KaOS Dinit 2026.06 arrives as the first stable ISO after the project’s systemd-to-Dinit transition reached its final stage.

While the Linux 7.2 merge window doesn't wrap up until this weekend as the feature cut-off for new material, I have already begun some early benchmarks of the code currently staged for this next version of the Linux kernel. Linux 7.2 already was looking quite exciting with cache aware scheduling and other exciting new features while an unexpected surprise in my early testing this week was seeing some local network/socket performance improvements...

Brave Origin is a minimalist Brave edition that costs $59.99 on other platforms but is free for Linux users.

Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.1 today as the latest stable version of this Rust-based desktop environment for Pop!_OS Linux and other GNU/Linux distributions.

Canonical Livepatch now supports Arm64 systems, reducing urgent reboot needs for Ubuntu servers, cloud, and edge devices.

GNU nano 9.1 (codename “met een hongerig paard aan ons been“) has been released today as the latest stable version of this popular, free, and open-source command line editor for Linux.

For those that happen to still be running a 22+ year old Apple Power Mac such as those from 2004 with an IBM PowerPC processor and ATI Radeon 9600 XT or 9800 XT graphics, there are open-source driver improvements for Linux still happening in 2026 to benefit this vintage hardware...

DokuWiki’s next release is expected to add native Markdown parsing, giving users an alternative to its long-standing wiki syntax.

Merged for Linux 7.1 was ARMM64 NEON-accelerated CRC64-NVMe support for around 6x the performance out of that checksumming algorithm. The generic code had been a bottleneck in NVMe and other storage subsystem code of the Linux kernel with CRC64-NVMe being used to help verify against data corruption. Now for Linux 7.2, the NEON-accelerated code will also work for those still relying on 32-bit ARM...

OBS Studio 32.2 has entered public beta testing today as the second update in the latest OBS Studio 32 series of this powerful, open-source, cross-platform, and free video recording and live streaming software.

The open-source world waited long enough for the GIMP 3.0 release that finally came last year with its GTK3 port and more, but for those with time on their hands this weekend and want to relive GIMP's past from long ago, GIMP 0.54 has been adapted for Flatpak to work on modern Linux desktops. What makes this version of GIMP from 1996 notable is that it was the last to use the Motif toolkit...

The new Home Assistant OS release adds faster disk image flashing, VM image improvements, and updated Linux kernel support.

In addition to open-source developer Namjae Jeon serving as maintainer for the new NTFS Linux driver, he also continues serving as maintainer to the exFAT file-system for that other Microsoft file-system popular with removable storage media...

Valve’s new Steam Machine runs SteamOS, bringing Linux-powered PC gaming back to the living room in a compact console-like form.

Google Antigravity with the Gemini 3.5 Flash model helped a Linux user sort out a situation where his laptop was taking around 36 seconds to boot the kernel, which shouldn't be the case for the high-end laptop with AMD Ryzen 9 processor and 32GB of RAM. It ended up being yet another case of device firmware issues, but now a Linux kernel patch is pending for working around the issue on the ASUS ROG Strix G16 G614 laptop while discussions are ongoing in getting the vendor to provide a proper firmware fix...

Epic Games has open-sourced Lore, a Rust-based version control system built for massive game and media projects with large binary assets.

Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. Given all the performance improvements and this being the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag on the file-system, I decided to fire up some benchmarks looking at how the Bcachefs file-system performance has changed with this new version.

The RealSense D585 Pro is a stereo depth camera for robotics and industrial vision applications that uses the company’s Gen 5 vision processor. The camera combines wide-field depth sensing, on-camera processing, IP65 protection, and support for software-defined perception features through the RealSense SDK. The camera uses a custom RealSense V5 SoC with a depth engine, […]

Xfce’s new Wayland compositor, xfwl4, reaches its first preview release and is now ready for wider alpha testing.

Darktable 5.6 has been released today as the latest version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform RAW image editor for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.