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There is some new Wayland protocol support activity this week worth mentioning for both the KDE Plasma and GNOME desktops...

As of today, March 20th, the Serpent OS distribution created by ex-Solus founder and Budgie desktop creator Ikey Doherty changed its name to AerynOS. Here’s what you need to know about this major change!

The LILYGO T-Display K230 is a compact development board targeting IoT and embedded system applications. It features the Kendryte K230 system-on-chip, which includes a dual-core 64-bit RISC-V processor and dedicated units for AI acceleration, graphics rendering, and multimedia processing. The K230 SoC includes two CPU cores: CPU1 operates at 1.6 GHz, while CPU0 runs at […]

Wine 10.4 is out now with better PDB support, Vulkan video decoding updates, bug fixes, and more.

Linux is a powerful operating system favored by developers, system administrators, and power users due to its flexibility and efficiency. However, frequently using long and complex commands can be tedious and error-prone. This is where aliases come into play.

Meanwhile, open source video codec Ogg Theora stirs in its crypt. After a seven-year nap, version 3.0 of FOSS image editor GIMP is arriving with a splash, while a long-dormant open video format wakes from its slumbers and lumbers into beta.…

It's been over three years since the last ReactOS open-source operating system release for this platform working on API/ABI compatibility with Microsoft Windows. Today ReactOS 0.4.15 was finally published...

Did you have time to keep up with the news this week? Here’s your chance to brag… or not. This week there are 11 questions. Good luck!

Ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle a few early pull requests have already been sent in to Linus Torvalds in advance of the anticipated v6.14 release on Sunday. Among those early changes for Linux 6.15 are the SLAB allocator updates that include a fix for cache randomization with kvmalloc inadvertently being inadequate due to accidentally using the same randomization seed...

The Raspberry Pi team has introduced rpi image gen, a new tool for creating custom software images with detailed control over configuration. It is designed for embedded systems, industrial applications, and personalized projects. rpi image gen is an alternative to the existing pi gen tool, which is used to produce the official Raspberry Pi OS […]

Clairvoyant is a simple program that’s like a magic 8-ball inspired fortune teller. It’s free and open source software.

Microsoft's newest open-source contribution to the Linux kernel being proposed is... Hornet, a Linux security module (LSM) for providing signature verification of eBPF programs...

Submitted today ahead of the Linux 6.14 stable release expected Sunday is a lone scheduler fix for the kernel. This patch is for reverting a change made to the Linux kernel two years ago that ended up regressing some workloads with a significant performance hit...

It looks as if the green light is on for another ‘All Things Open AI’ conference in 2026. It’s likely that a firm date will be announced at the big tent All Things Open event in October.

Calibre 8.0 ebook manager adds native KEPUB editing, Kobo firmware support, folder-as-device connections, and major bug fixes.

Following the release of the FRDM i.MX 93 board, NXP has launched the FRDM i.MX 91 development board, a compact platform based on the i.MX 91 applications processor. It is intended for early-stage development and evaluation of industrial and IoT systems that require basic Linux support, integrated connectivity, and hardware-level security. The board features a […]

The Fedora 42 CoreOS Test Week focuses on testing FCOS based on Fedora 42. The FCOS next stream has been rebased on Fedora 42 content. This will be coming soon to testing and stable. To prepare for the content being promoted to other streams, the Fedora CoreOS and QA teams have organized test days from […]

Git 2.49 distributed revision control tool introduces faster packing, smarter cloning, Rust integration, and more.

Calibre developer Kovid Goyal released Calibre 8.0 today as a major update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform ebook manager, viewer, reader, and organizer.

Following a slew of hardware announcements in the past few months like the RP2350 shipping, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, Raspberry Pi Monitor, and Raspberry Pi 500, today they have a new software announcement. Today they formally announced "rpi-image-gen" as a new tool to help customers in crafting customized software OS images...