Software — Open Source — September 25th, 2026

AMD Sends Out New Linux Patches Further Enhancing HDMI 2.1 Reliability
Linux 7.4 is going to be the big kernel release where the AMD graphics driver will finally expose HDMI 2.1 by default and comes with features including HDMI FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM. Ahead of that milestone there have been various other last minute tweaks and improvements to its HDMI 2.1 support. Sent out on Thursday was the latest round of AMDGPU DC patches that includes a few more patches for improving the HDMI 2.1 reliability.
September 25th, 2026 — Source

Amethyst Mod Manager 2.5.2 Fixes Critical Install Bug for Linux Gamers
Amethyst Mod Manager 2.5.2 has been released to address critical bugs for Linux gamers, particularly fixing issues with meson build files that affected collection installs. The update also includes improvements to UI scaling, text legibility, and specific patches for Red Dead Redemption 2 and BSA/BA2 handlers. This release is part of a recent trend where the developer, ChrisDKN, has prioritized stability over new features, with 2.5.0 being the last feature-rich update. Overall, version 2.5.2 offers essential fixes that enhance the functionality of the mod manager, making it more reliable for users
September 25th, 2026 — Source or Source

Approaching A 10 Second Linux Kernel Build
The coffee window is closing. Going back many years with the time it's taken to compile the Linux kernel has been a well known opportunity for a coffee break or even eating a meal during the lengthy Linux kernel build process. Even when the Linux kernel was much smaller than it is today, with the hardware at the time it would often be a very time consuming process... Thus incredible to think that we are now on the horizon of a ten second clean, default kernel build on Linux x86_64.
September 25th, 2026 — Source

Building the PH4NTXM ISO on CachyOS
PH4NTXM is a Debian-based live Linux distribution designed specifically for cybersecurity, privacy and operational security.
September 25th, 2026 — Source

fblog -- view and filter JSON logs
fblog is a command-line application for viewing JSON-formatted logs. It focuses on turning structured log records into more readable output while retaining access to the individual fields contained in each JSON object.
September 25th, 2026 — Source

Fedora Linux 45 RISC-V Beta Images Now Available for Testing (Non-Official)
The Fedora RISC-V community has released non-official Beta images for Fedora 45, including Server, Cloud, and Container builds aimed at testing on RISC-V hardware. These images offer two kernel options: a stable "Generic" kernel and a broader "Omni" kernel that supports more hardware but with less stability. While the images are not officially supported by Fedora and are primarily for testing and package building, they represent a significant step towards making Fedora Linux compatible with RISC-V architecture. Users are encouraged to test these images using QEMU before deploying on physical hardware, as the testing phase is still in its early stages and may present challenges
September 25th, 2026 — Source or Source

GDB 18.1 Debugger Brings Better Windows Support
GDB 18.1 is out today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger that works across C/C++, Fortran, Rust, and other languages like Go, Ada, and more.
September 25th, 2026 — Source

Giant Log Viewer -- view extremely large log files
Giant Log Viewer is a graphical application designed specifically for opening very large log and text files without loading the entire file into memory. Its architecture allows the program to start quickly regardless of whether the file being examined is measured in megabytes, gigabytes or substantially larger sizes.
September 25th, 2026 — Source

Go's Improving SIMD Support, Platform-Independent SIMD Interface
A new blog post published on Thursday covers the experimental support for SIMD with the Go programming language. This expanding Go SIMD support also includes a platform-independent API for making use of SIMD with modern processors.
September 25th, 2026 — Source

Helvum -- graphical patchbay for PipeWire
Helvum is a graphical patchbay for PipeWire. It presents the multimedia graph visually, allowing users to see applications and hardware devices together with the ports that connect them.
September 25th, 2026 — Source

Last Call For The Autumn Special For Ad-Free Viewing & Supporting Linux Hardware Testing
Last call for the Phoronix autumn "Oktoberfest" Premium sale: it runs through end of day Sunday, 27 September (any timezone - I'm not particularly strict). If you have been meaning to support the site, this is the window.
September 25th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 7.2.8 and 6.18.54 Released with Heavy SMB and AMD GPU Fixes
Two new Linux kernels, version 7.2.8 and LTS 6.18.54, have been released, focusing on bug fixes and security updates. Kernel 7.2.8 includes approximately 438 commits, while LTS 6.18.54 has around 397 commits, with significant improvements in SMB/CIFS networking, AMD GPU stability, and wireless functionality. Key fixes include addressing memory leaks in SMB, resolving usability issues with multiuser mounts, and enhancing AMD graphics stability, particularly for users resuming from hibernation. Both kernels continue the project's regular update cadence, with the LTS version supported until December 2028
September 25th, 2026 — Source or Source

Linux Security Roundup: Unbound, Chromium, and WebkitGTK Lead the List
A recent wave of security advisories has highlighted critical vulnerabilities across various Linux distributions, particularly focusing on the unbound DNS resolver, which poses a severe remote code execution risk. Fedora's webkitgtk upgrade also addresses numerous CVEs, including hundreds from ANGLE and Skia, emphasizing the importance of patching these components first if they are in use. Other distributions like AlmaLinux, RHEL, and SUSE have also reported similar vulnerabilities, urging users to prioritize updates for critical packages. Overall, system administrators are advised to apply these patches promptly, especially for the unbound and Chromium-related updates, to mitigate potential security threats
September 25th, 2026 — Source or Source

Mageia 9 End of Support: Upgrade to Mageia 10 Before It's Too Late
Mageia 9 reached end of support on 30 September 2026, ending all security updates and patches for the ninth release of the community-run Linux distribution. The announcement, posted 25 September 2026 by contributor joselp on the official Mageia Blog, asked users to migrate to the current stable release, Mageia 10. Since unsupported releases stop receiving security advisories, devices still on 9 will remain exposed to any newly found vulnerabilities, especially servers. Users can upgrade in place through the system-tray tool or command line, or perform a clean install while being careful to back up any data first.
September 25th, 2026 — Source

Patches Posted For Enabling NVMe On All Apple M3 Based SoCs With Linux
While Linux 7.2 brought initial Apple M3 support and Linux 7.3 brought M3 Pro / Max / Ultra support, the mainline Linux kernel support for the M3 series hardware remains very basic and not yet ready for daily driving. But more work continues to be upstreamed and today the patches were posted for getting NVMe storage up and running across all Apple M3 hardware.
September 25th, 2026 — Source

PH4NTXM -- Debian-Based Cybersecurity and Privacy Distribution
PH4NTXM is a Debian-based live Linux distribution designed specifically for cybersecurity, privacy and operational security.
September 25th, 2026 — Source

podman-tui -- terminal user interface for Podman environments
podman-tui is a terminal user interface for managing a Podman environment. It gives users a structured, keyboard-driven view of Podman resources while retaining the lightweight character-cell interface associated with terminal applications.
September 25th, 2026 — Source

Redox OS Adds IO_uring-Like API, NUMA & Gets QEMU Working
The Redox OS open-source, Rust-based operating system has seen a lot of activity in recent weeks with many notable improvements landing.
September 25th, 2026 — Source

Samba 4.25 Released With Experimental SMB3 Persistent Handles
Samba 4.25 is out as the newest stable release for this open-source software enabling file and print services sharing between Linux servers and Windows systems.
September 25th, 2026 — Source

WSL 2.9.13 Pre-release Ships Docker-Parity wslc Containers and Security Fixes
Microsoft released WSL 2.9.13, a pre-build published by engineer OneBlue on September 25 that leans heavily on Docker-parity features for its native wslc container CLI. The batch adds --all-tags pulls, a --digests flag, wslc events, and Compose-style command-scoped global options to bring it closer to the familiar docker experience. Two security fixes land as well: the Redirection Trust mitigation enabled in enforce mode and a patch for a potential out-of-bounds memory access. Install it via the Microsoft Store's pre-release channel or wsl --update, though production users may want to wait for the matching stable build.
September 25th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 24th, 2026

AlmaLinux Rolls Out New Software/Hardware Certification Portal, Self-Certify App
Two years ago RHEL-derived AlmaLinux announced a hardware certification program as part of their Certification Special Interest Group (SIG). They have now expanded their hardware certification program to include third-party software certification on AlmaLinux too plus a new app that users can install for self-certifying their system.
September 24th, 2026 — Source

Amethyst Mod Manager v2.5.1 Adds Hades, Hades II Support with Bundled Importer
Amethyst, the open-source Linux-native mod manager, just shipped version 2.5.1, adding official modding support for Hades and Hades II. The update folds a long-separate mod importer directly into the app, bringing the supported-game roster to nearly 100 titles. It also packs faster Nexus browsing, pausable downloads, and fixes to real installation bugs that broke Baldur's Gate 3 and Wabbajack modlists. Developed solo by ChrisDKN, the GPL-3.0 app is available via AppImage, Flatpak, and AUR, with a built-in update notifier.
September 24th, 2026 — Source

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Journal
There's a lot to admire about Apple's hardware and software. The company has produced some hugely successful products over the years, including the iPhone, iPad, iPod and MacBook Air. Apple designs both its hardware and software, giving it tight control over how everything works together. The downside is that users are often drawn into a largely proprietary ecosystem.
September 24th, 2026 — Source

Choreonoid -- integrated graphical framework for robot development
Choreonoid is an integrated graphical framework for robot development. It combines model inspection, simulation and motion work inside one extensible desktop application rather than splitting these tasks across several unrelated tools.
September 24th, 2026 — Source

cockpit-podman -- web interface for managing Podman containers
cockpit-podman is a web-based interface for managing Podman containers as part of the Cockpit server administration environment. It communicates with Podman through its REST API, presenting container workloads through a graphical interface rather than requiring users to perform routine administration from the command line.
September 24th, 2026 — Source

CVE flood pushes Ubuntu onto weekly kernel release cycle
AI-assisted bug hunting is helping pile up vulnerabilities faster than defenders can patch them, so Canonical is picking up the pace
September 24th, 2026 — Source

Fwupd 2.1.8 Released With New Hardware Support From ASUS, Lenovo & Others
Lead LVFS/Fwupd developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced Fwupd 2.1.8 today as the newest feature release for this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems. With Fwupd 2.1.8 comes support for a number of newer devices plus plenty of bug fixes.
September 24th, 2026 — Source or Source or Source

KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 Released With Union Theming Engine Maturing
Following the KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta from earlier this month, the second and last beta of the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop is now available for testing.
September 24th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.4 DRM Infrastructure Better Supporting HDMI 2.0 With New Helpers
Sent out today was the latest weekly pull of drm-misc-next changes of feature material to queue in DRM-Next for Linux 7.4. Most notable in this week's pull request are a number of patches for enhancing the HDMI 2.0 handling in the DRM core infrastructure and display helpers.
September 24th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel Introducing New Taint Due To Fuzzing Bots Yielding Impractical Bug Reports
The Linux kernel is having to introduce a new taint flag "TAINT_FORCED_BIND" to deal with fuzzing bots like Syzbot abusing Linux's bind/unbind sysfs functionality and generating bug reports for impractical and not at all relevant hardware/driver combinations.
September 24th, 2026 — Source

Linux Security Roundup: 58-CVE Chromium, Critical unbound DNS, and Ubuntu apology
The latest Linux security roundup highlights significant updates across eight distributions, particularly noting Fedora's release of a Chromium update addressing 58 CVEs and critical fixes for the unbound DNS resolver in Red Hat and Rocky Linux. Other notable updates include critical patches for the Ansible Automation Platform and a rare apology from Ubuntu for a regression in its earlier XDG Desktop Portal fix. The roundup also mentions various updates for Firefox, PostgreSQL, and the container toolchain, with varying patch efforts across the distributions. Overall, the updates reflect a mix of critical vulnerabilities and routine maintenance patches, emphasizing the importance of timely updates to maintain security across Linux systems
September 24th, 2026 — Source

Mir 2.30 Released Now With Rust Required, Mir Roadmap Published
Canonical today released Mir 2.30 as the newest release of this Wayland compositor library for building out different shells and other functionality from smart mirrors to other consumer devices.
September 24th, 2026 — Source or Source or Source

NagisinnraLinux -- lightweight Debian-based Linux distribution
NagisinnraLinux is a lightweight desktop Linux distribution based on Debian Stable and using the Xfce desktop environment.
September 24th, 2026 — Source

PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 Release Date: New Features, Reverts, and Breaking Changes
PostgreSQL 19 Beta 4 shipped today as the penultimate pre-release ahead of an October release candidate and possible general availability. It introduces a unified REPACK maintenance command with a CONCURRENTLY option, a WAIT command for reliable read-your-writes replication, and parallel autovacuum with a new scoring system. In a rare move, the community reverted several ambitious features, including SQL/PGQ, online checksum toggling, and partition merge/split, to protect reliability and the schedule. Operators should weigh breaking changes like JIT now off by default, RADIUS authentication removed, and forced standard_conforming_strings before upgrading.
September 24th, 2026 — Source

Ruby on Rails 8.1.4 Released: Bug-Fix Patch Security Updates for Stable 8.1
Ruby on Rails 8.1.4 has been released as a maintenance patch that does not introduce new features or breaking changes, focusing instead on bug fixes and security updates. The release addresses issues such as denial-of-service vulnerabilities in Active Model, connection-pool timeout handling in Active Record, and improvements for composite primary keys. It also includes numerous bug fixes across various components, ensuring the framework remains stable and trustworthy for users. Overall, updating to this version is recommended for those using Rails 8.1, as it enhances performance and security without introducing risks
September 24th, 2026 — Source or Source

"slab_tiny" Boot Option Proposed For Tiny Linux Systems With Very Limited RAM
In 2022 the SLOB allocator was deprecated and removed with Linux 6.4 a year later. SLOB was popular with embedded systems with minimal amounts of RAM, so as a result the CONFIG_SLUB_TINY Kconfig option was then added for configuring the slab allocator for a minimal memory footprint for systems with 16MB of RAM or less. The CONFIG_SLUB_TINY is now on the chopping block with a proposed rework to the allocator code for making the "tiny" memory handling a boot time option.
September 24th, 2026 — Source

Snapdragon X2 gets Linux developer preview, Ubuntu certification expected in 2027
Qualcomm targets Debian support by the end of 2026
September 24th, 2026 — Source

SteamVR Beta 2.18.1: Aurora Becomes Default VR Environment + Linux Fixes
Valve has shipped SteamVR Beta 2.18.1, which rebrands the default VR environment as "Aurora" and makes it the new factory-default shell. The update adds content-aware color tinting, gamepad-driven system UI navigation, and a bunch of binding and streaming fixes for Input and Steam Link. Linux gamers get the most tangible benefits, with fixes for async reprojection on AMD GPUs, GPU selection, and systems without systemd. All signs point toward Valve staging the software for its upcoming standalone Steam Frame headset, though no date or price has been announced.
September 24th, 2026 — Source

Talk of AI in KDE sets the community ablaze
A desktop pitch and an attempt to curb LLM slop descended into very human mayhem
September 24th, 2026 — Source

Wireshark 4.6.9 and 4.4.19 Release Patches 35 Vulnerabilities Across Stable and Old Stable Lines
Wireshark shipped two coordinated security updates with version 4.6.9 for its current stable line and 4.4.19 for the older "old stable" branch. Together the two releases close at least 35 vulnerabilities across the protocol dissectors that power the tool, with 19 fixes in 4.6.9 and 16 in 4.4.19. Most bugs are local crashes that require opening a crafted capture file, but several can be triggered remotely and a handful carry RCE potential, including defects flagged by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative. The updates add no new features, so the guidance is to patch both installations while verifying the signed tarballs before install.
September 24th, 2026 — Beelink EQi 304: Can Linux Make Proper Use of Its One Fast CPU Core?
The Intel Core 3 304 inside the Beelink EQi 304 has an unusual CPU configuration. It has five physical cores, but only one is a Performance core. The other four are Low Power E-cores.
September 24th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 23rd, 2026

23 Best Free and Open Source Linux Computer Algebra Systems
A computer algebra system (CAS) is mathematical software that can manipulate mathematical formulae in a way similar to the traditional manual computations of mathematicians and scientists. This type of system supports a wide range of mathematics including linear algebra, calculus, and algebraic and ordinary differential equations.
September 23rd, 2026 — Source

AMD Upstreams AVX10_V2_AUX Support Into LLVM Clang 24
In addition to AMD working on AVX10_V2_AUX support for the GCC compiler, this summer they also posted AVX10_V2_AUX support for the LLVM/Clang compiler. As of yesterday that enablement was merged for LLVM 24 for that important step toward AI Compute Extensions (ACE).
September 23rd, 2026 — Source

JFFS2 -- log-structured file system for raw flash storage
JFFS2 is a log-structured file system designed for raw flash storage in embedded systems.
September 23rd, 2026 — Source

Kokoro -- Open-Weight Text-to-Speech Model
Kokoro is an open-weight text-to-speech (TTS) model designed to generate natural-sounding speech from written text. It is relatively lightweight, runs locally, and supports a range of voices and languages without requiring access to a hosted service.
September 23rd, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 Reverting Logitech Bolt Receiver HID++ After Too Many Bugs Encountered
Merged at the start of the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle was adding Logitech Bolt USB receiver support for Logitech HID++ devices to the hid-logitech-dj driver code. That has resulted in too many bug reports of early Linux 7.3 users encountering varying issues with their Logitech mice that the functionality is now being reverted until it can be better developed.
September 23rd, 2026 — Source

NTFS-3G Update Brings Many Security Fixes
NTFS-3G 2026.9.18 was released this morning as the newest update to this FUSE-based open-source driver for NTFS file-system support.
September 23rd, 2026 — Source

PHP 8.6.0 RC2 Released Days After RC1 Ahead of November Stable Launch
PHP 8.6.0 RC2 was tagged on 23 September 2026, just about 18 hours after RC1, a gap that signals the next major release is near its finish line. The second candidate adds only three fixes on top of RC1, though its full build bundles roughly two dozen memory-safety and correctness fixes dating back to Beta 3. The feature set is already frozen, locking in additions like partial function application, clamp(), performance caches, and a fresh wave of deprecations for developers to plan around. It's available for testing now but shouldn't run in production, with stable 8.6.0 expected around November 2026.
September 23rd, 2026 — Source

RakuOS -- hybrid atomic Fedora-based distribution
Its core operating system is delivered as an immutable bootc OCI image, with system updates applied transactionally so an update either completes as a whole or leaves the existing system intact. Previous system images can be rolled back when necessary.
September 23rd, 2026 — Source

SteamOS 3.8.28 Beta Fixes AMD dGPU Performance Drops After Sleep/Resume
SteamOS 3.8.28 Beta contains a single change targeting degraded game performance on systems with AMD discrete GPUs after a sleep/resume cycle. The build drops the "Known Issues" banner that had flagged an FSR/composition regression across several recent betas, suggesting that issue may finally be resolved at the beta level. Though small on paper, the fix matters most for the growing crowd running SteamOS on third-party AMD-dGPU laptops and desktops rather than Valve's own Steam Deck.
September 23rd, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 18th, 2026

2FAS Auth -- private two-factor authenticator for Android
2FAS Auth is a free and open source two-factor authentication application for Android. It generates the time-based and counter-based one-time passwords used by thousands of online services to provide an additional layer of authentication beyond a conventional password.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Raster Image Editors
Raster image editors are applications designed primarily to create, modify and enhance bitmap images. They work with images composed of individual pixels and typically provide tools for selections, layers, cropping, resizing, transformations, colour and tonal adjustments, filters, text, retouching and compositing. More advanced editors may also offer masks, blending modes, cloning and healing tools, non-destructive adjustments, support for graphics tablets, and extensive plugin or scripting capabilities.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

13 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based File Sharing Tools
There are many ways you can transfer files between computers. Here's a few methods. We can transfer files between two hosts on Linux using the scp command. The scp command establishes a secure connection between the two hosts and it uses the standard SSH port in order to transfer files. Alternatively, many people send files as attachments although there are often limitations with this method. Or users frequently use file hosting services in the cloud, WebTorrents, a personal server, wormhole and many others.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

AMD Sends In More HDMI FRL Updates For Linux 7.4, Fixes For Upcoming Hardware
Linux 7.4 is set to be a very exciting holiday gift for AMD Radeon graphics customers. As covered last week on Phoronix, with this next kernel AMD Is enabling HDMI 2.1 support by default now that FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM support is included too. This week another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver updates were sent out ahead of the Linux 7.4 merge window in October.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

AMD Strix Halo Enjoys Some Performance Gains On Ubuntu 26.10, Especially With amd64v3
Ahead of next week's Ubuntu 26.10 beta release I have been testing the "Stonking Stingray" on a variety of systems. Ubuntu 26.10 is performing well overall with some nice upgrades over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, especially if opting to use the new snapshot/daily ISOs of Ubuntu 26.10 in amd64v3 form for x86_64-v3 packages. In today's tests are a look at the performance benefits of Ubuntu 26.10 on an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo".
September 18th, 2026 — Source

Apple Video Decode Driver Posted For Upstream Linux Kernel Review
The latest Apple Silicon enablement code working its way from the Asahi Linux project toward the upstream Linux kernel is the AVD driver used for accelerated video playback across Apple M1 / M2 / M3 SoCs.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

Best Free and Open Source Scala Linter Tools
A linter is a tool used in software development to analyze source code for potential errors, stylistic issues, and adherence to coding standards. It essentially acts as a static code analyzer, examining the code without actually executing it. Linters help developers catch issues early in the development cycle, improving code quality and maintainability
September 18th, 2026 — Source

Create Vector Graphics with Open Source Software
Vector graphics consist of shapes, called objects, which are simple geometric primitives: points, lines, curves, circles, and polygons. The shapes are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics. It is possible to edit each object separately, for example, by changing the shape, colour, size and position. By combining paths that are straight or curved and various colors and shading very detailed illustrations can be created.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

Exim 4.100.1 Released: Four Vulnerabilities Patched with No Workarounds
Exim maintainers released 4.100.1 on 2026-09-18, a security patch fixing four vulnerabilities that span heap corruption, a use-after-free bug, a stack-data leak, and SMTP smuggling. Two of the flaws were reported by watchTowr's McCaulay Hudson, while the other two earned Exim's signature joke credit line blaming AI training data. Because the Proxy Protocol and SMTP-smuggling issues affect versions from 4.83 (2014) all the way through 4.100, a huge installed base of production mail servers is at risk. Three of the four flaws have no workaround, so the project's advice is blunt: upgrade to 4.100.1.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

Google's "Painful To Maintain" Binder C Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Rust
Google's Binder driver written in the C programming language has long been part of the mainline kernel as the inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism used on Android. The past few years the Binder driver was rewritten in Rust as one of the first "real" drivers in the Rust programming language. The Rust Binder driver was upstreamed in Linux 6.18 and now for the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle, the old Binder C-based driver is set to be retired.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

Intel Appears To End Its Bug Bounty Program
Amid a boom of bug reporting in general due to AI/LLMs across the entire software ecosystem, Intel this week appears to have ended its paid bug bounty program. They have (re)launched a new bug reporting program but with the bounties removed.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal
Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user
September 18th, 2026 — Source

Linux fixed a Windows frustration I didn't know I had
Who knew window management could be this easy?
September 18th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel Build Times Ready To Be Significantly Reduced With Latest Patches
The past few weeks we have eagerly been following a Linux kernel patch series after AI found some major bottlenecks in the Linux kernel build code. With AI helping to address these bottlenecks, Linux kernel build times are substantially reduced. These optimizations might be ready in time for Linux 7.4 for reducing incremental kernel build times as much as around 70%. This week the latest iteration of these patches were posted by Arm engineer Lorenzo Stoakes.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

Linux Ready With Fix For Intel's FRED Crashing Some Games Under Wine / Steam Play
Recently there have been some bug reports to Mesa around Intel Panther Lake graphics crashing with some games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Elden Ring crashing or freezing quite quickly. This turns out not to be an Intel Xe3 Arc Graphics B390 driver bug with Panther Lake but rather due to a kernel issue with the new Flexible and Return Event Delivery "FRED" that debuted with the Core Ultra Series 3 processors.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

Linux Security Roundup: Browser CVEs Explode Across Eight Distro Updates
Today's Linux security updates hit eight distros with browsers taking the biggest hit and kernels piling on the most raw CVE counts. SUSE listed 230 Chromium CVEs while Debian went further at 266, and Fedora's own Chromium advisory of 230 CVEs smells synthetic until upstream vouches for them. Kernel updates are the real volume, with AlmaLinux 9 packing roughly 40 CVEs and Oracle shipping two fresh 6.12 trees plus microcode and .NET patches repeated across 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0. Standout quirk: Ubuntu's USN-8779-2 quietly reverted a Bubblewrap symlink fix that had broken Flatpak launches, so scan the individual advisories and patch whatever actually runs on your machines.
September 18th, 2026 — Source or Source

Mango Wayland Compositor 0.17.2 Ships Stability Patch for dwl-Based Compositor
MangoWC 0.17.2 shipped on September 17, 2026 as a lean stability patch fixing crashes, build problems, and memory leaks. It marks the third release in a single week, following the feature-packed 0.17.0 milestone and the regression-cleaning 0.17.1. The sparse notes mask real work visible in the commit history, including a dangling-pointer fix tied to config hot-reloading. For users on the 0.17 line, upgrading before adopting newer commits is the recommended move.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

Nexterm -- self-hosted server management platform
Nexterm is a self-hosted server management platform that brings remote access and infrastructure administration into a single web interface.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

step-ca -- online certificate authority for automated certificate management
step-ca is an online certificate authority designed to provide secure, automated certificate management. It is the server counterpart to Smallstep's step command-line utility and offers a relatively approachable way to operate a private certificate authority.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

TechRefreshing Linux -- beginner-friendly Debian-based desktop distribution
TechRefreshing Linux, also known as TR Linux, is a Debian-based desktop distribution designed to provide a straightforward and welcoming environment for everyday computing.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

transcrypt -- transparent encryption for Git repositories
transcrypt is a Bash utility that configures transparent encryption for selected files inside a Git repository.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu 26.10 Desktop Adjusting Its Behavior Under Memory Pressure
The Ubuntu 26.10 desktop is adjusting its default out-of-memory (OOM) daemon behavior when dealing with memory pressure on the system.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 4 Out Now with Linux 7.2, Rust Coreutils and Amd64-v3 Builds
Canonical has released Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" Snapshot 4, the final monthly development preview before the stable interim release scheduled for October 15. This snapshot includes updates such as Linux 7.2, GNOME 51, Mesa 26.2, and a transition to Rust-based core utilities, along with a new experimental Amd64-v3 build for newer CPUs. Users are advised to treat this release as a throwaway artifact and not for production use, as it closely mirrors the upcoming beta version. Additionally, Canonical is working on significant changes for future releases, including a redesigned installer, on-device AI capabilities, and ongoing improvements to Rust integration in base system utilities
September 18th, 2026 — Source

Zsh-z -- fast directory navigation for Zsh
It learns from the directories you visit and uses "frecency” — a combination of frequency and recency — to predict where you want to go from a short search string. Instead of repeatedly typing long paths, you can enter a fragment such as z src and let Zsh-z choose the highest-ranked matching location. The project is a native Zsh port of rupa/z, replacing its mixture of shell code and external utilities with a pure Zsh implementation. It can use the same database as z, which makes migration straightforward and allows the two tools to coexist when different shells are used.
September 18th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 17th, 2026

5 Best Free and Open Source Threat Intelligence Platforms
Threat intelligence platforms help organisations collect, organise, enrich, analyse, and share information about cyber threats. Rather than leaving indicators and reports scattered across different feeds and tools, they provide a central place to build context around malicious domains, IP addresses, files, vulnerabilities, threat actors, campaigns, and other security data.
September 17th, 2026 — Source

ACIAH-Linux -- accessible Linux Mint-based distribution
ACIAH-Linux is a Linux distribution designed to make everyday computing easier for people who may find conventional desktop interfaces difficult to use. It is aimed particularly at blind and visually impaired people, users with motor difficulties, seniors, and people with limited experience of computers.
September 17th, 2026 — Source

Dissect -- digital forensics and incident response framework
Dissect is a digital forensics and incident response framework developed by Fox-IT, part of NCC Group. It provides a consistent interface for accessing forensic evidence even when the underlying disk images, file systems and operating systems differ substantially.
September 17th, 2026 — Source

Dragonfly 2.0 Delivers More Performance For This Modern Replacement To Redis & Memcached
Released on Wednesday was a new version of the Dragonfly database that continues to promote itself as "the world's most efficient in-memory data store" and a modern replacement to the likes of Redis and Memcached while being fully compatible with their APIs.
September 17th, 2026 — Source

Fujitsu Formally Announces Their MONAKA 144 Core CPU
For two years now we have been curious about the Fujitsu MONAKA CPU since some slides about this Arm-based server processor first appeared and they upstreamed compiler support in GCC 15. This week Fujitsu formally announced the MONAKA CPU and with availability beginning in November.
September 17th, 2026 — Source

Intel Compute Stack Enables LEO For Nova Lake, Introduces Intel Portable ISA "PISA"
Released today was the Intel Compute Runtime 26.35.39758.10 update for Windows and Linux systems. With this updated OpenCL and Level Zero GPU compute driver stack comes some exciting updates for this monthly feature update.
September 17th, 2026 — Source

Intel NPU Linux Driver Adding Command-Queue Priority ioctl For Linux 7.4
Sent out today was the latest weekly drm-misc-next pull request of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) material ready for the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window.
September 17th, 2026 — Source

Kubernetes Multi-Cluster Project Karmada Reaches CNCF Graduation
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced on September 2026 that Karmada, a multi-cluster and multi-cloud Kubernetes orchestration project, has graduated. This multi-cluster and multi-cloud Kubernetes orchestration project reached CNCF's highest maturity tier. This tier is for stable projects that are widely adopted and ready for production. The announcement happened at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference China 2026 in Shanghai.
September 17th, 2026 — Source

libinput 1.32 Released With Circular Scrolling Support For Circular Touchpads
Leading Linux input expert Peter Hutterer announced the release today of libinput 1.32 for improving input handling on Wayland and X.Org based environments.
September 17th, 2026 — Source

Linux Security Roundup: nginx, Mozilla, and .NET Vulnerabilities Span RHEL, Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu
Recent Linux security updates have highlighted vulnerabilities across major distributions, including RHEL, Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu, particularly affecting nginx, Mozilla, and .NET. RHEL has issued 48 advisories, 40 rated Important, including critical updates for gstreamer and corosync, necessitating immediate attention and potential reboots. Fedora's updates, while fewer, include significant patches for the open62541 library and RoundCube, addressing critical security flaws such as arbitrary code execution and various injection vulnerabilities. Other distributions like Ubuntu, Rocky, SUSE, and Slackware also released updates addressing numerous security issues, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing updates based on severity rather than convenience
September 17th, 2026 — Source or Source

L0p4Map -- network monitoring and visualization tool
L0p4Map is a graphical network monitoring and visualization application aimed at security researchers and network administrators. It combines network discovery, scanning and topology analysis in a modern PyQt6 interface.
September 17th, 2026 — Source

MariaDB 13.0.2 Now Stable: DuckDB Engine and What Changes
MariaDB Server 13.0.2 reached General Availability on 15 September 2026, marking the latest point release in the 13.0 rolling series that began as a Preview in March. Importantly, it is a rolling release, not an LTS ,MariaDB recommends staying on the 12.3 line if you want long-term maintenance and slow upgrade cycles, while 13.0 is for those chasing the newest features. The standout capability is the ability to run DuckDB as a pluggable, in-process storage engine for fast columnar analytics, though it's still in gamma and carries several limitations.
September 17th, 2026 — Source

New Linux Driver Coming To Improve ASUS Zenbook Snapdragon X2 Support
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.
September 17th, 2026 — Source

Omarchy gains $18.5M in backing, fresh converts -- and fierce critics
DHH's Arch-based desktop becomes the latest front in FOSS's culture wars
September 17th, 2026 — Source

Rust Coreutils 0.12 Released With Fixes Sought By Ubuntu
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.
September 17th, 2026 — Source

Why A 50 TOPS NPU Is Almost Completely Useless
LinuxLinks has kindly given me the space to publish a semi-regular blog where I share my thoughts on open source, the Linux ecosystem, Windows, and other topics. It's a place for my opinions and personal perspectives. As you might expect, everything I write here reflects my own views and prejudices.
September 17th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 14th, 2026

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux GIS Software
Earth science (also known as geoscience) is the focus of understanding the sciences related to the planet Earth. It includes a wide range of fields such as geology, geography, geophysics, meteorology, oceanography, and glaciology. Some people are surprised to learn that astronomy is also regarded to be an earth science. Geology is generally considered to be the primary earth science.
September 14th, 2026 — Source

Aprelendo -- learn vocabulary from real content
Aprelendo is a self-hosted language-learning platform aimed especially at intermediate and advanced learners who want to acquire vocabulary from material they genuinely want to read or watch.
September 14th, 2026 — Source

Debian 13.7 ships the fixes behind 92 security advisories, updates 106 packages
The Debian project shipped Debian 13.7 codenamed "trixie.” The project folded in 92 security advisories it had already published separately, added corrections to 106 source packages, and rebuilt the installer around both.
September 14th, 2026 — Source

Fedora Test Day 2026: Break KDE Plasma 6.7
Fedora is running a community Test Day from September 14 to 20, inviting volunteers to stress-test KDE Plasma 6.7 and report where things break. The event pairs KDE developers like Merritt and Nicolas Fella with Fedora QA veterans such as Adam Williamson, a co-branded quality push ahead of Fedora 45's final release. Plasma 6.7, shipped June 16, is notable as the last Plasma to support X11 before 6.8 goes Wayland-only, and it brings long-requested features like per-screen virtual desktops and a comeback from the Oxygen theme. If you want to participate, install Fedora 45, run the test cases, and submit results through the portal before the week ends.
September 14th, 2026 — Source

HestiaCP 1.10.5 Release: Security Fixes and Debian 11 Support Dropped
Hestia Control Panel has released version 1.10.5, focusing on security enhancements and dropping support for Debian 11. This update includes improvements in session integrity, configuration parsing, and fixes for various vulnerabilities, following a previous troubled release cycle. Core dependencies have been updated, and while the release is described as modest, it significantly strengthens the panel against potential breaches. Administrators can easily update to 1.10.5 through automatic updates or the apt-get command, with full changelog details available on GitHub
September 14th, 2026 — Source or Source

Linux Kernel 7.2.6, 6.12.110 and More: Seven Coordinated Releases Now Available
Greg Kroah-Hartman shipped six new Linux kernel versions, spanning the entire supported matrix from the newest 7.2.6 short-term line down to the five-year-old 5.10.270 longterm branch. Each release landed within minutes of the other, carrying only upstream bug fixes and security patches with no new features. Networking and memory-safety defects dominate the fixes, though most are local-privilege-escalation or DoS risks rather than remote code execution. Tarballs, patches, and full diffs are now available on kernel.org across the v7.x, v6.x, and v5.x directories.
September 14th, 2026 — Source or Source

Linux 7.3 Delivering Some Performance Gains On Intel Panther Lake / Framework Laptop 13 Pro
Linux 7.1 brought some performance improvements for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", Linux 7.2 enhanced the performance for the integrated Arc B390 Xe3 graphics, and now for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel are various performance improvements at large. Today's article is looking at the performance of the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel compared to Linux 7.2 stable using the Core Ultra X9 388H within the Framework Laptop 13 Pro.
September 14th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.4 Could End Up Seeing Kernel Builds ~36% Faster, Incremental Builds ~70% Faster
Earlier this month I wrote about a patch series posted to the Linux kernel mailing list that addressed a lot of "hideous code" to make Linux kernel builds faster. A number of single-threaded bottlenecks were tracked down and fixed within the Linux kernel thanks to the assistance of AI. A second revision of those patches hit the mailing list this morning and there is hope they could be upstreamed for Linux 7.4.
September 14th, 2026 — Source

Linux Patched For Silent User-Space Data Loss Bug That's Existed Since 2023
Being merged after yesterday's Linux 7.3-rc3 release was an important fix for addressing a silent, user-space data loss bug that has existed in the kernel the past three years.
September 14th, 2026 — Source

Linux Security Roundup: 230 Browser CVEs, Critical Directory Server Flaw
Today's Linux security roundup delivers some of the year's largest browser patches, including Gentoo's 35-CVE roundup for Chrome, Edge, and Chromium alongside SUSE's 230-vulnerability chromedriver fix. The fixes warrant the most scrutiny are the Critical-rated 389-ds-base updates from both AlmaLinux and Oracle Linux, which hand attackers Directory Manager access. DNS tooling appears repeatedly across Fedora, Red Hat, and Debian as the resolver ecosystem keeps generating trouble. The rest of the batch ranges from routine openssl kernel and ffmpeg bumps to a Perl update on Rocky Linux that quietly rewrote more than two hundred downstream packages.
September 14th, 2026 — Source or Source

OpenRGB 1.0 Launches for Open-Source RGB Customization on Windows, Linux, and macOS
RGB control software has long been a pain point of gamers, with background apps and clunky UIs frequently coming up in discussions about gaming mice, keyboards, speakers, monitors, among many more. OpenRGB is a project that hopes to cut through some of that noise and provide a cross-platform support for RGB on gaming peripherals and components. OpenRGB just released version 1.0 after months testing release candidates. With the update, the utility expands support to a number of new brands and components and lays the groundwork for more Logitech device support.
September 14th, 2026 — Source

Piccolo -- modern GTK color picker
Piccolo is a color picker built for the modern GNOME desktop using GTK4 and Libadwaita. It provides a compact graphical environment for grabbing a color from the screen or choosing one interactively, then transferring the resulting value to another application.
September 14th, 2026 — Source

Removing Drivers For Outdated ARM Platforms Will Lighten The Kernel By ~247k Lines
The Linux kernel is going to see the removal of a number of recently deprecated ARM 32-bit platforms. Following the deprecation in Linux 7.3, removing the old ARM platforms will lighten the kernel by around 55k lines of code. But removing now unused drivers only relevant to those platforms will mean roughly a quarter million lines of code can be removed from the kernel source tree.
September 14th, 2026 — Source

TRIP -- self-hosted POI map tracker and trip planner
TRIP (Tourism and Recreational Interest Points) is a self-hostable web application for organising travel around places, maps and structured itineraries.
September 14th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu Noble's likely last point release lands, then loses its desktop download
Installer bug crashes extended setups while Stonking Stingray circles ahead of October debut
September 14th, 2026 — Source

WartRemover -- flexible Scala code linter
It approaches linting through small checks known as warts, each targeting a language feature or programming pattern that a project may wish to prohibit. This makes it particularly suitable for teams that want to define a constrained subset of Scala rather than accept every construct permitted by the compiler. The supplied checks range from potentially unsafe behaviour to features that can weaken type safety or make code harder to reason about, while custom warts can extend the system with organisation-specific policies.
September 14th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 11th, 2026

AMD HDMI 2.1 support set to be enabled by default in Linux 7.4 with FreeSync, VRR and ALLM
Linux 7.4 set to enable AMD HDMI 2.1 FRL by default with FreeSync and VRR
September 11th, 2026 — Source

CachyOS versus Windows 11 versus Ubuntu 26.04 LTS On Intel Wildcat Lake + 8GB RAM
Often times when testing different Linux distributions or comparing Windows versus Linux it's on leading flagship desktop or server hardware, but today we are looking at the Ubuntu versus CachyOS versus Windows performance at the opposite end of the spectrum. With the new CHUWI UniBook $449 laptop powered by Intel Core 3 Wildcat Lake and with 8GB of system memory, here is a look at how those three operating systems compare across a variety of workloads.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Cygwin 3.6.10 released
Cygwin 3.6.10 has been released, providing Windows users with a Linux-like environment that includes a wide array of precompiled applications. It is not intended as a shell replacement or a substitute for the Windows operating system, but rather offers a Terminal that allows users to execute Linux commands. This makes it relatively safe to install without risking damage to your Windows system; however, creating a backup image is still advisable.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Digital Research's GEM opens a new window on Linux
A radical new way to resolve the Gordian knot of X11 versus Wayland
September 11th, 2026 — Source

EnigmarsOS -- privacy-focused Arch-based Linux distribution
EnigmarsOS is an Arch-based Linux distribution built around KDE Plasma. It aims to provide a ready-to-use desktop while staying relatively close to upstream Arch Linux.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

