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Incus 6.20 delivers new clustering, storage, and VM enhancements, including reliable snapshots on clustered LVM and improved administration tools.

Two years and a few months after LoongArch 64-bit "Loong64" was added to Debian Ports, it's now been promoted to being an official architecture for Debian Linux...

Debian introduces Debusine repositories, allowing developers to publish PPA-like add-on packages with integrated builds, testing, signing, and snapshots.

In working toward the Wine 11.0 stable release in January, Wine 11.0-rc3 is out today as the latest weekly release candidate...

OpenZFS 2.4 extends Linux kernel compatibility up to 6.18 while supporting FreeBSD 14, 15, and 16, bringing major performance, quota, and storage improvements.

As we have been covering over the past year, major investments have been made to better the outlook for running FreeBSD on laptop hardware. From WiFi driver improvements to enhancing suspend/resume, power management, graphics drivers, and other features, it's been a big undertaking to make FreeBSD work better on laptops. The FreeBSD Foundation calls 2025 as having brought "transformative changes" for the FreeBSD laptop experience...

Fwupd developer Richard Hughes released fwupd 2.0.19 today as the nineteenth maintenance update to the fwupd 2.0 series of this open-source Linux firmware update utility.

The Mageia development team recently met to solidify their plans for releasing Mageia 10 as the next major release of this LInux distribution with its roots that trace back to the days of Mandrake Linux...

Based on the online "rumour mill", Microsoft is already planning the next "megacull"; some workers hope that joining a union will protect them, as we showed some days ago, but in reality those Microsoft employees are a liability to such unions.

In this article, you will learn five ways to follow symbolic (or soft) links to find the original file to which the symbolic link points.

The Mageia team has outlined the Mageia 10 release schedule, including alpha, beta, RC milestones, and a final release planned for April 2026.

Canonical confirmed their Linux kernel plans today for the Ubuntu 26.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release due out in April...

Kdenlive 25.12 was announced as part of the KDE Gear 25.12 open-source software suite as a hefty update to this open-source non-linear video editor for Linux, BSD, macOS, and Windows.

Revived distro returns on Arch with KDE Plasma, global menus, and a familiar macOS-style sheen The new pearOS distro is a Romanian project that picks up the concepts behind the original Pear Linux from 2011 and updates them. It's not going to turn the distro world upside down, but it's fun, interesting, and a showcase for the versatility and customizability of the Linux desktop.…

Linux 6.18 LTS is now the latest stable and long-term supported (LTS) kernel series, and Ubuntu users can install it on their machines via the official Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA archive. Here’s how!

Arch Linux has made its official WSL image fully reproducible, ensuring bit-for-bit identical builds using archived repositories and normalized timestamps.

OpenZFS 2.4 is out as stable in time for the holidays! The big OpenZFS 2.4 feature release is now available for FreeBSD and Linux systems to continue advancing the open-source ZFS file-system support...

Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many. Waterfox, a popular fork of Firefox, is saying nay to AI. Considering how unpopular Mozilla's plan to botify its browser has become, this could win the alternative some converts.…

System76’s Pop!_OS 24.04 lands with the all-new Cosmic Epoch 1 desktop. We installed it and kicked the tires so you know what to expect.

In addition to the release this week of OpenShot 3.4, released today is a major update to another popular open-source video editing application: Kdenlive. The Kdenlive 25.12 release brings many improvements to help with editing of any year-end / holiday videos...