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For most of the last decade, talk about Wayland on KDE sounded like a promise: stronger security, modern graphics, fewer legacy foot?guns, once the pieces land. With Plasma 6, those pieces finally clicked into place. Plasma 6.1 delivered two changes that go straight to how frames hit your screen, explicit synchronization and smarter buffering, while 6.2 followed with color?management and HDR work that makes creators and gamers care. Together, they turn “Wayland someday” into a desktop you can log into today without caveats.

As £9 billion MoU sparks debate about value for money, it's time to have your say Register debate series It's a lot of money, £9 billion ($12 billion). Especially for a government which finds itself — for whatever reason — in a fiscal dead end.…

The GNU/Hurd project has reached another significant milestone with the release of Debian GNU/Hurd 2025, marking a major advancement for the Free Software Foundation’s vision of a completely free operating system. This release represents years of development work on the GNU operating system using the Hurd microkernel, providing users with a freedom-respecting alternative that embodies the FSF’s core principles of software freedom.

Go 1.25 lands with major toolchain and runtime enhancements, including experimental GC, encoding/json v2, and new testing/synctest support.

This detailed guide walks you through the steps to add, delete, and grant sudo privileges to users in Debian 13 trixie, Debian 12 Bookworm and older versions.

SparkyLinux 8.0 arrives with a Debian 13 base, Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, updated desktops, new tools, and improved installation options.

A change queued in drm-misc-next for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel cycle later this year is promoting the Nouveau driver for open-source NVIDIA GPU support to be using the GSP firmware by default. This reflects the reality that using the NVIDIA GPU System Processor "GSP" firmware with Turing and Ampere GPUs should provide a better experience than the older firmware alternative with Nouveau...

The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 25.08 as the latest stable version of this open-source collection of applications for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and GNU/Linux distributions.

Learn how to migrate from the old sources.list to the deb822 format in Debian 13 trixie. Update your APT sources for better readability, security, and future compatibility.

CachyOS delivers top?tier performance, modern desktop choices, and hassle?free software management — a standout among Arch?based distros.

Oracle released today VirtualBox 7.2 as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform virtualization software for GNU/Linux, Solaris, macOS, and Windows systems.

The folks at iXsystems announced this afternoon that nightly builds of TrueNAS 25.10 are now available for testing of this Linux-based network attached storage (NAS) operating system. With TrueNAS 25.10 there are more performance improvements, improved installation process, initial support for 400GbE networking, and other enhancements to this ZFS-focused platform...

Libre Computer has shared new details on its upcoming Solitude and Alta Compute Modules, designed as pin-compatible alternatives to Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (CM4) and Compute Module 5 (CM5) form factors. The modules are designed for lower power consumption compared to Raspberry Pi CM4 and CM5, with support for low power states and wake […]

The GNOME Project announced today the release and general availability of GNOME 48.4 as the fourth maintenance update to the latest GNOME 48 “Bengaluru” desktop environment series.

The xf86-input-mouse driver for mouse support when using the X.Orrg Server on operating systems like the BSDs, Illumos, GNU Hurd, and Solaris is out with a rare update...

Nevermind the errors, we've had it with "You're absolutely right!" Developers using Anthropic's Claude Code wish that the AI coding assistant would stop being so effusively supportive.…

SR-IOV for virtualization with the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver will only be supported on the Arc Pro products and -- unfortunately -- not the consumer Arc B-Series graphics cards...

Arch Linux introduces Bumpbuddy, a new tool that automatically tracks upstream releases and flags outdated packages for maintainers.

Go 1.25 is out today as the newest half-year update to this popular programming language. What I find most exciting with Go 1.25 is the new experimental garbage collector yielding 10~40% reduction in overhead...

Kaisen Linux 3.0 lands with a Debian 13 “Trixie” base, but it’s also the last release, as the project officially shuts down.