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Plasma 6.3.6 has landed in Debian 13 just a day before the full freeze, giving users the most recent KDE desktop environment from the 6.3 series.

Nextcloud is free and open-source software written in PHP that is used for creating its own cloud storage and file-sharing services. The files are stored in MySQL, MariaDB, or PostgreSQL database management systems and can be synchronized across multiple devices, which makes the process of accessing the files easier.

We are just a few weeks out from seeing the release of the FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library with many new features and improvements for this widely-used open-source software...

Tails 6.18, a privacy-focused Linux distro, adds WebTunnel bridges, making it easier to bypass censorship.

The Register 'UK' is now run by a Microsofter from Directions on Microsoft

With Linux 6.16 expected to be released on Sunday unless an extra week of testing is deemed necessary, the Linux 6.17 merge window will then kickoff the next day. Based on monitoring the various subsystem "-next" trees and other mailing list activity, here is a look at many of the changes expected for Linux 6.17 barring last minute issues or other objections raised by Linus Torvalds...

Last week Friday the unfortunate news came down that Intel was discontinuing their Clear Linux project effective immediately. For the past ten years Intel software engineers have been crafting Clear Linux as a high performance distribution that is extensively optimized for x86_64 processors via aggressive compiler tuning, various patches to the Linux kernel and other packages, and a variety of other optimizations throughout the operating system. For years Clear Linux has led Linux x86_64 performance not only on Intel desktop/mobile/server hardware but on AMD systems too. Here is a final look at the Clear Linux performance on the Intel side compared to the performance of the latest Ubuntu 25.04 release.

Another hit to the open-source Intel software ecosystem this year was the company formally archiving/discontinuing work on the PlaidML deep learning software. PlaidML was the deep learning framework that Intel acquired back in 2018 as part of their acquisition of Vertex.AI. PlaidML had a goal of "deep learning for every platform" but unfortunately those ambitions didn't materialize...

The FreeBSD Laptop project continues – and plans to offer a very visible change FreeBSD 15 is coming, maybe at the end of this year – and along with other improvements, it may finally offer the option of installing with a graphical desktop.…

In recent times, two critical Linux security frameworks, AppArmor and SELinux, have seen noteworthy acceleration in real-world deployment. As Linux continues to anchor enterprise, container, cloud, and desktop systems, these Mandatory Access Control (MAC) tools have crossed threshold events signaling broader acceptance. This article examines those pivotal inflection points, dives into why they matter, and offers reflections on the shifting landscape of Linux security.

Longtime Linux developer Sasha Levin of NVIDIA (and formerly of Google and Microsoft) as well as being the Linux LTS kernel co-maintainer today proposed a Linux kernel AI coding assistant configuration and documentation/rules for contributing to the Linux kernel with patches that are (co)authored by AI coding utilities...

Happy SysAdmin Day! Here's to the Linux wizards who reboot reality, compile order from chaos, and always know where the logs are.

The latest version of systemd looks to be a big one, with substantial new functionality. More to love – right? Like it or not, systemd is the industry-standard init system these days. A new release is coming, and it's a big one.…

The Linux 6.16 kernel is expected to be released as stable this coming Sunday, 27 July, barring any last minute issues that cause Linus Torvalds to have reservations over issuing v6.16 stable and to instead do a v6.16-rc8 test release. With Linux 6.16 imminent, here's a reminder about some of the most interesting features in this next Linux kernel version...

Ever wondered which countries love Arch Linux the most or what desktop environment, browser, or shell its users prefer? Here are the answers.