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One month ago it was exciting to see the open-source ReactOS operating system running Valve's Half-Life game. Little to realize less than 30 days later it would also be running Half-Life 2...

BleachBit 6.0.2 arrives with a new Linux AppImage, cleaners for VS Code, Codium, Cursor, Claude Code, and several Linux-related fixes.

Shelly, the pacman alternative for Arch Linux distributions, has been updated today to version 2.4.1.1, a release that introduces several new features and many improvements, especially for Flatpak/Flathub fans.

Fedora’s top governance body says the Community Initiatives framework no longer provides an effective path for major project goals.

One area of Linux hardware testing I haven't explored much in many years has been modern USB video capture for the lack of said hardware. The last time I did much video capturing on Linux was during the Hauppauge PCI card days. It turns out though that USB video capture of 4K 60 FPS content has been a pain point under Linux but is finally smoothing out with newer versions of the Linux kernel...

Ubuntu temporarily switched cp back to GNU Coreutils after a Rust Coreutils compatibility issue caused livecd-rootfs builds to fail.

Raspberry Pi fans rejoice, there’s a new Ubuntu Budgie port for Raspberry Pi computers featuring, of course, the modern and beautiful Budgie desktop environment and based on the Ubuntu Budgie 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) release.

KDE developers continue polishing Plasma 6.8 with smoother visual effects, a fixed multi-screen crash, and UI refinements.

A set of patches to the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) scheduler that is shared among different kernel graphics drivers is showing the potential of delivering much lower job submission latency when the system is loaded with many runnable CPU processes...

Windows just fell below 60% market share for the first time ever, the same month Linux hit a yearly high. Here’s the full breakdown.

OpenRazer 3.12.4 is now available as the newest update to these out-of-tree, unofficial Linux drivers for Razer devices. OpenRazer when paired with the likes of Polychromatic or other GUI options is what makes for a nice experience running Razer gaming peripherals under Linux...

NetworkManager 1.58 open-source network connection manager for Linux-based operating systems has entered development, and it’s now available for public testing as a major update that promises many new features and improvements.

In working toward the stable GNOME 51 desktop release due out in September, today marks the alpha release of GNOME 51...

Woodpecker CI 3.16.0 lands with workflow concurrency limits, Unix socket support, Prometheus metrics, Kubernetes improvements, and security hardening.

The UPower abstraction layer used for power management on Linux systems, especially laptops and desktops, is out with an important fix today to avoid inadvertently falling back to the laptop battery "fast" charging mode on some laptops that in turn could degrade your laptop battery faster...

The Fedora-based Ultramarine Linux 44 adds a Wayland-based Budgie experience, Plasma 6.7, Taidan installer improvements, and more.

While typically quite rare encountering a GPU reset under Linux in most conditions, currently if encountering one under GNOME your session gets wiped out. But thanks to a Google Summer of Code "GSoC" project this year, GNOME's Mutter compositor is finally seeing real GPU reset recovery handling...

The PorteuX project has officially released PorteuX 2.6, bringing a new round of updates to the lightweight Slackware-based Linux distribution. Designed to be fast, portable, modular, and immutable, PorteuX continues to appeal to users who want a complete desktop operating system that can run efficiently from a USB drive or other removable media. The latest release introduces a newer Linux kernel, improved power management, updated desktop environments, and numerous performance and usability improvements.

NVIDIA's latest Linux kernel mailing list patches are for providing the Device Tree for the baseboard management controller (BMC) of their Vera Rubin VR-NVL server platform. With the Linux kernel patches and also for U-Boot, it's part of the upstreaming effort for supporting the open-source OpenBMC software on their latest hardware...

The GNOME Project announced today the alpha version of the upcoming GNOME 51 desktop environment series for public testing to give the community a first taste of the new features and enhancements.