GCC 13.5 Released With 265+ Bug Fixes
For those continuing to rely on the GCC 13 compiler in production that debuted more than three years ago, GCC 13.5 released today with more than 265 bug fixes. GCC 13.5 also caps off the GCC 13 series as the last planned point release.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Git 2.56-rc0 Released With Updated Contribution Guidelines, Improvements For Swift
While still ultimately working toward Git 3.0 with SHA-256 hashes by default and the "main" branch name by default, among other breaking changes (and potentially coming around the end of 2026), Git 2.56-rc0 is now available for testing.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

h0neytr4p -- configurable web honeypot for reconnaissance and exploits
h0neytr4p is a web-focused honeypot intended to make it easier for blue teams to detect reconnaissance and exploitation attempts. Instead of constructing and maintaining an intentionally vulnerable web application, defenders create individual traps corresponding to vulnerabilities, exploits or reconnaissance techniques they want to detect.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

If AI Wrote Your Code, Just Say So
LinuxLinks has kindly given me the space to publish an infrequent blog where I share my thoughts on open source, the Linux ecosystem, Windows, and whatever else takes my interest. These are my views, complete with the usual biases and prejudices.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Intel NPU Driver 1.38.0 Adds Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Support and Major Kernel 7.0 Upgrade
Intel has released NPU Driver v1.38.0, which adds support for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and upgrades to kernel 7.0.0-31-generic across various NPU platforms, including Lunar Lake and Wildcat Lake. The update includes significant enhancements such as Level Zero v1.32.0 and OpenVINO v2026.3.1, with testing showing zero failures across all silicon generations. While the newer hardware achieved a pass rate of 98%, older platforms like Meteor and Arrow Lake lagged at 83% in extended workload tests. Users can download the driver from GitHub, but must first remove older packages and install necessary dependencies before proceeding with the installation
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Intel NPU Driver 1.38.0 Adds Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Support and Major Kernel 7.0 Upgrade
Intel NPU Driver v1.38.0 has landed on the official repository, bringing first-class Ubuntu 26.04 LTS certification and kernel 7.0.0-31-generic support to every current NPU platform, including Meteor Lake, Arrow Lake, Lunar Lake, Panther Lake, and Wildcat Lake. The release upgrades Level Zero to v1.32.0, OpenVINO to 2026.3.1, and the bundled NPU compiler to UD2026.38, while UMD test results confirm zero failures across all silicon generations. Newer hardware like Lunar Lake and Wildcat Lake cleared 98 percent of the extended workload, whereas the older Meteor and Arrow Lake platforms sat slightly behind at 83 percent. You can grab the distribution-specific tarballs directly from the GitHub release page, though you will need to purge the old intel-fw-npu packages and add libtbb12 to your system before running the install.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Intel Thermald 2.5.13 Restores Accidentally Deleted Wildcat Lake Support
Intel's Thermald released on Thursday as the newest update to this daemon for thermal monitoring on Intel hardware that was also recently extended for beginning to support Qualcomm/ARM hardware too. The main change with Thermald 2.5.13 is adding back Intel Wildcat Lake platform support after it was accidentally removed in the prior release.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Kdenlive 26.08.1 Releases: Stability Fixes, FFmpeg Modernization, and Crash Patches
Kdenlive 26.08.1 has been released, delivering the first maintenance patch for the summer series with a solid batch of crash fixes across all major platforms. The update swaps the deprecated FFmpeg -vsync flag for -fps_mode, corrects effect zones bleeding past clip boundaries, and resolves a splash screen hang that was triggering false crash reports. It builds directly on the 26.08.0 launch, which introduced track reordering, multi-clip speed adjustments, and a major shift to QJSEngine for effect evaluation.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 Hardware Support Adds Apple M3 and AMD GPUs
Linux 7.3 introduces significant updates that address modern computing demands, focusing on performance, hardware compatibility and resource management. According to SavvyNik, one standout improvement is the hybrid CPU scheduling, which optimizes performance on mixed-core architectures like Intel Alder Lake and AMD Ryzen. Memory management has also seen notable advancements, with enhanced ZRAM and ZSWAP optimizations allowing smoother multitasking and better handling of resource-intensive tasks. These updates highlight the kernel's commitment to balancing efficiency with the complexities of contemporary workloads.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 7.2.5 and 6.18.51 Drop with Blackwell and Security Fixes
On September 11, 2026, Linux kernel versions 7.2.5 and 6.18.51 were released, each containing approximately 550 commits under the sign-off of Greg Kroah-Hartman. These updates focus on hardware and security fixes, specifically addressing the new NVIDIA Blackwell GB20x display pipeline and enhancing the ksmbd network components. Additionally, the releases included improvements in memory management, BPF preemption handling, and fixes for race conditions in the DAMON subsystem, with several commits credited to AI coding assistants. The 6.18 branch has seen consistent maintenance since December 2025, indicating a strong community interest in treating it as a long-term support release
September 11th, 2026 — Source or Source

Linux Mint Debuts Xepub As New EPUB Reader, Clockenstein Calendar App
The Linux Mint project today published their August 2026 development report, including some new applications added to their XApp collection.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Linux Mint unveils Clockenstein and Xepub native apps
Clement Lefebvre previews Linux Mint 23 features, including a standalone calendar app and a Kindle-like book reader.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Linux's IO_uring Sees Some "Crazy" Patches That Deliver Very Nice Improvements
Linux block subsystem maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe continues to uncover new opportunities for making the wonderful IO_uring framework even more performant within the Linux kernel. For ending out the week he's posted some "crazy" patches delivering some significant gains.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

LTM Builds a Lightwell Remediation Services Practice Around IBM and Red Hat's $5B Open-Source Program
LTM, the Larsen & Toubro Group services company that was LTIMindtree until its February rebrand, is building a Lightwell remediation services practice around the $5 billion IBM and Red Hat program for securing open-source software with AI-generated, vendor-validated fixes. IBM's clearinghouse produces validated, production-ready patches for open-source dependencies; LTM's job is getting them into customer environments. The company says its planned portfolio spans remediation strategy, dependency analysis, risk-based prioritization, remediation program management, DevSecOps integration, testing and validation, and large-scale deployment support.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Mabox Linux 26.09 Released: September ISO Refresh With Updated Stack and Tools
Mabox Linux 26.09 has been released as a September ISO refresh based on the second point release of Manjaro stable, featuring an updated software stack that includes notable versions like GCC 16.2.1 and Firefox 155.0.1. The distribution offers two kernel options and a refined Openbox desktop environment, along with an upgraded F12 Quake-style terminal that now supports drag-and-drop functionality. Additionally, two community remastering tools have been officially included, allowing users to create custom ISOs and persistent USB drives from their current system state. Mabox continues to prioritize stability and lightweight performance for older hardware, maintaining a predictable release schedule while keeping up with software advancements
September 11th, 2026 — Source or Source

Mold High Speed Linker Being Rewritten In Rust, Hopes To Be The Default Linker On Linux
The Mold high performance linker that typically outperforms the likes of LLVM lld, GNU LD, Wild, and others is being rewritten in the Rust programming language and also has an ambitious goal of being adopted as the default linker on Linux systems.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

MoonTranslator -- minimalist desktop translation application
MoonTranslator is a desktop translation application designed to provide quick access to translation without keeping a large window open.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Patches Ready For AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Enabled By Default With Linux 7.4 With FreeSync, VRR & ALLM
Linux 7.4 is now set to reach the elusive milestone of HDMI 2.1 support for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver. After the HDMI Forum previously rejected HDMI 2.1 for the AMDGPU open-source driver implementation going back years, earlier this year something changed -- widely speculated to be with Valve's involvement -- that HDMI 2.1 patches began appearing for the AMDGPU driver. With the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle, the bulk of that work will now be in place and enabled by default.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Prominent Mesa Developer Now Working For Arm On PanVK & Panfrost Code
Erik Faye-Lund who has contributed to the Mesa 3D graphics driver stack working on areas like Zink and most notably the PanVK Vulkan and Panfrost Gallium3D drivers forr Arm Mali hardware is now working directly for Arm.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

QDiskInfo -- graphical frontend for smartctl
QDiskInfo is a graphical frontend for smartctl, the command-line utility supplied by smartmontools.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Rainlendar Lite 2.24.3 released
Rainlendar Lite 2.24.3 has been released as a versatile and user-friendly calendar application that occupies minimal space on your desktop. This platform-independent tool is compatible with both Windows and Linux operating systems, allowing users to enjoy a seamless experience across different platforms.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Yaws -- Erlang web server for dynamic content
Yaws is an HTTP/1.1 web server written in Erlang and designed particularly for dynamic web applications.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Wyrmhole -- secure peer-to-peer file transfer GUI
Wyrmhole is a lightweight desktop application for secure peer-to-peer file transfers using the magic-wormhole.rs protocol. It provides a graphical Send and Receive workflow for Linux, macOS and Windows, replacing command-line interaction with generated transfer codes, progress information and configurable settings.
September 11th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 10th, 2026

4 Best Free and Open Source Secret Scanning Tools
Secret scanning tools are designed to identify credentials and other sensitive information that have accidentally been stored in source code, configuration files, repositories or commit history. They are widely used by software developers, DevOps teams, security engineers and organisations that want to reduce the risk of passwords, API keys, access tokens, private keys and similar data being exposed.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

27 Best Free and Open Source Linux Plotting Tools
A plotting tool is computer software which helps to analyze and visualize data, often of a scientific nature. Using this type of software, users can generate plots of functions, data and data fits. Software of this nature typically includes additional functionality, such as data analysis functions including curve fitting.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Entra ID
Microsoft's attitude towards open source software has changed considerably over the years. The company once regarded open source as a threat to its business, but it now contributes to open source projects, participates in organisations such as the Linux Foundation and maintains a growing collection of open source software.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

COSMIC Epoch 1.8 Provides Latest Fixes & Minor Improvements For This Rust Desktop
Released overnight was the newest version of the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment developed by System76 as part of the effort on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

Croc GUI -- secure cross-platform file transfer
Croc GUI is an unofficial desktop frontend for croc, the command-line file transfer tool. It brings croc's encrypted peer-to-peer transfers to a graphical interface for Linux, macOS and Windows, while bundling the croc binary so users do not need to configure it separately.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

dnGrep 5.0.57.0 released
dnGrep 5.0.57.0 has been released as an open-source search and replace tool for Windows, providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for GREP functionality. This tool is designed for efficiently locating files and searching text within various document formats, including text files, Word documents, PDFs, and archives. It supports searches using text, regular expressions (Regex), XPath, and phonetic queries, making it a versatile option for users needing advanced search capabilities.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

Focus Timer -- Pomodoro time-management application
Focus Timer is a desktop time-management application built around the Pomodoro Technique.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

GNOME 51 Adds Support For Custom Pointer Acceleration Profiles
As a last minute change ahead of next week's GNOME 51 desktop release, changes to Mutter and gsettings-desktop-schemas have now landed for supporting custom pointer acceleration profiles.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

GNU Automake 1.19 Released With More Than One Year Worth Of Fixes
For those continuing to use GNU Automake over the likes of Meson or CMake for your build system, Automake 1.19 is out today as the first new release in 15 months. Among the many fixes in this release is for a bug dating back 14 years.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

Heralding -- credentials-catching network honeypot
Heralding takes a deliberately focused approach to honeypots. Its main job is to collect credentials submitted by attackers rather than reproduce complete vulnerable systems. It presents a collection of familiar authentication services, waits for connection and login attempts, and records the resulting session information for later analysis.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

HPR -- automatic offline activity tracker
HPR (Human Pattern Recorder) is an automatic activity tracker that monitors the active window and builds a detailed record of how you spend time on your computer. It works offline and does not require an account, with collected activity data stored locally.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

Intel BFF Driver Slated For Linux 7.4 Introduction
Last month I covered Intel posting a new driver named "BFF" for the Linux kernel. This BFF driver is for a new hardware feature debuting with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors for better dealing with aging CPU silicon where some bits may become stuck over time.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

Intel Xeon 600 Workstation Performance versus AMD Threadripper 9000 In Nearly 400 Benchmarks
Last month I had the chance to test the Xeon 678X workstation processor as my first hands-on opportunity with the Xeon 600 "Granite Rapids WS" series. The Intel Xeon 678X was within the HP Z4 G6i workstation and used it for a number of different benchmarks. In that HP workstation review were also some comparison points to the likes of AMD Ryzen Threadripper while in this article are some much more concentrated benchmarks between the competing Xeon 600 series and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series for workstations. Nearly 400 benchmarks plus power and frequency comparison too.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

KDE Gear 26.08.1 Update Brings kdenlive, ktorrent, and okular Crash Fixes
KDE has released Gear 26.08.1, a point update for its 180+ application suite that prioritizes stability and security over new features. The release delivers 16 commits to kdenlive, including timeline crash fixes and modernization of the deprecated FFmpeg -vsync flag, while ktorrent gets patched for ASAN-found memory leaks and use-after-free vulnerabilities. okular is hardened against a form-field save crash and receives a critical Synctex security backport for LaTeX users. Additional improvements span the suite, with itinerary gaining Air Canada and Lufthansa parsers, dolphin fixing middle-click tab behavior, and kdeconnect receiving RTL and cross-platform reliability updates.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Released With Many Great Improvements, Kup Backup Scheduler
KDE Plasma 6.8 brings many exciting improvements including vRAM usage optimizations, dwell clicker support on Wayland, Wayland commit-timing protocol support for KWin, improvements for the Union theme engine, better remote desktop support, multi-GPU handling improvements, the new kscreenctl tool, server-side drop shadow support, multi-monitor improvements, and a lot of other polishing throughout. Especially from the Wayland angle there has been a lot of polishing and fine tuning for Plasma 6.8.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

Manjaro Linux 26.1.2 Bian-May Drops With GNOME 50 and Kernel 7.1
Manjaro Linux 26.1.2 "Bian-May" landed today, closing out its initial release cycle with a comprehensive software refresh. The GNOME edition finally ships GNOME 50 "Tokyo," the KDE build includes Plasma 6.7, and the mainline ISO defaults to Linux Kernel 7.1 with fully rewritten NTFS write support. Existing Stable branch users can upgrade instantly with sudo pacman -Syu, while those on older hardware can grab minimal ISOs preloaded with the 6.12 or 6.18 LTS kernels. NVIDIA's newer proprietary drivers have officially dropped Pascal-era support, so GTX 10-series and older owners must migrate to the legacy 580xx packages before they vanish from the repository.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

Noctalia 5.1.0 Ships With Screenshot Editor, Cellular Support, and Enterprise Wi-Fi
Noctalia v5.1.0 shipped today, bringing a proper annotation-based screenshot editor and native cellular data toggles to the Wayland desktop shell. The update also finally adds WPA2 and WPA3 Enterprise Wi-Fi configuration directly in the control center, closing a long-standing gap for corporate and education environments. Built on a C++ rewrite that slashed memory usage by roughly 80 percent, this release focuses on workflow refinement rather than major architectural shifts. Community engagement sits noticeably lower than the v5.0.1 stable launch, which tells you the project has firmly settled into its maintenance phase.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA NVK Driver Lands Improvement To Help With Valve's Gamescope
Merged today for next quarter's Mesa 26.3 release is an improvement for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver. This latest NVK improvement benefits usage of Valve's Gamescope micro-compositor and should help with performance during game recording and remote play.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

Old MacBook uses a mirror, webcam, and AI agent to code its own AMD GPU drivers — 'agent-first' Omarchy Linux debugs itself, AI can check its own progress on screen in real-time
Technique has specifically been employed to progress an 'agentic Linux' distro called Omarchy.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

OpenAI's rogue AI agents accessed more websites to communicate than originally believed — defiant LLMs accessed old wikis and abandoned websites to co-ordinate in a bid to dupe assessors
Dozens of websites, apparently.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

ReactOS ARM64 Just Ran an x64 Windows Game, and It Borrowed Linux's Emulator to Do It
An experimental Arm build of the open-source Windows clone is running 64-bit x86 binaries through FEX, an emulator written for Arm Linux.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

UrsaOS -- Arch-based Linux distribution with Plasma
UrsaOS is an Arch Linux-based rolling distribution designed to provide a complete, preconfigured desktop while retaining the familiar Arch package base and tooling.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

WSL Manager 2.0.3 Ships With Store Pricing Patch and New MCP Tools
WSL Manager 2.0.3 has been released, addressing a Microsoft Store pricing error that mistakenly labeled the Pro app as free in 240 markets, while also fixing a GitHub API rate-limit issue that affected the community scripts browser. This update introduces new read-only tools for Kubernetes and Docker, and resolves previously frozen download URLs for Linux distros. The update also includes a proper Korean locale declaration, improvements to the CI pipeline for pricing accuracy, and fixes for Flutter SDK compatibility. Overall, the enhancements aim to improve the app's functionality and user experience, while maintaining its status as a free, open-source utility for managing Windows Subsystem for Linux and macOS Linux VMs
September 10th, 2026 — Source

X.Org Server 26.1 Moves Closer To Release As Half-Decade Update
We're getting closer to the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release as the first new tagged feature release since X.Org Server 21.1 debuted back in October 2021. There have been some new features, many code reverts, and many bug fixes merged over the past five years that will culminate with the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

Zephyr -- lightweight modular Zsh framework
Zephyr is a fast, lightweight and modular Zsh framework. Rather than expecting users to adopt one large opinionated configuration, it provides independent features that can be selected à la carte and combined with a modern Zsh plugin manager.
September 10th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — September 9th, 2026

9 Best Free and Open Source Recursive DNS Resolvers
The Domain Name System (DNS) translates human-readable domain names into the IP addresses computers use to communicate. When you type a website address into a browser, a DNS lookup is normally required before a connection can be made.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

17 Useful Free and Open Source Linux Column-Oriented Databases
A database is a collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system. Database tools and applications are designed to help you store and manage data in a controlled and structured manner. A database is a vital system for any organisation that stores mission critical information. The continual failure of a company's database system will inevitably lead to the demise of the organisation; companies cannot function without a fully working database system.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

A Nice Improvement Coming For Faster Btrfs Zstd Decompression
In addition to the still-pending kernel work for improving the in-kernel Zstd code, sepaarately the Btrfs file-system driver has an improvement on the way in its decompression code path for the Zstd transparent file-system compression.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

AMD Posts New GCC Compiler Patch For Extended Load Optimization
It's nice seeing a new GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patch out of AMD today that is a general optimization for the x86_64 compiler code and not exclusively tied to their Zen processors. It's an Extended Load Optimization to benefit code where there is a narrower type and then an arithmetic type with a wider type.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Adobe Substance 3D Designer
Adobe develops a large collection of proprietary creative applications covering photography, graphics, video, publishing and 3D content creation. Its Substance 3D family is aimed at artists and designers working with materials, textures, models and rendered scenes.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

clock-rs -- modern digital clock for your terminal
clock-rs is a modern digital clock for the terminal. It is designed as an alternative to tty-clock, adding extensive configuration together with timer and stopwatch functionality. Settings can be stored in a TOML configuration file while individual values can be overridden from the command line. The clock supports major desktop operating systems and adapts well to both permanent terminal displays and occasional use.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

COSMIC Epoch 1.8.0 Tagged: System76 Syncs Rust Desktop Stack and Wayland Compositor Overhaul
System76 has tagged COSMIC Epoch 1.8.0, pinning the Rust-based desktop environment to its latest development commits across more than twenty submodules. The release centers on a major overhaul of the cosmic-comp compositor, adding tablet emulation support, libei pasteboard sharing, and a new corner radius protocol for rounded window borders. Outside the compositor, users will find improved Bluetooth alias handling, a fixed audio source volume slider, and multi-factor PAM login chaining in the greeter. While Pop!_OS ships these updates through its internal pipeline, the epoch tag provides Arch, Fedora, NixOS, and other distros with a reliable coordinated snapshot.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

Experimental Patches Get Nouveau+NVK Working On NVIDIA DGX Spark GB10
Red Hat's David Airlie has managed another open-source graphics engineering feat... Getting the Nouveau reverse-engineered kernel graphics driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver running on the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip with the DGX Spark system.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

Fedora Asahi Remix -- Fedora Linux for Apple Silicon Macs
It is the flagship distribution of the Asahi Linux project and is developed through close collaboration between Asahi Linux and the Fedora Project. The distribution integrates the hardware enablement needed to make Linux practical on supported Apple hardware, rather than expecting users to assemble the necessary kernel, graphics and platform components themselves.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

Kactus2 -- graphical EDA tool based on the IP-XACT standard
Kactus2 is a graphical Electronic Design Automation toolset for designing systems-on-chip. Its focus is on improving IP reuse and integration across hardware and software development. It works with IP-XACT descriptions and supports both the IEEE 1685-2014 and IEEE 1685-2022 standards.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

KDE Frameworks 6.30.0 Released With KWallet Security Overhaul and KIO Upgrades
KDE has released Frameworks 6.30.0 as part of its monthly update cycle, landing on September 9, 2026. The build delivers a major KWallet security overhaul that clears out legacy code, fixes PAM authentication reporting, and deprecates outdated credential functions. KIO, the engine behind Dolphin, also gets significant upgrades including accurate folder disk usage tracking, improved HTTP upload handling, and better local template support. Alongside developer-focused additions like vi-mode fixes in Kate, new syntax highlighting for DotEnv and KiCad, and Kirigami layout improvements, the update is exactly the kind of stable maintenance Qt builders and Plasma power users need.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

Legendary 0.21.1 Drops with 75% Smaller Linux Binaries and Flatpak Support
Legendary has dropped version 0.21.1 "Lowlife (hotfix)," a focused September 8 release that backports several fixes from the Heroic Games Launcher fork into the upstream CLI client. The update shrinks standalone Linux binaries by roughly 75 percent, restores wrapper executable detection for Rockstar titles, and finally enables Flatpak sandbox compatibility for Ubisoft and EA App launchers.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 7.2-8 Released: Steam Deck VRAM Patches and PDS Scheduler Freeze Fix
Liquorix Linux Kernel 7.2-8 has landed, building on upstream Linux Kernel 7.2.4 with two headline updates. The release swaps in a v8 VRAM management patchset originally developed for the Steam Deck, improving memory coordination for APU and low-VRAM GPU users. It also reapplies SMT idle scheduler optimizations to the PDS/BMQ scheduler, now paired with a newly added freeze-prevention patch after earlier builds caused system hangs.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

Lumalarm -- smart alarm clock that wakes your computer from sleep
Unlike conventional alarm applications that require the computer to remain running, Lumalarm can suspend the machine using rtcwake and schedule it to wake shortly before an alarm sounds. It also offers mechanisms intended to make dismissing an alarm more deliberate, including typing and mathematical challenges and follow-up checks to confirm that you're still awake. The interface is built with Qt Quick and is highly customisable, with particular attention paid to compositors and tiling window managers.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

Node.js Releases v26.8.2 and v24.21.0 LTS with OpenSSL 3.5.8 and Crypto Upgrades
Node.js just shipped v26.8.2 and v24.21.0 "Krypton” within 24 hours, both carrying the OpenSSL 3.5.8 upgrade and routine dependency bumps. The LTS release stands out with a new STORE loader for hardware security modules, an NSS root certificate update, and notable speedups for URL parsing and HTTP responses. Meanwhile, the current v26 line focuses on internal cleanup, deprecating Server.prototype._listen2, updating Undici to 8.10.2, and improving riscv64 build flags. If you run production workloads, upgrading to v24.21.0 is the smart move before the Maintenance LTS window closes in April 2028, while developers can grab v26.8.2 for the latest Undici behavior and build fixes.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

NPBackup -- secure and efficient file backup solution
Having a solid data backup strategy is imperative in keeping your data safe. Your storage drives won't last forever. Also, hardware failure is just one way you can lose data. Even though Linux is less at risk of nasties like ransomware attacks than other operating systems, it offers no protection from things like natural disasters.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA 615.71.09 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements
NVIDIA today debuted the 615.71.09 Linux driver that comes with a number of improvements, especially from the Vulkan API perspective.
September 9th, 2026 — Source or Source

OpenSSL 4.1 Alpha 1 Released With DTLS 1.3, GREASE & More AVX-512 Optimizations
The first alpha release of the upcoming OpenSSL 4.1 release is now available for testing with some GREASE and DTLS 1.3 support along with more AVX-512 performance optimizations.
September 9th, 2026 — Source or Source

Running AMD openSIL + Coreboot On The First Available Ryzen AM5 Motherboard
Earlier this year the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm ported AMD openSIL CPU open-source silicon initialization library and Coreboot to an EPYC motherboard, the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1. Their next feat now achieved is bringing AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a desktop AMD Ryzen motherboard with their downstream Dasharo firmware solution. I have been running this alternative firmware on the MSI PRO B850P WiFi motherboard and it's been working out and performing well as an alternative to the closed-up motherboard firmware.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

Samba 4.24.7 Released: Ten Bug Fixes Target Internal DNS and AD Stability
Samba 4.24.7 is now available as a stability-focused point release addressing ten tracked bugs discovered since the previous update. The release primarily targets the internal DNS stack with fixes for UDP-to-TCP fallback failures, unwanted record scavenging on disabled zones, and EDNS negotiation issues. Additional patches resolve silent POSIX ACL errors on Windows shares, inactive cluster node recovery conflicts, and stream handle state corruption. While this release contains no new CVEs, it arrives shortly after Samba published 4.25.0rc2 for previewing the next development branch.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

System76 Launches The Thelio Mira AI With AMD Ryzen + NVIDIA Or AMD Graphics
System76 today unveiled their newest desktop computer as the Thelio Mira AI. The System76 Thelio Mira AI is designed for multi-GPU AI training, model fine-tuning, AI inferencing, computer vision and image generation tasks on tthe AI side. Or with its AMD Ryzen 9000 series CPU and NVIDIA/AMD GPU options is also a good candidate for simulations and other HPC-type workloads.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

Systemd v262 RC2 Drops With Zero-Downtime Kernel Updates and Varlink IPC Expansion
Systemd v262 RC2 landed on September 8 with first-class support for Linux kernel Live Update Orchestration, allowing service file descriptors to persist straight through kexec reboots without dropping connections. The candidate also cements Varlink as the primary IPC mechanism across nearly every component, while introducing systemd-imdsd for local cloud metadata access and a lightweight new OS installer. Security gets a major boost with systemd-vmspawn supporting both AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX, plus a complete overhaul of the TPM subsystem for measured boot and credential sealing. The final v262 release tracks for late September, though the rate-limit clock switch to CLOCK_BOOTTIME means maintainers should test suspend/resume behavior before deploying to production.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

Talisman -- detect sensitive data before Git commits
It examines outgoing changesets for material that looks suspicious, such as passwords, tokens and private keys, and is commonly used as a pre-commit or pre-push hook. It can also run as a standalone executable, making the same checks available outside the normal Git hook path. The emphasis is on catching mistakes early, before credentials reach a shared repository where remediation becomes more difficult.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

Tasks -- simple task manager for the COSMIC desktop
It provides a straightforward way to create, arrange and find to-do items while following COSMIC interface conventions. The program supports reminders, search, manual ordering and list organisation, with recovery options for deleted material. It is available through Flathub and can also be built from source using Rust and libcosmic.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

VSCodium 1.135.06055 Ships With VS Code 1.135 AI Features, Restores ARM32, and Adds 164 New Assets
VSCodium 1.135.06055 is bringing the full VS Code 1.135 feature set to the open-source fork, including a new "Rubber Duck" AI experiment and an agent host architecture that lets multiple windows share a session. The release offers 164 build assets across eight CPU architectures while officially restoring 32-bit ARM support for older Linux devices. Four first-time contributors landed patches this cycle, including an "anylinux" AppImage variant and a critical fix for macOS sandboxing quirks. If you're running a locked-down enterprise environment, the build keeps auto-updates disabled by default and preserves the option to ship MSI installers without Microsoft telemetry.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

WSL 2.9.11 Pre-release Adds Transactional Restart Support and Fixes Plan9 Mounts
Microsoft has released WSL 2.9.11, a focused pre-release update that stabilizes the Windows Subsystem for Linux Container (WSLC) runtime. The build introduces a transactional Restart() operation to the WSLC COM interface, allowing containers to restart atomically without losing port reservations or bind mounts. Two additional commits address Plan9 mount regressions, fixing read-only flag propagation issues and resolving attach failures caused by recent Windows updates. This drop follows a rapid succession of releases, signaling Microsoft's continued push to make wslc a viable alternative to Docker Desktop for Linux workloads.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

XWayland 26.1 RC2 Released For Testing With More Fixes
XWayland 26.1 is gearing up to be a big release with the first tagged significant update since XWayland 24.1 debuted back in 2024. XWayland 26.1 provides a better rootful implementation, multi-seat compatibility with X Input 2, support for new Wayland protocols, better Resize and Rotate "RandR" emulation, and many other improvements. It also drops EGLStream support.
September 9th, 2026 — Source or Source

YSERVER 1.5 Released With Reverse PRIME Support & Other New Features
Announced a few months back was YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in the Rust programming language. In getting the project off the ground quickly and given the size of X11, it was largely vibe coded with Claude Code. The project continues and is attracting contributions from more users with today marking the YSERVER 1.5 release.
September 9th, 2026 — Source or Source

Zed Editor 1.19.2 Adds Call Hierarchy, Git Multi-Select, and Enables Search-on-Type by Default
Zed Editor has released v1.19.2, a rapid patch build arriving just four days after the previous stable version with major IDE-parity features like LSP call hierarchy and multi-select in the Git panel. The update enables project search-on-type by default to mirror ripgrep --watch, though users can revert to explicit triggers by toggling search_on_type to false in their settings. AI integrations deepen with OpenRouter effort budgets, streaming fixes for OpenAI-compatible providers, an Ollama model detection correction, and a refreshed GPT Luna trial.
September 9th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 29th, 2026

5 Fun Free and Open Source Meme Generation Tools
The popular Syrian artist and meme creator Saint Hoax, who has millions of Instagram followers, defines a meme as a piece of media that is repurposed to deliver a cultural, social or political expression, mainly through humour.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

7 Best Free and Open Source Geophysics, Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Tools
Geophysics applies the principles of physics to the study of the Earth, using measurements and mathematical models to investigate structures and processes that cannot be observed directly. Seismology is a major branch of the field, concerned with earthquakes, seismic waves, and the way those waves travel through the Earth.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

8 Best Free and Open Source Virtual Globes
A virtual globe is a three-dimensional (3D) software model or representation of Earth or another world. A virtual globe provides the user with the ability to freely move around in the virtual environment by changing the viewing angle and position. Virtual globes may be used for study or navigation (by connecting to a GPS device) and their design varies considerably according to their purpose.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

15 Useful Bluetooth Tools for Linux
The Bluetooth wireless technology is a standard for a small-form factor, low-cost radio solution that provides links between mobile computers, mobile phones, other portable handheld devices, and connectivity to the Internet.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

Akizip -- graphical archive manager for GNOME
Akizip is a graphical archive manager built for GNOME with GTK 4 and libadwaita.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

Another x86 Advisory From Some Entity Other Than Intel Or AMD
Last October I highlighted an interesting post on the Linux kernel mailing list around an x86 corporate entity other than Intel or AMD that left mysterious intrigue. The developer that detailed those x86 opcode/CPUID/MSR allocations back in July then detailed 16-tile and 32-tile AMX implementations again for something outside the current scope of Intel/AMD processors. Today another message is being relayed from that "corporate entity other than Intel/AMD."
August 29th, 2026 — Source

Ansizalizer -- terminal UI to convert images to ANSI art
Ansizalizer is a terminal user interface for converting images to ANSI art.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

ArmorPaint -- GPU-accelerated 3D texture painting application
ArmorPaint is a graphical application for painting physically based materials directly onto 3D models.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

Asahi Linux nears M3 support release, M4 and M5 are on the way
The Asahi Linux project is very close to finally releasing a version with support for M3 Apple Silicon. However, M4 and M5 support is still in development.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

BORG Calendar -- desktop calendar and task tracking application
BORG Calendar is a desktop calendar and task tracking application that combines personal scheduling, to-do management and project tracking in a single program.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.
August 29th, 2026 — Source or Source

Commit -- editor for Git and Mercurial commit messages
Commit is a focused graphical editor for composing Git and Mercurial commit messages. It replaces a general-purpose text editor with a purpose-built interface that encourages clear, consistently formatted messages without attempting to become a complete repository client.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

F2FS With Now Handle Multi-Device Flushes In Parallel With Linux 7.3
Coming in as a late pull request ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window closing this weekend were the Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates that have now made it into Linux Git.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

GNOME's Very Exciting Week From Flatpak Funding To Reset Recovery Plus Apps
This week was extremely eventful in the GNOME space with GPU reset recovery for GNOME Mutter now largely wrapped up and the merge request opened to facilitate the code review. There was also the announcement of the half million Euro Sovereign Tech Agency investment into Flatpak. Plus on the application side were a few more interesting advancements this week.'
August 29th, 2026 — Source

GoSuki -- local bookmark manager
GoSuki is a local bookmark manager that tracks bookmarks across multiple web browsers and browser profiles.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.8 Improving Performance & Efficiency For Some Full Screen Content
Plasma 6.8 also saw work completed for improving the performance and power efficiency for full-screen content when using an Intel or NVIDIA GPU with either HDR, ICC profiles, and/or the night light effect. The change to KWin is for offloading single-plane OETF to the CRTC post-blend gamma LUT. This allows direct scan-out for more scenarios rather than falling back to shader composition, reducing color banding, and improving utilization of the DRM/KMS hardware color pipeline.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.8: Union Theming Engine Now Supports Legacy Qt Widgets
KDE's new Union theming engine can now style legacy Qt Widgets applications like Dolphin and KMail using the exact same CSS files that power modern QML interfaces. The breakthrough required developer Akseli Lahtinen to write approximately 9,000 lines of QStyle code to map CSS rules onto Qt's rigid painting framework. The feature ships with Plasma 6.8 in October 2026, which will also mark KDE's transition to a Wayland-only desktop environment. By unifying the visual pipeline, theme creators finally have a single entry point to deliver consistent styling across KDE's entire app ecosystem.
August 29th, 2026 — Source or Source

LACT v0.10.1 Patches Two CVEs and Adds Intel Xe Fan Control for Linux
LACT v0.10.1 has been released, providing important security updates by patching two CVEs related to its root-privileged daemon, along with enhancements such as Intel Xe fan control for Battlemage GPUs. The update also includes improvements like additional clock domain reporting for AMD and Nvidia cards, cleaner GPU naming in the user interface, and a new method for storing voltage/frequency curves for Nvidia. The security fixes address vulnerabilities that could allow local attackers to exploit the system, thus tightening privilege boundaries for users running the lactd service. This release exemplifies ongoing efforts to improve multi-vendor GPU management on Linux, while maintaining a focus on security and usability enhancements
August 29th, 2026 — Source or Source

Linux 7.3 Introduces 8250_mxpcie Driver For Moxa PCIe Multi-Port Serial Boards
The TTY/Serial code changes for Linux 7.3 were merged this week and include dropping the dated IPWireless driver while introducing the new 8250_mxpcie driver.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 UBI Adds Support For Per-Device Wear-Leveling Thresholds
The Unsorted Block Images "UBI" layer in the Linux kernel for NAND flash memory tracking and wear leveling finally has the notion of per-device wear-leveling thresholds.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

Material Maker -- procedural texture authoring and 3D painting tool
Material Maker is a graphical application for designing procedural materials and painting texture sets onto 3D models.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA Vulkan Frame Rate Up-Conversion "FRUC" Merged To FFmpeg
Frame Rate Up-Conversion enables generating higher frame rate video from lower frame-rate video content via inserting interpolated frames. FRUC helps improved the perceived visual quality With NVIDIA Optical Flow going back several years to Ada generation GPUs they have supported this hardware-accelerated functionality while upstream FFmpeg is now gaining support for FRUC using the Vulkan version of NVIDIA Optical Flow.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

ReactOS 0.4.16 Ships a Graphical Installer and Folds Its Two ISOs Into One
ReactOS 0.4.16 landed today, and it brings the one thing that always made this open-source Windows clone awkward to try: a graphical installer. It also ends the project's long-running split between a LiveCD you could poke at and a BootCD you actually installed from. One image now does both jobs.
August 29th, 2026 — Source or Source or Source

ReignOS -- Arch-based distribution
ReignOS is an Arch-based distribution designed to provide a console-style gaming environment across handhelds, laptops, mini PCs, and desktop systems.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

SteamOS 3.9 Preview Moves To Linux 7.2, KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop
In time for the weekend Linux gamers, Valve last night released the first preview of SteamOS 3.9 for the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and other devices. This early preview comes with some exciting software updates.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

The "KVM Chainsaw" Clean-Up Merged For Linux 7.3 Along With Other Fixes
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine "KVM" changes have landed for the Linux 7.3 merge window that is wrapping up later today.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

WebCord -- privacy-focused Discord web client
WebCord is an Electron-based client that places Discord's web application inside a security-hardened desktop shell.
August 29th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 28th, 2026

6 Best Free and Open Source Geology and Earth-Surface Science Tools
Earth science, also known as geoscience, covers the disciplines concerned with understanding the Earth, its structure, history, processes and constantly changing surface. It embraces fields such as geology, geophysics, geography, meteorology, oceanography and glaciology, with geology generally regarded as one of its central branches.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

8BitDo Launches "Ultimate Software Online" Browser-Based Configuration Tool for Linux Users
There has been a recent trend among peripherals brands to move to online or browser-based configuration and remapping tools, with tools like Wooting, Keychron Launcher, and open-source varieties like QMK/VIA and ZMK Studio leading the charge in the keyboard world. Now, it seems as though 8BitDo has seen the writing on the wall and announced the 8BitDo Ultimate Software Online to broaden compatibility for its suite of reprogrammable peripherals.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

15 Best Free and Open Source Google Analytics Alternatives
Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data. In a nutshell, it is the study of website visitor behavior. It is the process of using online data to transform a organization from faith-based to data driven.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

Atmos Weather -- cross-platform weather client
Atmos Weather is a cross-platform weather client for checking forecasts and receiving severe weather alerts across the United States.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

BracefaceOS -- Debian-based Linux distribution
BracefaceOS is a customized Linux distribution based on Debian.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

Chris Mason Steps Down As Btrfs Co-Maintainer, Departing Meta
Longtime Linux kernel developer Chris Mason is departing Meta. In the process of doing so, he is also stepping down from his co-maintainership role of the Btrfs file-system.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

EventSentry Light 6.0.1.82 released
EventSentry Light version 6.0.1.82 has been released, providing IT professionals with an essential tool for proactive infrastructure management and monitoring. This software acts as a vigilant sentry, delivering critical alerts and consolidating logs for easy access and review. Users benefit from advanced rule sets that filter alerts, ensuring that only the most pertinent notifications are received.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

Froxlor 2.3.13 Ships with Vhost Regression Fix and Let's Encrypt Hardening
Froxlor 2.3.13 shipped today, delivering targeted bugfixes to the open-source hosting control panel. Lead developer Michael Kaufmann addressed a regression in the getWebroot() function that broke document-root paths for Apache and Nginx virtual hosts, alongside a change that hides Let's Encrypt private key paths from the UI and API. The update arrives after a security-heavy period for the 2.x branch, capped by version 2.3.11 which patched over 20 vulnerabilities including authentication bypasses and CRLF injection flaws.
August 28th, 2026 — Source or Source

GPU Reset Recovery Merge Request For GNOME Mutter Submitted
Google Summer of Code 2026 featured a project working on GPU reset recovery for GNOME's Mutter compositor. GSoC has now wrapped up and the project overall was largely successful although some outstanding work remains. In this last week the merge request has been opened to conduct code review on this GPU reset recovery implementation for GNOME.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

KDE neon 20260827 Ships KDE Gear 26.08.0, Firefox 154, and Kernel 7.0.0-30
KDE neon has released its August 27 build, delivering Plasma Desktop 6.7.4 on top of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with a notably aggressive version jump. KDE Gear leaps straight to the 26.08.0 feature release after last week's bugfix cycle, while Firefox upgrades to 154.0.1 and KDE Frameworks lands at 6.29.0. The HWE kernel moved to 7.0.0-30-generic for newer hardware support, and KWin's DRM backend now handles GPU resets and inactive display outputs more reliably.
August 28th, 2026 — Source or Source

Keepers of Noble Numbats to be offered a Resolute Racoon: Ubuntu 26.04.1 is coming
It looks like the Racoon has bedded in and settled down, as Canonical releases the first point release of this year's Ubuntu LTS version, offering an upgrade to users on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat).
August 28th, 2026 — Source

