Linux and Open Source news headlines
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Wed, 10/08/2025 - 22:20
Every part of your life has its own rhythm: work, school, family, personal projects. Beginning Oct. 14, we’re rolling out profile management in Firefox so you can keep them separate and create distinct spaces — each with its own bookmarks, logins, history, extensions and themes. It’s an easy way to stay organized, focused and private. […]
Wed, 10/08/2025 - 22:20
Android has long been focused on running mobile apps, but in recent years, features aimed at developers and power users have begun pushing its boundaries. One exciting frontier: running full Linux graphical (GUI) applications on Android devices. What was once a novelty is now gradually becoming more viable, and recent developments point toward much smoother, GPU-accelerated Linux GUI experiences on Android.In this article, we’ll trace how Linux apps have run on Android so far, explain the new architecture changes enabling GPU rendering, showcase early demonstrations, discuss remaining hurdles, and look at where this capability is headed.
Wed, 10/08/2025 - 22:20
Discover a way to run a Windows 11 machine on a Docker container in your Linux system, such as Ubuntu, Debain, RedHat, Fedora, etc.
Wed, 10/08/2025 - 22:20
Gnoppix KDE 25.10 debuts with major performance boosts, privacy upgrades, and a refined desktop built atop Debian Trixie.
Wed, 10/08/2025 - 22:20
For any Amiga 4000 hobbyists running a Linux m68k operating system, a PCI driver was finally published three decades later for Linux. Patches posted for mainline Linux kernel review today enable the Mediator 4000 PCI bridge available for the Amiga 4000 computer from the early 90's...
Wed, 10/08/2025 - 22:20
ClamAV 1.5 has been released today as a major update for this open-source, free, and cross-platform antivirus engine for detecting trojans, viruses, malware, and other malicious threats.
Wed, 10/08/2025 - 22:20
Qualcomm Technologies has announced its plan to acquire Arduino, marking a major development in the embedded and maker ecosystems. The acquisition aims to combine Qualcomm’s edge computing and AI expertise with Arduino’s large developer community and open hardware approach. As part of the announcement, both companies introduced the Arduino UNO Q, a new dual-processor development […]
Wed, 10/08/2025 - 22:20
Explore some cool and useful things you can do directly in the terminal without diving too deep into its complexity.
Wed, 10/08/2025 - 22:20
Python 3.14 is now available as the newest annual major feature release for the Python programming language...
Wed, 10/08/2025 - 22:20
Just select Cosmic during initial run of CashyOS 082825 Calamares installer and proceed with installation of Cosmic Beta DE utilizing native CachyOS repositories . Finally make sure that Cosmic Beta has been installed in the same way how we may install KDE Plasma 6.4.5 via original Cachyos ISO as of 08282025 . I have to notice that the only CachyOS provides a straightforward setup of Cosmic Beta DE vs an others clones of Arch Linux, say Garuda Mokka or Manjaro Linux for instance .
Tue, 10/07/2025 - 22:20
AMD today announced the Ryzen Embedded 9000 series for industrial computing and automation platforms...
Tue, 10/07/2025 - 22:20
Behind every EV charger, software determines what actually works together. EVerest is the open source approach that’s quietly driving change in the EV energy infrastructure.
Tue, 10/07/2025 - 22:20
Qualcomm announced today that they are acquiring Arduino, the popular open-source hardware/electronics prototyping platform for single-board micro-controllers...
Tue, 10/07/2025 - 22:20
Learn how to Monitor your Network in Real-time using RustNet in Linux, macOS and Windows.
Tue, 10/07/2025 - 22:20
The Rust-written Redox operating system written from scratch is now enabling multi-threaded support by default for x86-based systems...
Tue, 10/07/2025 - 22:20
Dropping descenders to achieve a perfect baselineNostalgia fans rejoice – a new monospaced display font has made its debut, and this time every glyph shares the same baseline height with no descenders to interfere with the character flow.…
Tue, 10/07/2025 - 22:20
While the Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) so far is just found on newer Xeon server processors, prior Linux patches acknowledge IAA being found on at least select Panther Lake SoCs. New patches ready for merging to the Linux 6.18 kernel are indicating IAA accelerator(s) will also be found on at least some of the lower-cost Wildcat Lake SoCs too...
Tue, 10/07/2025 - 22:20
The NFS server (NFSD) improvements were merged today for the Linux 6.18 kernel. Most exciting is a new experimental feature that can help with scaling NFSD both for low-end/low-cost servers up through high-end larger server platforms...
Tue, 10/07/2025 - 22:20
WGDashboard 4.3, a web-based WireGuard management UI, adds a client-side dashboard and plugin support.
Tue, 10/07/2025 - 22:20
Fedora 43 is working its way toward release in the coming weeks and is now going through a very late change. A change was announced and accepted today for increasing the size of the /boot partition. This is driven by the ever-increasing number of firmware files needed for different devices to function under Linux with open-source drivers. A large motivator to this change was the very large and growing NVIDIA GPU firmware file sizes for Nouveau and the future Nova driver...