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The Linux 6.19 kernel remains on track for its official release two weeks from today, with the extra RC being baked in due to the end of year holidays. Out today is Linux 6.19-rc7 with a few changes worth highlighting for the week...

Arch-based CachyOS's January 2026 update lands with a reworked installer, Wayland Live ISO, Plasma Login Manager, and gaming and hardware improvements.

In the absence of any official GUI control panel from AMD or Intel for their graphics cards on Linux, LACT remains a popular choice particularly for AMD Radeon Linux gamers/enthusiasts to manage various aspects of their GPU from a convenient UI. LACT also supports Intel GPUs and some features on NVIDIA GPUs too. Out today is LACT 0.8.4 for further enhancing this third-party GPU driver user interface...

Because Deepin is Debian-based, we would use the linux-cachyos-deb tool provided by the community to generate compatible .deb files. See for instance https://itsfoss.com/news/cachyos-kernel-builder/ . Notice also that current Deepin's modules names and dependencies appear to be the same as on Debian 13.3 at least during attempt to setup KVM Hypervisor, Libvirtd service and related tools as virt-manager.

Bottles 61 introduces Eagle, a new analysis tool that deeply inspects Windows executables to improve Wine and Proton compatibility on Linux.

The Focusrite Forte 2-in, 4-out USB audio interface as a portable audio recording solution will be supported by the mainline Linux 7.0 kernel. The patches are queued in the Linux kernel's sound subsystem development tree. While a convenient little device, the Focusrite Forte is no longer manufactured but can still be found used online...

The GIMP project released GIMP 3.0.8 today as the latest stable update in the GIMP 3.0 series of this widely used open-source, cross-platform, and free image manipulation program.

Servo 0.0.4 is out today as the newest monthly update to this open-source, Rust-based web browser engine. Building off recent Servo embedding API additions, Servo 0.0.4 introduces support for multiple browser windows...

Bernand Lambeau, the human half of a pair programming team, explains how he's using AI feature Bernard Lambeau, a Belgium-based software developer and founder of several technology companies, created a programming language called Elo with the help of Anthropic's Claude Code.…

With Incus 6.21, users get a new incus wait command, smarter SR-IOV NIC handling, and stronger access controls.

There's yet another new Linux file-system on the block: DAXFS has been announced as a new read-only open-source file-system...

Wine 11.1 arrives with 22 bug fixes, resolving crashes and regressions affecting games, installers, and popular Windows applications.

While the GIMP 3.2 release is expected out soon, GIMP 3.0.8 is available tonight as what could end up being the last set of bug fixes for GIMP 3.0...

The developers of the Arch Linux-based CachyOS distribution have released a new ISO snapshot today, for January 2026, which brings the latest package updates, new features, and various improvements.

In addition to AMD releasing the Ryzen AI Software 1.7 release on Friday, they also published a new version of their MLIR-AIE compiler toolchain for targeting AMD Ryzen AI NPU devices with this LLVM-based MLIR-focused stack...

Pangolin 1.15 introduces iOS and Android apps, device approvals, and stability improvements for zero-trust private access.

Discover a step-by-step tutorial for downloading YouTube audio and video on Linux from the command line using yt-dlp.

Innodisk, in collaboration with Qualcomm Technologies, has released the EXEC-Q911, a ruggedized development kit built around a COM-HPC Mini module mounted on a dedicated carrier board for industrial edge workloads. Part of the company’s “AI on Dragonwing” series, the platform targets robotics, smart infrastructure, and edge LLM applications. The compatible COM-HPC Mini Module EXMP-Q911 is […]

Ntfy 2.16, a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service, adds support for updating and deleting notifications, along with long-requested heartbeat alerts.

Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library "glibc" was released on Friday evening as the newest half-year feature update. This is a very feature packaged update and even managed to be released ahead of the 1 February release plan...