Kepublicity -- create Kobo-formatted ebooks
Kepublicity is a graphical application for turning standard EPUB ebooks into Kobo-formatted KEPUB files. It provides a simple way to prepare ebooks for Kobo readers without having to perform conversions from the command line.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 Will Begin Checking USB-C Cables For Alt-Mode Support
The USB and Thunderbolt changes have been merged for Linux 7.3. Two changes stand out for me in the USB subsystem code with Linux 7.3. First, the kernel arguably being long overdue for checking USB-C cables capabilities whether they support alt-modes. Second, a new low-latency USB4STREAM option for lower latency data transfers between USB4-connected systems.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel Stable Release Patches Critical TAP/GSO Panic Vulnerability
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released stable kernel updates across eight major version branches, headlined by a critical network stack fix that prevents kernel panics when IP fragments enter tun/tap devices with Generic Segmentation Offload state. The upstream patch was authored by Anthropic researcher Xinyang Ge and can be triggered by unprivileged users or exploited across KVM virtualization boundaries, making it an immediate priority for multi-tenant cloud environments. The cycle also lands a separate TAP driver null pointer dereference fix tracking CVE-2026-74684 alongside additional networking vulnerabilities, while highlighting a growing trend of AI companies treating kernel reliability as essential infrastructure hygiene. Keep in mind that Linux 5.10 and 5.15 are approaching end-of-life in December 2026, so administrators running those branches should migrate to 6.1 or 6.6 LTS as soon as your maintenance window opens.
August 28th, 2026 — Source or Source

Mabox Linux 26.08 Released: Kitty Terminal, Yazi, and Official Snapshot Tools Join the CrunchBang Successor
Mabox Linux 26.08, codenamed "Istredd," officially launched today, delivering a heavily customized Openbox desktop built on Manjaro's stable branch. The update swaps the legacy F12 terminal for a GPU-accelerated kitty instance with drag-and-drop capabilities and preinstalls the Yazi file manager for power users. Official repositories now include mabox-snapshot and mabox-persistence-usb, two Python-based utilities that let creators clone their systems into bootable ISOs and write them to USB drives with persistent storage. Designed for aging hardware and keyboard-driven workflows, the CrunchBang-inspired distro continues to prioritize lightweight defaults, optional kernel selection, and rapid community-driven development.
August 28th, 2026 — Source or Source

MorphEdit -- browser-based and desktop audio editor
MorphEdit is a browser-based and desktop audio editor designed for preparing samples for hardware instruments. It includes dedicated support for Make Noise Morphagene reels while retaining general editing features suitable for other samplers and audio workflows.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA Linux Driver 595.99.02 Fixes Blackwell Scaling and Suspend Loops
NVIDIA has released Linux x64 Display Driver 595.99.02 to address critical bugs affecting Blackwell GPUs and modern Linux kernels. The patch fixes display output scaling corruption on RTX 50-series cards, resolves a suspend failure that traps systems after hibernation, and repairs black screen issues during TTY switching on Linux kernel 7.0 and newer. The team also merged the resume fix into the upstream open-source kernel modules, meaning distros like Arch and Debian will push the update automatically once their repositories sync. You can install the patch via your distro's package manager or grab the standalone .run file directly from NVIDIA's driver archive starting today.
August 28th, 2026 — Source or Source

Old IBM Driver Joins Insecure SGI Drivers In Being Removed For Linux 7.3
The char/misc changes were merged this week for the Linux 7.3 cycle. While there is a lot of IIO driver churn as usual and updates to the likes of the Google Binder drivers, there continues to be the 2026 trend of removing old hardware drivers that are rarely updated these days and likely have no active users left on the mainline Linux kernel. This trend is further pushed along by the surplus of AI/LLM-generated bug reports and patches these days causing additional maintenance burden for these obsolete drivers.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

OpenAI 'Bell' Model Leaks May Preview the ChatGPT 6 Successor
OpenAI has introduced the "Bell” model and the custom "Jalapeno” inference chip, marking notable advancements in AI development. According to World of AI, "Bell” builds on GPT-6 with improvements in reasoning, multimodal capabilities and contextual understanding. The "Jalapeno” chip addresses energy efficiency and latency, providing a practical solution for sustainable AI operations. These updates reflect ongoing efforts to enhance both performance and scalability in artificial intelligence.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

Qisutu -- open source ticket system
Qisutu is a self-hosted ticket system designed for handling customer requests and support workflows. It provides separate agent and customer portals together with email processing, automation, reporting, a knowledge base, configuration management database, and REST API.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

SeleniumBase -- all-in-one Python framework
SeleniumBase is an all-in-one Python framework for browser automation, end-to-end web testing, crawling and scraping. It extends Selenium WebDriver with higher-level APIs, automatic waiting, test runners and tools for recording and reporting browser activity.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

SteamOS 3.8.26 Beta Released: FSR Fixes and Broader Handheld Support
Valve has released SteamOS 3.8.26 Beta for users on the Beta and Preview channels, targeting performance regressions and expanding compatibility for third-party handhelds. The update resolves a critical composition bug that tanked frame rates when FSR was enabled, alongside fixes for Firefox fullscreen freezes and unstable Bluetooth connections with the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller. Developers also patched hardware-specific quirks on the MSI Claw A1M and Lenovo Legion Go, including WiFi regressions and battery display errors, signaling a push to treat SteamOS as a universal handheld operating system. You can opt into the new build immediately through Settings > System > System Update Channel, though the patches will take a few more weeks before rolling out to the Stable channel.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release
With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel's vast codebase, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel release. After typically being around 500 CVEs fixed per release, we are now approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed per release and perhaps will break that threshold for Linux 7.3.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

Vulkan 1.4.361 Released With New NVIDIA Vendor Extension
Collected over the past two weeks were various minor fixes and clarifications to the Vulkan API specification. There are improved VK_EXT_descriptor_heap align limits and other mostly maintenance updates/corrections. There is one new extension this time around and it's the NVIDIA VK_NV_private_data_base_handle.
August 28th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 25th, 2026

15 Best Free and Open Source Stacking Wayland Compositors
A window manager is software that manages the windows that applications bring up. For example, when you start an application, there will be a window manager running in the background, responsible for the placement and appearance of windows.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

Apple Launches The M6 2nm 12-core CPU, Quad-Die M5 Ultra
Apple today unveiled the M6 as their first 2nm SoC design while also introducing the M5 Ultra as their first quad-die product.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

AI-2 -- Artix-based Linux distribution with local AI assistant
AI-2 is an Artix Linux-based distribution designed to run local large language models on ordinary and older PCs. It uses the Xfce desktop and runit init system, and combines a lightweight Linux environment with tools that detect the computer's capabilities and select an appropriate AI configuration.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

Bac-Ha-OS -- Linux Mint based distribution
Bac-Ha-OS is a Linux Mint-based desktop Linux distribution available with either the Cinnamon or MATE desktop environment.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

Benchmarking Some Incredible Performance Gains With Btrfs On Linux 7.3
With the Btrfs pull request for Linux 7.3 having delivered more performance optimizations with some ~3x and ~5x gains mentioned in specific areas, I was eager to test out the new Btrfs performance on the in-development kernel. In today's article are some benchmarks of Btrfs on Linux 7.2 stable compared to Linux 7.3 Git with some very enticing performance gains confirmed in various workloads.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

Decades-long Linux ownership dispute effectively dead after Xinuos appeal rejected — US Court of Appeals halts the legal wrangling over IBM's and Red Hat's use of Project Monterey UNIX code
Xinuos plans to petition for a full‑bench rehearing of its case, but this kind of request has only a 0.03% success rate according to IBM's lawyers.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM Still Being Worked On For Intel Xe3P / Nova Lake
The in-development Linux 7.3 kernel is marking Nova Lake Xe3P graphics as stable in being enabled by default and no longer hidden behind the "force probe" flag. While on-by-default, there still are some features that have yet to land like the DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM functionality.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

HWiNFO Download v8.53
Download HWiNFO64 - a System Information and Diagnostics Tool. HWInfo64 is an application that monitors your PC's components and outs computer information about your the operating system, storage capacity, and RAM. It also displays more technical data, such as the number of logical CPUs, memory speed, and temperatures. HWiNFO is a professional hardware information and diagnostic tools supporting latest components, industry technologies, and standards. Both tools are targeted to recognize and extract the most possible amount of information about computer's hardware which makes them suitable for users searching for driver updates, computer manufacturers, system integrators and technical experts too.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

KDE Remote Desktop Experience Improving For Closing The X11 versus Wayland Gap
KDE developer David Edmundson is out today with a blog post around improvements that have been ongoing for the Plasma 6.8 release in improving the KDE remote desktop experience. As part of ensuring a good Wayland experience and hitting all the needs fulfilled by X11, Plasma 6.8 is seeing improvements for its remote desktop functionality.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 Device Mapper Sees Many Fixes, Including Code Cleanups By Claude Opus
The Linux Device Mapper "DKM" framework for mapping block devices to higher-level virtual block devices doesn't see any major new features for Linux 7.3 but there are many bug fixes, including code clean-ups carried out by AI.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 Gives the 2026 Steam Controller a Real Kernel Driver, Steam Client Not Required
The HID subsystem pull for the Linux 7.3 merge window landed with an addition plenty of people have been waiting on since May: initial kernel driver support for the 2026 Steam Controller. Vicki Pfau did the work, modernising the existing hid-steam driver so Valve's new pad reaches roughly the level of support the 2015 original has enjoyed for years, according to Phoronix.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

Linux Security Roundup: FFmpeg, Chromium, and Kernel Patches for Major Distros
Linux distributions have recently released a significant number of security patches, with notable updates for FFmpeg, Chromium, and Erlang targeting vulnerabilities that could lead to privilege escalation and other critical issues. Fedora 44 has updated Chromium to address twenty-three vulnerabilities, while Debian has implemented TLS hardening that may disrupt older configurations. Ubuntu's FFmpeg updates require a Pro subscription, and AlmaLinux has released an urgent patch to fix a local privilege escalation vulnerability in MRTG. Users are advised to prioritize applying these updates, particularly those related to media parsing and privilege escalation, before addressing broader network stack updates
August 25th, 2026 — Source or Source

Linux was announced by Linus Torvalds 35 years ago today — humble OS started with 10,000 lines of code but has now grown to 40 million, dominates global infrastructure
The OS would have been known as Freax if one of Torvalds' co-workers hadn't made a last-minute change to the upload.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

Lots Of New Audio Hardware Support In Linux 7.3
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE submitted all of the sound feature updates last week for the Linux 7.3 kernel. Besides the continued AI/LLM-generated patch churn, the sound code for Linux 7.3 sees a lot of new hardware support.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

MariaDB Q3 2026 Maintenance Releases and 10.6 End of Life Announcement
MariaDB has published Q3 2026 maintenance updates for its four active LTS branches, releasing Server 12.3.3, 11.8.9, 11.4.13, and 10.11.19 to deliver bug fixes and stability improvements. The foundation simultaneously marked the end-of-life for MariaDB 10.6, issuing 10.6.28 as the final binary on August 13 with no further community patches. Key changes in 12.3.3 include a new binary logging implementation and innodb_snapshot_isolation now defaulting to ON, a shift that could impact applications relying on REPEATABLE READ isolation. Users currently on version 10.6 are advised to migrate directly to 11.8 or 12.3 to leverage performance gains and new features without intermediate upgrade steps.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

New Tracer Open-Source App Combines Opus 5 and Codex Workflows
The collaboration between Opus 5 and Codex demonstrates a structured approach to AI integration, as outlined by Universe of AI. Using the Tracer open source desktop application, these models operate within defined roles to address complex challenges. For instance, Opus 5 handles strategic planning, while Codex focuses on generating and refining code. Tracer facilitates this division of labor by assigning tasks based on each model's strengths, making sure efficient communication and minimizing manual adjustments. This framework allows for a more organized and precise workflow in multi-step projects.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than the competition
Jalapeño outperformed Nvidia's superchips on an AI inference benchmark test.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

OpenSSL 4.0.2 Patches 11 Vulnerabilities, Including Moderate QUIC Flaw
OpenSSL released version 4.0.2, addressing eleven vulnerabilities across its supported branches alongside parallel updates for OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.0, and legacy 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 lines. The update patches a mix of Moderate and Low-severity issues, with the most critical finding being CVE-2026-18798, a Moderate-rated double-free flaw in the QUIC server that can trigger a denial of service. Other fixes target heap buffer overflows in CMS key unwrapping, memory amplification in DTLS record buffering, and format string vulnerabilities in the Certificate Management Protocol, all of which lack exploitable remote code execution paths. Administrators running OpenSSL 4.0.0 through 4.0.1 should upgrade to 4.0.2 immediately, while users on older branches must pull the corresponding point releases to resolve the disclosed resource management and integrity check issues.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

TwinHunter -- find and clean up duplicate files
TwinHunter is a command-line utility for finding and cleaning up duplicate files.
August 25th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 23rd, 2026

6 Best Free and Open Source OS-level Virtualization
A container is an operating-system-level virtualization method for running multiple isolated Linux systems on a control host using a single Linux kernel.
August 23rd, 2026 — Source

11 Best Free and Open Source Linting Tools
Writing can be extremely time consuming depending on how documents are reviewed at an organization. Most organizations have a editorial style which writers have to follow. Fortunately, there's software which helps writers achieve a consistent tone and style which reduces the time it takes for the review process to be completed.
August 23rd, 2026 — Source

GCC Patch Adjusting AMD Zen 5 Misprediction Cost Nets 12% Win In Benchmark
An AMD compiler engineer posted a patch on Saturday for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). The two-line patch adjusts the misprediction cost for Zen 4 and Zen 5 processors, which ends up yielding a 12% improvement in one SPEC CPU benchmark on Zen 5 and a 9% improvement on Zen 4.
August 23rd, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 Input Subsystem Updates Merged With Security Fixes, Other Improvements
The big set of input subsystem updates were merged earlier this week for the Linux 7.3 cycle. It's a random assortment of different improvements as well as bug/security fixes driven in part by the flow of AI/LLM generated discoveries.
August 23rd, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 Introduces New AES Encryption APIs - Will Open Up More Performance
Eric Biggers of Google continues carrying out great work on the Linux kernel crypto code. For Linux 7.3 he's landed work on new library APIs for most of the AES encryption modes used within the kernel. Moving forward this will open the door to more performance optimizations, reducing code duplication, and other enhancements.
August 23rd, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 7 Coordinated Release: Security Patches Hit 7.1.10 as Legacy 5.x Kernels Approach End of Life
The Linux kernel project has released seven coordinated updates, including the stable 7.1.10 branch and the aging 5.10.266 longterm tree, with a total of around 1,637 commits and over 680 security patches. Legacy kernels 5.10 and 5.15 are nearing their end of life, with only four months of support left before maintenance stops in December 2026, urging system administrators to plan migration to the newer 6.1.184 update for better security. The updates primarily focus on networking and GPU drivers, with significant fixes for vulnerabilities and performance issues, particularly in XFS and netfilter systems. This release day marks an extensive effort to address existing bugs and security concerns, emphasizing the importance for users to promptly apply the updates
August 23rd, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 Makes Preparations Toward Upstreaming FAMFS File-System
The NVDIMM and direct access (DAX) patches have been merged for the Linux 7.3 cycle. Most of the DAX/NVDIMM activity this cycle is on making preparations for the upcoming submission of Micron's FAMFS file-system.
August 23rd, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 7 Coordinated Release: Security Patches Hit 7.1.10 as Legacy 5.x Kernels Approach End of Life
The Linux kernel project released seven coordinated updates spanning from the current stable 7.1.10 branch down to the aging 5.10.266 longterm tree. This massive batch delivers approximately 1,637 commits and over 680 security-related patches, with networking and GPU drivers receiving the most attention. Legacy kernels 5.10 and 5.15 are now entering their final four months of support before dropping out of maintenance in December 2026, making this their penultimate update cycle. System administrators should prioritize testing the XFS and netfilter fixes in newer trees, while those still pinned to 5.x releases should begin migration planning to the 6.1.184 update for the largest security refresh available today.
August 23rd, 2026 — Source

PixiEditor 2.1.2.2 Released: Animation and Shader Fixes for Open-Source 2D Editor
PixiEditor 2.1.2.2 is now available, bringing a focused patch to the popular open-source 2D art editor. The update resolves nagging animation timeline bugs, including blank frame previews and performance leaks, while also updating the default shader code to support modern GLSL 300 compilation. Contributors also corrected alpha blending artifacts in procedural nodes and squashed a subtle variable renaming conflict within the GLSL editor.
August 23rd, 2026 — Source

PolonOS -- Debian-based Linux distribution
PolonOS is a Polish Linux distribution based on Debian Testing and built around the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment.
August 23rd, 2026 — Source

ReactOS Merges Support For Job Objects As Step To Running Modern Windows Apps
Merged yesterday to the ReactOS code-base is initial support for Job Objects, which is an important milestone in the road to being able to run more modern Windows software under this open-source operating system striving for Windows driver/application compatibility.
August 23rd, 2026 — Source

SiYuan -- privacy-first personal knowledge management application
It combines block-based note-taking with Markdown WYSIWYG editing, bidirectional links, databases, flashcards and document annotation.
August 23rd, 2026 — Source

T-PHANTOM OS -- security-focused Linux distribution for DFIR
It provides a KDE Plasma desktop with Arabic and English support and aims to present security applications as a coherent workstation rather than simply bundling as many tools as possible. The distribution is intended for security professionals, researchers, students, training labs and CTF environments.
August 23rd, 2026 — Source

Tero Subtitler -- create, edit, translate and validate subtitles
Tero Subtitler is a cross-platform application for creating, editing, translating and validating subtitles.
August 23rd, 2026 — Source

zwm -- minimal and opinionated tiling window manager for X11
zwm is a minimal and opinionated tiling window manager for X11.
August 23rd, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 22nd, 2026

AMD Publishes RDNA 4m Firmware Ahead Of Launch, Bringing Next-Gen APUs Closer To Linux Support
AMD's Upcoming RDNA 4m Graphics Take Another Step Toward Launch as Firmware Support Goes Live
August 22nd, 2026 — Source

Linux Security Roundup: rsync 33 CVEs, Ubuntu Reboot Required, and Java Updates Hit All Major Distros
Major Linux distributions have recently issued a series of coordinated security updates addressing numerous vulnerabilities, including 33 CVEs associated with rsync and critical updates for Java across various platforms. Ubuntu users are particularly urged to prepare for mandatory reboots due to changes in the kernel that affect ABI compatibility, which will impact manually compiled third-party modules. Other updates include significant patches for browsers, with Debian addressing 31 CVEs in Firefox ESR and fixes for Chromium, as well as critical hardening for PHP, curl, and kbd to mitigate SQL injection and local privilege escalation vulnerabilities. To ensure system security, users are advised to promptly run the appropriate package manager commands for their distribution and verify that all patches have been successfully applied
August 22nd, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 21st, 2026

8 Useful Free and Open Source S3 GUI Tools
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a scalable object storage service from AWS. It lets users store and retrieve large amounts of data, including backups, media files and application data, using buckets and objects rather than a traditional filesystem hierarchy. S3-compatible storage is also widely offered by cloud providers and self-hosted storage platforms.
August 21st, 2026 — Source

bluetui -- manage Bluetooth devices on Linux
It works with BlueZ and provides keyboard-driven control over Bluetooth adapters and devices. Users can scan for nearby hardware, pair and unpair devices, connect and disconnect, manage trust settings, rename devices and control adapter power.
August 21st, 2026 — Source

bzmenu -- launcher-driven Bluetooth manager for Linux
It uses BlueZ and lets users manage Bluetooth devices through application launchers such as Fuzzel, Rofi, dmenu and bemenu. Custom launchers supporting standard input can also be used.
August 21st, 2026 — Source

Debian is 33, Haiku is 25, and neither is standing stil
One remains a pillar of Linux, while the other keeps the BeOS dream alive
August 21st, 2026 — Source

Intel Compute Runtime 26.31.39395.13 Continues Prepping For Crescent Island, OpenCL LEO
Intel today released the Compute Runtime 26.31.39395.13 open-source GPU compute stack update for Windows and Linux systems. Big ongoing trends for the Intel Compute Runtime continue to be preparing for upcoming Crescent Island and Nova Lake Xe3P graphics hardware as well as building out their new OpenCL LEO driver.
August 21st, 2026 — Source

Intel Computer Vision Sensing Driver Now Ready For Nova Lake
The main set of media subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 merge window. Notable this round is the Intel Computer Vision Sensing "CVS" driver merged the previous cycle now supporting next-gen Nova Lake platforms.
August 21st, 2026 — Source

Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, "Enormously Helped" By AI
It's pretty rare to see Linus Torvalds author patches himself pertaining to the open-source Linux graphics drivers, but waking up this morning I was surprised to see he authored and committed an Intel Xe kernel graphics driver change himself. It ended up being after he encountered a "debug session from hell" but was ultimately helped by AI in fixing a bug that had been irking him.
August 21st, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 Cleans Up Stack Randomization, Ensures It Happen As Early As Possible
Merged this week for the Linux 7.3 kernel was a big clean-up to the stack randomization code for better security on Linux systems and helping unify some of the architecture-specific code.
August 21st, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 Ready With CXL Type-2 Driver Support For AMD Solarflare NICs
With the mainline Linux 7.2 kernel there is now the basic support in place for CXL Type-2 accelerator drivers within the CXL core subsystem code. The first in-tree Type-2 driver with the Linux kernel is for the new AMD Solarflare NIC hardware.
August 21st, 2026 — Source

Linux has its own NVIDIA ShadowPlay inspired screen recorder, and it works on all major GPUs
GPU Screen Recorder 6.0 supports Linux recording on AMD, Intel and NVIDIA
August 21st, 2026 — Source

MakowiecOS -- Debian-based Linux distribution
The distribution aims to provide a modern, responsive desktop while keeping background processes and resource usage relatively low. It is available as a 64-bit ISO image. The project recommends 4GB of RAM and 15GB of storage, although its stated minimum requirements are 1.5GB of RAM and 10GB of storage.
August 21st, 2026 — Source

New Game Performance Updates Make SteamOS a Viable Linux Choice
The gaming landscape is shifting rapidly and one area seeing significant evolution is the pricing and accessibility of hardware like Steam Machines. In a recent update, Deck Ready examines how rising hardware costs are influencing the gaming community, with a particular focus on the Steam Machine ecosystem. For example, the increasing demand for portable PC gaming devices, combined with inflation and supply chain challenges, has pushed prices higher, making affordability a growing concern for many gamers. This update highlights how these economic factors are reshaping decisions around gaming setups and upgrades.
August 21st, 2026 — Source

Nginx Dark Mode Support For Error Pages Remains Elusive
In early 2025 I wrote about the upstream Nginx web server rejecting dark mode support for its error pages on the basis of wanting to keep the default error pages simple and developers arguing the extra HTML tag for the dark mode styling as superfluous. Following a lot of public backlash for being against offering native dark mode handling by default, Nginx stakeholders were polled and largely came out in favor of supporting the functionality but more than one year later it remains elusive from upstream Nginx.
August 21st, 2026 — Source

VAPOR -- interactive 3D visualization environment
VAPOR (Visualization and Analysis Platform for Ocean, Atmosphere, and Solar Researchers) is an interactive 3D visualization environment for scientific data.
August 21st, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 19th, 2026

5 Trending Open Source AI Tools to Try in August 2026
Open source AI projects are gaining attention for their ability to address specific challenges across various fields. In a recent overview, Matthew Berman highlights six notable projects, including Unsloth, a framework that simplifies the fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs). Unsloth adopts a local-first approach, making sure that processes like training and deployment remain secure on the user's device while still allowing optional remote access. This approach reflects a growing emphasis in open source AI on balancing user control with practical functionality.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Library Management Systems
A library management system (also known as an integrated library system) is an automated resource planning system which enables a library to operate efficiently, freeing staff from unnecessary tasks. This type of software typically offers functionality such as cataloging, searching, reporting, acquisitions, library circulation and management embodied into a central system.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

AMD EPYC 9005 Series Memory Scaling Performance From 4 To 24 DDR5 RDIMMs
With today's memory prices, a frequent question at Phoronix and throughout many organizations is about reducing cost by not necessarily populating all memory channels. Especially with modern servers going up to 12 memory channels per socket or even 16 memory channels with upcoming EPYC Venice, you may be curious about the performance impact of populating less memory channels to see if the trade-off is worthwhile given today's DDR5 RDIMM pricing. In this article are benchmarks from a Dell PowerEdge server looking at a dual AMD EPYC 9655 2P configuration when testing between four and the full twenty-four DDR5-6400 RDIMM configuration and the resulting performance impact in more than 250 benchmarks.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

BIND 9.20.27 and 9.21.25 Released: What DNS Operators Should Know
ISC released BIND 9.20.27 and BIND 9.21.25 today, making them the first monthly maintenance releases under ISC's new security cadence. BIND 9.20.27 is the stable update for production systems, while BIND 9.21.25 is the development branch for testing new features. The shift follows ISC's warning that LLM-driven code analysis is producing vulnerability reports at more than 10 times historic levels. If you run BIND 9.20, update to 9.20.27 now, and if you are still on BIND 9.18, migrate immediately because that branch is end of life.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

China shifting massive AI data center complexes to rural provinces to tap surplus energy — 'Eastern Data, Western Computing' strategy has Chinese tech giants Huawei and Tencent building AI infrastructure Guizhou
These data centers are popping up left and right in rural China.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

Framework Says 80% of Laptop 12 Owners Run Linux, So Fedora Now Ships Preinstalled
A new Wildcat Lake board, Thunderbolt 4 and a backlit keyboard at last, plus an admission that four out of five buyers were wiping Windows anyway.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

KMouseTool -- accessibility application
KMouseTool is an accessibility application that automatically clicks the mouse when the pointer pauses.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 Deprecates Many Older 32-bit ARM Platforms, Orphans Hundreds Of Drivers
All of the SoC updates have been merged for the Linux 7.3 kernel that include adding some new SoCs as well as deprecating several older 32-bit ARM platforms. In turn with those platforms deprecated, "hundreds" of drivers are now orphaned in the process.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 Scheduler Improvements: Help For Gaming, Hybrid CPUs, Lower Scheduler Latency
The exciting set of scheduler updates have been merged for the Linux 7.3 merge window.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

Linux LTS Kernel 5.10.265, 5.15.216, 6.1.183, 6.6.152 Updates: Thunderbolt and SCTP Security Fixes Land Across Four Stable Branches
Greg Kroah-Hartman released four long-term support kernel updates today, spanning a focused 154-patch release to a sprawling 608-patch stable build. The cycle prioritizes memory safety, landing critical bounds-checking fixes for Thunderbolt port parsing, SCTP use-after-free vulnerabilities, and BPF sockmap double-releases across all four branches. Hardware monitoring drivers and staging wireless modules like rtl8723bs received extensive security hardening, while KVM virtualization and IPVS networking stacks saw targeted stability patches. All builds cleared verification from core kernel maintainers, and systems running untrusted USB peripherals or active SCTP services should treat these updates as immediate priorities.
August 19th, 2026 — Source or Source

New AMD Low-Power Core & Unified Intel/AMD CPU Core Type Handling In Linux 7.3
Covered first on Phoronix back in June was an AMD Linux patch for introducing a new "low power" CPU core type to complement their typical "performance" cores and their "efficiency" cores like with Zen 4C/5C. That low power core is presumed for some Zen 6 clients and that integration is now merged for Linux 7.3 as well as unifying the Intel/AMD CPU core type handling.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

Nginx 1.31.4 Release: PROXY Protocol v2 and gRPC Hardening
Nginx 1.31.4 is live, bringing native PROXY Protocol v2 support to the stream and mail modules for easier integration with modern cloud load balancers. The update also standardizes how HTTP/2 and gRPC requests are forwarded to backends, ensuring consistent authority and Host header handling for microservices. After a volatile security season that saw over a dozen CVEs patched across the first three mainline releases, this version focuses on stability with zero new vulnerabilities and fixes a binary regression for third-party modules. Operators running gRPC traffic or cloud proxies should upgrade immediately, while stable branch users on 1.28.x can verify their security patches before moving.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

PHP 7.4 To PHP 8.6 Benchmarks, PHP 8.6 JIT Performance
A Phoronix Premium supporter recently relayed a request to see some fresh PHP performance benchmarks. So here are some fresh numbers of PHP 7.4 through the latest PHP 8.5 code plus the current Git state of PHP 8.6 ahead of the official PHP 8.6.0 release later in the year. With PHP 8.6 is also a fresh look at the JIT performance enabled too.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig Launches
The newest Raspberry Pi product to launch is the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

SimPEG -- simulation and gradient-based parameter estimation in geophysical applications
SimPEG is software for simulation and gradient-based parameter estimation in geophysical applications. It provides a modular framework for constructing forward simulations and solving inverse problems involving subsurface physical properties.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

Tails 7.11 Update: Tor Browser 15.0.20 and Persistent Storage Fix
Tails 7.11, released on August 19, 2026, updates the privacy operating system with Tor Browser 15.0.20 based on Firefox ESR 140.14. The release resolves issue #19913, fixing a bug that blocked Persistent Storage activation on specific hardware and restoring the ability to save encrypted data across reboots. Users running Tails 7.0 or later can upgrade via the automatic built-in updater, while manual ISO images are available for fresh installs. This patch follows the Tor Project's monthly release cadence and builds on recent security efforts addressing kernel vulnerabilities within the integrated Tor ecosystem.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

Worklenz -- web-based project management platfor
Worklenz is a web-based project management platform that helps teams plan projects, organise tasks, allocate resources and monitor progress.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

XWayland 26.1 RC1 Released With Many New Features
Olivier Fourdan of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of XWayland 26.1. This is the first new tagged feature release since XWayland 24.1 back in 2024! As such there are many new features in tow.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

Zeta -- fast dual-pane terminal file manager
It combines local and remote file management with an embedded terminal, Git integration, archive browsing, file previews, and a built-in text editor. SSH and SFTP support lets you work with remote systems alongside local directories, while multiple independent workspaces make it easy to keep different tasks separated.
August 19th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 18th, 2026

AltDot 1.3 released
AltDot 1.3 has been released, enhancing its role as a valuable tool for file management. This application conveniently resides in your system tray, allowing users to manage the visibility of hidden files and file extensions with ease. The newly updated version simplifies navigation and organization by enabling toggling of these often-overlooked elements with just a few clicks.
August 18th, 2026 — Source

ASUS ROG Astral RTX 50 gets 12V-2×6 per-pin monitoring on Linux
ASUS ROG Astral RTX 50 power connector sensors now work under Linux
August 18th, 2026 — Source

Better-PaaS -- agent-first, self-hosted platform as a service
Better-PaaS is an agent-first, self-hosted platform as a service (PaaS) for deploying applications from Git to infrastructure you control.
August 18th, 2026 — Source

Fairphone Gen 6+ with /e/OS: De-Googled Modular Phone at €699
Fairphone has launched the Gen 6+ paired with Murena's /e/OS, a de-Googled Android alternative priced at €699 / £599 / $699 and available now in Europe with a back-order in the US. The mid-cycle refresh bumps RAM to 12 GB and adds the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4, while retaining the modular chassis that lets you swap 12 components with a single screwdriver. /e/OS V4 ships out of the box, replacing Google's ecosystem with Murena's cloud suite, App Lounge, and a five-year warranty that extends support through at least 2033. It's a notably pricey commitment for a mid-tier chipset, but the combination of ethical sourcing, repairability, and a turnkey privacy-first OS makes it one of the few mainstream smartphones actually designed to outlive its owner.
August 18th, 2026 — Source

Fedora 45 Workstation Test Day: Help QA Test GNOME 51
Fedora QA has launched a five-day community test window for GNOME 51 on Fedora 45 Workstation, running from August 17 to August 21 ahead of the desktop's September 12 stable release. The update ships over 47 upgraded modules, featuring web-based authentication, a standardized frosted glass window protocol via Wayland, exact rational math in Calculator, and a rewritten GTK frameclock. Participants are instructed to install Fedora 45 on non-production hardware, run the official test cases, and file verified bugs against upstream GNOME GitLab or Red Hat Bugzilla. This final quality gate ensures Fedora 45's full desktop stack is stable before it reaches the general public next month.
August 18th, 2026 — Source or Source

Fedora x86-64-v3 Optimized Packages Pushed Back To At Least Fedora 46
There was a proposal under discussion the past few months on building x86-64-v3 packages for Fedora 45 while retaining x86-64-v1 packages. The hope was building the Fedora packages with x86-64-v3 where AVX/AVX2, FMA, BMI2, and other newer ISA features can be assumed in the name of better performance. Unfortunately, the x86-64-v3 plans are now delayed but may be reconsidered next year with Fedora 46.
August 18th, 2026 — Source

Flux -- multi-threaded Linux file manager
Flux is a minimalist file manager for Linux written in Rust. It combines a GTK 4 and libadwaita interface with asynchronous file handling, aiming to remain responsive even when browsing directories containing thousands of files or generating large numbers of thumbnails.
August 18th, 2026 — Source

Intel Enables Buffer Compression For Better Gaming Performance With DXVK
Merged today to Mesa 26.3-devel is a nice performance boost for Intel graphics with Valve's Steam Play when using DXVK for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 over the Vulkan API. The open-source Intel ANV driver is seeing up to 5% better performance with DXVK.
August 18th, 2026 — Source

Lenovo Lands New Watchdog Driver In Linux 7.3 For Their SE30G2 + SE60 Edge AI Computers
When it comes to the watchdog driver changes for Linux 7.3, standing out is the new Lenovo driver for their upcoming ThinkEdge AI edge computing systems.
August 18th, 2026 — Source

linktui -- manage Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and WireGuard VPN connections
linktui is a fast, minimal terminal user interface for managing Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and WireGuard VPN connections on Linux.
August 18th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 Corrects Faulty Behavior Of FAT File-System Driver For Filenames Too Fat
It's not too often that the Linux FAT driver for FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 format support receives updates worth mentioning. For Linux 7.3 there is one patch though and it's due to the driver until now lacking an upper-bounds check on the length of the filename, which could lead to some unexpected situations with extremely long filenames.
August 18th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 drops support for two ancient file systems
he upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel drops SGI's EFS and the Veritas freevxfs driver, ditching thousands of lines of legacy code.
August 18th, 2026 — Source

OpenQuake Engine -- seismic hazard and risk analysis
OpenQuake Engine is software for seismic hazard and risk analysis developed by the Global Earthquake Model Foundation. It is designed for modelling the impact of earthquakes using established seismic hazard and risk methodologies.
August 18th, 2026 — Source

QDM -- download manager
Our analysis indicates this program is AI-heavy and is excluded from our GUI Download manager roundup. If you prefer not to use AI-heavy software, we suggest you pick one of the many open source alternatives listed at the bottom of this page.
August 18th, 2026 — Source

Rust For Linux 7.3 Begins Seeing Fixes To Prepare For Rust's GCC Backend
In addition to the POWER/PowerPC code adding Rust kernel support, the main set of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.3 kernel have now been submitted. Most notable are early fixes toward eventually allowing the experimental Rust GCC back-end to be used as an alternative to the official rustc compiler with LLVM code generation.
August 18th, 2026 — Source

SkillFishOS -- Debian-based Linux distribution
SkillFishOS is a Debian-based Linux distribution designed primarily for the AMD BC-250 compute board. It uses KDE Plasma and seeks to turn the inexpensive mining-oriented board into a ready-to-use desktop computer and gaming console.
August 18th, 2026 — Source

Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment
Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps
August 18th, 2026 — Source

The CachyOS Performance versus Other Linux Operating Systems On A $46k USD Workstation
Recently I looked at the performance of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS versus Windows 11 on the Intel Xeon 678X running within the HP Z4 G6i workstation. Linux performed admirably as one would expect. With this Intel Xeon Granite Rapids WS workstation from HP though commanding a retail price more than $46,000 USD, you likely want nothing but the utmost performance out of it. So for those looking to maximize the OS performance, here are some numbers from the HP Z4 G6i workstation when running not only Ubuntu 26.04 LTS but also Fedora Workstation 44, AlmaLinux, and the performance-optimized CachyOS.
August 18th, 2026 — Source

XFS Lands FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES For Efficiency Improvement In Linux 7.3
The XFS file-system improvements have been merged for Linux 7.3. For end-users the only notable change for this file-system on the new kernel is adding support for FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES.
August 18th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 17th, 2026

14 Best Free and Open Source Linux Terminal Multiplexers
The nuts and bolts of Linux seem destined to be increasingly hidden away from the desktop user. The continuing development of popular desktop environments offering attractive interfaces and fancy features shows no sign of abatement. However intuitive and slick desktop environments become, there is little prospect that the faithful terminal will be consigned to the recycle bin in the near future. There is simply too much power at the hands of a terminal for many experienced Linux users.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

AMD Working On A New Backend For Improving ROCm Compute In QEMU/VMs
AMD engineers are working on enhancing the open-source ROCm compute stack for better handling GPU virtualized compute under QEMU.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

ARM64 BBML3 Feature Ready With Linux 7.3, NVIDIA Olympus Workarounds
AI/LLM patch craziness hurt ARM64 development for the Linux 7.2 cycle that no real features landed for that kernel version on AArch64. Fortunately, the ARM Linux developers are more prepared now and for Linux 7.3 are introducing some new ARM64 features.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

Con Kolivas Revives "-ck" Patches & MuQSS To Improve Linux Desktop Responsiveness
Huge surprise this morning! Longtime Linux users may recall the out-of-tree work done years ago by open-source developer Con Kolivas... And as part of that his work on the Brain F*** Scheduler that evolved into the MuQSS scheduler, all in the name of working to improve Linux desktop and mobile responsiveness. While a number of years ago he decided to retire from this out-of-tree Linux kernel work, out of the blue he announced a new -ck patch series today with updated MuQSS code.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

DBeaver 26.1.5 released
DBeaver version 26.1.5 has been released, enhancing its capabilities as a versatile, open-source database management tool designed for a broad range of users, including developers, SQL programmers, database administrators, and analysts. It supports a wide array of databases such as MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, and many others, making it an ideal choice for those who work with varied database platforms.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

Firefox 154 Now Available With "Manage AI" Quick Action
Firefox 154 is now available as the newest monthly update bringing a few new features, enhancements, and other alterations to this open-source web browser.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

GemPy -- construct three-dimensional geological models
The software uses an implicit representation approach to build complex geological structures from surface points and orientation measurements. It can represent folded stratigraphy, fault networks, unconformities and other relationships between geological units.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

GIMP is preparing to replace its nearly 30-year-old project file format
GIMP is getting a new project file format, replacing XCF, which it used for nearly 30 years. There will also be better PSD support, and much more.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

GNU Linux-Libre 7.2-gnu Drops: FSF Latin America Cuts Firmware Blobs From AMD, Qualcomm, and Intel Drivers
GNU Linux-Libre 7.2-gnu has been released by FSF Latin America, stripping proprietary firmware blobs from the upstream Linux kernel 7.2-rc7. The latest deblob patch caught non-free code across a broad range of modern hardware drivers, including AMD GPU stacks, Qualcomm Adreno entries, Intel Wi-Fi, and newly added MediaTek audio components. Built on a minimal-changes approach, the release ensures that 100% free distributions like Trisquel and Parabola can boot without forcing users to download proprietary software. Source tarballs are available now at the FSF Latin America website, with compiled Debian and RPM packages scheduled to follow shortly.
August 17th, 2026 — Source or Source

GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu Released Following More Driver Cleaning
Following yesterday's release of the Linux 7.2 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu is now available for this kernel downstream that strips out support for drivers depending upon non-free-software microcode/firmware, the ability to load closed-source kernel modules, and other restrictions in the name of software freedom.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

HestiaCP 1.10.3 Released: Fixes FileGator and Firewall Bugs
HestiaCP 1.10.3 has arrived as a targeted service release to patch regressions from earlier this week's massive 1.10.0 feature dump. The update resolves a critical FileGator breakage caused by a missing Symfony dependency, alongside a firewall rule reordering bug that risked configuration corruption. Additional improvements include fixed CSS for long DNS records, routine locale updates, and substantial code cleanup that shaves over 1,600 lines.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

KTransformers 0.7 Expands AVX-512 Support To Benefit AMD EPYC Servers
KTransformers as the framework for heterogeneous LLM inference and fine-tune optimizations is out today with its v0.7 feature release.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

Intel & AMD Power Management Driver Improvements Ready For Linux 7.3
In advance of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening, Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki of Intel submitted all the power management, ACPI, and thermal control code. As not too much of a surprise, Intel and AMD driver updates dominate the power management changes for Linux 7.3.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

Landlab -- numerical modelling of Earth-surface dynamics
Landlab is a Python package for the numerical modelling of Earth-surface dynamics.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

izrss -- terminal-based RSS feed reader
A news aggregator gathers news, blog posts, and other web content into one place, making it easier to follow updates from many different sources. Given the huge number of news sites and blogs online, these tools are invaluable for quickly spotting important developments and breaking stories.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 On PowerPC Now Supports In-Kernel Rust, Initial Power12 Enablement Begins
The PowerPC pull request has already been sent in for the now open Linux 7.3 merge window. The headline feature this cycle on the POWER side is Rust kernel support for PowerPC 32-bit PPC32BE big endian and PowerPC 64-bit PPC64LE little endian architectures.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance
Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance
August 17th, 2026 — Source

