Firefox 138 was released yesterday and wasn't particularly exciting besides enhanced profile management and Tab Groups support... Aside from that it was a pretty basic release. In turn Firefox 139 is now in beta and that release does bring some items worth mentioning like faster HTTP/3 upload performance...

PyXL is a custom-built computer chip (a hardware processor) specifically designed to understand and execute Python code directly in hardware.

The United Nations became the latest large organization to embrace this collaborative office suite when it used it to replace Google Forms. Here’s what you need to know about the open-source project.

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.2.3 as the third maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series to fix various bugs and other issues.

The openSUSE project released today the beta version of the upcoming openSUSE Leap 16 operating system series for public testing, giving users a first glimpse of what will be included in the final release later this year.

FreeBSD evidently found last year’s Community Survey so useful that they’re turning it into an annual event.

GNOME is probably the most used desktop environment on Linux; its latest iteration (codename “Bengaluru”), ships with many performance improvements and some new features, as the ability to limit the battery charge straight from the “control center”, in order to preserve its health and increase its lifespan. By default, when this feature is active, a battery will start charging only when under 75% of its capacity, and will stop charging when it reaches 80%. In this tutorial, we learn how to replace those values with custom ones.

The good news: everyone's using it. The bad news: have you seen how they're using it?OpenLogic's 2025 State of Open Source Report offers a slightly different perspective on modern corporate adoption of FOSS – and it's not a reassuring one.…

Kdenlive 25.04 open-source video editing software is out with object segmentation, enhanced audio waveforms, OpenTimelineIO support, and more.

In addition to the recent merge to Mutter for improving fullscreen apps with direct scanout enhancements for GNOME 49, another early addition also landed today in Mutter: support for Wayland's toplevel tag protocol...

The co-founder of the open-source company Nextcloud reminds us that the free software philosophy that’s the foundation of open source is much more than a software development model.

Sent out today was a batch of drm-misc-next patches for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window. There are a few notable changes here as part of the Direct Rendering Manager updates for the core code and smaller kernel drivers...

The OS refresh brings Ryzen AI and Arrow Lake compatibility. Fresh from their respective bunkers, OpenBSD 7.7 and a new version of Plan 9 fork 9Front have dropped, bringing hardened security, obscure charm, and, oddly enough, artwork from the same designer.…

This detailed tutorial explains how to display real-time undo and redo timestamps directly in your Vim status bar using vim-airline plugin.

It[he]#039[/he]s almost majestic: HDR display support working on the Linux desktop. If you asked me at the start of the calendar year if I[he]#039[/he]d expect to see modern Linux distributions shipping with working HDR display support in H1[he]#039[/he]2025, I would have been doubtful. But after a lot of miraculous work that landed across numerous upstream repositories over the past two months or so, everything has come together just in time for the likes of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42.

Mozilla Thunderbird 138 open-source email client brings customizable new mail alerts, dark mode refinements, folder management fixes, and more.

With Firefox 138 promoted to the stable channel today, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 139, to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to take a look at what to expect.

Google dumped io_uring after $1M in bug bounties. A proof-of-concept program has been released to demonstrate a so-called monitoring "blind spot" in how some Linux antivirus and other endpoint protection tools use the kernel's io_uring interface.…

Introduced last month in the Vulkan 1.4.311 spec was VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for supporting BF16 types within SPIR-V shaders. Merged today for Mesa 25.2 is that BFloat16 support for Intel's open-source Vulkan Linux driver...

The AMD-XGBE Linux network driver has seen a set of patches published for it in enabling the "new" AMD Ethernet Device codenamed Crater...