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Valve released today a new stable Steam Client update that introduces more improvements for the new Steam Controller, especially for Linux users, as well as various other improvements and the usual bug fixes.

Eric Engestrom announced the release of Mesa 26.0.8 today as the latest stable point release of that Q1'2026 driver series and the last planned update for that stable series...

Krita 6.0.2 digital painting app arrives with Qt 6 changes, while Krita 5.3.2 remains the recommended build for production work.

Canonical's kernel team confirmed today their intention of shipping the Ubuntu 26.10 release with what will be the Linux 7.2 kernel...

As Colorado and California move age verification to the OS layer, exemptions for open source determine whether Linux desktops stay free of mandatory age-gating.

NVIDIA on Tuesday released CUDA 13.3 as another significant advancement for their unified GPU programming stack for NVIDIA hardware...

The Document Foundation details its plan for LibreOffice on the web and mobile, with WebAssembly, mobile GUI work, and collaboration tests.

The Raspberry Pi hardware monitoring driver "RASPBERRYPI-HWMON" is being extended to allow exposing voltage measurements on these ARM single board computers...

PeerTube 8.2 introduces channel ownership transfers, live stream catch-up support, Studio editing improvements, and admin updates.

AlmaLinux rolls out 9.8 and 10.2 side by side, pairing new compiler and language stacks with security fixes and an ALESCo?approved kernel backport that arrives ahead of the RHEL upstream.

ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" project working to implement binary compatibility for computer programs and drivers for Microsoft Windows now has experimental support for running on 64-bit ARM...

Mozilla released Firefox 151.0.2 today as the second minor maintenance update to the latest Firefox 151 web browser to address various bugs and improve some of the browser’s features for a better experience.

The AlmaLinux project announced the releases today of both AlmaLinux OS 9.8 and AlmaLinux OS 10.2...

COSMIC Desktop 1.0.14 brings DDC/CI brightness support, text previews in COSMIC Files, VPN fixes, and better X11 game handling.

It looks like Google's Chromium Embedded Framework "CEF" could finally be enjoying nice native Wayland support soon!..

Modos has launched the Crowd Supply campaign for the Flow, a 13.3-inch e-paper monitor designed for reading, writing, browsing, and other document-focused workflows. The display uses E Ink technology and is offered in monochrome and color variants, with touch support, USB Type-C connectivity, and an open-hardware design. The display features a 13.3-inch panel with a […]

NVIDIA's Vera data center CPU isn't ramping up until later this year but I recently had the opportunity to try out this new ARM-based CPU designed for agentic AI workloads. NVIDIA's Vera CPU with its in-house-designed Olympus CPU cores ends up packing a heavy-hitting punch with competitiveness to Intel/AMD x86_64 CPUs that I have never seen out of any other ARM or non-x86_64 processors. Continue on with these early benchmarks of the NVIDIA Vera CPU on Linux.

Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.0.14 today as the latest stable update to this Rust-based desktop environment used by default on the Pop!_OS Linux distribution.

NVIDIA released today the NVIDIA 610 series of their graphics driver for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems with various new features and improvements, as well as the usual bug fixes.

GlobalPlatform announced today the launch of Pavona as an open-source silicon ecosystem backed by founding members such as Meta, Qualcomm, Tenstorrent, Winbond, and the University of Oxford, among others...