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Mark Calendar today! After much anticipation and careful development, the Debian Release Team has announced the planned release date for Debian 13 Trixie.

'Industry, national governments, and the EU' must pay for maintainers. El Reg says charity shouldn't start at home GitHub, owned by money-bags Microsoft, has called upon the European Union to create a publicly funded "Sovereign Tech Fund" (EU-STF) to boost the open source software ecosystem.…

In addition to Blender 5.0 supporting HDR on Linux when using the Vulkan API and with Wayland, another important high dynamic range (HDR) milestone landed this week into Blender: the ability to both import and export HDR videos...

Complete with new website – but the software's still alpha level stuff, so be careful Wayback 0.1 is out, the first preliminary release of the new Wayland display server whose announcement we reported a few weeks ago.…

The upcoming FreeBSD 15 release will include a built-in option to install a full KDE Plasma desktop directly from its installer.

The Debian wiki is set to get a revamp as the project transitions to MediaWiki, leaving behind the aging MoinMoin platform.

Solution proposed below is forcing installation /usr/bin/hyprpaper on Tumbleweed which breaks dependencies ( official option 2 ) and creating manually a soft link libhyprutils.so.6 -> libhyprutils.so.0.8.1 under folder /usr/lib64 . We intend to start with source-install of hyprpaper-0.7.1-2.6.src.rpm . . .

Immich 1.136 brings a major breaking change to media paths—users with relative paths must update to absolute paths and run a database migration tool.

Unconventional, opinionated, and undeniably unique — Rhino Linux might change the way you see your desktop. Or at least keep you guessing.

One of the CPU architectures continuing to be supported by the mainline Linux kernel but rarely ever seeing any code activity is the SPARC64 architecture port for the once-interesting processors from Sun Microsystems...

Learn how to fix Docker's "Invalid Reference Format" error by understanding image naming rules, tags, variables, and syntax.

PipeWire 1.4.7 multimedia framework is out now, offering improved echo cancellation latency handling, enhanced resampling, and more.

The Zed open-source code editor that is written in Rust, has begun supporting Linux rather well, and has continued tacking on new features to assist developer workflows has introduced another new feature: the ability to easily disable all AI features...

Privilege escalation in Linux has always walked a tightrope between convenience and risk. sudo allows users to perform tasks as root without sharing the root password—intuitive, powerful—but also a high-value target for exploits rooted in memory safety bugs. Ubuntu is now pioneering a transition: replacing the traditional C-based sudo with sudo'rs, a Rust-powered rewrite engineered for safer root handling.

OPNsense 25.7 open-source firewall and routing platform is out now, featuring a refreshed frontend, SFTP backups, and FreeBSD 14.3 under the hood.

Systemd 257 debuted last December and now finally systemd 258 is preparing to roll out... Systemd 258-rc1 was issued today as the first test release toward this next major release. It's a big one with more than 260 changes noted in the announcement, including multiple new tools and other additions...

In this video I try to customize the standard KDE plasma Endeavour OS into a futuristic theme using the materials provided on the KDE site, so there is nothing to download outside the theme settings other than the wallpaper.

LILYGO has unveiled the T-Watch Ultra, a multifunctional smartwatch platform that integrates wireless connectivity, location tracking, long-range communication, and intelligent motion sensing in a compact form. Built around the Espressif ESP32-S3, the device is targeted at developers working on embedded, wearable, and remote sensing applications. The ESP32-S3 used in the T-Watch Ultra features a dual […]

FreeBSD 15.0 aims to introduce a KDE desktop installation option, allowing users to boot directly into a graphical login with minimal setup required.

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