Bad legislation, but an especially big headache for FOSSMany web sites, social media services, and other platforms require age verification on the theory that it will protect kids from seeing inappropriate content. But now some US states want to require the operating system itself to check your age and that could cause big headaches for FOSS vendors.…

TUXEDO unveils the InfinityBook Max 16 AMD, a powerful Linux laptop with Ryzen AI 300 processors, RTX 50 graphics, a 300 Hz display, and up to 128 GB RAM.

A pull request sent out today and already merged to Linux Git ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.0-rc3 has some new hardware driver support additions for the likes of ASUS, HP, Dell, and OneXPlayer...

Today, Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers launched a new variant of the TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 16 Gen10 Linux laptop with an AMD Ryzen AI 9 CPU instead of an Intel CPU.

With Markdown support, syncing across devices, and end?to?end encryption, Lockbook makes it easy to keep your Linux notes organized and locked down.

The Linux From Scratch project has released LFS 13.0 and BLFS 13.0, featuring updated packages, the 6.18.10 kernel, and a systemd-only build.

The big NetBSD 11.0 release continues on approach with NetBSD 11.0-RC2 having been released as the latest test candidate...

Polish embedded systems company Grinn has introduced the ReneSOM-V2H, described as the world’s smallest SoM based on the Renesas RZ/V2H processor. Measuring 37 × 42.6 mm, the module targets edge AI and vision-based systems such as smart cameras, robotics platforms, and industrial inspection devices. The ReneSOM-V2H integrates the RZ/V2H processor with a heterogeneous architecture featuring […]

GNOME 50.rc was christened today as the release candidate for the GNOME 50 desktop...

Too many interesting and relevant issues are touched upon in one short video and in particular the issue related with KaOS decision to transition away from systemd to regain independence and control over the core of its operating system.

Rocky Linux has become a KDE patron, joining organizations like Canonical, Google, and SUSE in supporting the KDE open-source ecosystem.

With a number of file-system improvements in Linux 6.19 and more file-system optimizations in Linux 7.0, it's past due for running some fresh file-system benchmarks. Here is a look at how the prominent file-system contenders are performing on the latest Linux 7.0 development kernel.

Alarm bells are ringing in the open source community, but commercial licensing is also at riskEarlier this week, Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new version of the library under a new software license.…

System76 published a statement today regarding the recent laws coming about in California and likely Colorado and New York too around requiring age verification on operating system accounts and ultimately exposing the information (or at least age brackets) to apps and websites. System76's position is interesting given that they sell Linux-loaded desktops, workstations and laptops plus being an operating system vendor with their in-house Pop!_OS distribution and COSMIC desktop environment...

KDE Gear 25.12.3 apps collection is out with numerous bug fixes across apps including Kdenlive, Kate, KDE Connect, NeoChat, and Okular.

The layoffs and restructuring at Intel in 2025 caused unfortunate hits to their Linux/open-source engineering including various driver maintainers leaving and even their CPU temperature driver being orphaned for lack of maintainers. Sent out today were a number of additional updates to the MAINTAINERS file for the Linux kernel to reflect other Intel departures in recent months. Plus some of the Altera drivers have also been orphaned now for having no upstream maintainers...

NVIDIA released today the beta version of the NVIDIA 595 graphics driver for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems, introducing various new features and improvements.

Debian Project Leader "DPL" Andreas Tille provided an update today on various happenings within the project and personal reflections on some recent topics. Among the topics in today's DPL updates were around AI contributions, Debian's need to become more diverse with its contributors, and needing more "thank yous" to show appreciation for contributions...

The Armbian project has released Armbian 26.02, the latest update to the lightweight Linux distribution designed specifically for ARM and RISC-V single-board computers (SBCs). Known for its stability and hardware optimization, Armbian continues to evolve with improved hardware support, new desktop options, and updated core components in this release.

FRANK OS 1.0 debuts with a windowed desktop inspired by Windows 95, running on RP2350 microcontrollers using the FreeRTOS kernel.