Ubuntu Linux has shipped /etc/debian_version that is carried over from upstream Debian and in turn just indicating the Debian Sid development version from which the packages are arrived. Besides it being inaccurate, /etc/os-release has been the long preferred standard for reading the OS release information. Thus finally Ubuntu developers are looking at dropping the /etc/debian_version file...

Ventoy 1.1.17 optimizes its Secure Boot process, adds Athena OS and EulerOS support, and fixes several boot issues.

Going along with the upstream Linux 7.2 kernel deprecation of AF_ALG and Linux 7.3 to further restrict this interface for letting user-space programs interact directly with the Linux kernel crypto API, Fedora 45 is looking to follow and help support this transition...

The UBports Foundation released Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0 today as a major update to this open-source and free mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets.

Tails 7.10 adopts GNOME’s standard shutdown process, replaces GNOME Videos with Celluloid, and updates Tor Browser.

Ahead of Lisa Su's keynote this morning at the AMD Advancing AI event, tagged on GitHub just now was the Ryzen AI Software 1.8 release for helping to deploy AI models on Ryzen AI PCs...

Cisco’s new Antares models help security teams narrow vulnerable code searches locally, but low benchmark scores expose important adoption limits.The post Cisco Antares Models Bring Local AI to Vulnerability Triage appeared first on TechRepublic.

One of the latest change proposals filed for Fedora Linux 45 is for supporting web-based remote installations of Fedora Atomic Desktop images...

Codeberg members voted 358 to 144 to ban projects mostly written by AI. Here’s what the new rule says, and why it’s already controversial.

Tails 7.10 has been released today as the latest version of this Debian-based distribution designed to protect you against surveillance and censorship by leveraging the Tor anonymous network.

Calam-Arch-Installer-2026-07.iso is a live ISO image featuring Linux Kernel 7.0.14 and the Calamares graphical installer, designed to simplify the installation of pure Arch Linux. You can download it directly from the https://sourceforge.net/projects/blue-arch-installer/files/arch-installer/Calam-Arch-Installer-2026-07.iso/download . Now --efi-diretory points to /boot/efi rather then /boot which is default config provided by archinstall, what results critical files for booting to be located on fat32 out of btrfs volume on which "/" is mounted.

System76 developers today released COSMIC Epoch 1.4 as the newest stable release to their Rust-based desktop environment...

Sfera Labs has begun shipping the Strato Pi Plus, a DIN-rail industrial edge server based on the Raspberry Pi 4B or Raspberry Pi 5. The system adds a 10–50 V DC power supply, up to four isolated RS-485 interfaces, CAN FD connectivity, and an independent RP2354 microcontroller. According to the Strato Pi Plus documentation, the […]

Just one week after releasing Lemonade 11.0, the Lemonade 11.5 local AI server was released today for this open-source AMD backed project during their AMD Advancing AI event...

Mozilla has officially released Firefox 153, bringing another round of improvements to its open-source web browser. The latest version introduces new multimedia capabilities, enhanced PDF editing tools, stronger privacy protections, better support for modern web technologies, and several features aimed at improving the browsing experience across Linux, Windows, and macOS. Firefox 153 became available on the stable release channel on July 21, 2026.

Sam Lantinga of Valve and SDL fame has landed HDR10 rendering support into the Simple DirectMedia Library...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation launched today a new, bigger variant of their Raspberry Pi Touch Display, the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 with a 10-inch display and an $80 USD price tag.

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE sent out this week's batch of sound fixes that he describes as "A collection of fixes that have been accumulated recently. The amount is still "new normal", but all small fixes. Mostly hardware-specific quirks, but including a few core fixes, too." The "new normal" has been a common phrase recently to reflect the increased tempo of patches as well as security/bug disclosures all due to the increased pace of AI/LLM activity...

Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.4 today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and Rust-based graphical desktop environment for Linux-based operating systems.

With the release of Firefox 153 ESR rolling to all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 154, to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.