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The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS had a busy month of June with a number of enhancements made to this OS. Haiku just published their convenient monthly recap that highlights all of the interesting changes made the past month to this open-source OS...

GParted Live 1.7.0-8 has been released today for this open-source and free partition manager utility that lets you resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss, based on the popular GParted (GNOME Partition Manager) application.

As we approach the stable Linux 6.16 kernel release later this month, Linux 6.16-rc6 is out today as the newest weekly test candidate...

The 248th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on July 13th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

The HH-SCDAYU800A is another RISC-V development board built around the Alibaba T-Head TH1520 system-on-chip. With its dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, multiple camera interfaces, and industrial-grade design, the board targets applications requiring multimedia features, edge inference, and smart device integration. This board is implemented by RunKaiHong Digital Tech, a company based in Nanjing, China, though little […]

Ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release due out later today, an x86/urgent pull request was sent out today that includes some fixes for old AMD Zen 2 hardware...

The CachyOS developers released today the ISO snapshot for July 2025 for this popular Arch Linux-based distribution targeting personal computers and handheld devices.

Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, too Comment The new fork of the X.org X11 server is conservative… and we don't mean just technologically conservative.…

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development recap of all interesting things and fixes merged for the week to Plasma...

With the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) release, Canonical plans to achieve a fully functional desktop session on the RISC-V architecture.

NVIDIA software engineers ended out the week by releasing a new beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) SDK. The RTXNTC software is NVIDIA's interesting solution for compressing material texture sets with very promising results for helping to reduce game data sizes moving forward...

Calibre 8.6 open-source e-book manager now defaults to AZW3 for Kindle, retires MOBI, and boosts database restore speeds.

Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release a number of Bcachefs file-system fixes were merged...

Tell me, Mr. Smith ... what good is an agent if it's unable to speak? We have protocols and standards for just about everything. It's generally helpful when we can all agree on how technologies should talk to one another. So, it was only a matter of time before the first protocols governing agentic AI started cropping up.…

The GStreamer project released the first development version of the upcoming GStreamer 1.28 stable series of this widely used open-source multimedia framework for handling audio and video streams.

In addition to Intel preparing Bartlett Lake S EDAC driver support for Linux 6.17, several other recent and upcoming Intel processors are also set to see Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) driver coverage with this next version of the Linux kernel...

KDE ISO Image Writer is being revamped with QML and Kirigami for a more modern KDE-aligned UI, including a new ISO selection interface.

Labwc 0.9 window-stacking Wayland compositor lands with wlroots 0.19 support, new terminal integration, theme upgrades, and numerous fixes.

Design stunning 3D-style isometric infrastructure diagrams with FossFLOW. Open Source, Privacy, Offline Access and No Cloud Dependency!

KDE ships Frameworks 6.16 with updated icons, enhanced Python support, and fixes in Baloo, KIO, Kirigami, and more.