Linux Security Updates Today: Critical Docker, Rust, and Arbitrary Code Execution Fixes
Debian shipped its standard batch of security updates today, but the combined volume across Fedora, Gentoo, RHEL, and SUSE makes this a Monday worth scanning before lunch. The headlines all point to the same recurring problem: bundled dependencies rotting in the dark, and web-facing services getting patched one CVE at a time. Docker, Rust toolchains, nginx, and PostgreSQL all landed critical arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation fixes that server admins should apply immediately. Meanwhile, RHEL and SUSE focused their updates on directory servers, curl, and the kernel, while Debian and SLE kept legacy systems from rotting in place with fresh LTS and ELA patches.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

Nebula Linux -- Arch-based rolling release Linux distribution
Nebula Linux is an Arch-based rolling release Linux distribution built around DankMaterialShell and the niri scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

Portfolio -- minimalist, touch-friendly file manager
Portfolio is a minimalist, touch-friendly file manager designed for Linux mobile devices.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

qalc -- command-line interface for Qalculate!
qalc is the command-line interface for Qalculate!, a powerful multipurpose calculator designed for both everyday arithmetic and advanced mathematical work. It can evaluate a single expression supplied as an argument or operate interactively with history, completion and configurable settings.
August 17th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 13th, 2026

17 Best Free and Open Source Image Processing Libraries
When we think of great open source image processing software, tools like GIMP, Blender, and Inkscape instantly spring to mind.
August 13th, 2026 — Source

Bottles 66.2 Releases Hours After 66.1, Patching Steam Runtime and NVK Vulkan on Linux
Bottles 66.2 was released less than 24 hours after version 66.1, addressing six critical regressions and improving network calls for the Linux Wine and Proton manager. The hotfix resolves a bottle-deletion crash, restores custom Steam Runtime launch flags, and fixes case-sensitive DLL conflicts for XACT audio dependencies. Additionally, it enhances detection for NVIDIA's NVK Vulkan driver and improves the execution of external executables. This update is now available via Flatpak and cpak, ensuring stability for the community of over 143,000 users while they await the next major feature release
August 13th, 2026 — Source or Source

Dompdf -- HTML to PDF converter
Dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter written in PHP. It provides a CSS-driven layout and rendering engine that transforms HTML documents and stylesheets into PDF files.
August 13th, 2026 — Source

edmv -- bulk rename files
edmv is a command-line utility that lets you bulk rename files using your preferred text editor.
August 13th, 2026 — Source

Exim 4.100-RC3 Ships With Native DMARC and Feature Freeze
The Exim development team released version 4.100-RC3 on August 13, which includes native DMARC evaluation, expanded log selectors, and a fix for musl DNS out-of-bounds reads, while removing outdated malware scanner bridges and legacy protocol support. This release candidate signifies a feature freeze, with the official stable version expected to be released within weeks, and operators are encouraged to test it now. Notable improvements include the ability for Exim to validate DMARC records internally, expanded logging capabilities, and various fixes for security vulnerabilities. The project has also announced a new versioning structure that distinguishes between security patches and major updates, aiming to streamline future updates and maintenance
August 13th, 2026 — Source or Source

GeForce NOW On Linux Native App Exits Beta
At the beginning of the year NVIDIA released a native build of GeForce NOW for Linux using Flatpaks. Today their native Linux build has exited beta to reach official production status for this cloud gaming solution from NVIDIA.
August 13th, 2026 — Source

Intel XPU Manager 2.1 Released For Monitoring Arc Pro Graphics On Windows/Linux
Intel XPU Manager 2.1 is now available as the latest version of this open-source tool for Linux and Windows systems for the monitoring and management of Arc Pro graphics cards. The Intel XPU Manager helps in keeping an eye on device utilization and other metrics via the xpu-smi command and other components.
August 13th, 2026 — Source

keyb -- terminal-based custom hotkey cheatsheet
It lets you organize shortcuts into sections and quickly find them without leaving the terminal. Hotkey collections can be stored in YAML or JSON files.
August 13th, 2026 — Source

Linux Patches Enable Apple M4 NVMe Support
While the Apple M4 SoCs aren't yet supported by the mainline Linux kernel and the Apple M3 series hardware isn't yet ready for end-users, there are some early elements of the Apple M4 support beginning to come together by open-source developers working on the Apple Silicon support. Sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list were patches for enabling NVMe solid state drive support with the M4.
August 13th, 2026 — Source

MicroEmacs -- compact Emacs-like text editor
MicroEmacs is a compact Emacs-like text editor suitable for experienced programmers and beginners.
August 13th, 2026 — Source

Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20260809 Ships With 233+ CVE Fixes
While Microsoft continues working on Azure Linux 4.0 as its overhauled Linux distribution built atop Fedora, Azure Linux 3.0 remains the current stable production series. Released overnight was Azure Linux 3.0.20260809 and it comes with more than 233 security patches for recent CVEs in the AI era.
August 13th, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA GeForce NOW adds native Linux app and DLSS upgrades
NVIDIA has graduated the GeForce NOW native Linux app out of beta while also optimizing its DLSS tech in the cloud.
August 13th, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA GeForce NOW Linux App Exits Beta With Great New Perks
NVIDIA is kicking off the back-to-school season with a notable upgrade to its cloud gaming service. Alongside performance enhancements for cloud streamers, the native GeForce NOW app for Linux has officially graduated from beta status. NVIDIA also added a handful of more games to the fold, as well as a demo for Monster Hunter Wilds Prologue.
August 13th, 2026 — Source

PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 and Critical Security Patches Released; PG 14 EOL Notice Issued
PostgreSQL has shipped maintenance updates for every supported version, including 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24, to patch 30 security vulnerabilities involving heap buffer overflows and remote code execution risks. The third beta of PostgreSQL 19 is also available, bringing a unified REPACK command, SQL Property Graph query support, and temporal data handling via the FOR PORTION OF clause. Performance and optimizer enhancements in the upcoming release include automatic NOT IN to ANTI JOIN conversions, SIMD-accelerated COPY FROM operations, and a switch to LZ4 as the default TOAST compression method.
August 13th, 2026 — Source

OpenAI Introduces GPT-5.7 Astra and Ambitious ChatGPT 6 Doug
OpenAI and SpaceX have made significant strides in the AI landscape this week, unveiling advanced models designed to address distinct challenges and opportunities in the field. OpenAI introduced GPT-5.7 Astra, a model optimized for multi-agent collaboration, and ChatGPT 6 Doug, which represents its most ambitious project to date, though its release is delayed to prioritize ethical safeguards. Meanwhile, SpaceX revealed Grok 4.6, a versatile AI system, alongside Grok Bot, a specialized assistant aimed at improving efficiency in enterprise workflows. As highlighted by Universe of AI, these developments reflect the growing emphasis on balancing innovation with security and accountability in AI deployment.
August 13th, 2026 — Source

Stretchly 1.22.1 released
Stretchly version 1.22.1 has been released, enhancing its functionality as an Open Source application designed to encourage users to take regular breaks from their computers. In our increasingly digital lives, it's easy to forget about the importance of taking breaks to rest our eyes and stretch, which is precisely the issue that Stretchly aims to address. The app conveniently resides in the system tray, providing timely reminders to step away from the screen.
August 13th, 2026 — Source

The Beneficial Performance Gains Running The Framework Laptop Pro 13 / Core Ultra X9 388H With Linux 7.1+
The recently launched Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" runs well on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and other modern Linux distributions. In the case of Ubuntu 26.04 with Linux 7.0, while everything works, if upgrading to Linux 7.1 or the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is even better performance. Here are benchmarks of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro with Core Ultra X9 388H across the Linux 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2 kernels.
August 13th, 2026 — Source

Who Vets AI's Code? The Scale Challenge Facing Open Source Ingestion
During our conversations on the show floor at Black Hat last week, one question came up in almost every discussion our team had with AppSec leads, platform engineers, and CISOs: Who is actually vetting AI's code?
August 13th, 2026 — Source

XMap -- fast network scanner
XMap is a fast network scanner for large-scale IPv4 and IPv6 research.
August 13th, 2026 — Source

Y Combinator Open-Sources QM to Centralize Startup Workflows
Y Combinator has recently introduced QM, an open source multiplayer agent harness designed to enhance collaboration and streamline workflows for distributed teams. Built on a cloud-based architecture, QM offers features like isolated workspaces, Slack integration and shared memory for synchronized efforts across complex projects. Better Stack highlights how QM's customizable agent harnesses allow organizations to tailor the platform to their needs, whether for software development, operational management, or data analysis. With PostgreSQL at its core, QM also ensures robust session history storage and secure handling of sensitive information, making it a versatile option for startups navigating intricate workflows.
August 13th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 12th, 2026

Bazaar 0.9.3 Released: Flatpak App Store Maintenance Update Includes Daemon Fixes and Accessibility Improvements
Bazaar 0.9.3 is a maintenance update for the Flatpak-first app store, arriving just seven days after the feature-heavy 0.9.2 release to stabilize the newly introduced background daemon. The update brings Flathub's curated topic sections to the home page for improved discovery, alongside significant accessibility improvements led by contributor Alexander Vanhee, such as fixing screen reader button double-reading. Released on August 12, 2026, this rapid iteration addresses post-launch bugs in the auto-update system and autostart services, reflecting the project's active development cycle. Users can upgrade immediately via Flathub, GitHub Actions, or Debian and Arch repositories, keeping their alternative to GNOME Software and KDE Discover up to date.
August 12th, 2026 — Source

Bottles 66.1 Emergency Patch Fixes Flatpak Paths and UMU Crashes on Linux
Open-source Linux gaming tool Bottles released version 66.1, just hours after its major v66.0 launch. The initial release shipped with two critical regressions that broke game launching inside Flatpak sandboxes and crashed the custom UMU prefix picker. Lead developer Mirko Brombin addressed both issues with a two-commit emergency patch that adjusts Flatpak path resolution and corrects a mismatched method reference in the UMU integration code. The rapid sub-two-hour turnaround highlights both the responsiveness of the single-maintainer project and the ongoing friction of shipping major gaming features to a sandboxed Linux ecosystem.
August 12th, 2026 — Source

dnGrep 5.0.49.0 released
dnGrep 5.0.49.0 has been released, marking an update to this open-source Windows tool designed for efficient search and replace functionalities. Serving as a graphical user interface (GUI) for GREP, dnGrep allows users to effectively search through various types of documents, including text files, Word documents, PDFs, and archived files, using methods such as text searches, regular expressions, XPath, and phonetic queries.
August 12th, 2026 — Source

Dual Key Remap 0.12 released
The recently released version 0.12 of Dual Key Remap is an innovative, portable, and Open Source application that provides users with the ability to remap any keyboard key to two different keys. This functionality is particularly beneficial for those who want to enhance their typing experience or address specific keyboard issues. A common use case for this tool is remapping the CapsLock key to function as the Escape key when pressed alone, and as the Ctrl key when pressed in combination with other keys.
August 12th, 2026 — Source

gopdf -- Go library for generating PDF documents
gopdf is a Go library for generating PDF documents. It provides tools for creating pages, adding text and images, drawing graphics, embedding fonts and controlling document layout.
August 12th, 2026 — Source

How to Install and Configure Fail2Ban on Debian 13 Trixie
Fail2Ban is an open-source intrusion prevention daemon that scans service logs for attack patterns and automatically blocks offending IPs through firewall rules. Debian 13 Trixie modernizes the package by defaulting to the systemd journal backend, switching to nftables for ban actions, and requiring Python 3.12. Administrators configure it through a layered override system of *.conf, *.local, and jail.d/ drop-in files, replacing legacy log paths with journalmatch directives. Production deployments combine targeted SSH, web, and mail jails with a long-term recidive jail, all validated through fail2ban-regex and managed via the daemon's client/server architecture.
August 12th, 2026 — Source or Source

Intel ANV Driver Enables Vulkan Video AV1 Encoding For DG2/Alchemist GPUs
Hyunjun Ko of Igalia continues working on Vulkan Video support for Intel graphics hardware on Linux with the ANV driver. Merged now for Mesa 26.3-devel is enabling AV1 video encoding via Vulkan Video on DG2/Alchemist hardware.
August 12th, 2026 — Source

Intel LLM-Scaler Ready With Muse Glimmer Support, Other LLMs & Features
Intel's LLM-Scaler project that was born out of their Project Battlematrix initiative aims to make it easier to run generative AI on Arc (Pro) B-Series graphics cards with the likes of vLLM, ComfyUI, SGLang, and other popular AI software in this Docker-based pre-configured AI stack. This week new LLM-Scaler releases brought same-day support for new models and other enhancements.
August 12th, 2026 — Source

LACT 0.10.0 Adds Nvidia Overclocking and Blackwell Sensor Support to Linux GPU Tool
LACT 0.10.0 has been released, introducing significant Nvidia GPU support with new overclocking features such as PowerMizer Mode and a Voltage Boost slider, alongside enhanced monitoring capabilities for Nvidia's Blackwell architecture. This update rectifies previous bogus temperature readings and allows for per-chip memory temperature monitoring on RTX 50-series cards. The usability of the tool has improved with an interactive setup wizard, Polkit integration for authentication, and a new command for GPU detachment and reattachment for virtual machine use. Overall, LACT is evolving from an AMD-focused utility to a robust multi-vendor GPU management application, enhancing its relevance in the open-source GPU ecosystem
August 12th, 2026 — Source

LACT 0.10 Gets the Blackwell Hotspot Sensor Working on Linux -- and Reads Every Memory Chip
The open-source Linux GPU utility now reads the sensor NVIDIA stopped publishing, and gives every memory chip on the board its own number.
August 12th, 2026 — Source or Source or Source

Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions
One of the Direct Rendering Manager changes made for Linux 7.2 was switching to "fair" as the DRM scheduler default in place of the existing FIFO policy. The intent was on making the DRM scheduler policy more fair with this being used by AMDGPU and various other DRM kernel graphics drivers. But due to a last minute regression report, the fair policy is being reverted for Linux 7.2.
August 12th, 2026 — Source

Linux Finally Seeing Patches For Better Hybrid Graphics On 2018~2019 Era MacBook Pros
Patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list provide support for Apple GMUX hybrid graphics support on 2018~2019 Apple MacBook Pros. This allows for better power savings on these nearly decade old MacBook Pro laptops by allowing the discrete GPU to power down and be properly restored as needed.
August 12th, 2026 — Source

Manjaro Linux 26.1.0 Drops on SourceForge, Ships Linux 7.1 as Default Kernel
Manjaro Linux 26.1.0 has been released on SourceForge, featuring Linux 7.1 as the default kernel and dropping all 5.x kernel options, which means mid-2010s hardware will no longer be supported. The release includes ISOs for KDE Plasma, GNOME, and Xfce, but the official download page still lists the previous version. This update marks a significant kernel transition, prioritizing modern improvements in scheduler and memory management while leaving older hardware behind. Users are encouraged to check compatibility before upgrading, as the new build emphasizes cutting-edge features and support for newer systems
August 12th, 2026 — Source

Mango Wayland Compositor Hits 0.16.0 with Native Touch Support and XWayland Fixes
Mango Wayland Compositor 0.16.0 has been released, adding native touch input and improved XWayland scaling to its dwl-inspired design. Key features include real-time overview updates, xdg_activation_v1 support to stop focus stealing, and a force_render rule for smoother animations. The update also addresses critical stability issues, fixing crashes after system suspend and increasing buffer limits for XWayland clients. Available for Arch, NixOS, and other distributions, the project now sits at roughly 3,456 stars and continues to grow its community ecosystem.
August 12th, 2026 — Source or Source

Manjaro Linux 26.1.0 Drops on SourceForge, Ships Linux 7.1 as Default Kernel
Manjaro Linux 26.1.0 is now live on SourceForge, bringing Linux 7.1 to the default kernel lineup. The release drops all 5.x kernel options entirely, meaning hardware from the mid-2010s will no longer be supported. You can grab the new ISOs for KDE Plasma, GNOME, or Xfce today, though the official download page still lists the previous 26.0.4 build. This shift marks a major step forward for the rolling distribution, trading legacy compatibility for modern scheduler and memory management improvements.
August 12th, 2026 — Source

Mold 2.42 Delivering Greater Performance For This High Speed Linker
It's been quiet since the Mold 2.41 release back in April while today it's now been succeeded by Mold 2.42 for deliver even greater performance out of this high speed linker.
August 12th, 2026 — Source

Renamer -- rename files and folders in bulk
Renamer is a command-line utility for renaming files and folders in bulk.
August 12th, 2026 — Source

sx -- command-line network scanner
sx is a command-line network scanner designed to follow the UNIX philosophy.
August 12th, 2026 — Source

Termora -- Terminal Emulator and SSH Client
There is certainly no shortage of terminal emulators and SSH clients for Linux.
August 12th, 2026 — Source

This free tool lets you run Windows apps on Linux
Wine's compatibility layer lets thousands of apps work on Linux distros.
August 12th, 2026 — Source

Why Large Enterprises Are Reassessing Infrastructure Standardization After VMware Licensing Changes
For years, if you said "infrastructure standardization” to anyone running a large enterprise data center, they'd nod and think of one thing: VMware. It was just what you did. You bought the licenses, you built your team's skills around vSphere, and you didn't ask too many questions.
August 12th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 9th, 2026

ATMIRAL -- accessible text-based menu interface
ATMIRAL is an accessible text-based menu interface for launching applications and commands from the Linux shell. It provides a straightforward start menu designed for beginners, keyboard users and anyone who wants to organise frequently used commands into a controlled working environment.
August 9th, 2026 — Source

Dell Latitude 7320 2-in-1 Seeing Web Camera Support On Linux After Five Years
Launched back in 2021 was the Dell Latitude 7320 2-in-1 business laptop/tablet powered by the at-the-time impressive Intel 11th Gen Core "Tiger Lake" processors. Remaining elusive until now has been the web cameras actually working on Linux, but patches posted this weekend finally are cracking that mystery at least for the user-facing web cam.
August 9th, 2026 — Source

Double Commander 1.2.8 released
Double Commander version 1.2.8 has been released, enhancing its functionality as an Open Source file manager that features a dual-panel interface. Inspired by Total Commander, Double Commander offers a host of new and unique features. Key functionalities include a multi-rename tool, a tabbed interface for easier navigation, customizable columns, and an integrated text editor. Additionally, it supports built-in file viewing, archive management for formats like ZIP and RAR, an extended search function, a configurable button bar, file operations logging, and plug-in support, among others.
August 9th, 2026 — Source

FreeBSD 14.5 Beta 1 Released With Various Backports, Security Fixes
For those still on the FreeBSD 14 N-1 stable series rather than the latest FreeBSD 15 series, FreeBSD 14.5 is working toward release to deliver various security fixes and backports.
August 9th, 2026 — Source

Highlight -- source code converter
Highlight is a source code converter that produces syntax-highlighted output for web pages, documents and terminals. It supports numerous programming and markup languages, with customizable language definitions and colour themes.
August 9th, 2026 — Source

Intel Says Linux Cluster Scheduling "Fails” on Its Hybrid CPUs -- The Fix Is Queued for 7.3
Cluster-aware load balancing has been quietly misfiring on Intel's P-core/E-core chips since it landed in 2021. A short patch series from Intel's own kernel team is now sitting in the scheduler tree.
August 9th, 2026 — Source

Kornia -- differentiable computer vision library
Kornia is a differentiable computer vision library built on PyTorch. It provides image-processing and geometric-vision operations that integrate with machine-learning pipelines, supporting automatic differentiation, batch processing and GPU acceleration.
August 9th, 2026 — Source

Mesa 26.3 Intel Driver Code Enables Large GRF Mode For Newer GPUs
The Intel graphics compiler code in Mesa 26.3-devel has now enabled the Large GRF mode for Alchemist/DG2 and Battlemage/Xe2 graphics and VRT for Xe3 graphics.
August 9th, 2026 — Source

Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For Kuno SoC Support: Cortex-A7 Platform In 2026
Qualcomm engineers posted a set of 15 patches today for the Linux kernel to enable the Qualcomm Kuno SoC support and their reference development platform.
August 9th, 2026 — Source

Roundcube Patches 11 Critical Vulnerabilities in Emergency 1.6.18 and 1.7.3 Update
Roundcube has released emergency updates for both its LTS and current stable branches, scrubbing eleven distinct security flaws from versions 1.6.18 and 1.7.3. The patch closes critical attack paths including unauthenticated RCE via the markasjunk plugin, pre-authentication IMAP command injection, Sieve and LDAP filter injection, plus multiple SSRF and persistent XSS bypasses. Security researchers note that the recurring HTML sanitization failures point to a deeper architectural flaw that incremental patches can no longer contain. Administrators should update immediately and disable the markasjunk plugin if it isn't actively needed.
August 9th, 2026 — Source

Zen Browser 1.21.13b Lands with Sidebar and Pinned Tab Fixes
Zen Browser has released version 1.21.13b as a targeted bug-fix update, marking the tenth drop in the 1.21.x series over just seven weeks. The build resolves a persistent sidebar loop that rendered infinite media players on complex pages and fixes a regression where restored pinned tabs incorrectly reverted to regular tabs. This quiet maintenance release continues the project's aggressive track of Mozilla's upstream Firefox 152 through 153.0.3 development, ensuring users get stability without waiting for major feature additions. Available across Windows, macOS, and Linux with GPG-signed commits, the update keeps the open-source fork running smoothly amid a heavy backlog of community-reported issues.
August 9th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 8th, 2026

12 Best Free and Open Source Solutions for Home Automation
Home automation software is software that lets you control and monitor common home and office appliances using a computer. Home automation used to be confined to turning on and off lights and appliances. But the possibilities are much wider letting users build a wireless network, automate TV and hi-fi, monitor pets when you are away, set up an answering system, create a weather station -- integrating an abundance of different home automation technologies into one.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

Diffractor 127.0 released
Diffractor 127.0 has been released, offering a user-friendly solution for organizing photos and videos on your PC. This software excels in adding and editing metadata, making it simple for users to manage large collections of media. With its ability to process millions of files quickly and efficiently, Diffractor is both lightweight and versatile, supporting various file formats and complementing other media applications.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

EarthTime 6.34.1 released
EarthTime version 6.34.1 has been released, providing users with up-to-date weather and local time information from anywhere around the globe. This application features a comprehensive database of over 120,000 cities, ensuring that you can find the local time and date for most locations. If your desired city isn't listed, you have the option to add nearby locations manually.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

EarthView 7.17.1 released
EarthView version 7.17.1 has been released, enhancing the experience of users with its dynamic desktop wallpaper and screen saver that showcases stunning views of Earth, complete with daylight and night shadows. This software generates vibrant, high-quality images that cater to various screen resolutions, exceeding 2560x1600 pixels.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

FocusMe 7.8.5.5 released
FocusMe version 7.8.5.5 has been released as a powerful productivity and distraction-blocking application aimed at individuals who struggle to maintain focus due to time-wasting websites, apps, and games. Designed for students, remote workers, and anyone prone to distractions, FocusMe helps users regain control of their time, especially in an age where online content is crafted to be endlessly engaging.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

HWMON Fixes For Linux 7.2-rc7: "Most Of Them Fixing Critical Or High Severity Bugs"
It's been another busy week in the Linux kernel camp with increased patch activity continuing due to AI/LLM coding agents / bots continuing to uncover different defects in the open-source codebase. The hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem saw many fixes this week for issues mostly raised by the Sashiko AI bot with the issues being described as mostly critical or high severity bugs.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

Intel HDMI 2.1 FRL Work Returns to Linux After Four Dormant Years
44 patches wire Fixed Rate Link into the kernel graphics driver for Meteor Lake and newer. 4K at 120Hz already runs — 8K still needs DSC.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

Intel resumes HDMI 2.1 FRL work for Linux, 4K 120Hz already works on Meteor Lake and Panther Lake
Intel HDMI 2.1 FRL Linux support returns for Meteor Lake and newer CPUs
August 8th, 2026 — Source

JRescue -- Linux environment for maintenance
JRescue is a bootable Linux environment designed for computer maintenance, troubleshooting and recovery. It is based on Debian 13 and uses the lightweight LXQt desktop environment.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

Ledor -- speed-reading application
Ledor is a speed-reading application for EPUB books and web articles. It uses rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP), displaying words individually at a configurable rate and highlighting each word's Optimal Recognition Point to reduce eye movement.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2-rc7 Adding Support For The Most Unique Or Very Funky Gaming Controller
The input subsystem fixes for the week include a number of AI-driven patches to address various information leaks, out-of-bounds accesses, validation fixes, and other coding issues that have turned up recently. Plus some device quirks and also adding support for a rather funky gaming controller to the common XPad Linux driver used by many different gaming controllers.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

mxr -- local-first email client
mxr is a local-first email client that synchronises Gmail and IMAP accounts with a SQLite database on your machine.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

Rocrail Build 7251 released
Rocrail has released Build 7251, an update to its free application that provides comprehensive control over model train layouts for users on Windows, Linux, and Android platforms. This versatile software caters to train enthusiasts by allowing them to manage their models and accessories fully. Users can choose between manual control, complete automation, or a mixed approach where some trains are operated manually while others run automatically.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

RSVP Reader -- local-first speed-reading web app
RSVP Reader is a local-first speed-reading web app that presents text one word at a time.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

SteamOS 3.8.25 Beta: Steam Machine Firmware, Handheld Support, and Steam Frame Drivers
Valve has released SteamOS 3.8.25 Beta, bringing Steam Machine Firmware 108 with critical sleep and CPU performance fixes alongside expanded gamepad support for the MSI Claw, OneXPlayer, AYANEO Pocket S2, and Konkr FIT. The update also delivers preliminary drivers for the upcoming Steam Frame Wireless Adapter, resolves a confusing speaker dropout bug on Steam Deck OLED units, and patches HDMI and Bluetooth audio issues. While desktop mode users will appreciate fixes for app persistence and TV Game Mode flashing, the beta currently carries a known performance regression when using FSR that stable release 3.8.16 already resolved. Until that composition bug is patched, most owners should hold off unless they specifically need the Steam Machine or third-party handheld improvements.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

testssl.sh -- tests TLS/SSL ciphers, protocols and cryptographic flaws
testssl.sh is a command-line tool that checks a server's service on any port for support of TLS/SSL ciphers and protocols as well as cryptographic flaws.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

Vuls -- agentless vulnerability scanner
Vuls is an agentless vulnerability scanner that identifies security vulnerabilities affecting Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, macOS, containers, programming language libraries, WordPress installations, and network devices.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

Win STORM 1.0.1.7 Beta released
Win STORM is a powerful, professional software tool designed for managing, optimizing, and maintaining Windows-based systems. Developed for IT professionals and computer technicians, it inherits the robust capabilities of its predecessor, UVK -- Ultra Virus Killer, while introducing enhanced functionalities for improved performance.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

Wine 11.15 Adds Local NTLM Auth and ARM64EC Support
Wine 11.15 has arrived, bringing local NTLM authentication and MinGW-mode ARM64EC build support to its development line. The new in-process NTLM implementation allows enterprise Windows apps to authenticate directly on Linux without a domain controller, while expanded BCrypt and WindowsCodecs updates round out the cryptographic and imaging improvements. This week's cut delivers 41 bug fixes and roughly 150 commits from over 40 contributors, continuing the rapid development cadence that followed Wine 11's NTSYNC kernel integration.
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Wine 11.15 Released With Wayland Fixes, Fix For A 20 Year Old MSXML3 Bug
Making its debut this Saturday rather than the usual bi-weekly Friday release regiment, Wine 11.15 is out today as the newest development release for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications to run on Linux.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

WinSSHTerm 2.42.3 released
WinSSHTerm version 2.42.3 has been released, offering users an enhanced tabbed SSH solution that integrates PuTTY/KiTTY, WinSCP, and VcXsrv. This tool is designed to increase productivity by providing keyboard shortcuts and efficient navigation features, enabling users to swiftly switch between or initiate new SSH sessions while managing multiple systems.
August 8th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 7th, 2026

12 Best Free and Open Source Python Object-Relational Mapping Software
Object--relational mapping (ORM) is a programming technique for converting data between incompatible type systems using object-oriented programming languages. This creates, in effect, a "virtual object database” that can be used from within the programming language
August 7th, 2026 — Source

13 Best Free and Open Source Continuous Delivery Systems
Continuous delivery (CD) is a software engineering approach in which developers produce software in short cycles, ensuring that the software can be reliably released at any time and, when releasing the software, without doing so manually. It enables team to get changes of all types such as new features, configuration changes, bug fixes and experiments—into production, or into the hands of users, safely and quickly in a reliable and consistent way.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

17 Top Free and Open Source PHP Web Frameworks
One of the types of software that's important for a web developer is the web framework. A framework "is a code library that makes a developer's life easier when building reliable, scalable, and maintainable web applications” by providing reusable code or extensions for common operations. By saving development time, developers can concentrate on application logic rather than mundane elements.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

AMD RDNA 4m iGPU Support Arrives in Open-Source Mesa GPU Driver
AMD's mysterious RDNA 4m integrated graphics have reappeared after a few months of silence, as the GPU has officially been merged into the Mesa 26.3 open-source driver stack. Running under the GFX1171 GPU target, this RDNA 4m is neither a true RDNA 4 design nor a simple RDNA 3 GPU IP. It sits just above RDNA 3.5, with supposed capabilities to support INT8 data types and native FSR 4 technology.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

AMD ROCm Spur: Providing AI-Native, Rust-Based Job Scheduling
The newest ROCm component for AMD's open-source GPU compute stack is Spur as an AI-native, Rust-written job scheduler for scaling up GPU workloads to multi-thousand GPU clusters.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

AMD Updates HDMI 2.1 VRR & ALLM Patches But Will Miss Out On Linux 7.3
Complementing the HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support that AMD already upstreamed to the Linux kernel, AMD engineers have been further ironing out their HDMI 2.1 implementation for the open-source AMDGPU Linux kernel driver. The latest quest has been getting HDMI 2.1 variable rate refresh (VRR) support upstreamed along with HDMI Auto Low-Latency Mode (ALLM).
August 7th, 2026 — Source

GCC 16.2 Released With More Than 100 Fixes
Following the GCC 16.1 compiler release from the end of April as the first stable version of GCC 16, GCC 16.2 is now available with dozens of bug fixes collected since then for further stabilizing this year's GNU compiler feature release.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

HyperX Driver Coming For Linux 7.3 Just To Report A Microphone's Mute Status
A new driver coming for the Linux 7.3 kernel is HID-HyperX. It's not some new driver to support fancy hardware and some nifty features but rather mundane in nature due to the poor behavior of a high-end HyperX USB gaming microphone.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

Indicium Mail TUI -- keyboard-driven email client
Indicium Mail TUI is a keyboard-driven email client built in Rust. It communicates with mail servers using standard IMAP and SMTP protocols, with support for implicit TLS, STARTTLS and unencrypted connections.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

Initial Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra Support Being Upstreamed For Linux 7.3
Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was the Device Tree (DT) support for booting the mainline Linux kernel on the base Apple M3 SoC. Though it's not yet useful for end-users with many features remaining to be supported and upstreamed. Now for the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel, the M3 Pro, Max, and Ultra variants will also have initial support for booting on the mainline kernel.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

Intel Makes Progress On HDMI 2.1 FRL With Their Linux Driver For Meteor Lake & Newer
Following AMD making progress with HDMI Fixed Rate Link (FRL) and other HDMI 2.1 functionality for their open-source Linux kernel graphics driver, Intel is out today with a big set of 44 patches working on HDMI 2.1 FRL support for their kernel graphics driver with Meteor Lake hardware and newer.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

Intel QATlib 26.08 Released With Gen6 Device Support, 2MB Hugepages
Intel today released an updated version of their QuickAssist Technology library (QATlib) as the user-space component for making use of QuickAssist accelerators under Linux.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2-rc7 Addresses A "Nasty" Race Condition Leading To Use-After-Free After 8 Years
The Linux kernel Git activity continues being quite heavy this week on fixes. It's looking like the Linux 7.2-rc7 kernel release on Sunday will be another big one with the changes continuing to flow in from both developers and AI bots.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

Linux Surpasses Double-Digit Market Share
According to two sources, the Linux operating system has hit a major milestone in market share that naysayers thought would never happen.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

Linux users finally get a real Copilot app, and Microsoft didn't even make it
Microsoft's AI tool is everywhere on Windows, but Linux users have to rely on third-party developers to bring Copilot to the desktop.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

Lucid -- SQL object-relational mapper
Lucid is a SQL object-relational mapper designed for applications built with AdonisJS. It uses the Active Record pattern and is built on top of Knex, combining model-based database access with a fluent SQL query builder.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

Manjaro Linux 26.1.0-rc4 Released: Linux 7.1 Now the Default Kernel
Manjaro Linux has published the fourth release candidate for 26.1.0 across its KDE Plasma, GNOME, and Xfce editions, with ISOs live as of August 7, 2026. The major headline is the default kernel switch to Linux 7.1, which brings refreshed hardware support for modern GPUs and wireless adapters, though conservative users can still boot older 6.18 or 6.12 variants. ISOs range from 4.0 GB for minimal GNOME installs up to 5.5 GB for the full KDE desktop, all packaged by the core build team including co-founder Philipp Müller. Community flavors like Cinnamon and i3/Sway are holding at version 25.0.3 for the time being, and the final stable 26.1.0 launch should arrive within weeks if testing goes smoothly.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

Netdeep Secure -- Linux distribution focused on network security
Netdeep Secure is a Linux distribution focused on network security. It is designed as a next-generation firewall offering perimeter security, network monitoring and traffic management functionality. Configuration is performed through a web interface.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

Network Doctor -- network troubleshooting utility
Network Doctor is a network troubleshooting utility with a terminal user interface.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

NetworkManager Adopts Policy For AI Coding Assistants
The latest high profile open-source project to commit to an AI coding policy is NetworkManager, the widely-used software for Linux network configuration.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

PoCL 7.2-RC1 Brings Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs
The release candidate of PoCL 7.2 is now available for testing of this Portable Computing Language implementation of OpenCL that allows for CPU-based execution or via alternative LLVM back-ends allows for OpenCL on Level Zero, NVIDIA GPUs, and even remote devices/hardware.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

Shelly ALPM v3.0.3 Ships Today, Capping Off Rapid Post-Rewrite Push
Shelly ALPM v3.0.3 shipped this morning, capping off a rapid stabilization sprint with roughly 35 merged pull requests on the v3.x line. Built entirely in Zig, the package manager links directly to Arch's libalpm without wrapping pacman, eliminating the .NET runtime dependency that defined the previous v2.x releases. The maintenance update adds experimental aarch64 support, a redesigned transaction page, UI hotkeys, and tighter Flatpak backend separation for users who prefer a modular setup.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

Tammy -- privacy-focused Matrix messenger
Tammy is a fast, privacy-focused Matrix messenger with a clean, modern interface. It uses the decentralised Matrix protocol, avoiding reliance on a single communication provider or server.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

Tempest -- modern PHP framework
Tempest is a modern PHP framework for building full-stack web applications.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

TTM Memory Management For Graphics To Be More Aggresive With Linux 7.3
This week a final batch of DRM-Misc-Next feature material was submitted for DRM-Next to queue ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening later in the month. Most notable is the TTM memory management code is now being more agressive when allocating below protection limits. This is an improvement coming thanks to Valve's open-source Linux graphics team.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

Vulkan 1.4.359 Expands Cooperative Matrix Capabilities
Vulkan 1.4.359 released today and this one week update to the Vulkan API specification brings a new extension for enhancing the cooperative matrix capabilities.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

Zen Browser 1.21.12b Hotfix Fixes Window Dragging and Text Selection Bug
Zen Browser pushed version 1.21.12b as a targeted hotfix to resolve a window-dragging conflict introduced two days prior. The previous build allowed users to move browser windows by dragging empty space on pages, but it accidentally intercepted text selection gestures near the top of documents. The team refined the gesture thresholds to distinguish between intentional drags and text grabs without removing the feature entirely, keeping the browser built on Firefox 153.0.3. This release continues Zen's rapid six-release cadence this month, with Windows x64 already claiming over 12,000 downloads since launch.
August 7th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 5th, 2026

AMD Preps HDMI FRL Fixes, New Knob For Disabling Older AMD GPU DCE Display Support
Overnight AMD engineers sent out their latest round of AMDGPU DC display code updates for their Linux driver. This week's round of display code updates include some additional fixes for their recently introduced HDMI FRL (Fixed Rate Link) support as part of the work toward their HDMI 2.1 implementation finally coming together for their open-source, upstream Linux driver.
August 5th, 2026 — Source

Cloudflare Announces Open-Source Cloudflare OS As AI "Operating System"
Cloudflare today announced the open-sourcing of Cloudflare OS as an "open platform for agents, apps, and work." Cloudflare OS is an AI "operating system" but not in the traditional OS sense.
August 5th, 2026 — Source

FEX 2608 Released With More Fixes For Running x86_64 Binaries On ARM64
FEX 2608 is now available as the newest monthly feature update to this open-source emulator sponsored by Valve for running x86_64 binaries on ARM64, including Steam and Windows games with Steam Play (Proton).
August 5th, 2026 — Source

Linux To Avoid Confusing Processor Firmware With Newer Intel CPUs Sporting DEC
A patch for the Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling Linux driver is pending to avoid confusing the processor firmware on newer platforms like Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" where Dynamic Efficiency Control (DEC) is supported.
August 5th, 2026 — Source

Perpetua -- cross-platform software KVM
Perpetua is a cross-platform software KVM that lets you control multiple computers with a single keyboard and mouse.
August 5th, 2026 — Source

Ponytail Agent Skill Corrects its Own Benchmark after Contributor Challenge
Ponytail, an open-source skill that instructs AI coding agents to behave like "the laziest senior dev in the room," has accumulated over 82,000 GitHub stars since its June 12 release, making it one of the fastest-growing repositories of the summer. The project addresses a complaint nearly every coding agent user shares: agents over-build. Ask for a date picker, and the agent installs a library, writes a wrapper component, adds a stylesheet, and starts a discussion about time zones. Ponytail's answer is .
August 5th, 2026 — Source

Prow -- Kubernetes-based continuous integration and continuous delivery system
Prow is a Kubernetes-based continuous integration and continuous delivery system.
August 5th, 2026 — Source

Review: MusiQt -- simple music player
The software provides a directory-based view view for browsing storage and bookmarking folders containing music. Selecting a directory automatically populates the playlist with its supported audio files.
August 5th, 2026 — Source

Takes -- lightweight Java web framework
Takes is a lightweight Java web framework built around immutable, object-oriented components. Applications are assembled by composing "takes”: objects that receive an HTTP request and return a response.
August 5th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — August 3rd, 2026

AMD RDNA 5 Patches for DCN6 Display Engine Arrive in Linux Kernel
AMD has released the latest set of patches for its RDNA 5 GPU IP, initiating the enablement of the Display Core Next (DCN) 6 display engine. Although the launch of AMD's next-generation RDNA 5 graphics cards is still a few months away, Linux support is already being developed to ensure every part of the stack is operational before the official release. According to the latest patch noted by Phoronix, the DCN6 display engine is associated with the AMD GFX13, which corresponds to the RDNA 5 GPU family. AMD's DCN display engine handles a variety of functions, including display output, image scaling, monitor ratio output, pixel manipulation, and much more.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

Benchmarking Six Linux Distributions On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro
With the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro now shipping powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) and a brand new hardware design, I have spent the past week testing out various Linux distributions on this very nice high-end laptop. All of the modern Linux distributions tested have been playing nicely with this new Panther Lake laptop. Of course, beyond testing for compatibility I also took the opportunity to run some Linux distribution performance benchmarks for this laptop powered by the flagship Core Ultra X9 388H.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

Calling GCP From AWS Without Static Keys Using Open-Source MultiCloudJ
This guide demonstrates exchanging an AWS SigV4 Request for a GCP access token to enable secure, zero-trust communication between clouds using MultiCloudJ.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

CISA lays out new guidance for using open-source software
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the Open Source Software: Security Principles and Practices guide, which provides federal agencies with recommendations for managing the security of open source software, contributing to OSS projects, and evaluating open source AI systems.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

GNOME Boxes Preparing To Deliver Much Improved Virtualization Experience
GNOME Boxes as a front-end to libvirt and QEMU is preparing to deliver a much improved virtualization experience for those wanting to enjoy desktop VMs from the GNOME desktop.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

GNOME Mutter 51 Beta Released With Wayland Background Blur, Improved Frame Scheduling
Released overnight on Sunday were the beta versions of Mutter 51 and GNOME Shell 51. This follows GNOME 51 embarking on itsAPI/ABI freeze, feature freeze, and UI freeze a day earlier.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

