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While we’re talking open source V12N, meet SEAPATH: A new hypervisor for electricity grids backed by Red Hat. The Xen Project has delivered an update to its flagship hypervisor.

Back when Java was still a new programming language, Sun had the idea of building a computer specifically designed for Java, unique processor running byte-code as its native machine code and all.

Quip is a collaborative productivity software package. Quip is proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

In addition to the Radeon RX 9070 series Linux gaming/graphics benchmarks with today's embargo lift, I've also spent some time working on some GPU compute benchmarks for these first RDNA4 graphics cards.

Looks like Two Point Studios and SEGA are onto quite a hit here, with Two Point Museum now available with Native Linux support and a Steam Deck Playable status. It's launched to some incredibly positive reviews from critics and players alike, with an Overwhelmingly Positive score on Steam.

PipeWire 1.4 multimedia framework is here with MIDI2 support, improved Bluetooth, a new JACK control API, DSD playback for ALSA, and more.

The website does a great job 'talking about, reviewing, and keeping up to date with open source operating systems.' Here's why Distrowatch is often misunderstood.

Cybersecurity researchers are alerting of an ongoing malicious campaign targeting the Go ecosystem with typosquatted modules that are designed to deploy loader malware on Linux and Apple macOS systems.

Windows is, by far, one of the most popular operating systems in the world. But this doesn't mean that it's the best, and if you're looking for something more than just a standard operating system, then it might be time for you to give Linux a try. While Linux may not have as many users as Windows, it has a lot of features that just make it astronomically better than Windows in almost every way.

In addition to Vulkan-powered AI / machine learning talks at last month's Vulkanised 2025 conference, another interesting topic at this annual Vulkan developer conference was around improving the Vulkan API and making it easier for new developers and maximizing the potential with new GPU hardware.

LILYGO T-Connect Pro is a DIN rail-mountable, ESP32-S3-based industrial IoT controller with Ethernet, WiFi 4, Bluetooth 5.0 LE, and LoRa connectivity, as well as CAN Bus, RS232, and RS485 interfaces.

Earlier this year Ubuntu announced plans to replace document viewer app Evince with Papers, a modern GTK4/libadwaita fork1 of the former, in Ubuntu 25.04—today, the swap was made official.

An out-of-this-world command line for Linux and MacOS users, Starship is simple to install and customize. I'll show you how.

Remember Digg? The once-upon-a-time go-to site for finding cool things on the internet recommended by an audience of peers? Well, it’s coming back, and owned by one of its original co-founders, along with a co-founder of Reddit.

FerretDB 2.0 open-source document database offers 20x faster performance, MongoDB compatibility, vector search, and more.

ExpressVPN now offers a Linux desktop app with a GUI and several new features. The ExpressVPN CLI experience, as well as the ability to import ExpressVPN's OpenVPN configuration in Network Manager, are still available to customers who do not want a GUI.

Last week AMD formally announced the Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards that will begin shipping tomorrow at $549 for the Radeon RX 9070 and $599 for the RX 9070 XT. Today the review embargo is lifted so we can now share Linux performance benchmarks and more details on the open-source Linux driver support for these first AMD RDNA4 graphics cards.

Users that want to exploit the full power of the terminal may benefit from using a terminal multiplexer. We feature the best multiplexers.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched a new open source tool to detect eavesdropping on cellular networks.

Remember my old Lenovo G50 laptop? Well, it's still around, still working reasonably well. As you may recall, it's got a fabulous eight-boot setup, and I've used it for dozens if not hundreds of distro tests. Currently, the machine runs Windows 10 (which I've not used on this box in three-four years), CentOS 7 and 8, Rocky Linux 8, Manjaro, MX Linux, Fedora, and Ubuntu 20.04.