Modular releases Mojo 1.0, delivering a stable foundation, Python-style lambdas, improved LSP support, and stronger memory-safety diagnostics.

With the Linux 7.2 kernel expected to be released on Sunday, 16 August, here is a look at some of the most interesting new features and changes to find with this next kernel version to be used by Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming Linux distribution releases...

Rsync 3.5 is now available with 33 security fixes, including a critical vulnerability, plus extensive hardening across daemon and path handling.

KDE e.V. along with Linux PC vendor Kubuntu Focus and KDE-aligned consulting firm Techpaladin Software have announced a collaboration of the "bullet-proof KDE Software initiative" for providing at least three years of bug fixes and security updates to KDE Plasma 6.6 LTS and related software...

Nitrux unveils its new modular Workspace Environment built around Hyprland, QML, and MauiKit, while officially retiring the Maui Shell project.

AMD's GAIA open-source AI software built atop Lemonade for serving as an AI companion for emails, a Bash coding agent, and other AI agent skills is out with a new version today with more features while also improving security and making other improvements...

The KDE Project, Kubuntu Focus, and Techpaladin Software announced today a new project for those who need long-term support (LTS) for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and related KDE applications called the “bulletproof” KDE suite.

Rsync as the widely-used, open-source remote sync software for synchronizing files and directories across networks is out today with a very important update...

Shuttle’s XPC slim DH810S is a 1.35-liter barebone PC supporting Intel Core Ultra 200 “Arrow Lake-S” processors with up to 24 cores and a 13 TOPS NPU. The system is intended for digital signage, POS/POI, healthcare, industrial, and edge AI applications. The DH810S joins the previously released DH810 while retaining the same Intel H810 platform, […]

Wireshark 4.6.8 has been released today as yet another minor update in the Wireshark 4.6 series of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform network protocol analyzer.

OpenSSH 10.5 ships with several security fixes, as developers say growing AI-assisted vulnerability research is prompting more frequent releases.

At the beginning of the year NVIDIA released a native build of GeForce NOW for Linux using Flatpaks. Today their native Linux build has exited beta to reach official production status for this cloud gaming solution from NVIDIA...

LILYGO’s T-Display SF32 is a compact development platform built around the SiFli SF32LB52X ultra-low-power AIoT microcontroller. The device combines a 2.16-inch 480 × 480 AMOLED touchscreen with dual Arm Cortex-M33 cores, an ePicasso 2.5D graphics engine, LoRa connectivity, Bluetooth 5.3, and onboard battery power. The SF32LB52X uses a big.LITTLE-style arrangement consisting of a 192MHz high-performance […]

Shelly 3.0.4 has been released today as a new stable update in the Shelly 3.0 series of this pacman alternative for Arch Linux distributions, introducing several new features and enhancements.

Wireshark 4.6.8 arrives as the latest stable maintenance release, delivering fixes and refinements across the popular packet analysis tool.

QEMU 11.1 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source machine emulator and virtualization software, with improved hardware support and emulation for ARM and RISC-V platforms.

Turning on OverlayFS on top of a Btrfs base setup in Sparky Linux 2026.06 brings a fundamentally different set of advantages compared to a standard deployment utilizing Btrfs subvolumes and Timeshift. While both configurations leverage Btrfs, they serve completely different operational philosophies: Timeshift provides a reactive "point-in-time recovery" safety net, whereas OverlayFS converts the environment into a proactive, transient "stateless or immutable" sandboxed workstation.

The developers at MX Linux 25.2 Infinity, this week's Distro of the Week, took an already superior distro in MX Linux 23.6 Libretto and surprisingly made it even better. In addition, it is a distro aimed at everyone, from the newest of newbies to the most grizzled greybeard.

For those using QEMU as part of the open-source virtualization stack, QEMU 11.1 is now available with a number of new feature enhancements and fixes...

Xfce’s experimental Wayland compositor xfwl4 gets its second preview release, adding new window management features and a large batch of fixes.

The GNOME Design team has shared a long list of ideas for future releases of the GNOME desktop environment, which may or may not become reality, and they need your help to make them come true.

OpenAI has released its official ChatGPT desktop app for Linux in preview, bringing ChatGPT, Work, and Codex together in one native experience.

The HP OmniBook X Flip 14-kc0xxx is an AMD Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" powered laptop. While most AMD Strix Point laptops work fine on modern Linux distributions, with this particular HP OmniBook X there is no working audio with current mainline Linux kernel builds. With Claude Opus 5 acting as a debugging assistant and coding agent, patches are now pending to correct the audio support for this HP OmniBook X Flip 14 laptop to function on Linux...

QEMU 11.1 is out with RISC-V big-endian target support, ARM nested virtualization improvements, new PowerPC defaults, and multiple security fixes.

One of the Raspberry Pi device drivers that has remained elusive from the mainline Linux kernel has been for the performance monitoring unit (PMU) for the Broadcom AXI on all Raspberry Pi 1 through Raspberry Pi 5 models. Thanks to the work of a Google engineer, there is a new effort working to get a mainline Linux driver for the Raspberry Pi AXI PMU...

Ubuntu users can now run NVIDIA’s Nemotron 3.5 Lightning model through Canonical’s newly released inference Snap.

OpenAI announced today they have brought their ChatGPT Desktop application to Linux and is currently in preview form...

As part of my recent Linux testing of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro I had recently benchmarked six Linux distributions on the Framework Laptop 13 Pro. CachyOS was the fastest to not much surprise but arguably the most surprising aspect was finding Fedora Workstation 44 typically running slower than the five other modern Linux distributions benchmarked. Here's a follow-up to that with more Fedora Linux benchmarks and the cause/workaround for Fedora's slower performance on the Intel Panther Lake laptop.

Linux Mint 22.3 introduces new HWE installation images with Linux kernel 7.0, alongside a preview of upcoming system and Cinnamon improvements.

Fedora's CoreOS as their container-optimized operating system will be moving to enable systemd-oomd by default with Fedora CoreOS 45. Additionally, swap on zRAM will be enabled by default too...