HashiCorp Ships Public Beta of Vault Kubernetes Key Management
HashiCorp has released the public beta of Vault Kubernetes key management, which lets Kubernetes clusters use Vault Enterprise as their KMS provider for encryption at rest.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

HugeSCM -- cloud-native version control system
HugeSCM is a cloud-native version control system designed for extremely large repositories. It is particularly suited to AI model development, game production, dataset management and monorepos containing large binary files.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

KDE Linux Making For Easier First-Run Experience Of Java & DOS Apps
With July all wrapped up, the monthly status report is now published for KDE Linux as the in-house Linux distribution featuring all of the latest KDE wares and other open-source innovations.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

KGamma2 Makes For Easy Gamma Adjustments On KDE Plasma With Wayland
KDE developer David Edmundson announced today his KGamma2 tool in aiming to address a pain point for KDE Plasma desktop users on Wayland.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2-rc6 was a massive release, but it's not going to delay the final release
Linus Torvalds said that the sixth release candidate was very big this time, but that doesn't seem like a reason to delay the final release.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 Adding Support For MCTP-Over-USB v1.1
Within the Linux networking subsystem's "net-next" Git branch there is now queued up support for MCTP-over-USB v1.1. This is the newest version of the standard for sending Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) packets over USB for tasks like crash dumps, logging, and firmware updates.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 Expected To Drop The FreeVxFS File-System Driver
It looks like Linux 7.3 will end up dropping FreeVxFS as the read-only Linux kernel driver for the Veritas VxFS file-ssytem used formerly by HP-UX and SCO UnixWare.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 To Support Realtek RTL8261C & RTL8261D
Queued into net-next ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window is adding support for the Realtek RTL8261C and RTL8261D 10 Gigabit PHYs that launched last year.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

MinisCloud OS Review -- customised Linux NAS operating system
MinisCloud OS is a customised Linux NAS operating system developed for Minisforum. It is reportedly based on the Siyouyun OS framework. It's a headless appliance OS rather than a normal Debian desktop installation. Minisforum supplies it with storage management, ZFS snapshots and compression, SMB sharing, Docker applications, user management and media features.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

No, Linux didn't actually hit 10% market share. Blame botsNews
Statcounter says Linux desktop share doubled to 10% in months. Cloudflare's human-only traffic data tells a very different story.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA 610.57.04 Linux Driver Delivers Many Fixes
NVIDIA is kicking off the new month by releasing an updated R610 Linux driver build with quite a number of bug fixes.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

SQLModel -- Python object-relational mapping library
SQLModel is a Python object-relational mapping library designed to simplify interaction with SQL databases. It combines SQLAlchemy's database capabilities with Pydantic's data validation and type system.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

zlib-rs 0.6.7 Released With LoongArch LSX Optimizations, Use-After-Free Fix
zlib-rs 0.6.7 is out today as the newest version of this "safer zlib" implementation making use of the Rust programming language and aiming to deliver performance on-par with zlib-ng.
August 3rd, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 31st, 2026

Amity OS -- Debian-based Linux distribution
The project is at an early stage. Its developer has not yet published details of the desktop environment, included software, support arrangements, or licensing.
July 31th, 2026 — Source

Arch Linux AUR Under Another Wave Of Malicious Packages, Package Adoptions Halted
Last month the Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" saw more than 1,500 malicious packages amid a sophisticated malware attack and then also seeing an influx of spam and profanities amid this community/user-maintained repository for the popular Arch Linux distribution. Unfortunately, there is another round of AUR troubles.
July 31th, 2026 — Source

emoji-fzf -- search and retrieve emoji with the fzf fuzzy finder
emoji-fzf is a command-line utility for searching and retrieving emoji with the fzf fuzzy finder.
July 31th, 2026 — Source

KDE Neon 20260730 Build Released: Rolling Plasma 6 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
KDE neon has released its latest build, dated 20260730-0522, continuing to deliver rolling KDE software straight from upstream on a stable Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base. The distribution maintains multiple edition tracks, including stable, testing, unstable, and developer variants, while officially supporting only Intel and AMD graphics with open-source drivers.
July 31th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 To Allow Tuning AMD P-State Dynamic EPP With Per CPU Core Granularity
Sent out last night was the last batch of planned AMD P-State driver feature improvements targeting the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window.
July 31th, 2026 — Source

Nouveau Patch For Linux 7.3 Allows For NVK Vulkan Video Atop NVIDIA NVDEC
This week's round of drm-misc-next patches for staging ahead of the Linux 7.3 kernel merge window bring an exciting change for the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver.
July 31th, 2026 — Source

Nouveau Preparing To Finally Enable Atomic Mode-Setting By Default
In addition to the Nouveau kernel driver unblocking Vulkan Video H.264 support for the Mesa NVK driver, another feature change on the way is this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver finally preparing to enable atomic mode-setting by default.
July 31th, 2026 — Source

PHP 8.2.33, 8.3.33, 8.4.24, and 8.5.9 Updates: Fix 3 CVEs in Fedora and RHEL Packages
PHP's July 30 security release fixes three CVEs, including a SQL injection in PostgreSQL extensions and a stack overflow in Phar archives. Remi Collet published corresponding RPM packages for Fedora ≥42 and Enterprise Linux ≥8 on July 31, covering PHP 8.5.9, 8.4.24, 8.3.33, and 8.2.33. The updates are available via remi-modular repository or as parallel Software Collections installations. PHP 8.1 has reached end-of-life, so users should upgrade to at least 8.2.33 immediately.
July 31th, 2026 — Source

PBRenamer -- graphical batch file renaming utility
PBRenamer is a graphical batch file renaming utility built with Python and Qt 6. It offers live previews, flexible pattern matching and conflict detection, helping users safely rename large collections of files.
July 31th, 2026 — Source

PluXml -- lightweight flat-file content management system
PluXml is a lightweight flat-file content management system. It stores content in XML files rather than a database, simplifying installation, maintenance and migration.
July 31th, 2026 — Source

Servo 0.4 Browser Engine Gets More Websites Rendering Correctly
Servo 0.4 was just released for closing out the month of July. This month the Servo browser engine with its servoshell demo browser began rendering more real-world websites correctly.
July 31th, 2026 — Source

Sound Fixes For Linux 7.2-rc6: "Far Larger Than Wished"
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE previously warned of many sound driver fixes due to AI/LLMs and a "new normal" of patch activity as a result. While we are approaching the end of the Linux 7.2 merge window with the stable release coming up in August, the sound patches continue trending higher and this week were "far larger than wished" ahead of Linux 7.2-rc6 due out on Sunday.
July 31th, 2026 — Source

Ungoogled Chromium 151 Released with 370 Security Fixes and Stripped Google Services
Ungoogled Chromium 151.0.7922.71-1 has been released, delivering the exact same rendering engine and 370 upstream security fixes as Google's latest Stable channel release. The build gutters every Google service integration at compile time, including telemetry, Safe Browsing, and AI features, while replacing the default domain routing with a private pseudo-TLD. Linux users can grab the archive straight from the project's CI artifacts today, though Windows and macOS builds will lag slightly behind for the upcoming .72 patch. A growing Speedometer benchmark gap suggests the patch layer still carries noticeable overhead, but the privacy baseline keeps drawing a steady crowd to the repository.
July 31th, 2026 — Source

Vulkan 1.4.358 Released With New Image Tiling Control Extension
After two weeks without any Vulkan spec update, Vulkan 1.4.358 was released overnight. Besides the usual assortment of minor clarifications/fixes, Vulkan 1.4.358 introduces one new extension: VK_EXT_image_tiling_control.
July 31th, 2026 — Source

x86_64 Shadow Stack By Default Retargeted For Fedora 46
In recent weeks there was a proposal to enable x86_64 Shadow Stack support by default with the upcoming Fedora Linux 45 release. That change has been approved now by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) but with the feature being punted off to Fedora 46 next year.
July 31th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 29th, 2026

ClassicPress -- lightweight content management system
ClassicPress is a lightweight content management system designed for creating and managing websites without a block-based editing interface. It is a community-led fork of WordPress 6.2 that retains the familiar TinyMCE classic editor.
July 29th, 2026 — Source

COSMIC Epoch 1.5.0 Released: System76 Ships Rust Desktop Hardening Update
System76 released COSMIC Epoch 1.5.0, delivering a focused stability update for its Rust-based, Wayland-native desktop environment. The release prioritizes hardening over new features, addressing critical issues like GPU crash recovery, multi-monitor cursor positioning, and wallpaper orientation bugs across the compositor and settings panel. Following a rapid one-week development cycle after Epoch 1.4.0, the update continues System76's aggressive iteration cadence for Pop!_OS 24.04 and supported Linux distributions. While community engagement remains quieter for this maintenance build, the patch significantly clears Wayland plumbing debt, marking a clear shift toward production-level reliability for the desktop.
July 29th, 2026 — Source

Drizzle ORM -- lightweight, headless object-relational mapper
Drizzle ORM is a lightweight, headless object-relational mapper for TypeScript and JavaScript applications.
July 29th, 2026 — Source

FreeBSD's Kernel Still Has A Bit Of GPL Code While Its Base User-Space Is GPL-Free
A few weeks ago there was excitement in the FreeBSD camp with FreeBSD 16 set to retire the last of its GPL code from the base system. While the retiring of the dialog code proclaimed that it was the last remaining piece of GPL software in the base system for FreeBSD, it turns out now that there is some GPL code within the FreeBSD kernel.
July 29th, 2026 — Source

GCC To Decline Any Significant Contributions Made Via AI/LLMs - Except For Test Cases
The GCC Steering Committee announced today that they have accepted the recommended policy of the GCC AI Policy Working Group, which means no "legally significant" code contributions made via AI/LLM agents will be accepted into this open-source compiler.
July 29th, 2026 — Source

Hologram -- full-stack, isomorphic Elixir web framework
Hologram is a full-stack, isomorphic Elixir web framework for building interactive web applications entirely in Elixir. It compiles client-side Elixir code to JavaScript and can be used on top of Phoenix.
July 29th, 2026 — Source

Intel Graphics Driver Support For Xe3 "Peak Bandwidth Threshold" Feature In Linux 7.3
Intel today sent out their latest batch of kernel graphics driver updates that are ready for staging ahead of next month's Linux 7.3 merge window.
July 29th, 2026 — Source

Nex -- minimalist web framework
Nex is a minimalist web framework for building server-rendered Elixir applications with HTMX.
July 29th, 2026 — Source

OpenAI's Rogue AI Ventured Beyond Hugging Face
Hugging Face has published an anatomy of the attack and OpenAI has shared additional information from its investigation.
July 29th, 2026 — Source

PHP 8.3.33 and 8.4.24 Released: Critical Security Fixes for PGSQL SQLi and BCMath Memory Corruption
PHP released PHP 8.3.33 on July 28 and PHP 8.4.24 on July 29, delivering critical security patches with zero new features. The updates resolve multiple CVEs, most notably a critical PostgreSQL SQL injection in the PGSQL and PDO_PGSQL extensions and an out-of-bounds memory write in PHP 8.4's BCMath extension. Additional high-severity fixes address a denial-of-service crash via recursive symbolic links in the Phar extension and upstream graphic processing vulnerabilities in libgd. With PHP 8.3 entering its final months of security support before December 2026, developers should verify GPG signatures and upgrade immediately to block potential remote code execution.
July 29th, 2026 — Source

Rails 7.2.3.2, 8.0.5.1, and 8.1.3.1 Active Storage Security Patch Targets CVE-2026-66066
Ruby on Rails released coordinated security updates for versions 7.2.3.2, 8.0.5.1, and 8.1.3.1 on July 29, 2026. The patches address CVE-2026-66066 by disabling untrusted libvips image loaders at boot, shielding apps that process user-uploaded files from crafted image attacks. Applications handling BMP, ICO, PSD, or similar formats will see variant generation break and must strip those content types from the variable_content_types config. Developers should run bundle update rails immediately and confirm libvips sits at version 8.13 or higher.
July 29th, 2026 — Source

Soundboard -- desktop audio mixing application
Soundboard is a desktop audio mixing application for playing sound clips through voice chats and games.
July 29th, 2026 — Source

Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows
Valve has been sponsoring Collabora engineers with early phase, exploratory work for trying to bring the open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver to Microsoft Windows.
July 29th, 2026 — Source

Vibe Coded X11 YSERVER Gets Steam Working, Full-Screen Games With Cinnamon
A new software creation that debuted this summer was YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust largely by AI via Claude Code. This YSERVER implementation has continued implementing more X11 protocol and other functionality to get more desktop environments and apps working surprisingly okay on this vibe coded X11 server. YSERVER 1.4 is now available as the latest in this quest.
July 29th, 2026 — Source

Why open source matters in an AI world
Even hardware companies like Nvidia know they can sell more products to more people if they give software developers what they want.
July 29th, 2026 — Source

YServer 1.4.0: Rust-Native X11 Server Hits Usable Milestone
YServer 1.4.0 dropped today, marking the Rust-native X11 display server's crossover into actual desktop usability. The release adds KDE Plasma support, fixes Electron app crashes, and corrects screenshot capture bugs by reading directly from the composited scanout. Maintained by Jos Dehaes and backed by three new external contributors, the project now passes 672 tests in its full XTS5 regression suite across AMD, Intel, NVIDIA, and Apple Silicon hardware. It does not replace Wayland, but it offers a pragmatic, memory-safe alternative for users who still need the X11 protocol without decades of C legacy code.
July 29th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 27th, 2026

12 Best Free and Open Source Single Sign-On Software
Single Sign-On (sometimes known as SSO) is an authentication process that allows users to log in to multiple independent applications with a single set of credentials.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Music Tag Editors
A tag editor (or tagger) is an application which allows users to edit metadata of multimedia files. Metadata is the data about the audio data. It lets information about the audio file such as the title, artist, conductor, album, track length, lyrics, embedded images, and other information be stored in the audio file itself.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

AMD "Low Power" CPU Core Type Patches Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.3
The patches introducing TOPO_CPU_TYPE_LOW_POWER as AMD's new third core type complementing performance and efficiency cores are set to be mainlined with Linux 7.3. Important timing ahead of next-generation AMD Ryzen platforms debuting.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

Framework Laptop 13 Pro review: Much better battery, much worse price
Framework's latest modular laptop trades one set of problems for another.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Aiming To Be One Of The Best Upgradeable Linux Laptops
Back in April, Framework Computer announced the Framework Laptop 13 Pro as a ground-up re-design of their modular/upgradeable laptop. This new Framework Laptop 13 Pro features a much larger battery (74Wh), LPCAMM2 memory support, a full CNC aluminum chassis, haptic touchpad, and a new power-optimized touch display. Paired with the very efficient Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs, the Framework Laptop 13 Pro ends up being an incredible offering from the hardware perspective.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

FreeBSD Developing New NTSYNC Driver For Accelerating Windows NT Sync Primitives
The FreeBSD project published today their Q2-2026 status report that highlights all of their interesting open-source development initiatives for the past quarter. A lot is happening including FreeBSD seeing an AMD ROCm port and also their own NTSYNC driver being created.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

Fwupd 2.1.7 Patches Critical Linux Firmware Flaw, Hardens UEFI Updates
Fwupd 2.1.7 is now live, closing a trust-boundary vulnerability that let unsigned metadata bypass authorization checks during firmware installations. The release pairs that security patch with a new systemd-pcrlock plugin for UEFI updates, expanded Hardware Security Index attributes for SPI flash and disk encryption, and fixes for several memory safety flaws in core plugins. Enterprise deployments should prioritize the OnlyTrusted metadata enforcement toggle, while desktop users will benefit from tighter D-Bus authorization and a cleaner HSI scoring report. Rolling out across all major Linux distributions starting today, the update is the latest in fwupd's accelerated mid-2026 hardening cycle driven by supply-chain pressure and AI-assisted static analysis.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

Fwupd 2.1.7 Released With Many Bug Fixes
Fwupd 2.1.7 is out today as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating utility that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for offering a nice firmware upgrade story on Linux systems.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

Google Chrome is now available for Arm64 Linux distros
It has been a few months since Google said that it would be releasing a version of its Chrome web browser for Arm64 Linux. The company said back in March that it was aiming for a Q2 2026 release and then went pretty quiet.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

GrapheneOS 2026071500
The private and secure mobile operating system with Android app compatibility. Developed as a non-profit open source project.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

jingle -- Common Lisp web framework that extends Ningle
jingle is a Common Lisp web framework that extends Ningle with additional facilities for building web applications and REST APIs. It uses the Lack and Clack ecosystems and supports configurable HTTP servers, routing, middleware, static resources, redirects, and directory browsing.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 7.1-6 Released: 7.1.5 Base with Project-C Scheduler Fixes
Liquorix Linux Kernel 7.1-6 has arrived, merging upstream Linux Kernel 7.1.5 and rolling out targeted fixes to Steven Barrett's custom Project-C scheduler. The update introduces auto-detection for heterogeneous CPU topologies, improving task placement on modern hybrid processors like Intel Meteor Lake and AMD Zen 4/5. Designed for gamers and multimedia creators, the AMD64-only build trades power efficiency and raw throughput for aggressive 1000Hz scheduling and lower input latency.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint leaves some Linux boxes defenseless after update
One bug disabled the security service on restart, another blocked installation on hardened RHEL systems
July 27th, 2026 — Source

Mysterious 16-Tile & 32-Tile AMX Implementations Talked Up For More Performance
Last October on Phoronix we were first to point out there being some mysterious intrigue around a new x86 implementation from a "corporate entity other than Intel/AMD" with the developer involved not elaborating on the matter. Now that same developer has posted another semi-cryptic message to the Linux kernel mailing list to talk about 16-tile and 32-tile Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) implementations. To date Intel only has 8-tile AMX.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA & Others Form The Open Secure AI Alliance
NVIDIA and more than two dozen other companies have started the Open Secure AI Alliance for helping to keep open-source AI models secure. The other founding members range from Microsoft to Adobe, IBM, Red Hat, SpaceX, OpenClaw, Palantir, and others.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

Open-weight AI on Kubernetes: A Developer's Guide to vLLM versus KubeAI
Deploying open-weight AI models on Kubernetes has shifted from experimental to expected. This guide addresses the central question of what sits between model weights and the cluster—comparing vLLM as a high-performance inference engine, KubeAI as a Kubernetes-native model management layer, and how they work together on GKE.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

Rudo -- small application dock
Rudo is a small application dock designed for Wayland desktops.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

Tech giants link hands to praise open AI models after OpenAI - Hugging Face attack
The Open Security AI Alliance says the Hugging Face/OpenAI mess proves frontier labs can't be trusted to properly secure sensitive systems
July 27th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Rolling Virtualization HWE Stack for Confidential Computing
Canonical has announced a new rolling virtualization Hardware Enablement stack for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS that upgrades QEMU, libvirt, EDK2, and SeaBIOS every six months for the first two years of the release cycle. The opt-in feature directly addresses the timing mismatch between fast-evolving CPU encryption standards like AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX and traditional two-year LTS update schedules. All virtualization components upgrade atomically through the ubuntu_virt_helper tool to prevent the inconsistent state mismatches that previously broke confidential workloads in production. The initiative aligns with AMD's newly revealed EPYC 9006 and Instinct MI455X hardware, positioning Ubuntu as a primary platform for regulated AI and sovereign cloud deployments.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu 26.10 to Include Ubuntu Certified Hardware Check
If you've ever wondered if your laptop or PC is officially certified to run Ubuntu, that curiosity will soon be met.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu To Provide Virtualization HWE Stack For Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Ubuntu has long provided hardware enablement "HWE" stacks for Ubuntu LTS releases to provide a newer kernel and Mesa drivers and more for better supporting new/modern hardware on the long-term support Ubuntu Linux releases. With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical will also now be providing a virtualization HWE stack for shipping newer virtualization / confidential computing features.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

Yet Another Linux Kernel Vulnerability Discovered
Affecting millions of systems, a kernel flaw discovered by Qualys could allow users to gain root privileges.
July 27th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 24th, 2026

11 Useful Free and Open Source S3 File Systems and Tools
Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is a robust and flexible object storage solution provided by AWS, designed to be highly scalable, secure, and enduring. It empowers users to store and retrieve vast amounts of data—including images, videos, and backups—accessible from anywhere online. The service utilizes a straightforward container-based organization, featuring buckets and objects, along with various low-cost storage options.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

AMD Advancing AI 2026: Open, Open-Source & More Open-Source
At this week's AMD Advancing AI 2026 event, "AI" was mentioned thousands of times in talks and in demos. As expected. Beyond that, the other term likely most heard during the event was "open"... Not particularly new for AMD with their long history of open-source efforts but I'd wager at this year's AMD Advancing AI 2026 event they were more acutely bringing up open-source, open ecosystems, and open standards. Certainly seemed like an uptick in "open" mentions and a ramp that's been building each year at the AMD events.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

AMD ROCm Committed To Six Week Release Cycle Moving Forward
One of many interesting takeaways from this week's AMD Advancing AI event in San Francisco was word that ROCm will be on a rigid six week release cycle moving forward.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

AnduinOS 2.0.1 Adds ARM64 and Local AI to Windows Refugee Linux Distro
AnduinOS 2.0.1 has arrived, bringing ARM64 support and fully offline local LLMs to the Linux distribution designed for Windows refugees. Developer Anduin Xue announced the update on July 24, 2026, built on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with Linux Kernel 7.0 and GNOME 50. Key additions include a generic ARM64 ISO validated on the Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023 and the opt-in anduinos-why-ai package powered by Google's Gemma 4 E2B model. Running on donations and personal funds, the project extends Long-Term Support until April 2031 while maintaining its privacy-first, no-telemetry stance.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

Apache Kvrocks -- distributed key-value NoSQL database
Apache Kvrocks is a distributed key-value NoSQL database built on RocksDB. It implements the Redis protocol, allowing applications to access the database using existing Redis clients and software libraries.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

Blake -- static site generator
Blake is a static site generator designed for .NET developers. It transforms Blazor WebAssembly projects into static websites using familiar Razor templates, Markdown content, and Blazor components.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

Dart Frog -- fast, minimalistic backend framework
Dart Frog is a fast, minimalistic backend framework for Dart. It provides a small API surface and a unified Dart toolchain for building web services, APIs, and backends that aggregate and transform data from multiple sources.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

Debian Considering General Resolution Over LLM Usage In The Project
Debian developers are discussing a general resolution whether to permit AI large language model (LLM) usage within the Debian software project.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

Dev accidentally commits Copilot binary to FreeBSD ports repo
Git is aptly named: it isn't easy -- but there are alternatives
July 24th, 2026 — Source

Fedora 45 Looks To Begin Phasing Out In-Kernel Crypto Userspace API
Going along with the upstream Linux 7.2 kernel deprecation of AF_ALG and Linux 7.3 to further restrict this interface for letting user-space programs interact directly with the Linux kernel crypto API, Fedora 45 is looking to follow and help support this transition.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

Imagination PowerVR Driver Marking BXM-4-64 MC1 GPU As Supported In Linux 7.3
Sent out today was the weekly round of drm-misc-next patches of new Direct Rendering Manager feature material ready to be queued in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

Intel Releases NPU Driver 1.35.0 Adding Wildcat Lake and Dynamic Shape Optimizations
Intel has promoted NPU Driver 1.35.0 to stable as of July 24, 2026, with zero code changes between the release candidate and the final tag. The update officially adds Wildcat Lake to the verified configuration table, giving budget Core Series 3 chips full Linux AI Acceleration support alongside Panther Lake. You will get dynamic shape optimization for generative AI inference, a Level Zero jump to v1.28.2 with thread-id tracing, and a compiler modernization that deprecated the old executable creation API. Official Ubuntu 24.04 .deb packages are ready now, though WSL2 support remains on the backlog for now.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.18.40 and Five LTS Branches Released in Massive July Stable Cycle
Greg Kroah-Hartman released six LTS kernel versions simultaneously on Friday, July 24, 2026, ranging from 5.10.261 to 6.18.40. The stable review cycle featured up to 1,624 patches for the newest branch, accompanied by the 7.1.5 point release and 7.2-rc4 mainline candidate. Security remains the priority, with critical fixes for KVM/x86 shadow paging (CVE-2026-46113), XFS data corruption, and a BPF/s390 verifier mismatch flagged as a regression. All source tarballs are available at kernel.org, with distribution vendors expected to integrate the patches into their trees shortly.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 7.1.5 Released: 2,070 Commits Deliver Critical Security Fixes and Resolve Driver Deadlocks
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released Linux Kernel 7.1.5, a massive stable maintenance update for the v7.1 series containing 2,070 commits from nearly 800 contributors. The patch addresses critical security vulnerabilities, including a use-after-free race in POSIX CPU timers and a Bluetooth L2CAP flaw that could allow memory corruption. Beyond security fixes, the release resolves filesystem deadlocks in f2fs and XFS, updates ALSA driver firmware handling, and consolidates iomap bio submission logic. Community observers call this massive patch volume the "new normal" driven by AI-assisted development and accelerated discovery cycles, while mainline development pushes forward with 7.2-rc4.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

Lunet -- modular static website generator
Lunet is a fast, modular static website generator for .NET. It uses the Scriban templating language to build websites from Markdown, templates and structured data.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

Qualcomm QCE Driver On The Chopping Block With ~48x Slower Than Armv8 Crypto Extensions
A few days back I wrote about upstream Linux kernel developers marking the Qualcomm crypto accelerator driver as "broken" and "harmful" due to its slow performance, history of bugs, and other limitations. Now this Qualcomm Crypto Engine "QCE" driver might be removed outright from the Linux kernel source tree after discovering it's even worse than anticipated.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Experience Still Lackluster On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
At the end of last year when checking out the latest Linux experience on the Snapdragon X Elite it was a disappointing affair. The performance had regressed and overall a more headache-inducing experience than just running a modern AMD Ryzen AI or Intel Core Ultra laptop on Linux. Given the recent release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, I've been re-testing the Acer Swift 14 AI laptop with Snapdragon X Elite SoC to see how its performing under Linux now and against the AMD/Intel competition. Unfortunately, it's regressed even further than the last round of testing.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

UBports Ships Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0 With Chromium 134 and 24.04 LTS
UBports has officially released Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.0, a major update built on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS that brings the mobile OS into the modern era. The long-awaited Chromium 134 engine upgrade lands in Morph Browser to resolve historical web compatibility headaches, while notch avoidance and Widevine DRM support round out the feature set. New hardware support now includes the Zinwa Q25 alongside existing Fairphone, Volla, and Xiaomi devices. Users can install the new software via System Settings, though a mandatory two-step migration ensures a smooth transition across supported handsets.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu Linux Looking To Get Rid Of /etc/debian_version Historical Artifact
Ubuntu Linux has shipped /etc/debian_version that is carried over from upstream Debian and in turn just indicating the Debian Sid development version from which the packages are arrived. Besides it being inaccurate, /etc/os-release has been the long preferred standard for reading the OS release information. Thus finally Ubuntu developers are looking at dropping the /etc/debian_version file.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

Vaden -- backend web framework
Vaden is a backend web framework for Dart inspired by Spring Boot. Built on Shelf, it provides higher-level abstractions for developing structured web applications and APIs while retaining compatibility with the wider Shelf ecosystem.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

Ventoy 1.1.17 Shipped: BusyBox Fixes, New Distro Boot Logic
Ventoy 1.1.17 shipped on July 24, delivering targeted compatibility updates for embedded Linux workflows and enterprise distributions. The release patches a BusyBox fdisk detection regression, repairs a PATH resolution bug in the Linux installer, and adds explicit boot support for Athena OS, EulerOS, and Proxmox VE in grub2 mode. Contributors also resolved a latent 512-byte buffer shift in the FATFS disk_write callback that could theoretically corrupt sector-zero writes on specific partition layouts. You can grab the Linux tarball, Windows ZIP, or live ISO directly from the official GitHub release page.
July 24th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 23rd, 2026

3 Easy Ways to Access Python from R
Python is a high-level, general-purpose, structured, powerful, open source programming language that's used for a wide variety of programming tasks. It features a fully dynamic type system and automatic memory management. Python is a versatile language. It's frequently used as a scripting language for web applications, embedded in software products, as well as artificial intelligence and system administration tasks. It's both simple and powerful, perfectly suited for beginners and professional programmers alike.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

11 Best Free and Open Source Perl Static Site Generators
LinuxLinks, like most modern websites, is dynamic in that content is stored in a database and converted into presentation-ready HTML when readers access the site.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

AMD Announces ROCm.AI As AI-Driven Platform For Developers
In addition to Instinct MI455X and Helios launching along with the new AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" processors, AMD used their annual Advancing AI day to announce ROCm.AI as an AI-driven platform for developers.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

AMD EPYC 9006 Venice Announced & Looks Poised To Be A Grand Slam
While AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" launched just under two years ago, it has aged remarkably well. It is one of the few CPU generations in my past 22 years of Linux hardware reviews/benchmarking that has still captivated me two years on in finding still typically industry-leading performance across varying workloads, exceptional reliability, and all around a very robust platform. Today though at AMD Advancing AI 2026, Lisa Su formally announced EPYC 9006 "Venice" for taking their server offerings to the next level in the agentic AI era.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

AMD EPYC Zen 7 "Florence" Confirmed With ACE, Next-Gen Memory
After announcing the AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" processors today at AMD Advancing AI 2026, Lisa Su ended her keynote by confirming EPYC Zen 7 "Florence" details as well as EPYC Zen 8 "Ravenna" being in development.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

AMD Launches Instinct MI455X, Helios AI Rack
Lisa Su at AMD Advancing AI 2026 just launched the new Instinct MI455X GPUs and the Helios rack.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

Apache NetBeans 31 RC2 Released: Targeted Fixes Ahead of August GA Build
Apache NetBeans 31 RC2 dropped on July 23 with a deliberately narrow scope, packing only eight targeted fixes after the feature-heavy RC1 build shipped a week earlier. The release candidate stabilizes core subsystems by patching javac partial reparse issues, enabling Payara support on JDK 25, and silencing a flaky LSP test that kept breaking CI. Meanwhile, the broader RC1 update already brought the embedded compiler up to JDK 27b26, added PHP 8.4 Property Hooks, and upgraded Gradle and Maven tooling.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

dav1d 1.5.4 Brings AV1 Decoding To OS/2
While the VideoLAN developers are busy these days working on dav2d for AV2 video decoding, they haven't let up work on dav1d and recently released dav1d 1.5.4 for continuing to enhance this leading open-source, CPU-based AV1 decoder.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

DocuDart -- static documentation generator
DocuDart is a static documentation generator for Dart projects. Powered by Jaspr, it converts Markdown content and Dart components into deployable HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

Fedora 45 Atomic Desktops Look To Allow For Web-Based Remote Installations
One of the latest change proposals filed for Fedora Linux 45 is for supporting web-based remote installations of Fedora Atomic Desktop images.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

ForgePages -- lightweight static site generator
It combines HTML pages with reusable template fragments, such as headers, navigation bars and footers. Page-specific variables can be defined inside HTML comments and referenced from pages or templates.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

FreeBSD Ports Currently Frozen Due To A Very Large Commit
The FreeBSD project issued a statement today over the FreeBSD Ports repository having been frozen for the past two days. The freeze is not due to a malicious compromise but rather a very large commit breaking things.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

GNU Emacs 31.0.91 Pretest Drops Legacy Dumper, Flex Completion Rewrite, and New Window Layout Commands
GNU Emacs 31.0.91 is the second pretest release leading to 31.1, announced July 23, 2026, and it strips out the legacy unexec dumper while delivering a major completion system overhaul. The update brings a fleet of new window layout commands for rotating and flipping frames, a rewritten flex completion style, and finally enables mouse support by default in compatible terminals. Startup order changes now let site administrators load site-start.el before early-init.el, and native compilation adds a battery-aware option to stop your laptop fan from spinning up every time you save a buffer. Unicode 17.0 support expands internationalization coverage to Tifinagh and Northern Iroquoian scripts, so grab the tarball from alpha.gnu.org and report any bugs to bug-gnu-emacs before the stable release drops.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

Kodama -- command-line static site generator
Kodama is a command-line static site generator designed for creating interconnected Zettelkasten-style note collections.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

LLVM 23.1-rc1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & AVX-512 BMM Support, Other Compiler Enhancements
Following the recent code branching for the LLVM 23 series, LLVM 23.1-rc1 was released today in working toward the next stable release of this open-source compiler stack.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

Mountpoint for Amazon S3 -- high-throughput file client
Mountpoint for Amazon S3 is a high-throughput file client that mounts an Amazon S3 bucket as a local file system.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

New RefluXFS Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges
A nine-year-old race condition vulnerability in the Linux kernel's XFS filesystem, tracked as CVE-2026-64600, allows local attackers to overwrite protected files and gain root privileges.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

OpenAI says its AI models went rogue and hacked another company
The OpenAI -- Hugging Face hacking incident is either a wake-up call or a very convenient story
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

Proton-CachyOS adds vkd3d-low-latency for DX12 games
Proton-CachyOS adds Reflex and Waitable DXGI support for Linux gaming
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

Ryzen AI Software 1.8 Released With New Model Support, More Optimizations
Ahead of Lisa Su's keynote this morning at the AMD Advancing AI event, tagged on GitHub just now was the Ryzen AI Software 1.8 release for helping to deploy AI models on Ryzen AI PCs.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

Tails 7.10 Released: Safer Shutdown, Celluloid Video Player, and Tor Browser Update
Tails 7.10 shipped today, introducing a new shutdown procedure that trades speed for safety by adding a 60-second confirmation window to prevent accidental data loss. The default video player has switched from GNOME Videos to Celluloid, which cannot access the network to align with Tails' security model, while Tor Browser updated to version 15.0.19 with fixes from Firefox 153. The release continues a rapid cadence of eleven versions in half a year, driven by emergency patches for critical kernel vulnerabilities like Copy Fail and Dirty Frag.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

Typsite -- static site generator
Typsite is a static site generator that lets authors create website content using Typst. Written in Rust, it processes Typst source files and generates complete static websites with navigation, sidebars, footers, and reusable section templates.
July 23rd, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 22nd, 2026

AMD EPYC Turin With PCIe 5.0 Storage Shows Off Nice Gains On Linux 7.2
Earlier this week was an exciting look at Intel Xe3 graphics performance gains on Linux 7.2 with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. On the other side of the table, with AMD hardware on this forthcoming kernel an area to be excited about are some I/O improvements at least for 5th Gen EPYC with speedy PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD storage.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

Arcee, a US open source AI lab, says Chinese models are not inherently dangerous
As Chinese open-weight AI models grow in capability and popularity, arguments about what should be done about them have once again reached a fever pitch.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

Bazzite Linux 44.20260721 Ships With Accelerated OGC Kernel and Dual Nvidia Driver Options
Bazzite Linux 44.20260721 dropped on July 21, delivering an accelerated kernel jump to 7.1.3-ogc5.1, dual Nvidia driver branches, and a host of gaming stack updates including Gamescope and Bazaar. The release reflects the Open Gaming Collective's push to upstream gaming patches across member distros, while giving GeForce users a clear choice between bleeding-edge open drivers and stability-focused LTS options. As a leading non-Valve gaming Linux distro, the immutable build continues to refine its support for handhelds like the Steam Deck and Legion Go, though community discussions are already highlighting sleep cycle quirks and Flatpak hang issues.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

BIND 9.20.26 and 9.21.24 Released to Patch Critical DNSSEC Flaws
ISC has officially released BIND 9.20.26 and 9.21.24 to patch a severe cluster of vulnerabilities in the named daemon. The stable branch update targets critical DNSSEC validation bypasses, use-after-free flaws in DNS-over-HTTPS, and memory exhaustion bugs that could allow cache poisoning or remote code execution. Recursive resolvers and authoritative servers running versions older than 9.20.20 are sitting in the blast radius and need an immediate upgrade.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

COSMIC Epoch 1.4 Released With More Fixes, Force Quit For COSMIC Monitor
System76 developers today released COSMIC Epoch 1.4 as the newest stable release to their Rust-based desktop environment.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

Dodeca -- fully incremental static site generator
It uses cached queries throughout its build pipeline, so changing a file causes only the affected transformations to run again.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

Exim 4.99.5 Drops AI-Discovered Security Patches for Mail Servers
Exim 4.99.5 dropped today to patch two privilege escalation flaws affecting mail server versions 4.82 through 4.99.4. The high-severity bug allows directory traversal through queue name arguments, while the medium-severity issue exploits .forward file expansion when force_command is enabled on a pipe transport. In a first for the project, the advisory credits "authors ingested as the training corpus," highlighting how automated LLM analysis is increasingly surfacing legacy security issues. Administrators should upgrade immediately and audit their pipe transport configurations to eliminate the exploit window.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

GNOME can look like Windows -- and Flashback can do it without extensions
New 'Simple-taskbar' is an option, but there's a simpler, stabler way
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

GOverlay 1.8.9 Adds Per-Game MangoHud Blacklist and Flatpak Fixes
GOverlay 1.8.9 shipped on July 22, 2026, delivering the per-game MangoHud blacklist support the Linux gaming community has wanted since the project's early days. The update also aligns global and per-game configuration paths, patches a Flatpak sandbox bug for non-Steam titles, and finally clears up a changelog fetch deadlock that could previously freeze the app on startup. Developer Benjamim Gois continues his rapid mid-2026 release cadence across the unified Vulkan overlay manager, which now consolidates MangoHud, vkBasalt, vkSumi, OptiScaler, and Proton tweaks behind a single card-based interface. You can grab the new build as an AppImage, Flatpak, deb, or rpm straight from the official GitHub releases page.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

Intel Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts Slated For Linux 7.3
Back in March Intel software engineers began sending out Linux patches for Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts as a new capability with recent Intel processors. This notable efficiency improvement is now queued for introduction in the Linux 7.3 cycle once its merge window opens in a month.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

libx11-compat Is Working To Implement Xlib Atop SDL For Wayland, macOS, Android
For helping to keep X11 clients running in a modern Linux desktop world with Wayland or even for running on macOS or Android, there is now yet-another option being developed with libx11-compat. The libx11-compat project is working to re-implement the Xlib client library atop SDL2/SDL3 interfaces for allow broad underlying platform coverage.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

Linux kernel team publishes 432 CVEs in two days
Sunday-to-Monday onslaught fuels speculation over AI-assisted bug reports
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

Mesa 26.2.0 RC2: NVK Closes Gap on NVIDIA, Adds OpenCL 3.1 and Video Fixes
Mesa 26.2.0 RC2 has landed, bringing a heavy batch of AV1 and H.265 Vulkan video fixes alongside a significant performance push for the open-source NVIDIA NVK driver that's narrowing the gap with proprietary stacks. Developed by Eric Engestrom with contributions from over thirty-five developers, the release also introduces OpenCL 3.1 support across multiple drivers, broad 32-bit target capabilities via Rusticl, and a consolidation of the Intel "Jay" shader backend. The update includes targeted workarounds for titles like Cyberpunk 2077 and Blockland, while simultaneous releases from DXVK, D7VK, and Firefox 153 indicate a coordinated push for better Linux graphics compatibility.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

Monday.com lays off hundreds to focus on AI
Israeli workplace software maker Monday.com is laying off hundreds of employees as part of a restructuring plan to refocus its investments around AI projects.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

OpenAI's AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B
OpenAI announced Wednesday that it will spend $750 billion on infrastructure through 2030, some 25% more than it estimated earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported. The renewed blitz comes as its Stargate data center project appears to have stalled.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

OpenAI, Hugging Face and the AI That Hacked Its Homework | This Week in IT
OpenAI and Hugging Face probably weren't expecting to trend alongside the word "hacked" this week, but here we are. In what sounds suspiciously like an AI-written sequel to WarGames, OpenAI says one of its frontier models exploited a previously unknown vulnerability and compromised Hugging Face's infrastructure during a cybersecurity evaluation—not to steal money or secrets, but to obtain the answers to the benchmark it was being tested against.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 10-Inch Model Launches
Following the launch of the 7-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 and the 5-inch display variant, Raspberry Pi announced today the addition of a 10-inch model.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

rchitect -- maps the R API to Python
rchitect maps the R API to Python, enabling Python programs to interact with an embedded R session. It can evaluate R expressions, invoke R functions, and convert objects between the two languages.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

SDL Lands HDR10 Rendering Support
Sam Lantinga of Valve and SDL fame has landed HDR10 rendering support into the Simple DirectMedia Library.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

Sitepress -- file-backed content management system
Sitepress is a file-backed content management system and static site generator written in Ruby. It can run as a standalone tool, integrate with Rails applications, or compile content into static files.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

