Canonical is out with a new blog post today outlining toolchain changes to Ubuntu Linux from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS due for release tomorrow. While those changes over the past two years aren't too news worthy if you have been following the interim Ubuntu releases, what's interesting is their road ahead on the Ubuntu toolchain front for developers...

AlmaLinux will take a wait-and-see approach to California’s age verification law while legal and upstream questions remain unresolved.

FreeBSD is out today with their Q1-2026 status report to outline the many different development initiatives their open-source developers have participated in over the past quarter. There is a lot of hardware enablement efforts ongoing as well as continuing to make a more compelling desktop experience and also improving GUI and management options for FreeBSD systems...

Opt-out instructions included if you're not keen on GitHub watching you in the name of product improvementUsers of GitHub's command-line interface (CLI) who value privacy, beware. The Microsoft-owned code-hosting platform has quietly begun collecting pseudonymous client-side telemetry from CLI users and enabled it by default.…

After the previous week I was feeling good about the ACP integration, the research sub-agent, talk to your document, and surviving Quarzadous’s refactor. In common scenarios, the whole thing usually just…worked.

Over the past number of months there has been a steady flow of Intel open-source projects archived on GitHub amid the corporate restructuring at the company and realigning of their open-source focus. This week another batch of Intel open-source projects were formally archived...

OpenVPN 2.7.2 fixes two security flaws, adds long password support in the management interface, and includes several bugfixes for Windows users.

With the release of Firefox 150 rolling out today to all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 151, to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.

Merged recently to Linux Git were the big set of networking changes for the Linux 7.1 kernel...

This is your friendly reminder that, as of today, the Linux 6.19 kernel series has reached the end of its supported life, which means that it’s time to upgrade your installations to Linux kernel 7.0.

Ahead of tomorrow's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, Canonical published a blog post today outlining the state of Rust Coreutils for its premiere in this long-term support (LTS) version. Canonical also commissioned a security audit recently of Rust Coreutils that turned up 44 CVEs and 113 issues in total...

Colorado amendments could exempt open source OSes, code repos, and containersThe prospect of OS-level age checks applying to open source systems is a serious concern for FOSS advocates. Campaigners appear to have secured proposed exemptions for open source operating systems, code repositories, and containers in one US state, but stricter federal legislation has already been introduced in Congress.…

Framework Computer announced today, during its “Next Gen” event, the Framework Laptop 13 Pro computer as a Linux-first notebook with up to 20 hours of battery life and a touchscreen display.

Plus news from its Dublin neighbors, Linux MintThe latest point release of Zorin OS is here, as an interesting alternative to Linux Mint for those still searching for a replacement for Windows 10 as the dust settles over the ruins.…

Coming today as a big surprise -- one week after the new NTFS file-system driver was merged for Linux 7.1 and separately the existing NTFS3 kernel driver seeing some fixes -- is a new release of the NTFS-3G driver providing a FUSE-based user-space driver for NTFS on Linux and other platforms...

QEMU 11.0 drops all 32-bit host support, adds a Diamond Rapids CPU model for x86, and brings broad changes across ARM, RISC-V, KVM, and migration.

At Framework Computer's next-gen hardware launch event today they announced the Framework Laptop 13 Pro as a ground-up redesign of their 13-inch modular laptop...

Mozilla Thunderbird 150 email client adds custom accent colors, encrypted message search, PDF page reordering, and more.

Old network maintenance drivers are becoming a maintenance burden in the era of fuzzing and predominantly AI-driven bug detection causing an uptick in possible bug/security reports to upstream Linux kernel developers but with these drivers potentially having no actual users...

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