Linux and Open Source news headlines
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Mon, 06/01/2026 - 22:20
With the end of the month comes a new KDE Linux status report from prominent KDE developer Nate Graham...
Mon, 06/01/2026 - 22:20
Backed by major European vendors, Euro-Office takes on Microsoft, Google Docs, and OnlyOffice — and we have screenshots to show how the new sovereign suite is shaping up.
Mon, 06/01/2026 - 22:20
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Rocky Linux 10.2, MX Linux 25.2, COSMIC Desktop 1.0.14, NVIDIA 610.43, Rust 1.96, Flatpak’s future may leave non-systemd distros behind, and more.
Mon, 06/01/2026 - 22:20
The Linux 7.1-rc6 kernel is now available for closing out the month of May and approaching the Linux 7.1 stable release that should be out by mid-June...
Mon, 06/01/2026 - 22:20
For ending out the month of May is a new monthly release of Servo, the open-source, Rust-based browser engine being developed by Linux Foundation Europe stakeholders and the open-source community. There are many nice enhancements on the desktop side with Servo 0.2 while also improving the Android browser UI experience with Servo too...
Mon, 06/01/2026 - 22:20
The Armbian team released Armbian 26.5 today as yet another hefty update to this Debian/Ubuntu-based distribution and build framework for ARM devices, focusing on kernel modernization across SoC families, redesigned desktop subsystem, and expanded hardware support.
Mon, 06/01/2026 - 22:20
Flathub just rewrote its generative AI policy to ban any AI-generated or AI-assisted code, docs, and content. Here’s what changed, why it happened, and who’s furious about it.
Sun, 05/31/2026 - 22:20
The Alinx HEA13 combines an AMD Virtex UltraScale+ XCVU13P FPGA with support for NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin and Jetson Thor modules. The platform links the FPGA and Jetson module through a PCIe Gen3 x8 interface for applications such as robotics, industrial vision, edge AI, and compute acceleration. The FPGA subsystem is based on the AMD […]
Sun, 05/31/2026 - 22:20
Going back to early 2023 there were efforts to disable all the Linux drivers for Microoft's RNDIS protocol. Remote NDIS has proven to be a real security concern while superior, modern alternatives exist...
Sun, 05/31/2026 - 22:20
MariaDB 12.3 LTS is now available, with 12.3.2 as the first GA release and maintenance planned through June 2029.
Sun, 05/31/2026 - 22:20
AVM open-source video codec v1.0 is now available as the first released version of AV2, the successor to the widely used AV1 codec.
Sun, 05/31/2026 - 22:20
Rust Coreutils 0.9 was tagged today as the latest major update to this GNU Coreutils implementation in the Rust programming language. Rust Coreutils 0.9 is up to a 90.4% pass rate against the GNU test suite!..
Sun, 05/31/2026 - 22:20
The development team behind the independent distro NixOS, whose set of packages can be used on other GNU/Linux distributions, released NixOS 26.05 (codename Yarara) today as a major update that introduces new features and updated components.
Sun, 05/31/2026 - 22:20
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 brings more bug fixes and UI polish as the desktop moves toward its June 16 release.
Sun, 05/31/2026 - 22:20
Ahead of the 52nd G7 Summit being held in Evian, France next month, the recently conducted G7 Digital and Technology Ministers’ Meeting came to agreement on shared language around open-source AI and on the importance of open-source in AI...
Sun, 05/31/2026 - 22:20
NixOS 26.05 “Yarara” is now available with systemd stage 1 by default, GNOME 50, Plasma 6.6, Linux kernel 6.18, and a major Nixpkgs refresh.
Sun, 05/31/2026 - 22:20
The core hack proposed by Google AI Assistant was Navigating the EFI layer. AI targeted the exact 3-line configuration stub (/boot/efi/EFI/debian/grub.cfg) that overrides the Btrfs default subvolume engine on Debian EFI installations. From my side it was integrating a native .path watcher framework precisely because a heavy, compiled inotifywait binary loses its structural handles during a subvolume swap and focus attention on sed substitutions @rootfs with @root_active in grub.cfg files and /etc/fstab.
Sun, 05/31/2026 - 22:20
Flathub now says apps with AI-generated or AI-assisted code, documentation, or other content are not allowed.
Sun, 05/31/2026 - 22:20
Canonical today released the first monthly snapshot of the Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" release...
Sun, 05/31/2026 - 22:20
Wine 11.10 is out with VKD3D 2.0, rewritten XPath support without libxml2, VBScript improvements, and 17 bug fixes.