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Following Hector Martin stepping down from the Asahi Linux project that he founded for bringing Linux to Apple Silicon hardware, Asahi Lina announced today that she is pausing work on all of the Apple GPU driver development she had been pursuing for Asahi Linux with the open-source DRM kernel driver as well as Mesa contributions.

Ubuntu-based elementary OS 8.0.1 rolls out with faster search, better AppCenter handling, improved Files and Terminal features, and more.

Imagine that you are a maintainer of a widely used open source project relied upon by developers worldwide. Being a maintainer means, that you get to decide which contributions by external contributors get accepted.

To help users switching from Adobe PhotoShop, PhotoGIMP project updated today with support for the new GIMP 3.0 image editor.

War Thunder has been updated with the first major expansion of 2025. Titled Hornet’s Sting it adds in Ray Tracing support for AMD and Intel GPUs. There's but coming though.

A big Vivaldi web browser update is rolling out with a set of appreciable improvements long-time users will like, and would-be users may be tempted to try.

What if we told you that the person who pushes Rust into Ubuntu (to replace GNU) comes from the Army, where he worked on mass surveillance, according to himself? He later went into the same industry the former CEO of Canonical had come from. His Web site says that he: "Architected and built multiple high-end bespoke Electronic Surveillance capabilities."

BLAKE3 as the cryptographic hashing function that is much faster than the likes of SHA-1/SHA-1 while being more secure than SHA-1 and MD5 is out with a new feature update. BLAKE3 v1.7 is now available for the official C and Rust code as the reference implementations to this cryptographic hash function.

The Linux Terminal app was an unexpected but welcome addition to Android. Now, a Google developer confirms that the Linux Terminal isn't intended to provide a desktop experience. It simply brings Linux apps into the Android ecosystem.

The Blender Foundation announced today the release and general availability of Blender 4.4 as a major update to this powerful, free, cross-platform, and open-source 3D graphics and modeling software.

Tall order for tiny marketshare techies but 'This is the moment to decide what kind of internet we want,' says CEO. A new, speedier browser has arrived in the form of Vivaldi 7.2, giving its CEO the opportunity to protest the power of tech giants.

Blender 4.4 open-source 3D creation suite introduces slotted actions, revamped animation tools, GPU performance upgrades, and more.

Citrix Wrike is a collaborative work management solution. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

Hopefully leading to more timely updates to the Zstd compression code within the Linux kernel is a decision to add on a co-maintainer of the in-kernel Zstandard code.

Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems.

Nearly 30 years after its first release, the open source Java programming language is continuing to improve. Today Java 24 becomes generally available, bringing with it substantial improvements across language features, libraries, security, and runtime performance. The latest release contains exactly 24 Java Enhancement Proposals (JEPs), coincidentally matching the version number, along with approximately 3,500 additional fixes and improvements.

The iMX8MP-SOM-4GB-IND is a system on module developed by Olimex, designed for use in industrial applications, machine learning, and machine vision. It operates within an industrial-grade temperature range of -45 to +85°C, which makes it suitable for environments with extreme conditions.

PeerTube 7.1 open-source decentralized video platform released with improved podcast support, better playback stability, and more.

Today, the Fedora Project announced the beta version of the upcoming Fedora Linux 42 release for public testing to give us a glimpse of the new features and report potential bugs.

Theora is Xiph.Org's first released video codec designed for use with Ogg. Theora started out based on the VP3 codec. It's been over 16 years since the release of the libtheora 1.0 reference software implementation and tagged this week was libtheora 1.2 beta.