Catch up on the latest Linux news: Fedora 44, EndeavourOS Titan Neo, APT 3.3, Arch Linux May ISO, Wine 11.8, GCC 16, Copy Fail Linux kernel flaw, and more.

Following earlier platforms such as the MS-CF16 V3.0 and MS-CF19, MSI has introduced a new 3.5-inch SBC based on Intel Alder Lake-N, Twin Lake-N, and Amston Lake processors, continuing its focus on fanless, low-power, wide-voltage embedded systems with expanded connectivity and I/O. Processor options include the Intel Processor N97, Core i3-N305, Amston Lake x7433RE, and […]

VideoLAN releases dav2d 0.0.1 “Merbanan,” an early preview AV2 decoder and successor to its widely used dav1d AV1 project.

Linux 7.1-rc2 is out for testing with its accumulation of initial bug and regression fixes that have been collected over the past week since the Linux 7.1 merge window was capped off...

The 290th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending May 3rd, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

Adiuvo is developing the Explorer Board, a compact FPGA platform built around the Artix UltraScale+ AU7P, targeting embedded, signal processing, and high-speed I/O applications. The design aims to provide access to UltraScale+ capabilities at a lower price point. The design is based on the AU7P FPGA, which provides approximately 37K LUTs, 75K flip-flops, 216 DSP […]

This week Google announced the selected Google Summer of Code "GSoC" 2026 projects for providing stipends to student developers for engaging in different open-source projects. This year a lot of open-source projects involve AI/LLM adoption but there are also a number of other interesting student projects at large from GNOME Mutter GPU reset recovery to adding new features to FreeBSD...

National Health Service England reportedly plans to make most public code repositories private over AI-assisted vulnerability scanning concerns.

Discover Mullvad Browser, a collaborative effort by Mullvad VPN and the Tor Project, ensuring unparalleled privacy by eliminating tracking and fingerprinting.

OnlyOffice added a licensing trap to prevent forks while claiming to be open source. Now a coalition of European tech companies is calling their bluff with Euro Office-and the FSF says they're right

Found by Xint Code, the Copy Fail (CVE-2026-31431) security vulnerability, which could allow a local user to elevate privileges to the root user, has been patched in Debian, Ubuntu, AlmaLinux OS, and other popular distributions affected by this flaw.

One of the most prominent changes with the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel release is the introduction of the new NTFS driver in the Linux 7.1 kernel. This new driver provides more features and better performance than the Paragon NTFS3 driver that's been in the kernel the past few years and far better off than the original NTFS read-only driver that previously was in the kernel and for which this new driver is based. Needless to say it's also a big improvement over the NTFS-3G user-space FUSE driver too...

Wireshark 4.6.5 open-source network protocol analyzer is now available for download with updated protocol and capture file support, fixes for multiple security vulnerabilities, and various bug fixes.

GCC 16.1 arrives as the first GCC 16 release, switching the default C++ dialect from GNU C++17 to GNU C++20.

Why you need to reboot when a serious bug is found in Linux? "Licensing"...

LibreOffice 26.2.3 is now available for download as the third point release to the LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with 43 bug fixes.

AMD software engineers on Friday released a new version of GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" as their open-source software for Windows and Linux leveraging the Lemonade SDK and aiming to make it easy to build AI agents on your PC with all local AI processing across AMD's CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs...

Fedora Linux 44 has been released! So, let’s see what is included in this new release for the Fedora Atomic Desktop variants (Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic, Budgie Atomic and COSMIC Atomic). Changes for all Atomic Desktops Issue tracker moved to the new Fedora forge We have moved the cross-variants issue tracker to the new Fedora […]

DavMail 6.7 adds TOTP MFA support, improves the Microsoft Graph backend, and fixes Office 365 authentication issues.

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 201 hardened Linux firewall distro is now available for download with DNS Firewall, Intrusion Prevention System improvements, updated components, and other changes.