SparkPlayer -- visually appealing media player
SparkPlayer is a terminal-based media player for local music and video collections. It combines filesystem browsing, playlist management, album artwork, video playback and colourful audio visualisers in a keyboard-driven interface.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

The "New Normal" Of Audio Quirks Submitted For Linux 7.2-rc5
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE sent out this week's batch of sound fixes that he describes as "A collection of fixes that have been accumulated recently. The amount is still "new normal", but all small fixes. Mostly hardware-specific quirks, but including a few core fixes, too." The "new normal" has been a common phrase recently to reflect the increased tempo of patches as well as security/bug disclosures all due to the increased pace of AI/LLM activity.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

Trellis Site -- Dart static site generator
Trellis Site is a Dart static site generator that combines Markdown content with Trellis templates and Hugo-inspired conventions.
July 22nd, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 16th, 2026

11 Best Free and Open Source Survey Tools
Surveys are one of the most effective tools for obtaining customer feedback. However, creating and distributing them can be very challenging.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

12 Best Free and Open Source Host-Based Intrusion Detection Systems
An intrusion detection system is a device or software application that monitors a network or systems for malicious activity or policy violations.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

AMD driver causing massive performance loss on all major Linux distros
Ubuntu warns an upcoming Linux kernel severely slows AMD down in certain compute workloads due to a drive issue.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Linux Performance
Today the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D goes on sale as the lowest-price AMD 3D V-Cache processor being marketed for gamers. This 8-core / 16-thread processor features a 4.5GHz boost clock and a total of 104MB of cache while being based on the older Zen 4 architecture and coming in at about $329 USD. Here is a look at how the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D is performing on Linux.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Create Vector Graphics with Open Source Software
Vector graphics consist of shapes, called objects, which are simple geometric primitives: points, lines, curves, circles, and polygons. The shapes are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics. It is possible to edit each object separately, for example, by changing the shape, colour, size and position. By combining paths that are straight or curved and various colors and shading very detailed illustrations can be created.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

FreeBSD Intern Working On Porting AMD ROCm To The BSD World
An intern with the FreeBSD Foundation is working on porting AMD's ROCm compute stack to run on this popular BSD environment.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Hwaro -- lightweight and fast static site generator
Hwaro is a lightweight and fast static site generator written in Crystal. It transforms Markdown content with TOML, YAML, or JSON front matter using Jinja2-compatible templates.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Imagination PowerVR BXM-4-64 GPU Firmware Upstreamed For The T-Head TH1520
Now in the upstream linux-firmware.git centralized repository is the firmware binary needed for enabling the Imagination Tech PowerVR BXM-4-64 Rogue GPU found with the Alibaba T-Head TH1520 SoC.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Itsi -- high-performance web and application server
Itsi is a high-performance web and application server with first-class support for Ruby applications. It is a Rack-compliant server that can also operate as a reverse proxy, API gateway, gRPC server, and static file server.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Linus Torvalds rebukes anti-AI stances in the Linux kernel code review process, says 'Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects' — creator embraces AI as just a tool and 'clearly a useful one'
The flashpoint was the Sashiko code review tools.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Linus Torvalds tells AI critics to fork Linux or walk away
Linux is not an anti-AI project, says its creator
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Linux Creator Linus Torvalds To Anti-AI Devs: Go Fork Yourself
The strength of open-source software is that it's open, which is to say that anyone can contribute to it. Sometimes, this also means that your project can attract persons with conflicting worldviews. No open-source project is bigger than Linux itself, and recently the Linux Kernel project has been grappling with calls from certain contributors who feel that Linux should take an assertive anti-AI stance.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Linux Floppy Driver For Apple's Super Woz Integrated Machine "SWIM" In Old Macs Improved
This is quite unexpected and was not on my bingo card for this year or even decade... The Linux driver for the floppy disk controller in Apple's legacy Super Woz Integrated Machine (SWIM) saw a large set of patches today for improving its performance and delivering various fixes.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Linux is not a "social warrior project," says its creator Linus Torvalds as he puts his foot firmly down against anti-AI comments
The father of Linux has had enough of people talking badly about AI and tells people to either fork it or walk away if they have a problem with it.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

mcpsnoop -- transparent proxy and terminal interface
mcpsnoop is a transparent proxy and terminal interface for inspecting the real Model Context Protocol (MCP) traffic between AI clients and MCP servers.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Microsoft Comic Chat, an IRC client from 30 years ago that helped popularize Comic Sans, is going open source
The source code behind Microsoft's 30 year old Comic Chat IRC client is now available on Github for the first time.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Microsoft Goes Nostalgic In Newest Open-Source Drop: Comic Chat Open-Sourced After 30 Years
Introduced in 1996 with Internet Explorer 3.0, Microsoft Comic Chat provided comic-like avatars driven IRC chat client. After 30 years, this proprietary IRC chat client that was removed in Internet Explorer 6.0, is now open-source software.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

New Linux Driver Improving Support For GETAC Rugged Laptops
GETAC manufactures a line of rugged/semi-rugged laptops for use in the public safety, defense, industrial manufacturing, oil and gas, and other industries. While shipping with Microsoft Windows out-of-the-box, a new driver has been proposed as GETAC MPMD as a minimal ACPI driver for improving support for these GETAC rugged laptops. In particular, the driver will allow the various programmable buttons on these laptops to work under Linux.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Oracle Linux 10 Update 2 Released: Post-Quantum Crypto and Python 3.14
Oracle Linux 10 Update 2 binaries are now live on Oracle's download servers, delivering a refreshed enterprise feature set built directly on RHEL 10.2 sources. The release prominently introduces post-quantum cryptographic support in OpenSSH and libSSH alongside a default Python 3.14 developer stack. Kernel and networking layers gain hardware drivers for Intel accelerators, WiFi 7 enablement, and refined TCP retransmission controls.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 Released: Native Graph Queries, Unified REPACK and Feature Freeze
PostgreSQL 19 Beta 2 is now available for testing, locking down features to focus on stability ahead of its 2026 launch. This release introduces native SQL/PGQ graph queries, a unified REPACK command for zero-downtime table reorganization, and shifted defaults for JIT and TOAST compression. Several breaking changes in string handling, index opclasses, and encoding require careful planning before migration. Database administrators and developers should review the open items list and benchmark their workloads against the new build.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Rust 1.97.1 Release: Critical LLVM Miscompilation Fix Lands One Week After 1.97.0
Rust 1.97.1 dropped on July 16, 2026, just seven days after the 1.97.0 stable release to address a critical LLVM miscompilation that has affected code since version 1.87. The patch backports an upstream LLVM fix and reverts a rustc change that lowered the bug's activation threshold, preventing users from compiling incorrect binaries that have been lurking since the 1.87 release. This urgent update follows 1.97.0, which brought heavy structural changes including v0 symbol mangling enabled by default and stabilized Cargo warning controls to replace legacy RUSTFLAGS workarounds. Users should run rustup update stable immediately to patch the issue, while teams adopting the new 1.97.0 features should verify that their debuggers and profilers remain compatible with the updated symbol format.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu Kernel Team Warns Of Temporary AMD GPU Performance Regression Up To 42x
The Ubuntu Kernel Team issued a statement this morning to proactively warn Ubuntu Linux users on Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS HWE users that the next kernel point release will contain a performance regression for AMD GPUs in compute-heavy workloads with up to a 42x performance hit. The positive news is that due to this being an upstream regression in a Linux 7.0 point release, upstream stakeholders and other Linux distributions that more quickly shipped the problematic code already have a fix coming down the pipe.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Valve Releases SteamOS 3.8.15 Stable Update with Composition Fix and HDR Patch
Valve has released SteamOS 3.8.15 to stable and 3.8.23 to beta, with the stable update delivering a critical composition performance patch and an HDR fix for Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resync. The beta channel includes a Proton fix for delayed game start times but lacks the composition improvement, creating a rare scenario where stable effectively leapfrogs the preview channel. Valve explicitly advises beta users experiencing performance degradation to switch to stable immediately, as the necessary fix is already live there and hasn't synchronized downstream.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Wallaby-VK -- virtual on-screen keyboard
Wallaby-VK is a virtual on-screen keyboard for Linux systems with Wayland support.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Wayland 1.26 Released: Pointer Warp Event and Protocol Fixes
Wayland 1.26.0 landed today, introducing a new wl_pointer.warp event that allows compositors to programmatically reposition cursors without relying on simulated user input. The release also resolves long-standing race conditions in global object removal through a dedicated synchronization request, stabilizing client-compositor communication during monitor changes and feature toggles. Additional refinements include symmetrical socket file descriptor management and microsecond-precision timestamps for WAYLAND_DEBUG logging to speed up developer troubleshooting. Compositors and toolkits will adopt the updated protocol in upcoming releases, with widespread Linux distribution support expected over the coming months.
July 16th, 2026 — Source or Source

yamlfmt -- format YAML files
yamlfmt is an extensible command-line tool and Go library for formatting YAML files.
July 16th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 12th, 2026

5 Best Free and Open Source Linux MAC/RBAC Tools
5 Best Free and Open Source Linux MAC/RBAC Tools
July 12th, 2026 — Source

6 Top Free and Open Source Scala Web Frameworks
One of the types of software that's important for a web developer is the web framework. A framework "is a code library that makes a developer's life easier when building reliable, scalable, and maintainable web applications" by providing reusable code or extensions for common operations. By saving development time, developers can concentrate on application logic rather than mundane elements.
July 12th, 2026 — Source

7 Useful Free and Open Source CSS Code Formatters
A code formatter is an automated tool designed to adjust source code according to a predetermined set of formatting guidelines, like how indentation and spacing should look and where line breaks should go. By doing this, it enhances the code's readability and maintains consistency, all while ensuring that the code's functionality remains unchanged. This not only saves developers valuable time but also helps minimize disagreements over style preferences.
July 12th, 2026 — Source

16 Best Free and Open Source Virtual Keyboards
Accessibility is the degree to which products, devices, services, or environments are available to as many people as possible whatever their circumstances. Accessibility can be viewed as the ability to access and benefit from a system or entity. Accessibility is paramount. Social inclusion is not an act of charity but a fundamental human right.
July 12th, 2026 — Source

AWS, Azure, GCP, and Raspberry Pi Environments Kernel updates for Ubuntu
Ubuntu released multiple security notices, addressing critical vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel across Ubuntu 18.04, 22.04, and 24.04 distributions.
July 12th, 2026 — Source

Debian 13.6 Trixie Live Images Drop With RAM Sandboxing, Secure Boot Fixes, and Major Security Patches
Debian 13.6 Trixie live images drop as volatile RAM sandboxes that erase every config and package on shutdown unless you manually wire up persistence first. Desktop stacks like GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, and Xfce 4.20 get stability tweaks that prioritize smoother navigation over feature bloat. On the backend, the release finally tackles the expired 2013 UEFI Secure Boot certificate with updated fwupd and shim packages while patching critical vulnerabilities across Chromium, Firefox, nginx, and the kernel.
July 12th, 2026 — Source

HOL4 -- interactive theorem prover
HOL4 is an interactive theorem prover for classical higher-order logic. It provides a platform for formalising mathematics, verifying hardware and software, and developing custom proof tools.
July 12th, 2026 — Source

IBM Plex -- global typeface family
IBM Plex is a global typeface family developed as IBM's corporate typeface. It is designed for user interfaces and a broad range of other typographic applications.
July 12th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2-rc3 Bringing Fixes For The SEGA Dreamcast Drivers In 2026
It wasn't on my bingo card for the week but merged to Git ahead of today's Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel release are a number of fixes for the SEGA Dreamcast drivers.
July 12th, 2026 — Source

Linux Security Roundup for Week 28, 2026
Multiple major Linux distributions released coordinated security advisories this week to address critical vulnerabilities across their core stacks. The patches prioritize fixes for the GhostLock and Januscape kernel flaws, alongside dozens of high-severity issues affecting Chromium, OpenShift, and enterprise infrastructure tools. RHEL, Oracle, Rocky, and Fedora are rolling out extensive kpatch updates and system library fixes that span both legacy and current kernel streams. Administrators should prioritize immediate patching to secure production environments against active exploitation vectors.
July 12th, 2026 — Source

Lmst -- lightweight Mastodon web client
Lmst is a lightweight Mastodon web client with a clear, classic user interface and a tiny JavaScript bundle.
July 12th, 2026 — Source

PeaZip 11.2.0 Released: New F12 Functions Picker and Steady QoL Upgrades for Open-Source Archiver
PeaZip 11.2.0 landed on July 12, 2026, prioritizing workflow efficiency with a new F12 functions picker that lets you search and apply archive commands instantly. The update also bumps the 7z/p7zip backend to 26.02 and the Pea engine to 1.32, while shifting compilation support to Lazarus 4.x alongside continued compatibility with older versions. With the addition of .ZIM support, the archiver now handles 243 formats and maintains its promise of full cross-platform consistency across Windows, Linux, macOS, and BSD. It's a steady QoL update for a mature, privacy-focused tool that doesn't chase trends but quietly keeps your archives secure and accessible.
July 12th, 2026 — Source

Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi Linux Driver Hardened Against Malicious WiFi Access Points
The staging driver fixes that were sent out this week ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release is predominantly made up of hardening the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. In particular, a number of fixes for addressing out-of-bounds behavior when connecting to "bad" WiFi hosts.
July 12th, 2026 — Source

WooCommerce -- customizable ecommerce platform
WooCommerce is a customizable ecommerce platform for building and managing online stores with WordPress.
July 12th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 11th, 2026

6 Best Free and Open Source F# Static Site Generators
LinuxLinks, like most modern websites, is dynamic in that content is stored in a database and converted into presentation-ready HTML when readers access the site.
July 11th, 2026 — Source

14 Best Free and Open Source Digital Audio Workstations
A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or application software used for recording, editing and producing audio files. DAWs come in a wide variety of configurations from a single software program on a laptop, to an integrated stand-alone unit, all the way to a highly complex configuration of numerous components controlled by a central computer.
July 11th, 2026 — Source

Alhena -- graphical browser for exploring Gemini
Alhena is a graphical browser for exploring Gemini, Gopher, Spartan, and Nex spaces.
July 11th, 2026 — Source

bulletty -- TUI RSS/Atom feed reader
A news aggregator gathers news, blog posts, and other web content into one place, making it easier to follow updates from many different sources. Given the huge number of news sites and blogs online, these tools are invaluable for quickly spotting important developments and breaking stories.
July 11th, 2026 — Source

Debian 13.6 Released To Ship All The Latest Security Fixes, Reverts GeoIP Database
Debian 13.6 is out today as the newest point release of Debian Trixie to ship the latest security fixes and other maintenance updates.
July 11th, 2026 — Source

Debian GNU/Linux 12.15 Released: Final Bookworm Update Signals LTS Transition
Debian GNU/Linux 12.15 hit the archives today as Bookworm's final point release. The core Debian Security Team stops maintaining this version immediately, pushing the distribution straight into Long Term Support managed by the community and Freexian. This last major update ships over 60 critical patches, fixing expired Secure Boot certificates that could brick UEFI systems and closing vulnerabilities across the Linux kernel and common web services. New deployments should jump to Debian 13 Trixie now, while LTS users still have roughly two years of updates before paid extended support takes over.
July 11th, 2026 — Source

Debian GNU/Linux 13.6 Released: Secure Boot CA Fix and GeoIP Rollback
Debian has released point update 13.6 for its "trixie" stable distribution, delivering a critical update to fwupd that resolves expiration issues with the legacy 2013 UEFI Secure Boot certificate authority. The release also reverts the geoip-database package to a 2019 snapshot due to DFSG licensing conflicts, advising consumers to obtain recent data via a direct GeoLite license instead. Security patches address a wide array of vulnerabilities across QEMU, curl, nginx, and major browsers, mitigating remote code execution and denial-of-service risks. Existing systems can be updated immediately through standard package managers, while new installation images will soon appear at official download locations.
July 11th, 2026 — Source

KDE Developers Continue Landing More Features For Plasma 6.8
This Week in Plasma is out with its latest issue to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop developments for the past week. This week some of the Plasma 6.8 feature activity highlights include:
July 11th, 2026 — Source

lax -- collection of fast formatters
It supports CSS, SCSS, Less, SQL, HTML, XML, SVG, Vue, Svelte, Astro, and other markup formats. The formatters use lossless tokenization and can be used as Rust libraries or dprint plugins.
July 11th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2-rc3 Bringing Display Detection Improvement To Help Some Multi-GPU Systems
Sent out today was this week's round of x86 (x86_64) fixes ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel test candidate due out on Sunday.
July 11th, 2026 — Source

LLVM Merges x86 LFI "Lightweight Fault Isolation" Target For In-Process Sandboxing
Stanford researchers have been developing Lightweight Fault Isolation "LFI" compiler passes and targets for LLVM as a means of efficient, native code sandboxing. The AArch64 LFI target was previously upstreamed while this week the x86/x86_64 LFI target was also upstreamed for this means of in-process sandboxing.
July 11th, 2026 — Source

Manjaro Linux 26.1 Bian-May RC1 Released with Linux Kernel 7.1.3
Manjaro Linux 26.1 "Bian-May" release candidate launched on July 10, delivering GNOME 50, Plasma 6.6.6, and a refreshed default kernel lineup. The update enforces a Python 3.14 migration, permanently drops NVIDIA Pascal GPU support, and formalizes the project's transition to a community-governed non-profit. Early testers should navigate known roadblocks including refind bootloader conflicts, mkinitcpio hook mismatches, and pamac instability during package operations. Official KDE, GNOME, and XFCE ISOs are now available for download, though the release candidate status means stability isn't guaranteed.
July 11th, 2026 — Source

Mesa's Rusticl Now Enables Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Support By Default
The Panfrost Gallium3D driver has worked with the Rusticl OpenCL Rust driver already but to date has required setting the RUSTICL_ENABLE=panfrost environment variable for actually enabling the support, similar to other drivers where the Rusticl support has not been fully vetted and made official. But with the latest code for Mesa 26.2, Panfrost is being enabled for Rusticl by default to avoid the need for that override.
July 11th, 2026 — Source

MoonRay -- production path-tracing renderer
MoonRay is a production path-tracing renderer designed for creating images for animation, visual effects, and other demanding rendering workloads.
July 11th, 2026 — Source

OBS Studio 32.2 RC1 Released: New Add Source Dialog, HDR Filter, and Plugin Warnings
OBS Studio 32.2 RC1 has arrived, replacing the traditional source menu with a dedicated dialog window and introducing a new SDR-to-HDR composition filter for improved workflow flexibility. The update forces macOS Intel users to the native Apple Silicon version and overhauls Windows DLL handling, both of which may break third-party plugins until they are updated. Additional highlights include dynamic bitrate support for multitrack video, .webp file compatibility in slide shows, and performance fixes for Linux PipeWire on NVIDIA GPUs.
July 11th, 2026 — Source

Wine Staging 13.13 Drops with Fresh vkd3d-latest and Compatibility Patches
Wine Staging 13.13 dropped on July 11, 2026, syncing with the latest Wine 13.13 development stream while carrying over its experimental patch queue. The update ships a refreshed vkd3d-latest patchset, updated odbc32 fixes, and minor spelling corrections to improve Windows application compatibility on Linux. Unlike vanilla Wine, this fork maintains roughly 289 actively tested patches that bridge critical gaps in DirectX graphics, memory allocation, and Adobe-specific MSHTML workarounds.
July 11th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 10th, 2026

7 Best Free and Open Source AppImage Desktop Integration Tools
AppImage is a universal software format for distributing portable software on Linux without needing superuser permissions to install the application. AppImage doesn't really install software. It's a compressed image with all the dependencies and libraries needed to run the desired software.
July 10th, 2026 — Source

Amethyst Mod Manager 2.0.1 Drops for Linux, Stabilizing Major Qt Overhaul
Amethyst Mod Manager 2.0.1 has been just released as a quick stabilization patch following its massive v2.0.0 Qt interface overhaul. The native Linux tool finally gives Steam Deck and desktop gamers direct Nexus Mods API integration alongside dedicated Proton setup wizards for over forty-five titles. Despite reaching 620 GitHub stars in under five months, the solo developer's relentless pace has left a handful of early regressions for users to work around. If you plan to migrate from Windows managers, expect a hands-on setup process but gain a purpose-built modding experience that finally works on Linux.
July 10th, 2026 — Source

BOFH: Cross-department AI pitches are easier to swallow with a pint in hand
Some ideas need workshopping, others need a warning light
July 10th, 2026 — Source

Cinnamon 6.8 will support Wayland -- if you want it
Next version of Linux Mint's desktop has both kinds of display server
July 10th, 2026 — Source

HiZ Plane Optimization Merged For Intel Vulkan Linux Driver For Some Performance Benefit
After two years being on the TODO list for a possible performance optimization, the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver has now merged an HiZ plane optimization that can yield up to a few percent frame-rate improvement for Linux gaming/graphics on newer Intel integrated and discrete graphics hardware.
July 10th, 2026 — Source

Intel-Scaler-vLLM 0.21.0-b1 Delivers Latest Features For vLLM On Intel GPUs
Released this morning was Intel's newest version of Intel-Scaler-vLLM as their Docker-based solution providing an optimized vLLM stack for execution on Intel Arc (Pro) graphics hardware.
July 10th, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.7 X11 versus Wayland Session Gaming Performance For NVIDIA On CachyOS
With KDE Plasma 6.7 now having seen a few point releases to further polish this last version with X11 support ahead of Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-only, here are some NVIDIA Linux gaming benchmarks between the X11 and Wayland sessions on Plasma 6.7.2 using the popular Arch Linux based CachyOS.
July 10th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 Enabling Second Graphics Pipe For Modern AMD APUs
AMD on Thursday sent out another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver updates to DRM-Next of new feature material ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window.
July 10th, 2026 — Source

Linux Foundation Launches Akrites to Protect Critical Open Source Software from AI-Powered Threats
The Linux Foundation has launched Akrites, a new industry-wide initiative aimed at defending the world's most critical open source software against a rapidly evolving generation of AI-enabled cyber threats. Backed by more than 20 founding organizations - including major cloud providers, AI companies, financial institutions, cybersecurity vendors, and open source foundations - Akrites establishes a coordinated framework for identifying, remediating, and responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them.
July 10th, 2026 — Source

LLVM Clang Merges Initial Support For NVIDIA Rigel Core With Next-Gen Rosa CPU
Earlier this week NVIDIA confirmed some basic details around their next-gen Rosa CPU that succeeds Vera. Among the public confirmation was that it will feature a "Rigel" Armv9.2-A core iterating on their Olympus core design. With the basic details published, NVIDIA immediately introduced Rigel core support into the GCC compiler. Now they have also upstreamed their initial Rigel core enablement into the LLVM Clang compiler.
July 10th, 2026 — Source

PgRust: AI-Coded Rust Rewrite of PostgreSQL Passes 100% of Tests
Former Heap CEO Malcolm Matis has announced pgrust, a complete Rust rewrite of PostgreSQL that successfully executes all 46,000 queries in the Postgres 18.3 regression suite without failure. The project leveraged eight parallel AI coding agents to rapidly generate over 450,000 lines of code, targeting architectural shifts like a thread-per-connection model and native disk compatibility. While early benchmarks claim dramatic performance leaps and a narrowing gap with ClickHouse, the author explicitly notes the current v0.1 release is neither production-ready nor performance-optimized.
July 10th, 2026 — Source

rcryptfs -- encrypted filesystem project
rcryptfs is an experimental encrypted filesystem project. It can read and write encrypted repositories using common gocryptfs settings.
July 10th, 2026 — Source

Revue -- Vue-style terminal user interface framework
Revue is a Vue-style terminal user interface framework for Rust. It brings CSS styling and reactive state management to terminal application development.
July 10th, 2026 — Source

rustunnel -- secure tunnelling platform
https://www.linuxlinks.com/skunkhtml-lightweight-static-site-generator/
July 10th, 2026 — Source

Scot NHS Trust probes email stuffup involving maternity patients' data
NHS Forth Valley is the latest health board to bungle basic email data protection principles
July 10th, 2026 — Source

SkunkHTML -- lightweight static site generator
SkunkHTML is a lightweight static site generator written in F# that offers a simple way to run a blog on GitHub Pages.
July 10th, 2026 — Source

Wkeys -- on-screen keyboard for Wayland
Wkeys is an on-screen keyboard for Wayland desktops written in Rust using GTK-rs. It provides a configurable virtual keyboard for compositors supporting the Wayland virtual keyboard and wlr-layer-shell protocols.
July 10th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 9th, 2026

10 Best Free and Open Source API Documentation Browsers
Software developers need all the help possible. One useful tool is a documentation browser. In fact, they can sometimes be a life changer.
July 9th, 2026 — Source

12 Best Free and Open Interactive Whiteboard Software
An interactive whiteboard is an instructional tool consisting of a large interactive display in the form factor of a whiteboard. The whiteboard can be a standalone touchscreen computer used independently to perform tasks and operations, or a connectable apparatus used as a touchpad to control computers from a projector.
July 9th, 2026 — Source

15-Year-Old Linux Vulnerability 'GhostLock' Earns Researchers $92k From Google
Affecting every major distribution since 2011, the Linux kernel vulnerability allows attackers to gain root access.
July 9th, 2026 — Source

AMD Ryzen AI Halo Box RGB LED Driver Inches Closer To The Mainline Kernel
The AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PC powered by Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" began shipping this week. It features very nice Linux support out-of-the-box with the Debian-based Ryzen AI Developer Platform operating system. For those wishing to run their own x86_64 Linux distribution, one of the only caveats in the Linux support is quite small... No mainline kernel support yet for controlled the RGB LED light strip on the driver. But that driver is coming and will hopefully be mainlined soon.
July 9th, 2026 — Source

AppCUI-rs -- fast, cross-platform Rust library
AppCUI-rs is a fast, cross-platform Rust library for building modern text-based user interfaces.
July 9th, 2026 — Source

Flow -- terminal dashboard for real-time network throughput
Flow is a terminal dashboard focused on real-time network throughput.
July 9th, 2026 — Source

How Open Source Enables Collaboration in Creating a Platform
A platform is a collaboration system: platform teams depend on application teams, and both need shared standards, as Marcy Paramonova and Stephane Cusin explained in their talk Building Cloud Native Culture in a Bank at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon Europe. Engineers trust a platform through its predictable behavior, not its features.
July 9th, 2026 — Source

Initial Patches Posted For Booting The Apple M4 On Linux
With the Linux 7.2 kernel there is initial support for booting the Apple M3 SoC on Linux but it's not yet functional for end users with just booting to a simple console. There are now Device Tree files posted for booting the Apple M4 on Linux but also not yet useful for any typical Apple Mac/MacBook usage on Linux.
July 9th, 2026 — Source

msgscript -- function and application server
msgscript is a function and application server designed to run Lua functions and small web applications.
July 9th, 2026 — Source

OpenAI's GPT-Live can keep a real conversation
It can listen and speak at the same time. Just like your kids.
July 9th, 2026 — Source

Practical challenges in managing Kubernetes at enterprise scale
Kubernetes always looks easy in a demo. But run it in production? You find out pretty quickly that's a different story.
July 9th, 2026 — Source

Recruiters chase specialised AI roles as their own jobs come under threat
Facing tools that can screen and shortlist in seconds, staffing firms are narrowing their focus to the scarce, hard-to-fill roles of the AI economy.
July 9th, 2026 — Source

Revisited: Trix Player -- Linux music player
The term gapless playback can sometimes cause confusion. It simply means that one track flows into the next without a pause, allowing seamless transitions between songs. This is particularly important for albums designed so that tracks run together. And it is by no means limited to classical music. Electronic music, concept albums, and progressive rock can all be badly disrupted when artificial gaps are inserted between tracks.
July 9th, 2026 — Source

Sayfa -- simple, extensible static site generator
Sayfa is a simple, extensible static site generator built in Elixir.
July 9th, 2026 — Source

SpaceXAI launches Grok 4.5, its first built with Cursor's help
It's now the default model for AI coding agent Grok Build.
July 9th, 2026 — Source

The Kubernetes Approach to AI-Assisted Maintainership Prioritises Human Accountability
The Kubernetes community has formally introduced a comprehensive framework for integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into open-source maintainership, reinforcing a philosophy that prioritises human accountability above all else. As the volume of contributions grows, the community acknowledges the utility of AI in streamlining workflows but remains steadfast in its position: AI is a supportive utility, not a replacement for the essential judgment, mentorship, and oversight provided by human maintainers. Human authors need to understand and respond to any questions that they might receive during the code review.
July 9th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu emphasizes Arm64 support -- and gets Rustier
Even so, it has some issues with the Rust coreutils
July 9th, 2026 — Source

Umbra Linux -- lightweight distribution
Umbra Linux is a lightweight Linux distribution built from Linux From Scratch (LFS).
July 9th, 2026 — Source

Zlib-rs 0.6.6 Released With Updated Zlib API Suppor
Zlib-rs 0.6.6 was just released by the Trifecta Tech Foundation. Just weeks after the prior release with a fix for Intel Raptor Lake and bringing new SIMD optimizations, zlib-rs 0.6.6 is about delivering updated Zlib API compatibility.
July 9th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 8th, 2026

10 Best Free and Open Source IRC Servers
Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet text messaging (chat) or synchronous conferencing. IRC was born during summer 1988 when Jarkko Oikarinen wrote the first IRC client and server when he was working in the Department of Information Processing Science at the University of Oulu, Finland. This system enables millions of people around the world to communicate in real time. While IRC has lost some popularity, IRCv3 looks interesting with some advanced client features such as instant notifications, improved security and more.
July 8th, 2026 — Source

AMD ZenDNN 6.0 Brings Many Improvements For Accelerating Inference On Ryzen/EPYC CPUs
AMD ZenDNN 6.0 released today as a significant update to this open-source deep neural network library for helping to accelerate inferencing on AMD Zen processors from Ryzen to EPYC.
July 8th, 2026 — Source

Airbnb Shares Architecture behind Sitar-Agent Dynamic Configuration Sidecar for Kubernetes Services
Airbnb engineers have detailed the architecture of Sitar-agent, a Kubernetes sidecar that distributes dynamic configuration updates across tens of thousands of pods and processes configuration changes several times per minute. The system is designed to keep configuration data available during service disruptions while enabling updates to propagate across a large microservices fleet within tens of seconds.
July 8th, 2026 — Source

Arrest and extradition of Scattered Spider hacker shines light on how Windows telemetry GDIDs can identify and track users — Microsoft device identifier is just one digital fingerprint in a software world rife with them
A harsh lesson on Windows telemetry, protecting online anonymity, and misinformation about defensive measures.
July 8th, 2026 — Source

Bazaar 0.9.1 Release: 'Similar Apps' Discovery and Accessibility Improvements
Bazaar has released version 0.9.1, a stable update arriving just days after the major v0.9.0 feature drop. The new release introduces a "similar apps" section on the full app view to improve software discovery through tag matching. Significant accessibility enhancements include a reduced-motion animation alternative and a refactored search bar with better keyboard navigation. Built on GTK4 and libadwaita, the Flatpak-focused store continues to gain traction as the default app manager on immutable distributions like Bluefin and Bazzite.
July 8th, 2026 — Source

Deepin Linux 25.2.0 Brings Mature Treeland Wayland Compositor and AI Image Search
Deepin Technology released deepin 25.2.0 on July 7, 2026, delivering a major stability overhaul to its homegrown Treeland Wayland compositor. The update introduces AI-powered local image search, per-window taskbar grouping, and fine-grained file indexing controls that significantly improve desktop workflow. Deepin now supports four CPU architectures including Loong64 and a new technology-preview build for RISC-V, reflecting its growing hardware ecosystem ambitions. Existing users can upgrade via the terminal or Control Center, though a fresh install is recommended for those still running versions prior to 25.1.1.
July 8th, 2026 — Source

Good news for Linux Mint fans: Full Wayland support is coming to Cinnamon
Linux Mint's next Cinnamon release will fully support Wayland, alongside security fixes, Nvidia improvements, and numerous desktop enhancements.
July 8th, 2026 — Source

Hannah Montana Linux Is Back!
Developer Noah Cagle decided the world needed the once obscure but beloved Linux distribution and gave it a decidedly pink refresh.
July 8th, 2026 — Source

Intel Sunsets Quantum Intrinsics & Other Open-Source Projects This Week
Intel has formally archived some more of their now-unmaintained open-source projects this week.
July 8th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 To Make It Easier To Disable Syscall User Dispatch
Introduced to the Linux kernel nearly six years ago was the Syscall User Dispatch feature to help with Linux gaming. Specifically, Syscall User Dispatch was developed to help Windows games run on Linux more efficiently. While it was upstreamed in Linux 5.11 for more efficiently intercepting system calls from Windows software under Wine, now in the name of security there are patches working their way to the mainline kernel to more easily disable it.
July 8th, 2026 — Source

MAGDA -- digital audio workstation
MAGDA is a digital audio workstation (DAW) built for automation, transformation, and fast musical iteration. It combines audio and MIDI production tools with an integrated AI assistant that translates natural language commands into actions within the application.
July 8th, 2026 — Source

NETGEAR Orbi 770 Series Tri-Band WiFi 7 Mesh System Review -- RBE773 3-Pack
NETGEAR's Orbi 770 Series Tri-Band WiFi 7 Mesh System brings next-generation wireless performance to larger homes without the complexity often associated with high-end networking kit. This RBE773 3-pack combines a router and two satellites, promising broad coverage, high-speed backhaul, and faster connections for busy households packed with phones, laptops, smart TVs, consoles, and IoT devices.
July 8th, 2026 — Source

Node.js v26.5.0 Released With Experimental Text Imports and Blob Streaming
Node.js v26.5.0 landed today, bringing streaming UTF-8 support for Blobs, experimental text file imports, and direct reporting of negotiated TLS groups including quantum-resistat variants. The release also tightens performance around TextEncoder.encode and WHATWG streams while quietly announcing that macOS x64 tier 2 support is winding down. Geoffrey Booth pushed to keep the new import flag experimental until browser compatibility and npm packages stabilize, matching the cautious TC39 precedent. All five minor additions remain backward compatible, though you should plan your migration before the Current stream wraps up around January 2027.
July 8th, 2026 — Source

Putzen -- remove build and dependency artifacts
Putzen is a command-line utility that helps keep disks clean by removing build and dependency artifacts. It uses file and folder rules to identify projects and safely clean generated directories.
July 8th, 2026 — Source

Rage -- API-first Ruby web framework
Rage is an API-first Ruby web framework that combines the developer experience of Rails with fiber-based concurrency. You write standard synchronous Ruby code while Rage handles concurrency, running APIs, background jobs, and real-time communication in a unified runtime.
July 8th, 2026 — Source

Wayland No Longer Considered Experimental For Linux Mint's Next Cinnamon Release
The Linux Mint distribution has published their June development summary that most notably includes work on Cinnamon's Wayland support where it's now ready to graduate.
July 8th, 2026 — Source

Zed Editor 1.10.0 Released: llama.cpp Support and Format-on-Save Off by Default
Zed Editor 1.10.0 has officially landed, bringing first-class support for llama.cpp so you can route the agent through local models without touching a cloud API. The release also disables format-on-save across the board except for languages with official formatters, shifting the editor's default behavior toward explicit user control. LLM providers, external agents, and MCP servers have been consolidated into the unified settings editor, meaning it's time to audit your config files before restarting.
July 8th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 4th, 2026

7 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based XMPP Clients
XMPP (also known as Jabber) is an open and free alternative to commercial messaging and chat providers. It is a secure battle-tested protocol developed by an independent standards organization.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

8 Best Free and Open Source Tools for SSH Intrusion Prevention
SSH or Secure Shell is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network. Typical applications include remote command-line, login, and remote command execution, but any network service can be secured with SSH.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux Comic Book Viewers
A comic book is a magazine which consists of narrative artwork in the form of sequential images with text that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, usually dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. Comics are used to tell a story, and are published in a number of different formats including comic strips, comic books, webcomics, Manga, and graphic novels. Some comics have been published in a tabloid form.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

18 Best Free and Open Source Linux Data Recovery Tools
Data recovery is the process of retrieving data from corrupted or damaged storage media when it cannot be accessed. The storage media in question will often be a hard disk, but it can also be removable media such as CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, and USB keys. There are many different reasons why a system administrator may need to use data recovery tools.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

4K @ 60 FPS USB Video Capture Finally Becomes Less Problematic On Linux
One area of Linux hardware testing I haven't explored much in many years has been modern USB video capture for the lack of said hardware. The last time I did much video capturing on Linux was during the Hauppauge PCI card days. It turns out though that USB video capture of 4K 60 FPS content has been a pain point under Linux but is finally smoothing out with newer versions of the Linux kernel.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

Apache HugeGraph -- highly scalable graph database
Apache HugeGraph is a fast, highly scalable graph database designed for storing and querying billions of vertices and edges.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

dusk -- dynamic window manager for X
dusk is a dynamic window manager for X that has its roots in dwm.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

FEX 2607 Optimizing For Yet-To-Be-Released ARM 256-bit SVE2 Hardware
The FEX Emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86_64 software on ARM64 (AArch64) systems, including the likes of Wine / Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for Windows gaming on ARM, is out with its newest monthly feature release. The Valve-backed project for running x86_64 games and other software on ARM for the upcoming Steam Frame and other more typical ARM Linux systems has been baking more optimizations and improvements.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

GNOME Lands ext-background-effect-v1 Support For Background Blur Effect
Added to the Wayland Protocols repository back in May of 2025 was the ext-background-effect-v1 protocol for background blur that had been under discussion since early 2024. The initial focus is on being able to apply a blur effect on a window's background or otherwise a specified screen region. GNOME 51 has now merged support for ext-background-effect-v1 with the latest Mutter code.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

Just a Sample -- modern audio sampler plugin
Just a Sample is a modern audio sampler plugin with a focus on simplicity, flexible playback, and an uncluttered user experience.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

KWin Compositor In KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops Support For Desktop OpenGL
Along with releasing Plasma 6.7.2 this week, KDE developers continue to be quite busy working on new features and improvements for the Plasma 6.8 release while also furthering along fixes for future Plasma 6.7 point releases.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

LankeOS -- Linux distribution built from scratch
LankeOS is a Linux distribution built from scratch using Linux From Scratch (LFS).
July 4th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2-rc2 Raising The Default RISC-V 64-bit CPU Limit To 256 Cores
A post merge-window change that landed in Linux Git overnight ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc2 release is bumping the default limit on the number of supported CPU cores for RISC-V 64-bit. Now by default Linux will support up to 256 cores with RISC-V 64-bit kernel builds.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.3 Adding More Graphics PCI IDs For Intel Nova Lake S
In addition to this week's drm-intel-next pull request beginning to lay out the Intel kernel graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3, the first drm-xe-next pull request was sent out on Friday. Intel Nova Lake enablement remains the hot area for the Intel GPU driver code.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

Linux DRM Scheduler Patches Yield Massive Improvement For Job Submission Latency
A set of patches to the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) scheduler that is shared among different kernel graphics drivers is showing the potential of delivering much lower job submission latency when the system is loaded with many runnable CPU processes.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

LoxiLB -- cloud-native load balancer built around Go and eBPF
It is designed for Kubernetes, edge, telco, IoT, and hybrid-cloud deployments, offering high-performance Layer 4 load balancing together with Kubernetes service integration.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

miracle-wm -- hackable Wayland compositor
miracle-wm is a hackable Wayland compositor built on Mir.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

Mutt 2.4.1 Released: OpenSSL 4 Fixes, Alt Key Corrections, and Stability Patches
Mutt 2.4.1 is the latest stable release for the 30-year-old terminal-based email client, and it's focused on stability fixes rather than new features. Upstream maintainer Kevin J. McCarthy addressed OpenSSL 4 compilation failures, restored Alt keybindings in the foot terminal, patched an empty command line argument crash, and closed a theoretical IMAP buffer overflow. This patch release follows the 2.4.0 feature drop, which introduced explicit thread controls, a configurable draft directory, and RFC-compliant S/MIME type updates.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

Pinnacle -- Wayland compositor built using Smithay
Pinnacle is a Wayland compositor built using Smithay.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

XOWS -- JavaScript/HTML based XMPP web client
XOWS is a JavaScript/HTML based XMPP web client that uses the WebSocket protocol.
July 4th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — July 2nd, 2026

4 Best Free and Open Source CoffeeScript Static Site Generators
LinuxLinks, like most modern websites, is dynamic in that content is stored in a database and converted into presentation-ready HTML when readers access the site.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Screen Recorders
A screen recorder is software which lets you capture a digital recording of computer screen output, typically carrying audio narration.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

Apache APISIX -- dynamic, real-time, high-performance API gateway and AI gateway
Apache APISIX is a dynamic, real-time, high-performance API gateway and AI gateway.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

