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The long-in-development web-based user interface for the Anaconda installer used by Fedora (and Red Hat Enterprise Linux) continues maturing well and expanding its usage before eventually seeing the Anaconda GTK-based UI deprecated in the future...

After months of work, Valve released today a major Steam Client update that brings goodies for both AMD and NVIDIA Linux gamers, along with new accessibility features, and many other enhancements.

KDE Plasma 6.4.5 lands with bugfixes for KWin, Discover, Plasma Desktop, and more, improving Wayland handling, notifications, and system stability.

Including messages sent to users, a potential problem for the privacy-conscious Encrypted messaging app Signal is rolling out a free storage system for its users, with extra space if folks are willing to pay for it.…

PeerTube 7.3, an open-source, decentralized video platform, adds multilingual emails, new admin tools, easier branding, and live stream scheduling.

The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.4.5 as the fifth maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series to address more of those pesky bugs, crashes, and other issues.

The GNOME desktop environment has taken a significant step back from its controversial X11 deprecation with the release of GNOME 49 Release Candidate, which restores default X11 support in the GDM display manager. This major policy reversal addresses widespread community concerns and ensures better hardware compatibility for Linux users who have struggled with Wayland-only sessions.

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10) downstream AlmaLinux 10 is further distinguishing itself from alternatives by enabling its CRB repository by default. This will be rolling out as an update to AlmaLinux 10.0 and as part of the upcoming AlmaLinux 10.1 point release...

Libreboot officially joins SPI, gaining legal, financial, and community support to strengthen its free, open-source boot firmware project.

Today it is our last part before September 11. Some people won't immediately notice the effect because many GNU/Linux users don't boot every day or several times per day.

FOSS Force’s Marco Fioretti asks LibreOffice’s Italo Vignoli and Collabora’s Naomi Obbard about why their software isn’t used in more schools, and what can be done to turn that around.

ValueLicensing's David spins the sling for another go at the Windows Goliath Microsoft's tussle with UK-based reseller ValueLicensing over the sale of secondhand licenses returns to the UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal this week, with the Windows behemoth now claiming that selling pre-owned Office and Windows software is unlawful.…

Budgie Desktop 10.9.3 brings GNOME 49 compatibility, MediaKeys and Power forks, and bug fixes for Mutter, libxfce4windowing, and Vala.

Why reinvent the CPU wheel when you can spend your time engineering a way out of your dependence on Nvidia? Every quarter, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is asked about the growing number of custom ASICs encroaching on his AI empire, and each time he downplays the threat, arguing that GPUs offer superior programmability in a rapidly changing environment.…

Popular npm packages debug, chalk, and others hijacked in massive supply chain attack Crims have added backdoors to at least 18 npm packages after developer Josh Junon inadvertently authorized a reset of the two-factor authentication protecting his npm account.…

LibreOffice 25.2.6 rolls out with 37 bug fixes, addressing crashes and incorrect formatting across Writer, Calc, and Forms.

With the ttyd command line tool, you can transform your terminal into a live, interactive web app that anyone can access with a link.

The XFS file-system is ready to declare their online file-system checking "fsck" support in good enough shape for enabling by default in new kernel builds. Plus other XFS alterations ahead of Linux 6.18 that is expected to be this year's LTS kernel version...

When using Nginx as a reverse proxy, enabling caching can dramatically improve performance by reducing backend load and speeding up response times. However, there are situations where you may not want to clear the entire cache, but instead only remove a cached copy of a specific page. This guide shows you how to configure Nginx caching, generate cache files, and locate them on disk so you can purge individual items without dropping the full cache.

The KDE project has officially announced the alpha release of KDE Linux, marking a significant milestone in the organization’s expansion beyond desktop environments into full operating system development. This groundbreaking immutable distribution represents KDE’s first official operating system, unveiled at Akademy 2025 and designed to serve as the definitive reference implementation for KDE Plasma and applications.