The Rust-based Redox OS open-source operating system project is out with its October 2025 status report. Most notable is this Rust-based OS now having the Rust-based Servo web engine running... Albeit in extremely crude form at the moment...

The Devuan developers announced the release of Devuan GNU/Linux 6.0 “Daedalus” distribution as a 100% derivative of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system without systemd and related components.

As AerynOS powers ahead without its founder, the open source world might ask: Why does Ikey Doherty keep going AWOL?

LibreELEC 12.2.1 open-source media center brings Kodi 21.3 Omega and Linux kernel 6.16, dropping old NVIDIA 340.xx driver support.

The grep command is used to perform regular expressions to find out strings and patterns from the file that match a regular expression.

Jon Seager, VP of Engineering, talks exclusively to The RegUbuntu Summit The Register FOSS desk sat down with Canonical's vice-president for engineering, Jon Seager, during Ubuntu Summit earlier this month. This is a heavily condensed version of our conversation.…

Devuan 6 “Excalibur,” based on Debian 13 “Trixie,” is now out with a mandatory /usr merge and PipeWire audio support.

Christmas is coming, the GNOME is getting fat… please put a penny in the old red hat?Ubuntu Summit System76's POP!_OS is one of the more substantially modified Ubuntu based distros out there, and so it was something of a surprise to see the company's substantial presence at the Ubuntu Summit. And its stable release along with version 1.0 of its custom desktop, COSMIC, is imminent.…

The upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel will add support for the Line 6 POD HD Pro X audio effects processor that has been in the market for several years now -- the past decade! -- but only now seeing the necessary additions for Linux support...

Archinstall 3.0.12, a guided installer for Arch Linux, introduces a new -S flag for arch-chroot, enhanced Btrfs support, and adds Uzbek language support.

Arrow has introduced the AXC3000 Starter Kit, a compact FPGA development platform featuring the first production device from the Altera Agilex 3 family. Following the Agilex 5 AXE5000 devkit, this board provides a smaller form factor and focuses on low- to mid-range applications that demand efficient compute performance in compact designs. The Altera Agilex 3 […]

Debian developer Julian Andres Klode sent out a message on Halloween that may give some Debian Linux users and developers a spook: the APT packaging tool next year will begin requiring a Rust compiler. This will place a hard requirement by Debian Linux on Rust support for all architectures. Debian CPU architectures with ports currently but lacking Rust support will either need to see support worked on or be sunset...

Discover the lightweight yet powerful open-source Geany text editor alternative to Notepad++ on Linux with an installation guide and a few tips and tricks.

Devuan 6.0 "Excalibur" is now available as the fork of Debian GNU/Linux without the use of systemd. Devuan 6.0 is Debian 13 but for "init freedom" lets you use either SysVinit, OpenRC, or Runit as the init system...

The 264th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on November 2nd, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Adding reproducible builds should earn near-universal praise, but SUSE’s agentic AI integration with SLES 16 may test some enterprises comfort zones. The good news is that there's an on/off switch.

No datacenters requiredFortytwo, a Silicon Valley startup, was founded last year based on the idea that a decentralized swarm of small AI models running on personal computers offers scaling and cost advantages over centralized AI services.…

Slipping under my radar in October was the release of NASM 3.00 and the follow-up NASM 3.01 release shortly there after. This widely-used open-source assembler is now ready with support for Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and AVX10...

Bottles 52.0, a compatibility layer for running Windows apps on Linux, adds Sandbox support and a smoother user experience with refined libadwaita integration.

Linux now powers 3% of Steam gamers, representing a 1% increase from the previous year. Arch is still the Linux gamers' choice.