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...

Tor Browser 15.0 has been released today by the Tor project as the latest stable version of this open-source, cross-platform, and free web browser designed to protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship using the Tor anonymous network.

Following Canonical announcing plans to better support NVIDIA CUDA on Ubuntu Linux and make it easier to install as well as SUSE better supporting CUDA along similar lines, Red Hat today affirmed their plans to do the same. Red Hat will be making it easier to use the NVIDIA CUDA stack across RHEL, Red Hat AI, and OpenShift products...

Fedora Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. If you want to rebase to Fedora Linux 43 on your Fedora Silverblue system, this article tells you how. It not […]

Upgrade your system easily from Fedora Linux 42 to 43 with this step-by-step guide covering both GUI and command-line methods.

Like other programming languages, bash provides you with the option to ignore a single line, inline, or a block of lines from execution.

The Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative has uncovered three more security vulnerabilities affecting the X.Org Server and the derived XWayland source code...

Below are a few noteworthy changes in the latest release of Fedora Workstation that we think you will love. Upgrade today from the official website, or upgrade your existing install using GNOME Software or through the terminal with dnf system-upgrade. GNOME 49 Fedora Linux 43 Workstation also ships with the brand-new GNOME 49 release, bringing […]

Tor Browser 15.0 introduces vertical tabs, tab groups, and improved privacy tools based on the new Firefox ESR 140.

Microsoft today released Azure Linux 3.0.20251021 as the latest update to their in-house Linux distribution...

100,000 Blackwell GPUs and 2,200 exaFLOPs make for a big system The US Department of Energy is partnering with Nvidia and Oracle to build seven new AI supercomputers to accelerate scientific research and develop agentic AI for discovery. Two of these systems, located at Argonne National Laboratory, will together form the DOE's largest AI supercomputing infrastructure.…

Fedora 43 is released today! If you already using Fedora 42, you can safely upgrade your Fedora 42 system to the Fedora 43 version using the DNF system upgrade plugin.

Fedora Linux 43 lands with Wayland-only GNOME, RPM 6.0, Python 3.14, DNF5-powered installer, and an upgraded GNU Toolchain with GCC 15.2 and glibc 2.42.