Debian 13.6 is out today as the newest point release of Debian Trixie to ship the latest security fixes and other maintenance updates...

Linux hardware vendor System76 has pushed the highly anticipated Frosted Glass effect for the COSMIC desktop environment, first to Pop!_OS Linux users and later to everyone else, so here’s a first look.

Microsoft has officially unveiled Azure Linux 4.0, the latest version of its open-source Linux distribution designed for cloud infrastructure, enterprise workloads, and modern data centers. Formerly known as CBL-Mariner, Azure Linux has powered Microsoft's internal cloud services for years, but version 4.0 marks its biggest evolution yet by becoming a general-purpose server operating system that organizations can deploy both inside and outside Azure.

Earlier this week NVIDIA confirmed some basic details around their next-gen Rosa CPU that succeeds Vera. Among the public confirmation was that it will feature a "Rigel" Armv9.2-A core iterating on their Olympus core design. With the basic details published, NVIDIA immediately introduced Rigel core support into the GCC compiler. Now they have also upstreamed their initial Rigel core enablement into the LLVM Clang compiler...

DMS 1.5 introduces Frame Mode, calendar integration, display profiles, and Hyprland Lua configs for a more complete Wayland desktop experience.

After originally announcing Graviton5 last December, recently AWS finally made the M9g and M9gd instances generally available as the first featuring these new in-house ARM server processors for the EC2 cloud. Graviton5 makes use of Arm Neoverse-V3 cores compared to Neoverse-V2 with Graviton4, support up to 192 cores, and feature a higher 3.3GHz clock speed compared to 2.8GHz on the prior-generation Graviton CPUs. Here is an initial look at how the Graviton5 processor performs over Graviton4.

The KDE Project released KDE Frameworks 6.28 today as the latest stable update to this open-source collection of more than 80 add-on libraries to Qt and a companion to the KDE Plasma desktop environment and KDE Gear software suite.

Chatto, a privacy-focused group and team chat platform with voice, video, and screen sharing, is now open source and free to self-host.

With KDE Plasma 6.7 now having seen a few point releases to further polish this last version with X11 support ahead of Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-only, here are some NVIDIA Linux gaming benchmarks between the X11 and Wayland sessions on Plasma 6.7.2 using the popular Arch Linux based CachyOS.

Wine 11.13 is now available with better pointer input handling, improved X11 keyboard scancode mapping, ARM64EC optimizations, and 22 bug fixes.

System76 developers have for the past number of weeks been working on developing a "frosted glass" appearance for the COSMIC desktop environment featured on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution. For Pop!_OS users this frosted glass feature is now available and will become more widespread for other Linux distributions once the next COSMIC release is formally tagged...

This is your friendly reminder that Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” reached the end of its supported life today, July 9th, 2026, and it is no longer supported by Canonical with software and security updates.

Orbitiny Desktop Pilot X brings a brand-new dynamic theming system, panel docking improvements, a redesigned Control Panel, and many X11-focused fixes.

Going back to February there was a bug report around the xHCI controller dieing on resume from s2idle when using an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Framework Desktop. In turn all USB devices behind the xHCI controller are lost on resume, but unbinding and binding the driver can restore the functionality without a reboot. After months of back and forth communication, it looks like a solution has been figured out and comes down to a nuance of the PCI spec with needing a brief wait...

Rust 1.97 is out, enabling the v0 symbol mangling scheme by default on stable, adding Cargo warning controls, and surfacing linker messages.

A dust-up in OpenMandriva’s dev ranks escalates from abusive chats to vanished repositories and a ‘saboteur’ package that threatens Gnome and Cosmic users.

Today's batch of AMDGPU Display Code "DC" updates bring a few noteworthy items for benefiting modern hardware under Linux...

While Wireshark 4.8 is still in the works, Wireshark 4.6.7 has been released today as yet another minor update in the Wireshark 4.6 series of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform network protocol analyzer.

In addition to Weston 16 nearing release and its release candidate out today, the Wayland 1.26 release candidate was just issued with a few notable changes on top of the more typical bug fixing...

CVE-2026-43499, dubbed GhostLock by Nebula Security, exposes a long-standing Linux kernel futex bug that can lead to local root access.