ArcadeDB -- multi-model database management system
ArcadeDB is a multi-model database management system built for applications that need to combine graph, document, key/value, search, time-series, vector, and geospatial data in a single engine.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

Box3D Debuts As New Open-Source 3D Physics Engine
Erin Catto who has been developing the Box2D 2D physics engine for games announced the release of Box3D. Box3D is now providing a new open-source 3D physics engine that is forked off from the Box2D code.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

ClamAV Unofficial Signatures v8.0.0 Drops After Five Years with Official Docker and ClamAV 1.x Support
ClamAV Unofficial Signatures v8.0.0 Drops After Five Years with Official Docker and ClamAV 1.x Support
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

Cudy WR11000 Wi-Fi 7 Router Review
This is a review of the Cudy WR11000, a tri-band Wi-Fi 7 router with 2.4GHz, 5GHz, and 6GHz wireless, plus four 2.5GbE ports. It's marketed as a BE11000-class router, which refers to its theoretical aggregate wireless speed class rather than the model name. That makes it more interesting than a typical ISP router, especially for anyone with a 2Gbps full-fibre connection and Linux systems with modern wireless hardware.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

EFS File-System Slated For Removal With Linux 7.3 After 20+ Years Unmaintained
The EFS file-system was used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and disk partitions on SGI IRIX before IRIX 6.0 switched over to XFS. Inside the Linux kernel has been a read-only EFS file-system driver without a maintainer for 20+ years while for Linux 7.3 it's expected to be removed.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

endlessh-go -- SSH tarpit
endlessh-go is an SSH tarpit that slowly sends an endless SSH banner to clients, tying up bots and brute-force attackers without granting access.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

Ever Gauzy -- open business management platform
It provides a broad suite of ERP, CRM, HRM, ATS, project management, time tracking, accounting, invoicing, and productivity features aimed at collaborative, on-demand, and sharing economy businesses.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan APV Encoder
Back in May the FFmpeg project introduced Vulkan-accelerated decoding for the APV video format. The Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec was being handled using Vulkan shaders in a similar way to how FFmpeg implemented Vulkan acceleration for Apple ProRes. Now there is Vulkan-accelerated APV encoding too.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

Ignite -- static site generator for Swift developers
It lets developers build websites using Swift code with a SwiftUI-like syntax, generating static output that can be deployed to any ordinary web host.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

Intel Posts Initial GCC Compiler Patches For AI Compute Extensions "ACE"
The x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group led by Intel and AMD recently firmed up the AI Compute Extensions (ACE) specification for optimizing x86 for AI computation tasks around matrix multiplication and the like for machine learning workloads. The cross-vendor ACE extension is ultimately a successor to Intel's Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). Posted to the GCC mailing list today by Intel engineers are the initial patches in preparing the compiler support for ACE.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

JPEG-XL libjxl 0.12 Brings More Performance Optimizations
A new release of libjxl is now available for this reference implementation of the JPEG-XL image format, including both image encode and decode support.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

KDE Gear 26.04.3 Released: Fixes for Kdenlive, Elisa, and KDE Connect
KDE Gear 26.04.3 landed today, delivering targeted bugfixes for over 180 applications and dozens of core libraries in the quarterly maintenance cycle. The update resolves a persistent audio routing issue in Elisa, fixes a file transfer crash in KDE Connect when notifications are enabled, and keeps Kdenlive's timeline playhead visible during playback. Built on the foundation of 26.04, this release continues the project's broader shift toward Qt 6, native Wayland support, and integrated systemd service logging.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma Affected By Arbitrary Code Execution To Break Sandboxes With "Open New Window"
A security disclosure has been made public today for a yet-to-be-patched arbitrary code execution vulnerability with the KDE Plasma desktop.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

kraken -- turn-key automatic text recognition system
kraken is a turn-key automatic text recognition system optimized for historical and non-Latin script material.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel Developers Again Discussing AI Agent Attribution - Potentially Dropping It
When AI/LLM agents are used in the creation of Linux kernel patches, the policy for a while now has been that it should be specified using an "Assisted-by" tag as part of the patches/commits. But Linux kernel developers this week have been discussing whether to revise that policy or to potentially eliminate it.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

ls-f -- Linux terminal ls replacement
ls-f is a modern replacement for the venerable ls command. It enhances directory listings with Nerd Font icons, colourized output, Git status information, and a native tree view.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

lsnote -- modern replacement for the venerable ls command
lsnote is a modern replacement for the venerable ls command. It augments directory listings with persistent file notes, emoji icons, Git status indicators, and coloured column headers.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

Microsoft's new Azure Linux 4.0 is here, and it could replace Windows Server in the enterprise
Microsoft's Linux server distribution is now available as an ISO to install on your own server or virtual machine.
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OWASP CRS v4.28.0 Drops With Critical Security Fixes and First LTS Track
OWASP Core Rule Set v4.28.0 released today delivers critical security patches including XML attribute inspection across attack rules and the elimination of catastrophic backtracking in Unix shell evasion detection. The update adds new protections for quote-based SQL injection evasion, ORM lookup operator injection, and RCE evasion prefixes while removing exponential backtracking from several performance-critical rules. The project also announced v4.25.0 as its first Long-Term Support release, providing enterprise stability as legacy CRS 3.3.x support wraps up in Q3 2026.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

Panharmonicon -- command-line Pandora client
It offers a scalable terminal interface that works in very small terminal windows while still exposing the core playback controls.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

Phoenix Code -- modern code editor
Phoenix Code is a modern code editor designed for web developers, designers, and students.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

RISC-V RVV Vector Performance Benchmarks With The SpacemiT K3 SoC
Since May we have been benchmarking the SpacemiT K3 RISC-V SoC as one of the first to market RISC-V chips supporting the RVA23 profile. The SpacemiT K3 has shown how far RISC-V performance has come in the past half decade and one of the promising elements of this modern RISC-V SoC with its X100/A100 cores is supporting the RISC-V Vector Extension "RVV" 1.0. In this article are some initial benchmarks looking specifically at the RISC-V RVV 1.0 performance impact in different supported software.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

Rusticl OpenCL Driver Improving Hardware Utilization In Mesa 26.2
Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst has landed his latest optimization work to Rusticl in Mesa 26.2. The latest effort for this Rust-based OpenCL driver that works across Gallium3D drivers is around better hardware utilization.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

ThorOS -- AI-first, local-first, voice-driven operating system
ThorOS is an AI-first, local-first, voice-driven operating system built on Debian Linux.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

Valve Releases SteamOS 3.8.13 to Fix FF7R Crashes and Firmware Loops
Valve has released SteamOS 3.8.13 for all Steam Deck users, addressing a critical FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH crash and a bug that blocked controller firmware updates on certain models. A corresponding beta, SteamOS 3.8.21, targets the preview channels with expanded fixes for third-party hardware, including regressions on the MSI Claw, Legion Go 1, and OneXPlayer F1. The beta also introduces a faster startup splash screen for the newly launched Steam Machine and resolves a 20-to-30-second audio delay on non-Valve devices.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

Vibe Coded X11 Server Written In Rust Adds Xinerama, FreeBSD Support & Other Features
One month ago we reported on YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust with the help of Claude Code. Since then YSERVER has continued to advance in supporting more X11 functionality thanks to the help of Claude Code (AI) and out today is version 1.3 o this display server.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

YSERVER 1.3 Ships FreeBSD Support and Xinerama for the Rust X11 Server
Jos Dehaes shipped YSERVER 1.3, introducing FreeBSD support, Xinerama, and display hotplug to the Rust X11 display server built with Anthropic's Claude Code tooling. The project targets a replacement for the X.Org Server by removing legacy constraints like the DDX driver ABI while retaining essential extensions such as DRI3, RANDR, and XFIXES. YSERVER now supports a broad hardware range including Apple Silicon, Qualcomm Snapdragon, and NVIDIA GPUs, and has already accumulated 438 stars and 1,416 commits since its public debut on June 11.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

XMPP Web -- lightweight web chat client for XMPP servers
It offers browser-based instant messaging with support for one-to-one chat, group chat, file sharing, chat state notifications, message formatting, reactions, guest access, and Progressive Web App functionality.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

Zed -- high-performance code editor
Zed is a high-performance code editor built for speed, collaboration, and AI-assisted software development.
July 2nd, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 28th, 2026

6 Best Free and Open Source Python-Based Content Management Systems
A web content management system (WCMS) is software designed to simplify the publication of Web content. In particular, it enables content creators to submit content without requiring technical knowledge of HTML or the uploading of files. A CMS is most commonly used in creating an intranet or in establishing a presence on the Web.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

8 Best Free and Open Source Self-Hosted Comics and Manga Servers
Comics and manga have moved far beyond shelves and long boxes. Many readers now keep large digital collections, often made up of scanned issues, graphic novels, web releases, and translated series. Comics generally refers to illustrated storytelling from Western traditions, while manga is the Japanese form, typically read right to left and often published in long-running series.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

9 Best Free and Open Source Google Drive Clients
Google Drive, formerly Google Docs, is a file storage and synchronization service created by Google. They are a multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products that include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

Apache Answer is a self-hosted Q&A platform
Apache Answer is a self-hosted Q&A platform for building community forums, help centres and knowledge management sites.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

Blockstream -- desktop Bitcoin wallet
Blockstream is a desktop Bitcoin wallet that provides a non-custodial way to store, send, and receive bitcoin.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

CachyOS June 2026 OS Released With More Performance Optimizations
CachyOS is out today with a new feature release for this Arch Linux powered distribution that delivers stellar out-of-the-box performance.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

CachyOS June 2026: Hyprland Noctalia, GCC Tuning and paru Removal
CachyOS has released its June 2026 update, adding the new Hyprland Noctalia desktop, DNS-over-QUIC support, and a GCC branch prediction tuning patch for modern CPUs. The installer now drops paru in favor of Shelly and fixes a lingering 90-second shutdown delay with new user service timeouts. Python gains extended PGO, pacman adds network isolation for hooks, and proton-cachyos has been renamed to proton-cachyos-native. Existing users can update immediately via the standard package manager refresh.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

Gear Lever 4.5.5 Released: The Open-Source AppImage Manager for Linux Lands
Gear Lever 4.5.5 has landed, cementing its spot as the go-to tool for keeping AppImages organized on Linux desktops. The open-source manager automates menu integration, version tracking, and update pulls from GitHub, GitLab, and Gitea, turning standalone binaries into first-class system applications. Built on Python and GTK and packaged as a Flatpak, it avoids FUSE conflicts so it can run alongside other AppImage utilities without issue.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

How To Copy Language and Region Settings
You can copy your region and language settings and apply them to the Welcome screen, system accounts, and all new user accounts. This will transfer your current display and keyboard languages, regional format (date & time), and GeoID settings.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

Krita AI Diffusion 1.52.0 Adds Krea 2 Support and Fixes Auto-Update Bug
Krita AI Diffusion has released version 1.52.0, adding basic support for the Krea 2 generation model and extending regional prompting to Anima workflows. The update patches a regression that broke the automatic updater, meaning users currently running the plugin must download and install the new version manually to avoid file path errors. The open-source tool remains a popular choice for artists because it integrates local AI generation directly into the Krita interface via a ComfyUI backend without requiring cloud subscriptions. Version 1.52.0 requires Krita 5.2 or newer and is best suited for users with a dedicated GPU featuring at least 6GB of VRAM.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 Surpasses More Than 43 Million Lines In The Kernel Tree
Today marks the last day of the Linux 7.2 merge window with Linux 7.2-rc1 due out later today. With the many new features and improvements merged over the past week since the Linux 7.1 stable debut, the Linux kernel source tree now exceeds 43 million lines.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

Linux Dropping Old Drivers, AI Detected Vulnerabilities & Other Kernel Highlights Of Q2
With Q2'2026 quickly coming to an end, here's a recap of the most popular Linux kernel news over the past three months on Phoronix.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

Linux Security Roundup for Week 26, 2026
Here is the weekly Linux security roundup with a massive wave of security patches. Critical remote code execution flaws hit Nginx and Firefox ESR, while kernel memory corruption and PostgreSQL credential leaks forced emergency updates across RHEL, Debian, and Ubuntu.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

ML4W OS 2.14.0 Is Here: Quickshell Statusbar, Dock Autohide, and Keyboard Layout Switching for Hyprland
ML4W OS has released version 2.14.0 of its dotfiles package for Hyprland, adding an optional Quickshell-based statusbar and a dedicated toggle for dock autohide. The update introduces multi-layout keyboard switching via ALT + SHIFT, arrow-key navigation for the power menu, and a temporary swap of the sidepad for an upcoming scratchpad feature. Maintained by Stephan Raabe, the project offers a wallpaper-adaptive, Wayland-native desktop environment for Arch Linux, Fedora, and openSUSE Tumbleweed through a simple one-command install.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

Specter Desktop -- graphical application for managing Bitcoin wallets
Specter Desktop is a graphical application for managing Bitcoin wallets through a local Bitcoin Core node, with a particular focus on hardware wallets, multisignature setups, and airgapped signing workflows.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

Velox Linux -- Linux distribution
Velox Linux is a Linux distribution for x86_64 systems distributed as a bootable ISO image.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

Vim Patches Yielding Faster GTK3 Wayland Performance: "Major Milestone"
For those using Vim with its GTK3 toolkit interface on Wayland, it soon should be delivering much better performance with pending patches.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

Waydir -- fast desktop file manager
Waydir is a fast desktop file manager built for users who prefer keyboard-driven navigation and a dual-pane layout.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

Xenomai -- real-time development framework for Linux
Xenomai is a real-time development framework for Linux. It lets demanding applications run time-critical tasks with predictable latency, either alongside Linux in a dual-kernel configuration or natively over Linux with real-time preemption support.
June 28th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 27th, 2026

6 Small Free and Open Source Console Menu Utilities
One of the great strengths of Linux is the whole raft of weird and wonderful open source utilities. That strength does not simply derive from the functionality they offer, but from the synergy generated by using them together, sometimes in conjunction with applications.
June 27th, 2026 — Source

6 Useful Free and Open Source R Linters
A linter is a tool used in software development to analyze source code for potential errors, stylistic issues, and adherence to coding standards. It essentially acts as a static code analyzer, examining the code without actually executing it. Linters help developers catch issues early in the development cycle, improving code quality and maintainability
June 27th, 2026 — Source

7 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Serial Terminals
A serial terminal is software that allows communication with devices through a serial port, often used for debugging embedded systems and interacting with hardware like microcontrollers. It essentially acts as a bridge, displaying data sent to and received from the connected device and enabling users to send commands or data to the device.
June 27th, 2026 — Source

13 Best Free and Open Source Graphical BitTorrent Clients
BitTorrent, also referred to as simply torrent, is an internet transfer protocol for peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P). It lets users download files from the internet. Unlike HTTP and FTTP, BitTorrent is a distributed transfer protocol.
June 27th, 2026 — Source

38 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Music Players
A huge raft of free and open source music software are available on the Linux platform which is both mature and sophisticated. Linux has many music tools which offer enhanced functionality and integration with internet music services. With most desktop environments having several audio players, together with cross-platform applications, integrated media players, there is a plethora of music players to choose from.
June 27th, 2026 — Source

COSMIC's New System Monitor Is Looking Very Slick
Not only is GNOME 51 working to replace GNOME System Monitor with its new replacement, but over in System76's COSMIC space they have been baking their own new system monitor too.
June 27th, 2026 — Source

FBI says Russian intelligence hackers have a new trick for reading your Signal messages, and it works even after you change phones
An updated FBI and CISA advisory names two Russian hacking groups, UNC5792 and UNC4221, and warns that handing over a Signal backup key gives attackers persistent access to an account's entire message history
June 27th, 2026 — Source

FolderPlay -- minimalist music player for local music collections
Built with Rust and GTK4, it's designed for listeners who organise their audio by folders and want the player to respect that structure rather than imposing its own artist, album, or genre-based library layout. The application focuses on simple browsing, high-resolution playback, and a clean adaptive interface.
June 27th, 2026 — Source

GNOME AI Assistant Adds Image Generation Support
In development over the past three years has been Newelle as a GNOME-aligned AI virtual assistant. Out this week is Newelle 1.4.5 and it now adds AI image generation support and a redesigned chat interface.
June 27th, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.7.2 To Fix KWin's Most Common Crash, Plasma 6.8 To Not Crash When Ejecting CDs
While Plasma 6.7.1 was just released this week following the recent stable debut of Plasma 6.7, there are already a number of fixes piling up for Plasma 6.7.2 due out in July. Plus more feature work and fixes for Plasma 6.8 as the next desktop version going Wayland-only.
June 27th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 7.1.2, 6.18.37, and 7.0.14 Released; 7.0 Branch Hits EOL
Linux Kernel 7.1.2, 6.18.37, and the final 7.0.14 release are now available, with 7.0.14 marking the end-of-life for the 7.0 branch. The update includes a significant revert of an NFS server patch that broke unmount operations by incorrectly deferring cleanup callbacks, restoring synchronous behavior to fix the regression. Security and stability improvements cover ksmbd session validation, virtiofs use-after-free crashes, and bounds checks added to IIO drivers to prevent out-of-bounds access.
June 27th, 2026 — Source

Linux MD RAID5 Seeing Scalability Improvements Up To 17%
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was a new patch series working on scalability enhancements to the MD RAID5 software RAID code. Up to a 10~17% improvement was observed in some configurations with these RAID5 scalability patches.
June 27th, 2026 — Source

Margine -- immutable Linux desktop distribution built for creators
Margine is an immutable Linux desktop distribution built for creators. It's based on Bluefin DX, which is part of the Fedora Atomic / Universal Blue ecosystem
June 27th, 2026 — Source

OpenSuperClone -- powerful data recovery utility for Linux
OpenSuperClone is a powerful data recovery utility for Linux.
June 27th, 2026 — Source

Rclone UI -- cross-platform graphical interface for rclone
Rclone UI is a cross-platform graphical interface for rclone that helps users manage cloud storage remotes, S3-compatible storage, and rclone tasks without relying entirely on command-line flags.
June 27th, 2026 — Source

Reserved THP Feature Proposed For Linux To Combine The Best Of HugeTLB & THP
Linux kernel developer and Bytedance engineer Qi Zheng sent out a request for comments (RFC) patch series on a new feature called Reserved THP to combine the best of HugeTLB and THP kernel functionality.
June 27th, 2026 — Source

Tewi -- text-based interface for managing BitTorrent clients
Tewi is a text-based interface for managing BitTorrent clients from the terminal.
June 27th, 2026 — Source

Zen Browser 1.21.4b Released: Firefox 152 Update, Pinned Tab Edits and Routing Fixes
Zen Browser has released version 1.21.4b, updating its Gecko engine to Firefox 152.0.2 and 152.0.3. The stable release introduces direct URL editing for pinned tabs and a quick context menu option to add domains to Space Routing. Users will also notice fixes for sidebar flicker when moving tabs, improved full-screening behavior for glance previews, and corrected foreground routing logic. The update continues the project's push to deliver an Arc-inspired, non-Chromium browsing experience built on Mozilla's open-source engine.
June 27th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 26th, 2026

11 Best Free and Open Source eBook Tools
An electronic book (commonly abbreviated e-book) is a text and image-based publication which can be read on a computer or other digital devices such as an e-book reader.
June 26th, 2026 — Source

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux Manga Readers
Manga is a style of Japanese comic storytelling that has developed a vast global audience. It spans every conceivable genre, from action, romance, horror, comedy, science fiction, and fantasy to slice-of-life stories, historical drama, sports, and educational titles. While traditionally published in print, manga is now widely read on computers, phones, tablets, and e-ink devices, alongside related formats such as manhwa, webtoons, light novels, image galleries, and digital comics from around the world.
June 26th, 2026 — Source

Experimental Code Enables Per-Monitor Backgrounds For GNOME Shell
One of the limitations of GNOME's current multi-monitor handling is that the same background is used across the displays. For those that want to enjoy per-monitor background selection, some experimental / proof-of-concept code is now working to allow such per-monitor backgrounds to work with the modern GNOME desktop.
June 26th, 2026 — Source

How NVIDIA GB10 CPU Performance Compares To Vera
Since delivering NVIDIA Vera CPU benchmarks one month ago and follow-ups like how the ARM Linux server performance has evolved in 8 years or how Vera compares to Ampere Altra that is still quite common in the marketplace, another frequent discussion point and inquiry is about the performance of NVIDIA Vera relative to NVIDIA's GB10 chip. For those curious about the per-core performance and the like, here are some benchmarks of the GB10 up against those initial Vera results.
June 26th, 2026 — Source

Infinispan -- distributed, in-memory database and data grid
Infinispan is a distributed, in-memory database and data grid for storing, managing, and processing key/value data across scalable clusters.
June 26th, 2026 — Source

Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Now Enables Descriptor Heaps By Default
Intel's ANV Vulkan driver for Mesa 26.2, due for a stable release in August, has flipped on descriptor heap support by default. VK_EXT_descriptor_heap is no longer hidden by an environment variable in now being deemed stable.
June 26th, 2026 — Source

Intel ISPC 1.31 Brings New Targets For Nova Lake, Experimental PowerPC 64-bit
Intel engineers on Thursday released the newest version of the Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler, ISPC. The ISPC 1.31 supports their variant of the C programming language with extensions for Single Program, Multiple Data programming for leveraging their range of CPU and GPU hardware.
June 26th, 2026 — Source

KIO GDrive -- KDE KIO worker that lets KDE applications access Google Drive
KIO GDrive is a KDE KIO worker that lets KDE applications access Google Drive as a network location.
June 26th, 2026 — Source

Linoutrox -- minimal Debian-based Linux distribution
It's designed around a focused Openbox desktop, with a stripped-down environment that avoids the larger desktop stacks and preinstalls only a small set of essential applications. The distribution includes custom tools for day-to-day configuration, uses the standard Debian installer, and provides a live mode so users can test the system before installing it.
June 26th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 Adds New Driver For Wacom W9000 Pen-Enabled Touchscreens
The input subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.2, which is seeing its merge window wrap up on Sunday. Most notable with the input updates is the introduction of the "wacom_w9000" for supporting newer, pen-enabled touchscreens.
June 26th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 Fixes Where PCIe Devices Could Be Inadvertently Restricted To 2.5 GT/s
The PCI code has lifted a 2.5GT/s speed restriction in the PCIe failed-link retraining code to avoid a situation where a link could be restricted to 2.5GT/s after hot-plug changes to the PCIe device.
June 26th, 2026 — Source

Linux Foundation Unveils New Open Source Security Project Akrites
It will provide the tools and channels to report, patch, and disclose open source software vulnerabilities.
June 26th, 2026 — Source

Manjaro Linux 26.1 Bian-May Preview 5 Released: GNOME 50, Plasma 6.6, and Xfce 4.20 Updates
Manjaro Linux 26.1 "Bian-May" preview 5 is now available for testing, delivering the complete GNOME 50 integration with significant parental control enhancements and hardware-accelerated remote desktop improvements. The Plasma edition upgrades to version 6.6, introducing global theme creation and expanded accessibility filters, while Xfce reaches 4.20 with customizable file highlighting and panel pinning options. Default kernel support includes Linux 7.0 alongside LTS branches 6.18 and 6.12 for broader hardware compatibility. This rolling release preview provides early access to these desktop updates, though testers should back up their data before installing.
June 26th, 2026 — Source

More AMD Zen 6 Prepping, Many ASUS / Lenovo / HP Laptop Improvements For Linux 7.2
The many x86 platform driver changes have now been merged for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel. As usual it's mostly made up of driver enhancements for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen (AI) and Intel Core (Ultra) laptops.
June 26th, 2026 — Source

NoteGen -- cross-platform Markdown note-taking application
NoteGen is a cross-platform Markdown note-taking application that combines quick capture, structured writing, and AI-assisted organisation.
June 26th, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA 580.173.02 Linux driver released for older GeForce GTX GPUs
NVIDIA legacy Linux driver gets 580.173.02 update for older GPUs
June 26th, 2026 — Source

Yank Note -- highly extensible Markdown editor
Yank Note is a highly extensible Markdown editor designed for productivity-focused writing and note management.
June 26th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 23rd, 2026

9 Best Free and Open Source Console Log File Analyzers
Almost everything that happens on a Linux system is logged in some way. These log files traditionally were stored plain ASCII text in a standard log file format, although they can be in binary format. Most logs are stored in the traditional system log subdirectory /var/log. Logs keep track of events, such as system errors, user activities, and transaction histories. These log files are everywhere.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

20 Best Free and Open Source CLI Tools to Find and Delete Duplicate Files
Even though the cost of storage per GB continues to fall, it's common for users to need to find and remove duplicates files. Duplicates can stem from any file stored on your computer, be it images, software, music, video or what not. The process of finding and removing duplicates is time-consuming. Considering the volume of duplicate files, this is easier said than done. Fortunately, there are a number of tools that are designed to remove the laborious nature of finding duplicates by scanning and detecting your system for duplicate files in every format.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

BOSGAME VTA-439 Mini PC running Linux -- Power Consumption
This is a new series looking at the BOSGAME VTA-439 Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 mini PC running Linux. In this series, I'll put the BOSGAME mini PC through its paces from a Linux perspective, comparing it with other systems, including desktops, to see how it performs in real-world Linux use.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

DeviceTree-ACPI Hybrid Mode Proposed For Improving Linux Support On Snapdragon Laptops
Over the years while working at Red Hat, Hans de Goede was known for driving many wonderful Linux laptop improvements benefiting AMD/Intel x86_64 hardware. Hans left Red Hat last year and ended up joining Qualcomm to advance their open-source/Linux support. Today he is out with a significant new patch series for consideration that has the potential of significantly improving the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Series laptop Linux support and also important indicators for better Snapdragon laptop support on Linux moving forward.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

Digital indigestion: Fizzy Coca-Cola display chokes on full storage
Ubuntu warning bubbles up on an Azores advertising screen
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

EMWM -- fork of the Motif Window Manager
EMWM is a fork of the Motif Window Manager that keeps the classic Motif look and behaviour while improving compatibility with modern X11 systems and desktop applications.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

EROFS With Linux 7.2 Better Handles Large Sparse AI Datasets, More Efficient I/O
First up, EROFS now has optimized mapping of requests for chunk-based inodes. The new EROFS chunk mapping code has been optimized for more efficient I/O performance. There are no performance numbers indicated with the erofs_map_chunks() patch but the I/O performance is simply reported to be more efficient without quantifying.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

fooyin v0.11 released with internet radio browsing and much more
fooyin v0.11.x is a substantial update for the customisable music player, with internet radio browsing standing out as one of the most welcome additions. The main changes arrived in v0.11.0, while v0.11.1 follows up as the current point release with a handful of interface improvements and fixes. Together, they make fooyin more useful beyond local music libraries, particularly for anyone who wants a single application for playing stored music and online audio streams.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

Fwupd 2.0.21 Brings Fixes For More Than 250 Potential Security Issues Found Via AI
While the Fwupd 2.1 series is the latest stable channel for this open-source firmware updating solution, Fwupd 2.0.21 was released today to backport fixes for more than 250 potential security issues recently uncovered in the codebase.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

Gemini in Google Sheets can now help you debug and fix formula errors
Google's new Sheets feature lets Gemini inspect formula errors and apply corrections directly in the spreadsheet.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

Grimmory -- self-hosted digital library
Grimmory is a self-hosted digital library for managing ebooks, documents, comics, and audiobooks.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

Hat -- hackable modal text editor
Hat is a hackable modal text editor for modern terminals aimed at users who prefer software they can inspect, modify, and compile from source.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.7.1 Fixes GPU Crashes and Dead Key Bugs You Have Been Ignoring
KDE Plasma 6.7.1 drops a targeted patch that disables broken color pipelines on Nvidia and AMD GPUs without triggering multi-GPU swapchain crashes. Developers rewrote the dead key handler so the diacritics overlay doesn't freeze input or kill key repeat on foreign layouts. The update adds a sixty-second delay for rpm-ostree deployments and clears phantom gamepad inputs that cluttered emulation layers. Rolling this out stops the compositor from fighting your graphics driver and keeps panels aligned after theme swaps.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.7.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes
Following last week's major Plasma 6.7 release, Plasma 6.7.1 is now available today with an initial assortment of bug fixes.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 RISC-V Reduces Kernel Startup Overhead, Eswin SoC Support By Default
Along with the many x86/x86_64 improvements and some ARM64 architecture improvements (albeit slowed down by the AI/LLM noise affecting the development pace), the RISC-V architecture changes were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel development.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

Linux 8250/16550 UART Serial Driver Seeing Some Modernization Work In 2026
The Linux 8250 serial driver as the universal/legacy driver for 8250 and 16550 type serial ports has been seeing some modernization work recently with a number of 8250 serial patches having now been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

New Hygon Model 8 "Suzhou" x86 CPU Support Appears In The GCC Compiler
A seemingly new generation of Hygon x86 processors are on the way with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) seeing support today for the Hygon Model 8 "Suzhou" c86-4g-m8 processors.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

Open-Source Driver For ATI R300 Era GPUs Seeing Improved Power Mac Support In 2026
For those that happen to still be running a 22+ year old Apple Power Mac such as those from 2004 with an IBM PowerPC processor and ATI Radeon 9600 XT or 9800 XT graphics, there are open-source driver improvements for Linux still happening in 2026 to benefit this vintage hardware.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

Python 3.15 beta 3 Released with Faster Startup Times and Stable Threading Fixes
Python 3.15 beta 3 has been released. The release packs 195 patches alongside explicit lazy imports and a new frozendict type that finally stop unnecessary module loading and accidental data mutation across every major framework without requiring manual configuration changes or third party workarounds. A revamped profiling package alongside stricter UTF-8 defaults cleans up years of tangled performance tools and silent encoding failures that used to crash production scripts without leaving a trace. Anyone should test the beta in an isolated environment before touching critical systems because preview builds still break more production stacks than they fix and the final release will not wait for stragglers to finish checking their code.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

Samba 4.23.9 Fix Broken Windows Trusts and ACL Crashes
Samba 4.23.9 drops with critical patches for use-after-free memory corruption and a winbindd crash that routinely follows bulk password updates. The release finally stops Windows Offline Files from throwing access denied errors on read-only shared directories. Grab the signed archives before pushing to production. Running this update eliminates the silent trust drops that plague mixed networks and keeps lease break errors from lingering in the backend.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

Steam Machine Pricing Announced: Tiers, Specs, And The DIY Linux Alternative
Valve just announced Steam Machine pricing that ranges from $1,049 to $1,428. Storage capacity and controller bundles do the heavy lifting while every model packs a semi-custom Zen 4 processor and RDNA 3 graphics inside a sealed chassis that trades upgradability for console-like simplicity. Pre-orders open June 25 for past Steam purchasers only, and randomized invites will ship starting June 29.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

Three Lines of Code Improve Linux Storage Performance
A developer changed three lines of code, giving Linux storage performance a 5% bump.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

UK funds £60M AI labs to challenge US tech dominance with open-source models
Oxford and UCL receive £60 million from the UK government to build low-hardware, open-source AI models and reduce reliance on major US tech firms.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

Why Apple Just Built a Native Linux Environment for macOS
Apple's "Container Machines" feature provides macOS users with a way to run lightweight, persistent Linux environments directly on their systems. Built on Apple's container framework, it supports OCI-compatible images such as Ubuntu and Alpine, offering a focused alternative to traditional virtual machines. According to Better Stack, this approach is optimized for Apple Silicon, allowing developers to test Linux services or build applications while maintaining compatibility with macOS workflows.
June 23rd, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 22nd, 2026

5 Best Free AI Watermark Remover Tools
People have different grudges against watermarked content.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: date
The software featured here is free and open source. All tools provide a command-line interface (CLI) unless otherwise stated.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer "Experimental"
Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. Given all the performance improvements and this being the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag on the file-system, I decided to fire up some benchmarks looking at how the Bcachefs file-system performance has changed with this new version.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

CobaltX -- gaming-focused Arch-based Linux distribution
CobaltX is a gaming-focused Arch-based Linux distribution built around KDE Plasma 6 and a preinstalled Linux gaming stack.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

DocumentDB -- MongoDB-compatible document database engine
DocumentDB is a MongoDB-compatible document database engine built on PostgreSQL.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

How eBPF Empowers Developers to Observe inside the Linux Kernel in a Safe and Unintrusive Way
Daniel Finneran explores how eBPF has evolved far beyond its roots in packet filtering into a robust, safe way to extend the Linux kernel. He explains how the eBPF "verifier", the security guardrail, enables implementation of deep observability and networking without the risks of traditional kernel modules or the slow upstreaming process. He touches on tools like Tetragon that leverage eBPF for "front-foot" security enforcement, proactively intercepting threats such as buffer overflows before they execute, while providing visibility into file systems and drivers without intrusive instrumentation.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 Lays Out Tuning Recommendations For More Workloads
Back in March Intel announced the Optimization Zone as a new initiative for helping server administrators and developers better maximize the performance of different workloads running on Intel hardware. Out today is the Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 release with more workloads now covered for squeezing out the most performance on Intel CPUs.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 sched_ext Continues Working Toward Sub-Scheduler Support
Merged last week for the Linux 7.2 kernel were all of the sched_ext changes for this extensible scheduler support that allows loading BPF programs from user-space for handling scheduling tasks. Linux 7.2 continues building out sched_ext's sub-scheduler support.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT Tablet
It's been 14 years already since Microsoft announced the Surface RT hybrid tablet as their first-generation Surface device for going up against the Apple iPad. All these years later, this NVIDIA Tegra 3 powered device is finally seeing a mainline Linux kernel driver for supporting battery and charger status.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

Miracle-WM Mir-Based Wayland Compositor Aiming For v1.0 Later This Year
Miracle-WM 0.10 released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor. With this new release is also acknowledgement they are hoping to cross the "1.0" milestone later in the year.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA's "Blackwell-Next" GPU Appears in Linux Kernel Patches
NVIDIA's next generation of graphics cards, under the "Blackwell-Next" name, began their integration into the Linux kernel some time ago. The latest set of patches now includes updates for handling Compute Express Link (CXL). This particular patch is intriguing because it refers to the next generation of NVIDIA GPUs with the "Blackwell-Next" architecture, even though NVIDIA has publicly confirmed the codenames for its upcoming GPU architectures multiple times. From the "Blackwell" generation, we have seen another variant called "Blackwell Ultra" in the B300 series. However, the next-generation architecture has been publicly confirmed to be called "Rubin."
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Merged For Linux 7.2 Along With Other New Hardware
The HID subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 7.2 kernel with some treats that will excite Linux gamers and other desktop users.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

PELADN WO4 5600H Mini PC: Wi-Fi Performance
This article is part of a series looking at the PELADN WO4 5600H Mini PC.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

red -- modern modal text editor written in Rust
red is a modern modal text editor. It offers a Vim-inspired editing model together with code-oriented features such as Language Server Protocol integration, Tree-sitter syntax highlighting, configurable themes, and a JavaScript plugin system designed to extend the editor while keeping the core lightweight.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

MRBS -- web-based booking system
MRBS is a web-based booking system designed for managing meeting rooms and other shared resources.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open source AI lab
First came Anthropic, then Google. Now, open source AI startup Reflection is tapping SpaceX for its abundant source of AI chips.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

TiDB -- cloud-native, distributed SQL database
TiDB is a cloud-native, distributed SQL database designed for applications that need strong consistency, high availability, and scalability across clusters.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

Valve Creates The Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" To Help Further Optimize Linux GPU Drivers
Merged today to Mesa 26.1 is the Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" as a new GUI created by developers on Valve's open-source Linux graphics team. The Ray-Tracing Inspector is designed to help in analyzing and optimizing the Vulkan ray-tracing performance as part of their continued work on further bettering the Radeon RADV RT performance for Steam Play / Linux gaming.
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

Xfce Wayland Compositor Sees First Preview/Alpha Release
This first release of Xfwl4 is described as "ready to get some wider use, even though of course there will be bugs and missing features. Think of this as an alpha release."
June 22nd, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 20th, 2026

9 Best Free and Open Source Linux Personal Finance Trackers
Managing personal finances does not have to mean handing over bank details to a hosted service or wrestling with a complex accounting suite.
June 20th, 2026 — Source

9 Best Free and Open Source Serial Port and Telemetry Visualization Tools
A serial terminal is software that allows communication with devices through a serial port, often used for debugging embedded systems and interacting with hardware like microcontrollers. It essentially acts as a bridge, displaying data sent to and received from the connected device and enabling users to send commands or data to the device.
June 20th, 2026 — Source

40 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Linux System Profilers
A system profiler is a utility that presents information about the hardware attached to a computer. Having access to hard information about your hardware can be indispensable when you need to establish exactly what hardware is installed in your machine. For example, the information will help a technical support individual diagnose problems, or help to evaluate whether a system will support certain software or hardware.
June 20th, 2026 — Source

Brython -- Python 3 designed for client-side web programming in the browser
It is a Python implementation adapted to the HTML5 environment with an interface to the DOM objects and events, that runs in a users browser without the need of a Python runtime on the users device. Features that are not relevant in the browser context (writing on disk for instance), are not supported. It includes libraries to interact with existing Javascript libraries such as jQuery, D3, Highcharts, Raphael etc. It supports the latest specs of HTML5/CSS3, and can use CSS Frameworks like Bootstrap3, LESS, SASS etc. Speed of execution is similar to CPython for most operations.
June 20th, 2026 — Source

butrelinux -- immutable Linux distribution
It combines a CentOS Stream 10 base with KDE Plasma, Nvidia and hybrid graphics support, and the Bluefin/Universal Blue style of atomic updates, OCI images, Flatpak applications, and Distrobox-oriented workflows.
June 20th, 2026 — Source

Croft -- VS Code inspired terminal user interface text editor
It's designed for developers who want a familiar project editing environment inside the terminal, combining a multi-pane editor layout with integrated project navigation, search, version control, and terminal access.
June 20th, 2026 — Source

dskDitto -- parallel duplicate-file detector with interactive menus
dskDitto is a duplicate file finder that scans directories for redundant files and presents the results in an interactive terminal interface.
June 20th, 2026 — Source

exFAT File-System Enjoys Better Performance On Linux 7.2 With IOmap Conversion
In addition to open-source developer Namjae Jeon serving as maintainer for the new NTFS Linux driver, he also continues serving as maintainer to the exFAT file-system for that other Microsoft file-system popular with removable storage media.
June 20th, 2026 — Source

gistui -- terminal UI for managing GitHub Gists
gistui is a terminal user interface for managing GitHub Gists. It lets you browse and work with gists from the command line, pair them with files in a local working directory, compare local and remote content, and manage common gist tasks without switching to GitHub's web interface.
June 20th, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.8 Making It Easier To Configure Multi-Monitor Setups
With KDE's Plasma 6.7 desktop having released this week, more development attention is turning to feature work toward Plasma 6.8 but there are also some fixes already accumulating for the Plasma 6.7.1 point release.
June 20th, 2026 — Source

Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches
Linux 7.2 has finally eliminated the strncpy API from the Linux kernel. The strncpy() function for copying up to a specified number of bytes has long been deprecated and after six years of work and hundreds of patches, no more users of the strncpy interface within the Linux kernel remained that it has now been eliminated.
June 20th, 2026 — Source

Linux's ARM64 NEON Intrinsics CRC64 Code Adapted To Work On 32-bit ARM
Merged for Linux 7.1 was ARMM64 NEON-accelerated CRC64-NVMe support for around 6x the performance out of that checksumming algorithm. The generic code had been a bottleneck in NVMe and other storage subsystem code of the Linux kernel with CRC64-NVMe being used to help verify against data corruption. Now for Linux 7.2, the NEON-accelerated code will also work for those still relying on 32-bit ARM.
June 20th, 2026 — Source

Liquorix Kernel 7.0-14 Released with Scheduler Refinements for Lower Latency Desktops
The Liquorix kernel 7.0-14 update tightens the scheduler and wakelist logic to deliver more consistent frame times for gaming and audio workloads. By reintroducing PSI support for Project-C and refining CPU masking routines, the release targets the exact paths that cause context switch stutter on interactive desktops. Users can deploy the changes quickly through the official one-line installer script, which safely handles repository setup and leaves the previous kernel as a fallback. Testing the new build on live audio sessions or benchmark runs will quickly reveal whether the scheduler tweaks match specific hardware quirks.
June 20th, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA DLSS support lands in open-source NVK Vulkan driver for Linux
No, NVIDIA did not open source DLSS
June 20th, 2026 — Source

