Arch-based SystemRescue 13 updates to Linux kernel 6.18, enhances HiDPI support, and upgrades core tools such as GParted and bcachefs.

Last year LLVM began landing their Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" support as an enhancement to their ThinLTO approach for link-time optimizations. An improvement merged this week to LLVM addresses a performance bottleneck discovered when adding files to the link...

KaOS Linux 2026.03 has been released today as the ISO snapshot for March 2026 of this independent Linux distro using Arch Linux’s pacman package manager.

MX Linux opposes age verification rules, citing concerns about privacy and the impact on open source development.

Pine64 has published a community update following FOSDEM 2026, outlining recent development activity, hardware demonstrations, and production challenges affecting its device lineup. The update highlights progress on PineNote and PineTab2 software, early work on PineTime Pro, and the impact of the ongoing DRAM shortage on several products. The FOSDEM 2026 event provided an opportunity for […]

This guide covers everything relevant to Ubuntu 26.04 Server: what’s new, whether you should upgrade, how to upgrade, and how to do a fresh install.

AMD's GAIA AI agent framework (that previously stood for "Generative AI Is Awesome" albeit they seemed to have dropped promoting it as that name) for Ryzen AI hardware is out with a new version. AMD GAIA 0.17 introduces Agent UI as a new privacy-first web application for local AI agents...

The env command is an advanced version of printenv with a few more features to tweak your environment variables, like setting new environment variables, printing all environment variables, or executing a command in a modified environment.

Ubuntu 26.04 is the latest LTS release of Ubuntu, codenamed Resolute Raccoon. In this article, you’ll learn what the new features are, what the changes are, basic info like release date, and more.

GIMP 3.2.2 image editor delivers bug fixes for layer rendering, PSD import, and SVG scaling, improving stability after the 3.2 release.

The Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due for release tomorrow has a lot of audio fixes/quirks to correct a wide variety of different hardware issues, mostly different problematic laptops for their speakers and/or microphone behavior under Linux...

The Arch Linux-based SystemRescue (formerly known as SystemRescueCd) live Linux toolkit for system rescue and recovery tasks has been updated today to version 13, a release that ships with a brand-new kernel, new tools, and various improvements.

Tails 7.6 adds built-in Tor bridge support for restricted networks and switches to GNOME Secrets as the default password manager.

Calibre developer Kovid Goyal released Calibre 9.6 today as a hefty update of this open-source, free, and cross-platform e-book management software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Earlier this week I provided benchmarks looking at KDE Plasma 6.6's performance advantage over GNOME 50 for Linux gaming with AMD Radeon graphics. That raised the question if the same was true when using NVIDIA graphics with their official Linux graphics driver stack. Here are such benchmarks looking at the KDE Plasma 6.6 and GNOME 50 performance on Ubuntu 26.04 beta while using the new NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux driver.

Canonical continues to expand Rust adoption in Ubuntu by targeting time synchronization with ntpd-rs, aiming to improve security in core services.

Learn how to disable the automatic update (basically "unattended-upgrades") feature on Ubuntu 25.04, 24.04, and other versions.

Right on schedule the beta for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is now available for testing. This is a great opportunity to help test this release ahead of the official Long Term Support release due out on 23 April...

Hyprland 0.54.3 delivers fixes for crashes in compositor, layout handling, and XWayland, improving overall stability in this patch release.

Mixxx 2.5.6 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, cross-platform, and free DJ software for performing live mixes with digital music files.