merged today to the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library is an APV decoder and APV bitstream muxing and demuxing capabilities. APV is the Advanced Professional Video Codec originally developed by Samsung and is a royalty-free format...

Catch up on the latest Linux news: COSMIC Desktop Alpha 7, OpenMandriva Lx 6, Fedora 43 to remove GNOME X11 support, Arch lands in WSL2, and more.

Mixxx 2.5.1, the latest version of this open-source, cross-platform, and free virtual DJ software for performing live mixes, was released today with various improvements and bug fixes.

The SHA-256 code within the Linux kernel's cryptography subsystem is in the process of being refactoring so that it's available via the crypto's library API and also opening it up to support architecture-optimized implementations...

We do not believe the OSI can recover from this. It might be replaced, as the need will arise for licence enforcers that aren't compromised (bribed) by the biggest licence violator (Microsoft). ?

Arch Linux is now officially available on Microsoft's Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 2, expanding its reach to Windows users.

Theo de Raadt announced today the release of OpenBSD 7.7, the 58th release for this BSD operating system over the past two decades...

Learn how to install and use the screen command in Linux to manage multiple shell sessions during an SSH connection, with practical examples.

Check out our completely updated guide on installing a WireGuard VPN server using wg-easy and managing everything effortlessly via a user-friendly web UI.

When it comes to Open Source Initiative’s 2025 board election, we’re reminded of Yogi Berra’s observation that, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.”

Minisforum recently introduced the MS-A2, a compact workstation featuring high-end AMD processors, support for up to 96GB of memory, and flexible storage options. It offers PCIe expansion, triple 8K display output, and fast wired and wireless connectivity, targeting users who need strong performance in a small footprint. The MS-A2 is a compact computing platform built […]

A new Wayland-only feature merged for GNOME 49's Mutter is support for tablet pad relative dials. These dials found on some drawing tablets now allow for relative moment under the GNOME Wayland session when paired with recent libinput and libwacom releases...

Following recent Vulkan 1.1 support within Mesa for the PanVK driver for open-source Arm Mali Vulkan driver support, Vulkan 1.2 is now being advertised...

GStreamer 1.26.1 multimedia framework is out with bug fixes and security updates, improving plugin stability, video decoding, and platform support across the board.