Helping those in need while saving old PCs from landfills is no easy task, but this Debian 12 spin paves the way.

The first beta release of Krita 6.0 is now available for this featureful digital painting program. Krita 6.0 is re-based against the Qt6 toolkit while Krita 5.3 Beta is also being released at the same time for those sticking to Qt5...

A critical look at the GNU/Linux naming debate and why everyday usage settled on the shorter, simpler term: Linux.

Darktable 5.4.1 has been released today as the latest stable version in the Darktable 5.4 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform RAW image editing software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

The first betas of Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0 are now available, launching a new feature cycle built from a shared Qt5 and Qt6 codebase.

In this article, you will learn how to install Yay on your Arch-based systems, how to use it (with practical examples), and when not to use it.

Microsoft engineers and other stakeholders have been developing LiteBox as a security-focused library OS written in the Rust programming language and leveraging Linux Virtualization Based Security "LVBS". The design is for LiteBox to operate as a secure kernel protecting the normal guest kernel via virtualization hardware...

The RHELatives are more versatile than you might realizeFOSDEM 2026 CentOS Connect 2026 took place in Brussels last week, over the two days preceding the sprawling FOSDEM festival of FOSS – the nerd world's Glastonbury, complete with the queues and the questionable hygiene.…

The Linux 6.19 merge window had introduced support for larger pages and compression with the Nouveau kernel driver, which ultimately should help provide a performance win to this open-source NVIDIA driver. The Mesa NVK driver was ready to make use of that new kernel driver functionality but then it ended up being disabled due to bugs. Fortunately, for the Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel those issues should be resolved so then the Mesa NVK usage of the larger pages / compression support could be restored...

Today, the KDE Project released KDE Gear 25.12.2 as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 25.12 series of this collection of open-source applications for the KDE ecosystem and other platforms.

System76 has published a detailed roadmap outlining planned features and priorities for COSMIC Epoch 2 and 3, covering performance, UI, and workflow changes.

With GIMP 3.2 releasing soon, GIMP developer Ond?ej Míchal presented at FOSDEM 2026 this past weekend on some of the feature work being eyed for post-3.2 developments...

Following December's release of COSMIC Epoch 1 along with the Pop!_OS 24.04 release by System76, today they shared more of their feature plans for the next two major COSMIC desktop updates...

Canonical has pushed today new updates to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) users, including the Linux 6.17 kernel and Mesa 25.2 graphics stacks from Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka).

You may recall the news last month around no one was left on Debian's data protection team and other volunteer staffing challenges with different Debian efforts in the past. Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille has been looking at the issue of the challenges that arise when Debian's all-volunteer developers quietly drift away either due to time commitments, other interests, or other reasons but don't properly communicate it to the Debian project...

Your Linux system may be bloated with lots of services that run in the background. Here's how to make Linux boot faster by disabling unnecessary services.

Earlier this week Rust Coreutils 0.6 released while out today is GNU Coreutils 9.10 as the de facto standard for this set of core utilities on Linux systems and other platforms...

The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 26.2 today as a major update for this open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

Follow this walkthrough to set up Censor from Flathub and use it to remove sensitive information from your PDFs.

The virtual Richard M. Stallman (vrms) concept lives on, helping Linux users identify non-free software via license audits.