Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” roadmap confirms GNOME 51, App Center updates, RISC-V work, and early foundations for Ubuntu 28.04 LTS.

Radxa has announced two upcoming NAS systems, the DragonStation and DragonBay. Powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon platform and shipping with Fygo OS pre-installed, the systems combine high-speed storage, multi-gigabit networking, media management, and private cloud functionality in aluminum enclosures. While Radxa has not disclosed the specific Snapdragon processor used, both products are designed to provide […]

Jean Baptiste Lallement of the Canonical Desktop Team today posted a roadmap of many development items they are hoping to tackle for Ubuntu 26.10 due out in October. Some of these desktop plans are more ambitious and will take multiple release cycles to fully realize, but it goes to show their continued investment into the Ubuntu desktop...

Last month CUDA-Oxide was introduced as an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler. From pure Rust programming language code, one can write CUDA GPU kernels in a "safe(ish)" manner with the CUDA-Oxide compiler emitting NVIDIA PTX output directly. Out today is the second update to CUDA-Oxide...

Flock to Fedora is more than a conference – it’s where the Fedora community comes alive. As part of the In the Commit History campaign, we sat down with confirmed Flock 2026 speakers to hear their stories: what brought them to Fedora, what Flock means to them personally, and what they’re hoping for in Prague […]

Thirty years after KDE’s debut, the venerable desktop is celebrating with cake, candles, and a call for community support.

The upcoming Linux 7.2 mainline kernel is expected to be able to boot on Apple M3 devices including the M3-powered iMac and MacBook products. But before getting too excited it's still a long ways to go before it will actually be useful for any Apple M3 daily usage under Linux with the overall support at this stage still being very limited for these 2~3 year old Apple Macs...

Azure Linux 4.0 is now in public preview, giving users an early look at Microsoft’s Fedora-based Linux system for Azure.

The GNOME project continues refining one of its most frequently used applications: GNOME Files (formerly known as Nautilus). Recent development efforts have focused heavily on improving the file manager’s search capabilities, making it easier to locate documents, media files, and folders across increasingly large storage volumes.

With this week's launch day review of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE, Ubuntu 26.04 with its Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.0 default driver stack was used for testing. That choice was made since the Ubuntu 26.04 release is still fresh, the RDNA4-based RX 9070 GRE was working without issue there, and from other RDNA4 testing knowing there isn't much uplift from the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel or the current stable Mesa 26.1 OpenGL RadeonSI / Vulkan RADV drivers. But for those interested, here are those tests...

KDE Gear 26.04.2 arrives as a maintenance update with fixes for Dolphin, Kate, Kdenlive, KDE Connect, NeoChat, Tokodon, and more.

Earlier this week I ran benchmarks of different CachyOS Linux kernel flavors that proved interesting from the performance overhead of their hardened kernel build to various other interesting performancr takeaways. One kernel flavor I hadn't tested though was their build with the BORE scheduler. Given the interest and feedback from Phoronix readers, here is an article focused on looking at the performance of the BORE scheduler for the Linux kernel on CachyOS.

A new HTTP/2 Bomb DoS attack can exhaust memory on major web servers, causing denial-of-service in seconds.

For those interested in the prospects of running Snapdragon X2 laptops on Linux rather than Windows 11 on ARM, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 has emerged as one of the initial X2 laptops with tentative Device Tree handling to allow Linux to boot on this latest-generation Qualcomm-powered laptop,..

The KDE project released KDE Gear 26.04.2 today as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 26.04 series of this open-source software suite for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and the Linux ecosystem.

Blender 5.2 is now available in beta form for this leading open-source 3D modeling software...

What's noteworthy here is that, according to TechCrunch, Microsoft was "threatening [the] security researcher with criminal investigation" for merely doing the right thing

Tails 7.8.1 has been released as the latest version of this Debian-based distribution designed to protect you against surveillance and censorship by leveraging the Tor anonymous network.

AMD's GAIA open-source project geared for building AI agents that run locally on your PC is out with a significant new feature release for Windows and Linux systems...

The Blender Foundation released today the beta version of the upcoming Blender 5.2 LTS series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform 3D computer graphics software suite.