At the beginning of the month was the surprise milestone of AMD posting AMDGPU kernel driver patches for HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support. The HDMI FRL patches have since been updated to also enable HDMI 2.1's Display Stream Compression (DSC) functionality for higher resolutions and higher refresh rates with the open-source AMDGPU driver...

The Debian 14 “Forky” release is about halfway through the development cycle, and more features have surfaced, including support for the LoongArch64 architecture and reproducible builds.

RPM 6.1 RC1 introduces the first test build for the 6.1 package manager series, with updates across macros, builds, signing, and verification.

The SparkyLinux team announced the release and general availability of SparkyLinux 8.3 as the latest stable update in the SparkyLinux 8 “Seven Sisters” series of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution.

Photoflare 1.7 returns after years without a release, adding Qt 6, G’MIC filters, a rewritten canvas engine, and many editing improvements.

Sculpt OS as the general purpose operating system built off the Genode OS Framework is out with a new feature release...

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Parrot OS 7.2, Manjaro 26.1 Preview, Hyprland 0.55, KDE Gear 26.04.1, COSMIC Desktop 1.0.12, Linux kernel killswitch proposed, and more.

Here in Europe, 15 years ago Nokia was a top contributor to Linux (#3). Then Microsoft's Ballmer and Elop infiltrated the company and destroyed it. Nowadays Nokia is a hostile company that lobbies for software patents and infiltrates courts that assess patentability and violate constitutions.

The beta version of the upcoming Audacious 4.6 open-source media player has been released today for public testing with a bunch of exciting new features, new plugins, and many other improvements.

Linus Torvalds just issued the third weekly test candidate of the Linux 7.1 kernel with around a third of the patches being for the networking subsystem...

The 291st installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending May 10th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

Linux 7.0.6 is out as stable this morning to finish mitigating the Dirty Frag vulnerability that was made public last week...

Shelly developer Zoey Bauer released Shelly 2.2.4 today as the latest version of this open-source and free Pacman alternative for Arch Linux, designed with the user in mind, especially newcomers.

With half-way through the Debian 14 "Forky" development cycle, the Debian release team is out with an update this weekend and some big news...

SpacemiT’s Key Stone K3 is a high-performance RISC-V SoC designed for AI and edge computing applications. The processor combines eight X100 64-bit RISC-V CPU cores with eight A100 AI-oriented compute cores, along with multimedia, networking, and high-speed I/O support targeting edge and embedded AI workloads. The CPU subsystem integrates eight X100 RISC-V cores operating at […]

While since GNOME 48 Decibels is the new audio player of the GNOME desktop, there is no shortage of other GNOME/GTK-aligned music players. Last month was the big Amerbol music player update and there are Lollypop and others. The latest GNOME-aligned music player now hitting the 1.0 milestone is Nocturne...

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 is out this week as the latest maintenance release for this tablet/smartphone-focused Ubuntu distribution...

Valve’s second Steam Client update for May 2026 fixes Steam Controller firmware, Steam Input, charging puck, and streaming issues.

Kdenlive 26.04.1 fixes a serious project file vulnerability and ships stability improvements across editing, audio, subtitles, transitions, and project recovery.

Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 on Saturday in order to ship the latest security fixes affecting a wide variety of open-source software projects...