Amazon released the Kindle 4 back in 2011 with a 6-inch E-ink display, 2GB internal storage, and running a modified version of Linux. In the years since the Amazon Kindle 4 has been jail-broken and there are some customized Linux distributions with a patched kernel to run on the Kindle 4. Now in 2026 there are patches on the Linux kernel mailing list looking to mainline support for that fifteen year old e-reader device...

Kitty 0.49 introduces official custom shader support alongside broad performance improvements delivering 15–35% higher real-world throughput.

GNU Wget 2.3 is out today as the latest version of this free and open-source, multithreaded successor to the GNU Wget command-line downloader, bringing security hardening, bug fixes, and improved Wget1.x compatibility.

The AMD BC-250 as the product designed at the time for cryptocurrency mining and based on a cut-down Sony PlayStation 5 APU continues having an interesting second-life being re-tasked for Linux use from general purpose workloads to AI. Sent out this weekend were the latest Linux kernel patches for continuing to enable more of the BC-250...

Rsync 3.5.1 addresses several regressions from version 3.5 while introducing protocol 33 and new 4 KiB logical block statistics.

Clicks is preparing the Communicator, a compact Android smartphone built around a physical keyboard and a 4.03-inch AMOLED touchscreen. The device uses MediaTek’s 4nm Dimensity 8300 platform, includes 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, and is designed to operate either as a standalone phone or alongside another smartphone. The MediaTek Dimensity 8300, identified by […]

Clonezilla Live maintainer Steven Shiau released Clonezilla Live 3.3.3-37 today as the latest stable version of this partition and disk imaging/cloning live Linux system based on Debian GNU/Linux.

Garuda Nix is now available, offering NixOS installations with Garuda Dr460nized and Mokka desktop environments.

SECO has added two compact industrial platforms based on Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ-2390 processor: the Compact Vision 5 Dragonwing IQ-2390, a 5-inch panel-mounted HMI, and the SBC-Dragonwing-IQ-2390, a 47 × 114mm single-board computer for custom embedded systems. Both platforms support on-device AI, industrial connectivity and SECO’s Yocto Linux-based Clea OS. The Dragonwing IQ-2390 integrates application processing, […]

TUXEDO OS is switching its base to Debian, and the team just released a new Beta ISO. I tested it, and here is a breakdown of the key improvements.

More than 30 years after its debut, GNU gzip receives fixes for bugs that have existed since the project’s earliest releases.

We compared password managers with real Linux apps, from Bitwarden to self-hosted Vaultwarden. See features, pricing, and honest pros and cons.

There's more coming in the next few weeks, with some people already knowing their last date/day.

KDE Plasma 6.8 is now firmly in the polishing stage, with developers focusing on bug fixes and refinements ahead of its October 14, 2026 release.

More than two years in the making, Linux 7.4 is poised to introduce a patch that amounts to a rather simple optimization to avoid unnecessary/duplicative work that can net some nice gains when opening files for reading...

Picking Linux for your ARM board or laptop? We ranked the 9 best ARM distros for 2026, from Raspberry Pi OS to Arch based builds, plus real hardware picks.

CompuLab has introduced the UCM-iMX952, a 28 x 40mm System-on-Module based on NXP’s i.MX952 processor. The module supports up to 16GB of LPDDR5 or LPDDR4X memory and 128GB of eMMC storage, along with PCIe Gen 3, 2.5GbE, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and multiple display and camera interfaces. The NXP i.MX952 is available on the module […]

The latest Apple Silicon enablement code working its way from the Asahi Linux project toward the upstream Linux kernel is the AVD driver used for accelerated video playback across Apple M1 / M2 / M3 SoCs...

The Fedora Project has officially released Fedora Linux 45 Beta, giving users an early look at the technologies expected to form the foundation of the final Fedora 45 release. The beta became available on September 15, 2026, after Fedora's Quality team approved Release Candidate 1.3 for publication.

MariaDB 13.0 is now stable, introducing UPDATE RETURNING, improved Optimizer Trace, InnoDB log archiving, and SQL compatibility enhancements.

Valve's Steam Frame VR headset that makes use of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC with Adreno graphics is using the open-source "Turnip" Vulkan driver from Mesa as reported last year. For OpenGL it turns out that the Mesa Zink driver is being used on the Steam Frame for OpenGL atop the Vulkan API...

As a very pleasant surprise, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release will now be powered by the Linux 7.3 kernel rather than their original plans and switch over to the Linux 7.2 kernel...

Nordic Semiconductor has expanded its nRF54L Series with the nRF54LC10A, an entry-level multiprotocol SoC aimed at compact, cost-sensitive IoT devices. The chip integrates a 128MHz Arm Cortex-M33, a 128MHz RISC-V coprocessor, 1MB of non-volatile memory, 192KB of RAM, and a 2.4GHz radio supporting Bluetooth LE, Thread, Zigbee, Matter, and proprietary protocols. The Cortex-M33 includes an […]

Google's Binder driver written in the C programming language has long been part of the mainline kernel as the inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism used on Android. The past few years the Binder driver was rewritten in Rust as one of the first "real" drivers in the Rust programming language. The Rust Binder driver was upstreamed in Linux 6.18 and now for the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle, the old Binder C-based driver is set to be retired...

LibreOffice 26.8 recorded the strongest first-week download numbers in project history, while TDF outlined why built-in AI is still off the table.

The past few weeks we have eagerly been following a Linux kernel patch series after AI found some major bottlenecks in the Linux kernel build code. With AI helping to address these bottlenecks, Linux kernel build times are substantially reduced. These optimizations might be ready in time for Linux 7.4 for reducing incremental kernel build times as much as around 70%. This week the latest iteration of these patches were posted by Arm engineer Lorenzo Stoakes...

Mojo 1.1 now accepts external compiler contributions, while Modular has also moved internal compiler issues to public GitHub trackers.

Amid a boom of bug reporting in general due to AI/LLMs across the entire software ecosystem, Intel this week appears to have ended its paid bug bounty program. They have (re)launched a new bug reporting program but with the bounties removed...

Calibre developer Kovid Goyal released Calibre 9.15 today as a new stable update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform e-book management software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

The Ubuntu 26.10 desktop is adjusting its default out-of-memory (OOM) daemon behavior when dealing with memory pressure on the system...