After spending nearly a week with this distro, our Larry Cafiero tells us that RefreshOS “would be flawless if it wasn’t for the long boot time.”

MariaDB today announced the general availability "GA" release of the MariaDB Community Server 12.0 release. This first MariaDB 12 release brings many exciting enhancements over MariaDB 11 for this open-source database originally derived from MySQL...

Nextcloud’s Digital Sovereignty Index ranks countries by self-hosted tech use, with Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands leading the way in digital independence.

GStreamer 1.26.5 multimedia framework is out now with key bug fixes, improved WebRTC support, and Vulkan tweaks.

Seeed Studio has introduced the XIAO nRF54L15 and XIAO nRF54L15 Sense, two compact boards based on Nordic’s nRF54L15 SoC. They support BLE 6.0, Matter, Thread, and other 2.4?GHz protocols, with potential use in wearables, sensors, and prototypes. Both boards feature a 128?MHz Arm Cortex-M33 core paired with a RISC-V coprocessor, along with 1.5?MB of non-volatile […]

All you need is 24GB of RAM, and unless you have a GPU with its own VRAM quite a lot of patience Hands On Earlier this week, OpenAI released two popular open-weight models, both named gpt-oss. Because you can download them, you can run them locally.…

Learn how to use the timeout command in Bash scripts to prevent infinite loops when waiting for a service to come online.

We now see more rumours or comments about Red Hat layoffs this coming Monday (August 11th, 2025), allegedly directed by IBM

Canonical released today Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS as the third point release to the long-term supported Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series.

Bold, clean, much less legacy tech – and a bit less like old SUSE A release candidate of openSUSE Leap 16.0 is here. It boldly strips out more established legacy tech than almost any other Linux we've seen.…

Mesa 25.2, an open-source OpenGL/Vulkan graphics API implementation, is out with Vulkan 1.4, new panvk features, and bug fixes for games like Ghost of Tsushima and DOTA 2.

Waveshare has introduced the ESP32-P4-WIFI6-DEV-KIT, a new variant of its ESP32-P4 development platform featuring a more compact and integrated layout compared to the earlier ESP32-P4-WIFI6 board. Both models are based on the ESP32-P4 dual-core RISC-V MCU and incorporate the ESP32-C6 to enable Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 (BLE) connectivity via an SDIO 3.0 interface. The […]

NetworkManager 1.54 has been released as the latest stable version of this popular open-source software for managing network connections inside a Linux-based operating system, and also the default network management tool for most GNU/Linux distributions.

PyTorch 2.8 released today as the newest feature update to this widely-used machine learning library that has become a crucial piece for deep learning and other AI usage. There are a few interesting changes worth highlighting with the new PyTorch 2.8 release...

Security hardening and DevOps activities the tipping point It might not be the year of the Linux desktop just yet, but ongoing cyberattacks and a general desire for a more secure posture are driving some businesses to the way of the penguin, according to asset manager Lansweeper.…

Bottles, the go-to app for running Windows software on Linux, just landed surprise funding — right as things looked dire.

Darktable 5.2.1 has been released today as the latest version to this open-source, free, and cross-platform RAW image editor for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH has officially announced the release of Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0, marking a significant milestone for the open-source virtualization platform. Released on August 5, 2025, this major update represents the first stable version of the 9.0 series and introduces substantial improvements across the entire virtualization stack for both home labs and enterprise deployments.

First seen earlier this year, Adafruit has officially launched the Fruit Jam, a compact RP2350B-powered development board. The product mentions that it matches the dimensions of a standard credit card, 3.375 by 2.125 inches (ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1), while providing the functionality of a miniature standalone computer. This device  is powered by the RP2350B, a dual-core […]

4MLinux developer Zbigniew Konojacki announced the release and general availability of 4MLinux 49.0 as the latest stable version of this mini Linux distribution featuring the lightweight JWM window manager.

Learn how the new Linux backdoor Plague uses PAM to silently bypass system login. Understand how it works and its security risks.

Audacity 3.7.5 has been released as a new stable version of this open-source digital audio editor and recording software to improve the stability and reliability of the software.

The AlmaLinux project announced today that there is now "native" NVIDIA graphics driver support for AlmaLinux 10 and AlmaLinux 9 using NVIDIA's open-source kernel modules that are now conveniently packaged in an AlmaLinux repository for easy usage complete with NVIDIA's closed-source user-space packages like CUDA...

On Linux 6.15.3+ there have been increased reports of log tree corruption being hit by users of the Btrfs file-system. Fortunately, a fix has now been submitted for Linux 6.17 Git and then for back-porting to the recent stable kernel versions...

KaOS Linux 2025.07 has been released today as the latest ISO snapshot for this independent Linux distribution built on top of the latest KDE software and featuring Arch Linux’s pacman package manager.

Proton Authenticator is an open source, privacy-focused Authenticator app that lets you securely sync and manage 2FA codes across all your devices—without ads, tracking, or lock-in.

KDE Plasma 6.4.4 fixes crashes in KWin, improves System Monitor behavior, and refines Flatpak handling in Discover.

More evidence that AI expands the attack surface Check Point researchers uncovered a remote code execution bug in popular vibe-coding AI tool Cursor that could allow an attacker to poison developer environments by secretly modifying a previously approved Model Context Protocol (MCP) configuration, silently swapping it for a malicious command without any user prompt.…

Proxmox Virtual Environment 9.0 is out now, featuring Debian 13, LVM snapshot support, SDN Fabrics, and a revamped mobile UI.

The PCI-SIG announced today the PCI Express 8.0 specification due out in 2028 will double the data of the PCI Express 7.0 specification, taking it to 256 GT/s...