Linus Torvalds continues with his recent uptick in kernel patches himself, assisted in part by AI with Claude Code. Merged today was removing the historical and unsafe __get_user() and __put_user() kernel functions...

KeePassXC 2.8 has been released today as a major update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform password manager for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems, with new features and enhancements.

PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 were just released to fix two critical vulnerabilities that can allow for unauthenticated remote code execution. Server administrators are advised to update immediately...

DietPi 10.8 introduces a WireGuard management tool, named software IDs, HAProxy security improvements, and networking fixes.

siduction 2026.1 (codename Big Crime) has been released today as a major update to this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution featuring some of the latest and greatest technologies and desktop environments.

With Linux 7.3, released this past weekend, Tyr, the Rust driver for Arm Mali GPUs, can now boot the GPU’s firmware using only mainline Rust DRM abstractions. Just six of its roughly 3,700 lines use unsafe Rust, and along the way it’s helping build the Rust foundations that future kernel drivers will rely on.

After significant fanfare, Canonical released Ubuntu 26.10 'Stonking Stingray' to a lukewarm response from the Linux press. But while Ubuntu's latest may not be earth-shattering, its improvements provide the next step in the distro's natural order, as well as a foundation for further improvements to come.

PHP releases emergency security updates addressing two critical vulnerabilities that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution on affected servers.

The SparkyLinux development team unveiled SparkyOS as a modern, portable, rolling release distribution based on Arch Linux and designed to run directly from a USB flash drive.

SparkyOS 2026.10 launches as a portable, Arch-based Linux distro featuring Xfce, Linux kernel 7.2.11, and persistent USB storage.

For those running a Star Labs StarFighter Ultra or other Intel Core Ultra Arrow Lake laptop, the recent Ubuntu 26.10 release is providing some nice performance gains over the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Here is a look at how Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 26.10 performs with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H over dozens of different benchmarks.

KDE Plasma 6.8.1 is out with KWin stability fixes, improved Windows RDP compatibility, and fixes for Discover, Spectacle, and Wayland.

Added to the Linux kernel last year was Coredump support via Unix domain sockets as an alternative to the pipe-based Coredumps. With code now merged for Linux 7.4, the core dumps via sockets has the potential of being much smaller thanks to sparse support. In extreme cases they can be 1% of the size without sparse support...

Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.11 today as the latest stable version of this Rust-based desktop environment for modern GNU/Linux distributions.

An experimental Wine port brings Windows app and gaming support to OpenBSD, with 64-bit applications and even The Witcher 3 running successfully.

Among the many VFS pull requests merged as the initial material for the in-development Linux 7.4, the VFS IOmap pull introduced lazy bounce buffering for checksummed reads. This improvement is benefiting checksumming on XFS with improved performance and lower resource usage...

OpenBSD 8.0 is out with support for 64-vCPU virtual machines, Intel Arc graphics, ARM64 hibernation, and updated DRM drivers.

Intel has long worked on tuning their oneDNN neural network library for their hardware and saw its adoption by PyTorch and other AI frameworks. AMD has maintained ZenDNN as their downstream fork that is oneDNN API compatible while catering to their Zen processor designs. As an interesting twist, AMD and Intel jointly announced today they will be collaborating around oneDNN for PyTorch and pushing the AMD Zen improvements into oneDNN...

In this article, you will learn how to install VSCode on your preferred Linux system, including the top extensions recommended by me.

Miguel Ojeda sent out his pull request of the new Rust kernel code slated for introduction in Linux 7.4. It's a big one this round due to updating the Zerocopy vendored library plus updating other Rust crates for the kernel...