Linux and Open Source news headlines
Updated: 14 hours 36 min ago
Sun, 04/12/2026 - 22:20
Richard Stallman from Free Software FoundationNext Wednesday in the afternoon Dr. Stallman will speak in a US college for the second time this year and for the second time in nearly 8 years.
Sun, 04/12/2026 - 22:20
Firefox 149.0.2 open-source web browser is now available for download with improved Wayland support for Linux users, two new enterprise policicies, and other changes.
Sun, 04/12/2026 - 22:20
A few weeks past the GNOME 50 release and there continues to be a lot of ongoing GNOME app activity worth highlighting...
Sun, 04/12/2026 - 22:20
Little Snitch, long known on macOS, is now available on Linux with app-level network monitoring built around eBPF and a web-based UI.
Sun, 04/12/2026 - 22:20
The BeagleV Ahead is an open-source RISC-V single board computer S(BC) built around the quad-core TH1520 SoC. With the Linux 7.1 mainline kernel there is HDMI display support coming now that the Device Tree bits have been added...
Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
The newest Linux file-system driver proposed for the kernel is... VMUFAT...
Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
It took a minute — actually a long minute — but Electronic Frontier Foundation has finally shut the door on the platform formerly known as Twitter, without even a “goodbye.”
Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
A big kernel patch series was posted today by longtime Linux developer Thomas Gleixner. The set of 38 patches amount to some big time "spring cleaning" with addressing some code remnants still around that originated back in the very early Linux v0.1 kernel while some other code being cleaned up dates back to the Linux 1.3~2.1 kernel series from the 90's...
Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
Calibre 9.7 introduces full offline mode for HTTPS content server connections, improved annotations grouping, viewer zoom enhancements, and several bug fixes.
Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
The pushd and popd commands are ways to efficiently navigate between different directory paths by stacking them in memory and popping them out when they are required using the index number.
Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
Hundreds of layoffs, but this smells of geopolitics, not downsizingRed Hat appears to have fired its entire engineering team in China, which it no longer thinks is a country it needs to prioritize. Most of the team will move to India.…
Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
Just what FOSS developers need – a flood of AI-discovered vulnerabilitiesOpinion Anthropic describes Project Glasswing as a coalition of tech giants committing $100 million in AI resources to hunt down and fix long-hidden vulnerabilities in critical open source software that it's finding with its new Mythos AI program. Or as The Reg put it, "an AI model that can generate zero-day vulnerabilities."…
Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
F&S Elektronik Systeme has introduced an M.2 AI accelerator based on the NXP Ara-240, designed to offload inference workloads from embedded systems. It targets edge applications requiring low-latency processing, including machine vision, multimodal inference, and real-time analytics. The accelerator delivers up to 40 TOPS of AI performance through the Ara-240 architecture, which integrates multiple neural […]
Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
In this article, you will learn what the difference is between variables and parameters, what special parameters are, and a list of predefined special parameters in Bash.
Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
Deepin 25.1 updates the desktop with Linux kernel 6.18, new UOS AI tools, file manager enhancements, and many fixes.
Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
KDE Frameworks 6.25 is out now with new fixes and maintenance updates for the collection of libraries powering KDE software.
Sat, 04/11/2026 - 22:20
Sorry for the families of the "Linux geeks" that IBM has just fired. IBM's management does not understand what it is selling.
Fri, 04/10/2026 - 22:20
Beyond the capabilities of just the Vulkan Video API, the FFmpeg multimedia library has made interesting Vulkan-accelerated adaptations using compute shaders. With Vulkan compute they've implemented Apple ProRes video acceleration, FFV1 decode, and other features. The newest Vulkan feature now in place for FFmpeg is 360 degree video conversion...
Fri, 04/10/2026 - 22:20
Miracle-WM 0.9 brings WebAssembly plugins, a new Rust API, cursor theme support, and faster performance for this Mir-based Wayland compositor.
Fri, 04/10/2026 - 22:20
PipeWire 1.6.3 has been released today as the third maintenance update in the latest PipeWire 1.6 series of this open-source software for handling audio and video streams under Linux-based operating systems.