Earlier this year Meta announced a renewed investment into the jemalloc memory allocator that's been popular for server and HPC use among various desktop use-cases too. After stagnating a bit in recent years, Jemalloc has been off to seeing new developments since Meta's announcement and out today is Jemalloc 5.4 as the latest step forward...

PipeWire 1.6.9 has been released today as the ninth 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.

Described by Radxa as its flagship edge AI module, the rCore-Q8550 targets robotics and machine vision with the Qualcomm Dragonwing QCS8550 platform and an optional Hexagon AI processor delivering up to 48 Dense INT8 TOPS. The 36 x 32mm module also supports up to 16GB of LPDDR5X, 128GB of UFS 3.1 storage, PCIe Gen 4, […]

The Rust replacement for GNU Coreutils fixes all of the Ubuntu-prioritized compatibility issues, eliminates expr’s last C dependency, and adds more security hardening.

The Khronos Group today released the newest revision of the OpenCL specification with a handful of changes...

Of all the Arch-based distros in the Linux universe, this week's Distro of the Week -- Artix Linux -- stands out as one of the few free of systemd, giving the user the option of either OpenRC and dinit in its place.

Hat & Hammer has launched a Crowd Supply campaign for OpenMote, a programmable universal remote built around an ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 module. The device supports infrared transmission and reception, Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi, motion sensing, audio, haptic feedback, and Qwiic/STEMMA QT expansion, while also targeting smart-home and game-controller applications. The OpenMote is based on an ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 module with […]

Canonical released Snapshot 4 of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) release as the fourth and last development milestone targeting early adopters and application developers who want to test their apps.

Days after the recent release of GNU Coreutils 9.12, Rust Coreutils 0.12 was released overnight for advancing this alternative Rust-based implementation of these core utilities...

The Fedora CoreOS and QA teams are gearing up for Fedora 45, and we need your help! We are organizing a Fedora CoreOS Test Week starting on September 21, 2026. This event is a great opportunity for the community to test Fedora CoreOS (FCOS) based on Fedora 45 content before it officially reaches the testing […]

For those hopeful of running Linux well on the ASUS Zenbook A14 or A16 laptops powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 SoC, a new ASUS EC driver has been developed for enhancing the support...

Tails 7.13 is now available with Tor Browser 15.0.23, Tor 0.4.9.12, and a simplified shutdown process that removes unnecessary confirmation prompts.

Krita 5.3.4 adds Android animation and timelapse rendering, while Krita 6.0.4 continues the Qt 6 transition with newer Wayland support.

My honest hands-on review of JOPDF for Linux. I evaluate its PDF conversion tools, annotation features, edit utilities, performance, and limitations.

Oracle released VirtualBox 7.2.18 today as the ninth maintenance update to the latest VirtualBox 7.2 series of their open-source, free, and cross-platform virtualization software for Linux, Solaris, macOS, and Windows.

Canonical recently began producing Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 daily ISOs to complement their experimental amd64v3 package archive that they have been trialing the past few release cycles. While we still don't know what any official plans are for amd64v3 with Ubuntu 26.10, the performance gains can be very worthwhile over the generic amd64 binaries even for low-end/budget hardware.

The GNOME Project released GNOME 51 (codename A Coruña) today as the latest stable version of this widely used desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions, a major release that introduces exciting new features.

Omarchy 4.0.4 switches users to the project’s own Linux kernel, with desktop responsiveness, gaming, Btrfs, power management, and hardware fixes in focus.

Fedora CoreOS 45 Test Week begins Monday, giving Linux users a straightforward way to help test the container-focused distro.

Unicode 18.0 is now available with 13,007 new characters, three new scripts, new currency symbols, nine emoji, and updated text-processing rules.