KDE Plasma 6.8 is gaining middle-click auto-scrolling, a built-in dwell clicker, improved remote desktop support, and higher-quality screen recording.

A few short how-to's with screenshots, showing easy ways to boot up off a USB live ISO and return back to previous points in time with BTRFS

Last month the NetworkManager project adopted an AI coding policy where authors are responsible for 100% of the code they submit and must be able to explain it all. In an attempt to catch AI coding agents that may be trying to bypass their policy, they have added an interesting canary to the project to try to catch such AI-generated patches so they can then be automatically dealt with...

Wine 11.17 is out with initial display mode emulation, better preferred UI language handling, vkd3d 2.1, and 44 bug fixes.

The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines. This should help clean things up in the mainline kernel for the Apple Silicon audio support and with a cleaner architecture than the current downstream Asahi Linux code...

Grml 2026.09 (codename Hättiwaritätti) has been released today as the latest stable version of this Debian-based, bootable Linux distro for system administrators and users of command-line tools.

The annual X.Org Developer's Conference "XDC 2026" is happening later this month in Toronto. A great number of interesting talks are planned this year from new Wayland features to OpenCL over CUDA, the possibility of Vulkan Gallium, and a lot of exciting driver developments...

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 26.2.6 as the sixth maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with various bug fixes.

A change proposal filed for what would be part of Fedora Linux 47 is on making use of Thin LTO rather than Fat LTO for link-time optimizations. With Thin LTO being more memory efficient and faster build speeds, the hope is that more Fedora packages could also use Thin LTO for packages where no link-time optimizations are currently leveraged...

Ezurio has announced the Carbon AM67 OSM-MF, a compact solder-down module based on Texas Instruments’ Sitara AM67x processor family. The module offers heterogeneous Arm processing, up to 8GB LPDDR4, eMMC storage, 4-TOPS AI acceleration, multi-display and camera support, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and optional Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 6E connectivity. The Carbon AM67 is based on […]

Looking for a Linux distro that won’t fry your kid’s attention span? Here are the 6 best picks for 2026, ranked by age, with real pros and cons.

LLVM developers have begun a discussion on whether the project should host an AGENTS.md file (and CLAUDE.md) in their Git repository for helping to guide AI agents...

Seeed Studio has unveiled the reComputer RK3576 development platform based on Rockchip’s RK3576 processor, with options ranging from standalone compute modules to a complete Dev Kit with an RK1820 AI accelerator. The platform features a 6-TOPS integrated NPU, LPDDR5 memory, eMMC storage, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, MIPI CSI/DSI, HDMI, USB, and a 40-pin expansion header. […]

AWS announced today the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027. Given the time since Amazon Linux 2023, Amazon Linux 2027 comes with a heavy arsenal of software updates as well as many performance optimizations and other tuning for better running workloads geared for the AWS cloud...

OpenVPN 2.7.7 is now available with fixes for seven security vulnerabilities, Linux Netlink hardening, and several networking bug fixes.

Released tonight is Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" Snapshot 3 as the newest monthly ISO candidates for Ubuntu Linux...

Canonical released Snapshot 3 of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) release as the third development milestone targeting early adopters and application developers who want to test their apps.

Introduced with the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics hardware was support for Content Match Refresh Rate (CMRR) as an improvement over typical Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) / Adaptive-Sync to more precisely match the video or content frame rates. Particularly for video playback it aims for no stuttering or frame drops. With the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel will be better support for CMRR with the Intel graphics driver...

Audacity 4.0 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source digital audio editor and recording software, a major update that introduces new features and enhancements.

For those using Canonical's Mir compositor for building Wayland-based shells, Mir 2.29 is now available with various improvements and new Wayland protocol coverage...

Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor_gen() that is used for generating and validating parity blocks such as with Linux's software RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays. The latest iteration of AVX-512 xor_gen() was posted today and shows some impressive results on AMD Zen 5 hardware...

Fastfetch 2.68.1 introduces a new Top module for displaying resource-hungry processes, alongside improved GTK detection and Wi-Fi reporting.

With Linux 7.3-rc1 out this week and marking the end of the merge window, it's onto a lot of Linux 7.3 performance testing at Phoronix and looking at all the new features of Linux 7.3. In today's article is a first look at the AMD EPYC Turin server performance on Linux 7.3-rc1 compared to Linux 7.2 stable with a few nice performance improvements to show.

This is your friendly reminder that the Linux 7.1 kernel series has reached the end of its supported life and that you should consider upgrading to Linux kernel 7.2 as soon as possible.

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, besides being well known for its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is known among longtime Linux users as a RHEL/CentOS shop. CERN formally even co-maintained the Scientific Linux RHEL derivative with other educational/research institutions in the past. So to much surprise now, CERN is transitioning to Debian Linux...

Mozilla Thunderbird 155 improves Exchange account setup, expands custom OAuth support for IMAP and SMTP, and delivers a broad set of fixes.

A new change proposal that's been filed for evaluation with next year's Fedora 46 release is to provide official, native support for the Crystal programming language...

Makerfabs has showcased an nRF52840 development board combining Bluetooth connectivity with a DW3000-series ultra-wideband radio for ranging and positioning applications. The board includes a 1.3-inch OLED display, dual USB Type-C connections, LiPo battery support, a fuel gauge, and expansion headers, while accompanying Arduino examples cover single- and multi-node UWB ranging. The board is based on […]

Lemonade 11.9 is out today as the newest feature release to this AMD-backed, open-source local AI server solution across Linux, Windows, and macOS. Lemonade has long been focused on offering "100% free and private" AI use with local hardware whether it be GPUs, CPUs, or NPUs. With Lemonade 11.9's release today it's very interesting for having experimental ROCm HRX back-end support with Llama.cpp. HRX is the new exciting thing to watch out for on the AMD ROCm compute landscape...

We get mail: A reader recently suggested we take today's Distro of the Week - Fluff Linux - on a test drive, and we obliged. This American distro based on Arch Linux with the KDE Plasma desktop environment did not disappoint, and was impressive on several levels.