The wait is finally over! As of today, May 14th, 2026, Canonical has opened the upgrade path for Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) users to the latest release, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon).

Following Dirty Frag, Fragnesia, and other Linux kernel vulnerabilities making themselves known in recent days, the latest now is ssh-keysign-pwn...

Dive into the contentious world of 'init' vs. 'systemd' on Linux, uncovering their features, the heated debate surrounding them, and the choices they offer, all while exploring their impact on the Linux community.

Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) has announced the initial availability of its open source SoDeV reference platform for software-defined vehicles (SDVs), along with the addition of five new project members. The platform combines the AGL Unified Code Base (UCB) with Linux containers, VirtIO, Xen, Zephyr RTOS, and additional Linux Foundation technologies for automotive software development. According […]

Kickstarter recently featured the IDO Claw campaign, a compact ARM-based system from Wireless-Tag designed for local OpenClaw deployment. The fanless platform combines the Rockchip RK3576 processor with LPDDR5 memory, onboard storage, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and hardware video acceleration for always-on AI and edge workloads. The system is built around the Rockchip RK3576 processor, which combines […]

Fedora’s AI Developer Desktop proposal is now blocked after two Council members reversed their initial approvals.

In working toward the stable Plasma 6.7 desktop release in mid-June, out today is the first beta of KDE Plasma 6.7...

Germany’s Sovereign Tech Fund invested over €1 million in KDE to build enterprise-ready infrastructure. Big Tech’s data mismanagement made it a national security issue. Here’s what changes.

The PanVK Vulkan driver and Panfrost Gallium3D driver for Arm Mali graphics hardware is now supporting the latest "v14" hardware GPU hardware with the Arm Mali G1-Pro now being advertised as supported...

Nginx 1.31 introduces HTTP forward proxy support and addresses security vulnerabilities in HTTP/2, HTTP/3, OCSP, and core modules.

MX Linux 25.2 is now available for public beta testing based on the Debian 13.4 release and featuring a new text mode installer, as well as numerous other installer improvements.

Fragnesia exposes another Linux kernel page-cache attack path, allowing local root escalation through ESP handling.

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux open-source graphics driver team isn't done driving new improvements to aging AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 era graphics cards on Linux. Beyond enhancing display support for older APUs, transitioning GCN 1.0/1 GPUs from the legacy Radeon driver to modern AMDGPU driver, and a host of other fixes and optimizations for these old GPUs going back to the Radeon HD 7000 series, he has another notable addition that was announced today. These original GCN graphics cards with pending patches to the AMDGPU kernel driver and Mesa user-space can now allow for DRM format modifiers...

PipeWire 1.6.5 has been released today as the fifth maintenance update in the latest PipeWire 1.6 series of this open-source software for handling audio and video streams under Linux-based operating systems.

GCC 16.1 released at the end of April as the latest major, annual feature release to the GNU Compiler Collection. Early benchmarks showed some nice leads for GCC 16 over GCC 15. Continued testing of the new GCC 16 compiler has continued to show overall better performance of the resulting binaries than using GCC 15 on the same hardware and same compiler flags. That led many to wonder about the GCC 16 performance up against the latest LLVM/Clang open-source compiler, which is the focus of today's benchmarking showdown.

Two kernel zero-day fixes, two quick Tails releases, and one Tor-backed project determined to keep its privacy-minded users safe — this is open source security hygiene in action.

Canonical has officially kicked off development planning for Ubuntu 26.10, the next interim release of the popular Linux distribution. Codenamed “Stonking Stingray,” the release is scheduled to arrive on October 15, 2026, continuing Ubuntu’s predictable six-month development cycle.Although Ubuntu 26.10 is still in the early planning stages, the release roadmap already offers hints about what users can expect from the next generation of Ubuntu.

In Linux, the alias command is used to create shortcuts for long commands that have the same functionality as if you were writing the whole command.

KDE today announced a significant investment into the project by Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund. KDE will be receiving €1,285,200 EUR (or roughly 1.5 million USD) over the years 2026 and 2027 to make some significant improvements into their software stack...

Log Detective analysis is coming to Packit. Starting this month, Log Detective will provide an analysis of failed Koji builds in the Packit service. Packit will keep on doing what it’s good at, integrating upstream projects with downstream distributions.Only now, it will have Log Detective to explain package build failures. In Copr, the user can […]