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The landscape of desktop operating systems has witnessed a notable transformation in 2025. Linux, once considered a niche player, has achieved a significant milestone by capturing 4.7% of the global desktop market share. This achievement underscores a growing trend of users seeking alternatives to traditional operating systems.

Arduino and Red Pitaya have partnered on a hardware bundle and structured curriculum that helps students, educators, and hobbyists advance from basic electronics projects to practical signal analysis and system prototyping. Combining the Arduino Uno R4 WiFi with the Red Pitaya STEMlab 125-14, the kit supports hands-on experiments that link simple interfacing with engineering-grade measurement. […]

Miracle-WM 0.6.0 tiling Wayland window manager lands with rounded corners, runtime display management, smoother animations, and more.

Krita 5.2.10, a free and open-source digital painting app, is out now with critical bug fixes, improved performance, and prep for Krita 5.3 and 6.0.

The first alpha release of PHP 8.5 was issued last week in kicking off the release cycle in working toward the official PHP 8.5.0 release later in the year...

Red Hat’s new dev program, Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Business Developers, gives teams no-cost access to RHEL on 25 systems.

Linux Kernel 6.14 introduces significant enhancements for Intel and AMD processors, focusing on performance, power efficiency, and hardware compatibility. These updates are particularly beneficial for users leveraging the latest CPU architectures and AI-driven workloads.

Wayback began recently as an experimental X11 compatibility layer for non-Wayland desktop environments to leverage Wayland components. While still in early form, the project has already taken off from being a personal GitHub project to now being hosted on FreeDesktop.org alongside other projects such as Wayland and the X.Org Server itself plus other prominent software like Mesa and GStreamer and much more...

Dasharo firmware 1.0.0 is arriving for NovaCustom Linux laptops, bringing stability improvements, bug fixes, and even better Linux integration.

Today, the Amarok development team released Amarok 3.3, the latest stable version of this open-source music player software that brings various new features and bug fixes.

Red Hat this morning went public with RHEL for Business Developers, an expansion of their RHEL Developer Program to make it easier for business developers to make use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux at no-cost for their development efforts...

PhotoPrism’s July 2025 release introduces Ollama AI support, enhanced search capabilities, and a new map-based location tool.

Version 140 has built-in MS Exchange support – and a year's updates ahead The latest version of the messaging client from Mozilla subsidiary MZLA has a bunch of useful new features, and will get updated until mid 2026.…

Fedora Linux 43 aims to speed up boot time and reduce disk usage by switching initrd compression to zstd by default.

It's so heavy that our kitchen scale (0-5KG) refuses to presents a weight; I had to split that up!

There are key security improvements in the Linux kernel as well as new threats. Here are best practices for hardening your Linux systems.

The GNOME Project announced today the release and general availability of GNOME 48.3 as the third maintenance update to the latest GNOME 48 “Bengaluru” desktop environment series.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the July 2025 issue.

Delayed by one week to avoid sharing the same release date as KDE Plasma 6.4.2, KDE Plasma 6.3.6 is here as the last maintenance update to the KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series.

Collabora has introduced Tyr, a new Rust-based Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver for CSF-based Arm Mali GPUs. This step strengthens Rust integration within the Linux kernel community. Tyr is a port of Panthor, a mature C driver for the same hardware, and is developed through a collaboration between Collabora, Arm, and Google to modernize GPU […]