COSMIC Desktop 1.0.11 brings fixes for Files, Settings, Terminal, and the Compositor, along with translation and dependency updates.

Following the release of Firefox 150, Mozilla Thunderbird 150 has been released today as the latest stable version of this popular open-source, free, and cross-platform email, news, chat, addressbook, and calendar client.

VirtualBox 7.2.8 is out with Linux 6.19 and 7.0 host support, Wayland fixes, Windows 11 improvements, and updated Guest Additions.

Discover how to get rid of the persistent PackageKit message on your openSUSE system and enjoy hassle-free package management without interruptions.

The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes were recently merged for the Linux 7.1 merge window for further enhancing KVM as this important piece of the open-source virtualization stack...

Arch Linux has released a reproducible Docker image, providing users with a bit-for-bit identical container build, though some limitations remain.

Today we can finally share performance benchmarks of the long-rumored AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor. This new halo product for the Ryzen 9000 series desktop line-up offers captivating performance for developers frequently compiling code, creators, technical computing workloads for students or hobbyists or those not able to afford a Threadripper / EPYC type workstation, or similar heavy computing use. With the 16 cores / 32 threads and both CCDs having 3D V-Cache, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 offers leading performance among current generation desktop processors.

Carl Richell, the CEO and founder of Linux hardware vendor System76, shared today on fediverse that the upcoming Colorado Age Attestation bill has been amended to exclude Linux distros and Open Source apps.

Mozilla Firefox 150 brings stronger local network privacy protections, Linux GTK emoji picker support, and new tools for reorganizing PDF pages.

Last week saw the "NTFS resurrection" as Linux Torvalds put it with the new/overhauled NTFS driver having been merged for Linux 7.1. Even still, the NTFS3 driver that was contributed a few years ago by Paragon Software remains in the mainline kernel and today were some fixes/improvements merged for that existing driver...

Archinstall 4.3 introduces security and partitioning bug fixes, as well as installer enhancements such as optional additional font selection.

It's pretty rare nowadays seeing any real changes to the JFS file-system on Linux when there are multiple far superior solutions available. But in any event, the JFS file-system driver has seen a few fixes in Linux 7.1...

Canonical has confirmed Ubuntu 26.10 will carry the Stonking Stingray codename and is scheduled to launch on October 15, 2026.

Git developers continue working toward Git 3.0 while out today is Git 2.54 with a few interesting additions...

Archinstall 4.3 has been released today as the latest stable version of the official installer for the Arch Linux distribution, with various additions and bug fixes.

Released at the beginning of the month was a new version of HarfBuzz, a widely-used, open-source text shaping engine. With this HarfBuzz 14.0 release it introduced a GPU-based text rasterization library that supported GLSL shaders as well as HLSL, WGSL, and APple's Metal MSL. Since then this GPU-accelerated library has been seeing more improvements...

Canonical’s next major Ubuntu release, Ubuntu 26.10, has been dubbed the “Stonking Stingray,” and it now has a release schedule with a release date set in stone for October 15th, 2026.

A fork created amid claims of censorship and anti?DEI posturing is now in the news for the same reason: not how it renders pixels, but how it treats people.

Google previews Android CLI as agentic development continues to snowballGoogle has introduced a new Android command-line interface built specifically for AI agents, claiming a 70 percent cut in token usage and three times reduction in task completion time.…

Git 2.54 introduces the experimental git history command, config-based hooks, and more efficient repository maintenance by default.