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Wine 10.13 improves gaming with a new joystick panel, adds advanced crypto algorithms, and enhances Windows runtime support.

The Ubuntu Release Management Team is pursuing a new concept called "Dangerous" Desktop Images that will ship leading-edge Snaps atop the latest Ubuntu daily development images...

Snap and Flatpak package manager let you install and update apps quickly, no matter which Linux distribution you’re on.

LibreELEC 12.2 is out with Kodi Omega 21.2, updated kernels for better Intel and Raspberry Pi support, and the removal of the legacy Nvidia driver.

A tiny model trained on trillions of tokens, ready for specialized tasks Google has unveiled a pint-sized new addition to its "open" large language model lineup: Gemma 3 270M.…

The performance-tuned CachyOS takes the crown from Linux Mint, topping DistroWatch’s ranking for the most popular Linux distribution.

TeejeeTech takes Trixie, adds considerably more polish, yet comes in lighter Teejeetech turns its attention from Ubuntu to its progenitor. The result is a refined and attractive spin of Debian with Xfce.…

Before you start wondering about that age — yes, that’s 100000 in binary, or 0x20 years in hexadecimal. And as we all know, round numbers simply look cooler. ???? Debian was founded on 1993-08-16, which makes today our 0x20 anniversary.

While the Raspberry Pi 5 is a great and popular Arm single board computer, some elements of getting the hardware support upstream have lagged behind just as was also the case with prior generations of the Raspberry Pi SBC. One of the enablement bits now inching its way toward the mainline kernel is Ethernet support on the Raspberry Pi 5...

Arch Linux’s AUR users have experienced downtime in recent days after a DDoS attack. Maintainers are investigating and working on restoring the service.

The GNOME 49 beta release is out this Friday evening as the next stepping stone on the path to GNOME 49 in September. Making the GNOME 49 Beta release even more notable is that it's the 28th birthday of GNOME...

Discover how curl, a small open-source tool, is built into hundreds of millions of cars, including models from the world’s top 47 car brands.

SparkyLinux 8.0 has been released today as one of the first distributions to be based on the recently released Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series.

Meanwhile, the clock's ticking for the previous FOSS Redis Redis 8.2 is FOSS again, albeit under a different license, and has multiple performance enhancements. Meanwhile, Redis 7.2, the last of the old FOSS versions, is nearing its end of life. New version, or new Valkey?…

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.