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With today's AI/LLM capabilities, there is almost a new operating system heard about each week "coded from scratch" predominantly via AI agents. This week was no exception with another project hitting our email inbox. Though most of them are open-source, this one is closed-source in the name of security…

This guide covers the two ways to run Linux on a Chromebook, ten distros worth your time, and the checks that save you a wasted afternoon.

An unfinished Collabora trial has been cast as an open source failure. The timeline tells a different story.

Spooky season is officially upon us. Check out this self-playing Ouija board built by one of our colleagues.

If you run your own music streaming server via Jellyfin or Navidrome/Subsonic, you’ll want a decent desktop player – Gelly is a solid choice for GNOME. It bills itself as “native, lightweight music player” for the aforementioned streaming servers (and compatible ones). It’s written in Rust and GTK4/libadwaita and, as a good players should, it lets you browse, play and control music playback.…

Yay 13.1 improves dependency resolution performance, package search accuracy, repository handling, and Lua scripting capabilities.

Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers unveiled today the 15th generation (Gen15) of the TUXEDO Nano Pro mini PC powered by an Intel CPU and featuring full Linux support.

A change merged for Linux 7.4 is showing some mighty big speed-ups for the FAT32 file-system…

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 26.8.2 as the second maintenance update to the latest and greatest LibreOffice 26.8 office suite series with compatibility and text import improvements.

For those curious how NVIDIA Vera is scaling between single and dual socket deployments, here are some benchmarks I carried out a while back exploring the power and performance from one to two Vera CPUs.

Core Desktop could run apps that can’t run natively in a sandbox, while linux-firmware-hwe is proposed as a safeguard against newer firmware causing problems.

Fedora 45 is ready to ship! It will be formally released on Tuesday, 3 November…

The Nano Pro Gen15 is a compact Linux mini PC powered by Intel’s Core Ultra X7 358H processor with integrated Arc B390 graphics. Developed by TUXEDO Computers, the system supports up to 128GB of DDR5 memory, dual NVMe SSDs, four 4K displays, and dual 2.5GbE connectivity. It can be used for software development, local AI…

Once more, with feeling: 'First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you'

The Tor project released Tor Browser 16.0 today as a major update to this open-source, cross-platform, and free web browser designed to protect you against tracking, surveillance, and censorship using the Tor anonymous network.

The KDE Project has released KDE Plasma 6.8.2, delivering another round of stability improvements for its Wayland-based Linux desktop environment. Released on October 27, 2026, the update arrives one week after Plasma 6.8.1 and two weeks after the anniversary release of Plasma 6.8, which marked 30 years since the KDE project's founding. This second maintenance release concentrates on correcting…

Australian company Rapid Analysis has launched a new Kickstarter campaign for its Xerxes Home Lab platform, featuring updated carrier boards for Raspberry Pi Compute Modules and NVIDIA Jetson systems. The lineup includes the Xerxes Pi 2026, Xerxes Nano, and an RK3566-based compute module, targeting home servers, embedded systems, and local AI applications. The campaign follows…

openEuler is pushing for a developer focused Linux distro with AI at its core. From PolyMind to Witty, the AI agents are part of the package.

From the practicalities of everyday life to creative endeavours, Raspberry Pi power is behind hundreds of products.

Discover a blazingly fast browser built on Firefox, offering high customizability options similar to Vivaldi in comparison to Chrome.