OBS Studio 32.2.0 Beta 1 Fixes Black Screens and Streamlines Source Setup for Faster Recordings
The beta drops. OBS Studio 32.2.0 Beta 1 replaces the cluttered source menu with a searchable dialog and tightens up the frame rate selector to stop recording chop. Apple Silicon Macs automatically switch to native builds while the update patches the dreaded display capture black screen bug that ruins streams and forces outdated Intel binaries to update. Windows gets a cleaner startup routine with fixed virtual camera resets and dynamic bitrate adjustments for multitrack video, though plugin makers should drop the deprecated button function before the stable version ships.
June 20th, 2026 — Source

Open-Source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan Driver Receives DLSS Support In Mesa 26.2
The latest update brings NVIDIA's AI upscaling technology to the open-source NVK driver stack, improving the gaming experience on Linux.
June 20th, 2026 — Source

SysWatch -- single-host system diagnostics in your terminal
SysWatch is a terminal-based system diagnostics application for Linux and macOS.
June 20th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 19th, 2026

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux CLI Clipboard Managers
Technology has its limits. No one becomes a master chef just by buying chef-endorsed saucepans, premium ingredients, or a shelf full of coveted recipes. Productivity software is no different. A diary app can help you record your day, but it won't magically bring order to chaos. A time tracker can measure where the hours go, but only if you remember to start it.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

AMD ACP7.D/7.E/7.F Driver Added In Linux 7.2: "Substantial Design Changes" For AMD Audio
It looks like AMD's next-gen SoCs not only will be exciting on the CPU side with the much anticipated Zen 6 cores but the AMD Audio Co-Processor "ACP" IP looks to be going through some significant updates.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

AMD Introduces An AI-Powered Bash Coding Agent
Just days after AMD engineers released a new Lemonade AI server with MCP server integration to make it much more useful, they have now released a new release of their GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" open-source software. With AMD GAIA 0.21.2, they have introduced a bash coding agent is their latest big ticket item in the AI space.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

AMD-Powered Barco MXRT Graphics Cards Finally Seeing Linux Driver Support
Barco, the Europeean technology company that manufactures the AMD GPU based MXRT graphics cards for for multi-display medical imaging systems (and also MXRV for their NVIDIA based graphics cards), have to date only seen Windows drivers published for their professional-grade graphics cards even with using Radeon Pro derived GPUs. But a patch published today to the AMD graphics mailing list is opening the door for Linux support.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

Apple M3 Booting On Linux After Three Years Plus Other SoC Updates In Linux 7.2
Just shy of 1,000 new patches were merged on the SoC side for the Linux 7.2 kernel. Among all those patches are enabling five more SoCs to work with the mainline Linux kernel -- including the long-awaited Apple M3 support.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

ARCTIC Fan Controller, More ASUS & ASRock Boards Have Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.2
For those that enjoy keeping an eye on all their system vitals from temperatures to voltages, the hardware monitoring "HWMON" updates have seen many device additions for Linux 7.2.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'
More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too
June 19th, 2026 — Source

Big Tech spent two years warning AI would take your job. Now its bosses say the opposite.
Jeff Bezos says AI will cause a labour shortage. Sam Altman is 'delighted to be wrong' about white-collar losses. The doom talk has flipped to optimism, but the layoffs, and the incentives behind the new message, tell a more complicated story.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

Commy -- cross-platform serial monitor
Commy is a cross-platform serial monitor for communicating with tty, UART, and COM port devices.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

Darktable 5.6 Adds Optional AI Tools and Fixes Slow Processing Without Breaking Your Workflow
Darktable 5.6 is available on Github and introduces artificial intelligence features like object masking and neural restore, but keeps them disabled by default so older systems stay responsive. The release tackles long-standing performance bottlenecks by optimizing OpenCL processing, doubling darkroom preview resolution, and switching thumbnail generation to embedded JPEGs for faster cache builds. Interface friction gets reduced through touchpad gesture support, native system cursors, and a condensed control panel that actually cleans up the traditionally cluttered workspace. Lua scripting gains official AI inference functions while several persistent bugs around mask distortion and export styling finally get fixed.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

Discover -- find and install applications, games, and tools
Discover helps you find and install applications, games, and tools. You can search or browse by category, and look at screenshots and read reviews to help you pick the perfect app.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

Intel TDX Now Much More Practical With Ability To Apply Important Updates Without Reboot
For those interested in Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) with modern Intel Xeon processors for confidential computing but also view system uptime as critical, beginning in Linux 7.2 the TDX support is now much more practical with allowing live updates without the need to reboot the running system in the event of security updates and similar.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

KibaOS -- minimalist and lightweight desktop Linux distribution
KibaOS is a modern desktop operating system built on Arch Linux that aims to provide a polished, ready-to-use environment with a curated application set and graphical installation.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

Linux kernel 7.1.1 and 7.0.13 release fix GPU stutter and silent lockups
The latest stable kernel drops remove a pointless AMDGPU retry loop that used to freeze desktops for a full second during page fault recovery. ARM64 platforms running Azure or NVIDIA silicon get an automatic workaround for a broadcast TLB bug that left memory writes unobserved across cores. Driver core updates now reject devices attached to unregistered buses, which stops hardware from silently vanishing until the next reboot. A quiet network signaling deadlock gets replaced with RCU locking to prevent remote denial of service vectors and eliminate softirq lockups during urgent TCP traffic.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 Brings More Work Around WiFi Aware, WiFi 8 / UHR & More Networking Hardware
The networking subsystem changes have been merged for Linux 7.2 with a lot happening around the core networking code as well as the many wired and wireless networking device drivers.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

Open-Source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan Driver Now Supports DLSS
With the code merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel, the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver is capable of handling Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) with modern game titles running on Linux / Steam Play.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

Raspberry Pi OS Moves To Linux 6.18 LTS Kernel, Updated LabWC Compositor
Raspberry Pi engineers have released their first update to Raspberry Pi OS since April. With this new version comes the upgrade to the latest Linux 6.18 LTS kernel.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

reqlog -- search, track and stream logs
reqlog is a command-line tool for searching, tracing, and streaming logs across local files, Docker containers, and remote Linux hosts over SSH.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

Ringboard -- clipboard manager
Ringboard is a Linux clipboard manager built around a client-server architecture.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

Sparky Linux 2026.06 Released: New Kernels, Dropped Lumina, and Smarter UEFI Installation
Sparky Linux 2026.06 arrives as a semi rolling release built on Debian testing Forky, featuring updated kernels up to version 7.1.0 alongside refreshed browser packages. The project officially removed the Lumina desktop environment from all installation channels to focus development resources on more actively maintained options. UEFI setups now require an active internet connection during Calamares installation, while legacy BIOS machines can rely on the streamlined text based CLI installer. Rolling release users should skip fresh downloads and simply run standard system updates to stay current across LXQt, KDE Plasma, MATE, Xfce, and minimal variants.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

systemd 261 Released With New systemd-sysinstall OS Installer, IMDSD & Storagectl
Systemd 261 is out as stable today with a number of new features and ready to coincide with H2'2026 Linux distributions.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

tio -- serial device I/O tool
It provides a straightforward command-line interface for connecting to serial TTY devices for basic input and output operations, with a focus on the practical needs of embedded developers and hardware hackers rather than classic terminal or modem features. It was originally created as an alternative to screen for serial work alongside terminal multiplexers such as tmux.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

Vercel debuts eve open source agent framework, tries to fix shadow AI with Passport
Cost premium of using AWS indirectly via Vercel is mitigated by more efficient use of compute resources, CTO claims
June 19th, 2026 — Source

XanMod Kernels 6.18.36 LTS, 7.0.13, and 7.1.1 Update Improves Networking and Hardware Support for Debian and Ubuntu
XanMod just pushed out kernels 6.18.36 LTS, 7.0.13, and 7.1.1 for Debian and Ubuntu, packing in LLVM ThinLTO optimizations and default BBRv3 network handling. The update also adds targeted hardware patches like AMD 3D V-Cache support and Steam Deck sensor drivers to improve real-world responsiveness. Anyone running NVIDIA graphics, OpenZFS, or VMware should verify dkms compatibility first, since proprietary modules frequently break during rapid kernel shifts. Official repositories make the upgrade straightforward, and the GPLv2 license keeps the entire build process fully transparent for tinkerers.
June 19th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 16th, 2026

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Point-of-Sale Software
Point-of sale (POS) is the location where a transaction takes place. It also refers to the immediate capture of transactions and customer payment information when goods and services are purchased. This data can be obtained using many different devices such as a computer, cash register, barcode scanner, PIN pads, and magnetic card readers.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

20 Best Free and Open Source Linux Wiki Engines
A wiki is a page or collection of Web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. A Wiki engine is a type of collaborative software that runs a wiki system. This facilitates web pages being created and edited using a web browser. This type of software is usually implemented as an application server that runs on one or more web servers.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

29 Useful Free and Open Source Git Tools for Diff Review and Repository History
Version control is invaluable for tracking development, but larger projects can quickly become difficult to inspect, review, and maintain.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

Antivirus Live CD 52.0-1.5.2 with ClamAV 1.5.2 Updated for Fast Malware Removal
The latest release drops ClamAV 1.5.2 into a stripped down environment that boots fast enough to actually scan infected drives without slowing down. Users can grab the ISO, verify the checksum to avoid corrupted boot loops, and run recursive scans while keeping the host system completely isolated from malware. Skipping the freshclam update step is a common mistake that leaves signatures outdated and misses modern threats before they spread. This lightweight tool only makes sense for recovery work or stubborn infections where traditional security suites refuse to cooperate.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

Basilisk -- numerical simulation framework
Basilisk is a numerical simulation framework for solving partial differential equations on adaptive Cartesian meshes.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

BOSGAME VTA-439 Mini PC running Linux -- Benchmarks
This is a new series looking at the BOSGAME VTA-439 mini PC running Linux. In this series, I'll put this mini PC through its paces from a Linux perspective, comparing it with other systems, including desktops, to show how it really stacks up.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

Intel Compute Runtime Now Advertises Early Support For Nova Lake, Introduces Experimental "LEO"
Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero on their graphics processors has been bringing up Nova Lake support since January. With today's release of the Intel Compute Runtime 26.22.38646.4, the Nova Lake Xe3P support has matured to the state of it being advertised now as under an "early support" status.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.7 Released With Per-Screen Virtual Desktops, Wayland Improvements
Today's the day! KDE developers have just released Plasma 6.7 as the newest version of this leading open-source desktop environment.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.7 Update Fixes Per-Screen Virtual Desktops and Boosts Multi-Monitor Workflows
KDE Plasma 6.7 delivers per-screen virtual desktops after years of waiting, which stops the multi-monitor window shuffling that has annoyed power users for too long. The system tray now properly tracks Flatpak background apps through modern portals and adds a quick microphone volume tester to cut down on audio setup guesswork. A new CSS-based theming engine called Union launches as an opt-in preview while Oxygen returns with full light and dark variants for those who miss the classic look. Under the hood, Intel and AMD hardware get targeted performance boosts, HDR color management finally works alongside ICC profiles, and notifications slide in from the nearest screen edge instead of popping up randomly.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 Adds Ability To Limit Programs To Only Open Regular Files, Avoid Being Tricked Or Doing Silly Things
Merged as part of the many VFS changes for Linux 7.2 is the new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag for the openat2 system call. This can be used to limit programs to only open regular file-systems and avoid accidentally or intentionally opening up device files or other non-conventional data files on the file-system.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 Can Significantly Lower Container Exit/Unmount Latency
A patch series merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel addresses a race condition that can occur when a container is exiting yielding "VFS: Busy inodes after unmount" messages and a possible user-after-free condition. But the patch series also goes further and delivers a very nice optimization to lower the container unmounting latency for environments with heavy I/O load.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 Continues Removing Old i486 Code Remnants, Adds Rugged Panther Lake
The x86/cpu changes have been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel with an interesting span of changes covering 36 years from the Intel 486 days up to adding the new "rugged" Panther Lake variant.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 Drops Driver For The 40+ Year Old Hercules Monochrome ISA Graphics Card
After Linux 7.1 dropped support for old i486 CPUs and also began removing some old ISA and PCMCIA device drivers, there is some additional old hardware relics being cleared out of the in-development Linux 7.2 driver... The frame-buffer device driver for the old Hercules Monochrome ISA graphics card is now removed from the Linux kernel after decades at play.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More
Yet another performance optimization merged for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel is improving the speed of anon_pipe_write, the kernel function used for writing data into anonymous/unnamed pipes such as when using shell pipelines or standard streams from applications.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

Linux kernel 7.1 sends Intel 486 support to silicon heaven
More than 140,000 lines of code bite the dust as ancient CPUs, bus mice, and other legacy leftovers face the chop
June 16th, 2026 — Source

RediSearch -- query and indexing engine for Redis
It lets you declare indexes on Redis data and query them with a dedicated query language that supports rich text retrieval, vector similarity search, filtering, and ranking. Starting with Redis 8, RediSearch is integrated into Redis rather than being released as a separate standalone module.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

PyMC -- Bayesian statistical modeling and probabilistic programming
It's designed for building expressive statistical models with an intuitive syntax, then fitting them using modern inference algorithms including advanced Markov chain Monte Carlo and variational inference methods. The project is aimed at statisticians, data scientists, researchers, and developers who need flexible tools for uncertainty quantification, hierarchical modeling, posterior analysis, and simulation-based workflows.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

TALL (Text Analysis for ALL) is an R Shiny application
TALL (Text Analysis for ALL) is an R Shiny application for exploring, modelling, and visualizing textual data. It's aimed at researchers who need a graphical environment for natural language processing tasks, covering the workflow from data import and cleaning through to statistical analysis, interpretation, and reporting.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

Windows version of SprySOCKS Linux malware used to attack govt orgs
Windows variants for the SprySOCKS Linux malware have been used in attacks targeting government organizations in at least four countries.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

Wine Wayland Lands Fractional Scaling Support
Wine's native Wayland driver now supports fractional scaling! Now for those using this is a nicer UI scaling experience than going through XWayland with today's high resolution displays. The fractional scaling support for winewayland.drv was implemented by Etaash Mathamsetty and is now merged ahead of next week's Wine 11.12 bi-weekly development release. Mathamsettyr explained in the merge request and its superior handling to using XWayland:
June 16th, 2026 — Source

xarray -- work with labelled multi-dimensional arrays and datasets
xarray is a Python package for working with labelled multi-dimensional arrays and datasets.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

XFS Zone Allocator No Longer Experimental With Linux 7.2
The XFS file-system updates for the Linux 7.2 kernel aren't too notable with the exception of its zone allocator being promoted from behind its previously-experimental flag.
June 16th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 15th, 2026

9 Best Free and Open Source Compositing Window Managers
A window manager is software that manages the windows that applications bring up. For example, when you start an application, there will be a window manager running in the background, responsible for the placement and appearance of windows.
June 15th, 2026 — Source

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Data Mining Software
Data mining (also known as knowledge discovery) is the process of gathering large amounts of valid information, analyzing that information and condensing it into meaningful data. It brings together the fields of computer science, statistics and artificial intelligence.
June 15th, 2026 — Source

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux e-Learning Tools
E-Learning consists of all types of electronically supported teaching and learning. It represents the computer and network-enabled transfer of knowledge, behaviors, and skills. E-learning includes Web-based learning, virtual classrooms, digital collaboration, and computer-based applications. The learning activity is often delivered over the internet and intranet/extranet, although optical media, and satellite TV are also alternatives.
June 15th, 2026 — Source

Arch Linux locks down AUR signups amid wave of malicious commits
Community repo freezes new accounts after attackers swamp it with poisoned package updates
June 15th, 2026 — Source

Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs
The scheduler updates were merged this morning for the Linux 7.2 kernel and it's exciting. Cache Aware Scheduling has finally been merged! This is a win for especially modern Intel and AMD processors with multiple last level caches (LLCs).
June 15th, 2026 — Source

Firefox 152 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support Built By Default, Modernized Settings UI
The Firefox 152.0 release binaries are now available ahead of tomorrow's official unveiling. With Firefox 152 there is now the JPEG-XL support code being compiled by default for the release albeit still disabled at run-time by default behind a preference for now.
June 15th, 2026 — Source

Flatpak-NG sounds like bad news for systemd refuseniks
Linux app packaging rethink could leave alternative-init distros in the cold
June 15th, 2026 — Source

Framework Computer Making Progress On Coreboot For Their Modern Intel-Powered Laptops
While we have seen Coreboot work-in-progress support for older Ryzen-powered Framework Laptops, it seems there is a recent uptick in development around supporting Coreboot on Framework Computer's modern Intel-powered wares.
June 15th, 2026 — Source

GNU Linux-libre 7.1-gnu Released With More Driver Deblobbing, Unhappy With i486 Removal
Following yesterday's release of the upstream Linux 7.1 kernel release, GNU Linux-libre 7.1 is out with its new build for de-blobbing various drivers from loading non-free-software microcode/firmware and other sanitizing of the kernel code in the name of software freedom.
June 15th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 Introducing The Rust Zerocopy Library To Eliminate More "Unsafe" Code
Miguel Ojeda already mailed in the many Rust code changes for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel. This is quite a big Rust code with more than forty thousand new lines of Rust code in the kernel.
June 15th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 To Better Communicate File-System Casefolding For Helping Windows NFS & More
Newly-merged code for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel will now expose the case-folding (case insensitive) behavior of local file-systems so that Linux file servers and others can properly report the actual behavior rather than guessing if case-folding is actually used/supported.
June 15th, 2026 — Source

NexoPOS -- web-based point of sale system
NexoPOS is a web-based point of sale system designed for businesses that need to process sales, manage orders, and administer store data through a browser.
June 15th, 2026 — Source

Optimize Web Delivery with these Open Source Tools
Web proxy software forwards HTTP requests without modifying traffic in any way. They can be configured as a transparent proxy with no client-side configuration required. They can also be used as a reverse proxy front-end to websites; here the cache serves an unlimited number of clients for one or some web servers.
June 15th, 2026 — Source

ParadeDB -- PostgreSQL extension
ParadeDB is a PostgreSQL extension that brings advanced search and analytical capabilities to Postgres.
June 15th, 2026 — Source

Pluton -- self-hosted backup management platform
Pluton is a self-hosted backup management platform that helps users create, manage, monitor, and restore encrypted backups from a web interface.
June 15th, 2026 — Source

Pyomo -- object-oriented algebraic modeling language
Pyomo is an object-oriented algebraic modeling language for Python that's designed for formulating, analyzing, and solving structured optimization problems.
June 15th, 2026 — Source

Quicktill -- cash register and stock control software
Quicktill is cash register and stock control software designed for managing sales, stock, sessions, staff users, and reporting in environments such as pubs, bars, events, and hackspaces.
June 15th, 2026 — Source

Reading /proc/filesystems Is Surprisingly Done Very Often & Now As Much As 444% Faster
Reading /proc/filesystems for obtaining a list of file-systems supported by the running kernel is done frequently on Linux. Namely due to being read by the SELinux library (libselinux), reading of /proc/filesystems is done more often than one would typically expect and now the Linux 7.2 kernel is optimizing for it to yield much better performance.
June 15th, 2026 — Source

Red Hat gives Ubuntu a bootc up the backside at Canonical shindig
Bootable containers pitch shows how distro can be managed with familiar OCI tooling
June 15th, 2026 — Source

ViewTouch -- point of sale system
It provides a graphical touchscreen interface that runs on Linux and uses the X Window System for network-transparent display capabilities. The software is intended for dedicated POS environments, with support for Raspberry Pi and conventional x86 or ARM hardware, real-time reporting, labour management, and Android-based tableside order entry.
June 15th, 2026 — Source

Windows Subsystem for Linux gives developers a compelling reason to stick with Microsoft - here's why
Changes to WSL make staying on Windows easier, especially for developers building or running Linux-based AI, container, or dev workloads.
June 15th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 10th, 2026

AMD's Lemonade SDK For Local AI Adds NVIDIA CUDA Support
Lemonade, the local AI server solution developed by AMD that is designed to work across their CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, is out with a new version today that also adds NVIDIA CUDA support.
June 10th, 2026 — Source

AMDGPU Linux Driver Preps For HDMI 2.1 Compliance Testing
While not as exciting as features like HDMI 2.1 FRL and Display Stream Compression itself, as part of AMD's efforts to provide a fully open-source HDMI 2.1 driver implementation for AMDGPU, new code is being prepped for their kernel driver to support the HDMI compliance testing efforts.
June 10th, 2026 — Source

Intel Arc Pro B70 Showing Off Some Performance Wins With Linux 7.1
After recently noticing the Intel Arc B580 performing better on Linux 7.1 for that kernel version soon to be released as stable, I was curious if there were performance gains also to be found with the new flagship Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 workstation graphics card. Here are some benchmarks of the Intel Arc Pro B70 in relevant workloads between Linux 7.0 and the near-final Linux 7.1 kernel.
June 10th, 2026 — Source

IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 203 is available for testing
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 203 finally kicks the old Unbound DNS resolver to the curb and replaces it with Knot Resolver, which delivers encrypted upstream forwarding, a native DNS firewall, and a persistent cache that actually survives reboots. The wireless access point gets long awaited 6 GHz support and a proper fix for the stubborn 40 MHz channel width bug that kept breaking connections. Cloud deployments get IMDSv2 compatibility, Intel microcode patches roll out, and a Perl encoding glitch that routinely broke non ASCII translations finally gets squashed.
June 10th, 2026 — Source

KDE KWin Patches Aiming To Optimize Gaming Latency To Better Compete With Windows
Open-source developer Jakub Okoński has been working on comparing the gaming latency between Linux and Windows and in turn working to drive some improvements into KDE's KWin Wayland compositor so the latency is more competitive with the gaming experience under Microsoft Windows 11.
June 10th, 2026 — Source

Linux Firmware Repository Preps For AI Coding Agents
The linux-firmware.git repository that serves as the de facto home of all the binary blobs used by the mainline Linux kernel open-source drivers has now introduced AGENTS.md documentation and other preparations for embracing AI coding agents.
June 10th, 2026 — Source

Linux Foundation Report Indicates AI Driving Tech Hiring
Within growing security and skills gaps, AI has been found to be a positive driving force behind tech hiring trends in Europe.
June 10th, 2026 — Source

Linux Foundation's Latest AI Effort Is Around AI Asset & Data Exchange
The Linux Foundation continues working to get more involved in new AI initiatives. Today the Linux Foundation announced the OpenSharing Project with an effort to standardize AI asset and data exchange.
June 10th, 2026 — Source

Linux Lite 8.0 sheds Chrome, slims down, and finds its name fits better than ever
Firefox is in, Snap and Flatpak are still out, but a default AI helper may raise eyebrows
June 10th, 2026 — Source

Linux's CrOS EC Driver To Support Custom Fan Curves - Useful For Framework Laptops
The cros_ec Linux kernel driver is used for supporting the ChromeOS Embedded Controller "EC" used by Chromebooks and various other laptops like Framework Laptops. With patches pending to cros_ec, support for custom fan curves is being introduced.
June 10th, 2026 — Source

Linux's KVM Preps For APX Support In VMs
Among the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) work being queued ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window are preparations for supporting Advanced Performance Extensions within KVM virtual machines.
June 10th, 2026 — Source

macOS 27 beta boots Asahi Linux off Apple Silicon
Partition's still there, but good luck seeing it and don't upgrade until fix lands, says team
June 10th, 2026 — Source

MariaDB Server 12.3, 11.8, 11.4, 10.11, 10.6 Updates Patch JSON Errors, Replication Bugs, and Mroonga Crashes
MariaDB Server updates for versions 12.3, 11.8, 11.4, 10.11, and 10.6 prioritize query reliability over flashy features by fixing JSON parsing errors and replication state drift. The release patches critical Mroonga segmentation faults, tightens foreign key checks in Galera clusters, and standardizes Debian and Red Hat packaging paths to prevent deployment headaches. Administrators managing complex workloads will notice faster derived table queries, cleaner upgrade warnings, and a configure guard that blocks incompatible plugin builds before wasting cycles.
June 10th, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA Engineer Devises Patch To Significantly Reduce GCC Bootstrap Time
NVIDIA engineer Kyrylo Tkachov posted a patch for testing yesterday to significantly reduce the amount of time it takes the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for conducting a native bootstrap. The time spent in the configure process for native GCC builds is reduced by around 43% while the overall bootstrap wall time is lowered by around 15%.
June 10th, 2026 — Source

Python 3.14.6 and 3.13.14: Safe Guide for Free Threading and JIT
Python 3.14.6 and 3.13.14 drop today with hundreds of bug fixes and a major shift toward free-threaded execution. The 3.14 series officially enables parallel threading, introduces deferred annotations, and adds new template string syntax for custom processing. Official installers now ship with an experimental JIT compiler and require Sigstore verification instead of legacy PGP signatures. Teams should audit their code for removed standard library modules before upgrading and test the new threading features in a sandbox first.
June 10th, 2026 — Source

RADV Driver Now Leveraging RDNA3+ Hardware Feature For Better Instruction Cache Prefetching
Initially introduced in RDNA3 (GFX11) GPUs is INST_PREF_SIZE to specify the number of instruction bytes to prefetch prior to a wavefront beginning execution. The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now making use of this feature in RDNA3/RDNA4 GPUs for better instruction cache prefetching.
June 10th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu Linux 25.10 End of Life: Upgrade Before July 2026
Ubuntu 25.10 reaches end of life on July 9, 2026, meaning security patches and official repository access will vanish for anyone who stays on the interim release. Users should migrate to Ubuntu 26.04 well before the cutoff to avoid broken dependencies and missing package updates. Running the standard upgrade tool early keeps the system stable and prevents the usual command line headaches that come with chasing dead repositories. Waiting until the last moment only guarantees a rushed migration and a potentially broken desktop environment.
June 10th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 8th, 2026

8 Best Free and Open Source Console Based Network 'top' Tools
Out of the myriad of utilities that are available for Linux, top is a troubleshooting tool that often comes up in conversation. With good reason, top is a tool that many users frequently turn to. It is is a small open source utility that offers a dynamic real-time view of a running system, allowing users to monitor the processes that are running on a system, and to identify which applications are consuming more resources than they should. While top (and other alternatives) are useful tools to monitor the running processes on a system, functionality does not extend to network activity.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

BeagleV Ahead & Lichee Pi 4a RISC-V Boards To See Working WiFi With Linux 7.2
In addition to the SpacemiT K1 and K3 RISC-V SoC Device Tree updates sent out last week, the RISC-V T-HEAD Device Tree "DT" changes were also sent out last week ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel merge window.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

Canonical Experimenting With x86-64-v3 Packages For Ubuntu 26.10
Canonical engineers are again evaluating the impact of building the Ubuntu Linux archive for the x86-64-v3 "amd64v3" micro-architecture feature level for its performance benefits on modern Intel and AMD systems. An amd64v3 archive is available of Ubuntu 26.10 for testing with the packages targeting this level that allows for AVX/AVX2 and other newer CPU x86_64 ISA capabilities of the past decade.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

Canonical sends Ubuntu into the AI agent era
Sandboxed LLM dev environments lead the show, but accessibility may be the real prize
June 8th, 2026 — Source

elementary OS 8.1.1
The thoughtful, capable, and ethical replacement for Windows and macOS.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

Flatpak 1.18 Released With Integration For AMD ROCm
Flatpak 1.18 is out today for providing the latest improvements to this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

Haystack -- AI orchestration framework
Haystack is an AI orchestration framework for building production-ready applications with large language models.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

History of CentOS: How a biochemist's Linux hobby project became the enterprise world's default operating system
When a community came together after Red Hat said Windows was 'probably the right product'
June 8th, 2026 — Source

Ironic -- OpenStack service for managing and provisioning bare metal servers
It provides an API and a collection of plug-ins for enrolling, inspecting, controlling, deploying, and maintaining physical machines, either as part of an OpenStack cloud through Nova's bare metal driver or as a standalone provisioning service. It commonly uses technologies such as PXE, IPMI, Redfish, HTTPBoot, and virtual media boot operations to interact with hardware.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered
Katawa Shoujo: Re-Engineered is a fan-made modernization of the classic visual novel Katawa Shoujo.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

LeilFS -- distributed POSIX file system
LeilFS is a distributed POSIX file system designed to run on commodity hardware.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

LibreOffice developer takes a dig at Euro-Office in new open letter
A fresh open-source feud erupts as LibreOffice claims Euro-Office is exploiting digital sovereignty rhetoric while embracing Microsoft's playbook.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 Helping Intel Arc Battlemage Graphics Achieve Better Performance
Recent testing of the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage desktop graphics card has shown that the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel release is delivering superior graphics performance over the current stable Linux 7.0 kernel.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 To Add ACPI CPPC v4 Support Authored By NVIDIA
Ahead of NVIDIA Vera ramping up, the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is adding the ACPI CPPC v4 support authored by a NVIDIA engineer.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

Linux EFS File-System May Have New Maintainer - Or It Might Just Get Removed
An interesting quandary has arose on the Linux kernel mailing list over maintainership of old, unmaintained code within the Linux kernel. Someone has stepped up to maintain an old, very rare file-system driver but admittedly doesn't even use it and just submitted basic fixes. Or is it just better removing that old code?
June 8th, 2026 — Source

Lucid Software Inc. Sub-Processor List
We have updated our sub-processor list because we are adding AWS Bedrock as a new sub-processor to power our AI features, and Gong.io Inc. as a new sub-processor related to communications and customer support. We are also expanding the scope of our existing service-specific sub-processor, Google Cloud Platform Sensitive Data Protection, to new features.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

MAAS (Metal as a Service) -- data centre automation platform
It provides a central environment for turning bare metal into a programmable resource pool, helping teams allocate, test, deploy, repurpose, and retire hardware for private cloud, Kubernetes, high-performance computing, and server automation use cases.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
Microsoft has cut off access to dozens of its open source projects hosted on GitHub as it investigates how hackers apparently breached the projects and injected password-stealing malware into the code.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

OpenStatus -- status page and uptime monitoring platform
OpenStatus is a status page and uptime monitoring platform that helps teams monitor websites, APIs, servers, and DNS endpoints while publishing branded status pages for users and customers.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

Rapoo E9350L Multi-Device Wireless Keyboard Review
The Rapoo E9350L is a slim, compact wireless keyboard designed for users who want a tidy desk, easy device switching and a layout that still includes a number pad. It is not aimed at mechanical keyboard enthusiasts or users who want deep key travel, but as a lightweight multi-device keyboard, it has a clear purpose.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

Running CachyOS With The BORE Scheduler While Disabling Ananicy-CPP
Last week I ran benchmarks of CachyOS with the BORE scheduler using its "linux-cachyos-bore" kernel option. The results didn't end up being as enticing as anticipated but the developer behind the BORE scheduler commented in the forums that he recently received reports from users experiencing game stuttering while using BORE that was attributed to CachyOS' default use of Ananicy-Cpp. So over the weekend I did another CachyOS BORE run without that CachyOS default.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

United Nations Open Source Portal Goes Live
A new open source portal seeks to coordinate and scale open source efforts across the United Nations system.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

Vintage AMD R600 Graphics Driver Sees Code Cleanups Thanks To GitHub Copilot
As the discussions continue among developers over potentially branching off some of the older Mesa drivers, the AMD R600 Gallium3D driver saw 59 commits on Sunday to Mesa 26.2. Making this code restructuring and code cleaning all the more notable is that the improvements to this old AMD Radeon graphics driver was done in part by GitHub Copilot.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

Xfce Ported To Rust-Written Redox OS For Better X11 Experience
The belated "This Month in Redox" was posted today for covering improvements made to this open-source, Rust-based operating system during the month of May. Most notable in May is seeing the Xfce desktop ported over to Redox OS.
June 8th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 7th, 2026

11 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Personal Finance Tools
We've all read stories about people trying to live without spending money at all. Some grow their own food, wash in rivers, use solar panels for electricity, and barter for goods and services. These experiments can be fascinating, but they usually have limited practical success. For most of us, money remains unavoidable. We need it to buy food and clothing, pay bills, cover everyday costs, and enjoy the occasional extra.
June 7th, 2026 — Source

Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding
As an exciting development for GPU-accelerated video decoding within the Mozilla Firefox web browser, initial support for Vulkan Video has landed in the web browser!
June 7th, 2026 — Source

"Flatten The Pick" Linux Patches Progress For Better cgroup Scheduling While Linux Gaming
A month ago I wrote about Linux scheduler work to help boost gaming performance on old "potato" hardware with Intel engineer Peter Zijlstra noting that Linux cgroup scheduling has continued to be "a pain in the arse." This work continues advancing with a third iteration of these "flatten the pick" patches being posted.
June 7th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1-rc7 Adding More AMD Zen 6 CPU Models
Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc7 test kernel release due out later today, a pull request has been submitted of some "x86 fixes" for this kernel release. Most notable with this pull request is acknowledging some additional AMD Zen 6 CPU models.
June 7th, 2026 — Source

Mesa 26.2 Lands VK_GOOGLE_display_timing Support For Direct Display Mode
The VK_GOOGLE_display_timing extension for obtaining display timing information that can be useful for frame-pacing and eliminating micro-stuttering in games now has direct display mode support with KHR_display for the Mesa Vulkan drivers. This now merged addition immediately benefits the Intel ANV and Radeon RADV drivers as well as the PowerVR, Turnip, and V3DV drivers too.
June 7th, 2026 — Source

nwipe -- secure disk eraser
nwipe is a secure disk erasure utility for Linux and a fork of the dwipe command originally used by Darik's Boot and Nuke.
June 7th, 2026 — Source

OneDev -- self-hosted Git server and DevOps platform
OneDev is a self-hosted Git server and DevOps platform that brings together source code management, code review, issue tracking, build automation, and package handling in one application.
June 7th, 2026 — Source

Some Broadcom V3D Graphics Support On Path For Removed Over Lack Of Testing
Broadcom V3D 3.3 and V3D 4.1 graphics IP is set to be deprecated and removed from the V3D kernel graphics/display driver after the Mesa driver support was removed two years ago already. The situation in both cases amount to lack of hardware by developers for testing and with that likely no other known users of these particular Broadcom graphics in selects SoCs.
June 7th, 2026 — Source

Wayland Protocols 1.49 Released With Improved Multi-GPU Support, Windows BT.2100
Simon Ser just published Wayland Protocols 1.49 as the latest version for this primary set of Wayland protocol definitions.
June 7th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 6th, 2026

5 Best Free and Open Source Linux Network Authentication Tools
Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) is a networking protocol that offers centralized connection authentication, authorization, and accounting management for various types of network access. RADIUS is mature technology having been developed almost twenty years ago.
June 6th, 2026 — Source

9 Best Free and Open Source Python Integrated Development Environments
Python is a widely used general-purpose, high level programming language. It's easy to read and learn. It's frequently used for science, data analysis, and engineering. With a burgeoning scientific community and ecosystem, Python is an excellent environment for students, scientists and organizations that develop technology software.
June 6th, 2026 — Source

20 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based YouTube Tools
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created in February 2005, and purchased by Google in November 2006. The web service lets billions of people find, watch, and share originally-created videos. This service lets you watch a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media video. It also offers a forum for people to communicate with others around the world, and acts as a distribution platform. Mainstream media corporations such as CBS, Vevo, Hulu and the BBC publish some of their catalog via YouTube, as part of the YouTube partnership program.
June 6th, 2026 — Source

Ape: A New Vulkan Driver Written In The Zig Programming Language
Ape is a new open-source Vulkan driver written in the Zig programming language and not dependent upon any Mesa code.
June 6th, 2026 — Source

Flowable -- workflow and business process management platform
Flowable is a workflow and business process management platform that combines BPMN process automation, CMMN case management, and DMN decision modeling in a single project.
June 6th, 2026 — Source

GNOME File Previewer Finally Switches To GTK4, Adds Dark Mode
GNOME Sushi as the file previewer component for the GNOME Files (Nautilus) file manager has now been adapted to make use of GTK4 as well as delivering other enhancements for a nicer file previewing experience on GNOME.
June 6th, 2026 — Source

GNU Gets Back Into Nutrition Software After 14 Year Hiatus
For those looking for open-source food nutrition software, GNU's GNUtrition has seen its first new release in 14 years.
June 6th, 2026 — Source

Harvester -- interoperable, hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution
Harvester is a hyperconverged infrastructure platform for bare metal servers that combines virtualization and distributed storage on top of Kubernetes.
June 6th, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Make Sure You Don't Miss Your Low Battery Notifications While Gaming
KDE developers continue with last minute bug fixes ahead of the Plasma 6.7 desktop release later this month as well as preparing early feature work toward Plasma 6.8 and also landing more fixes for the current Plasma 6.6 stable series.
June 6th, 2026 — Source

Kdenlive 26.04.2 Released: Fixes Timeline Glitches and Tightens Linux Workflow Stability
The Kdenlive 26.04.2 update drops today with a focused set of patches that finally clean up project file handling and fix timeline preview glitches on Linux systems. Anyone who has manually copied footage back to local storage just to bypass export failures will notice how the new path resolution logic stops those phantom missing media warnings from blocking renders. Flatpak and AppImage builds now skip the broken rnnoise module until developers actually finish implementing it, which keeps audio tracks from dropping out mid render. Grabbing the latest binaries through official channels ensures desktop environments like sway or Hyprland stop fighting with misaligned welcome dialogs and broken shortcut mappings.
June 6th, 2026 — Source

OpenCV 5.0 Released With Rewritten DNN Engine, Built-In LLM & VLM Support
OpenCV 5.0 released today as a major update to this widely-used, open-source computer vision (CV) library.
June 6th, 2026 — Source

Splint -- Clojure linter that focuses on style and code shape
Splint is a Clojure linter that focuses on style and code shape rather than code execution.
June 6th, 2026 — Source

usort -- sorts import statements
usort is a command-line utility for Python projects that sorts import statements while trying to avoid risky rewrites.
June 6th, 2026 — Source

Valve Developer Posts New AMD Anti-Lag Implementation For RADV Driver
Daniel Schürmann of Valve's Linux team has posted a new VK_AMD_anti_lag implementation for the RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver.
June 6th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — June 5th, 2026

5 Best Free and Open Source Python Shells
Python is a high-level, general-purpose, structured, powerful, open source programming language that is used for a wide variety of programming tasks. It features a fully dynamic type system and automatic memory management, similar to that of Scheme, Ruby, Perl, and Tcl, avoiding many of the complexities and overheads of compiled languages. The language was created by Guido van Rossum in 1991, and continues to grow in popularity.
June 5th, 2026 — Source

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Geometry Software
In the field of mathematical software packages, applications such as Wolfram Research's Mathematica, and Maplesoft's Maple system used to instantly spring to mind. These were both highly popular, proprietary, commercial, integrated mathematical software environments. Other types of mathematical software packages generally received much less publicity.
June 5th, 2026 — Source

Apache HTTP Server 2.4.68 Release Candidate Fixes Critical mod_http2 Leaks and SSL Quirks
The Apache HTTPD server 2.4.68 release candidate brings native OpenSSL 4.0 support to mod_ssl, which stops handshake failures when modern cryptographic libraries update in place. Stefan Eissing also patched three separate resource leaks in mod_http2 that quietly choke servers under heavy proxy workloads by leaving file descriptors open and miscounting cookie headers. Core logging gains millisecond timestamp precision while several older module crashes and conditional logic bugs get cleaned up for smoother daily operations. Server operators should run this build through a staging environment first since the crypto compatibility and handle leak fixes directly impact production stability.
June 5th, 2026 — Source

ARM Linux Server Performance Up More Than 7x Geo Mean In 8 Years, As Much As 15x With NVIDIA Vera CPU
NVIDIA's Vera CPU is delivering the fastest ARM performance I have ever seen. For putting it into perspective how far the ARM server CPU hardware has come in just the last decade and for some "fun" benchmarks as part of Phoronix marking 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and benchmarking, here are some benchmarks showing the Ampere eMAG from September 2018 to the performance now with NVIDIA Vera. Not even factoring in the many software optimizations across the stack over the period, from simply the hardware side the ARM server CPU performance has advanced by more than 7x in eight years and in some workloads nearly 15x faster.
June 5th, 2026 — Source

Emacs 31.0.90 Pretest Released: Speed Boosts, UI Tweaks, Bug Fixes
The GNU project just released the first pretest for Emacs 31.1, giving developers a chance to catch regressions before the stable version ships. Running GPG signature checks alongside SHA hash verification prevents corrupted archives or tampered downloads from breaking local builds. Compiling in an isolated directory keeps custom extensions and system keybindings intact while exposing any API breakages early. Reporting issues through the official bug tracker helps maintainers patch performance glitches before they affect everyday editing workflows.
June 5th, 2026 — Source

FinanzPilot -- self-hosted personal finance web application
FinanzPilot is a self-hosted personal finance web application designed for tracking income, expenses, accounts, recurring transactions, loans, and imported bank data without relying on a third-party SaaS platform.
June 5th, 2026 — Source

GNOME 49.7 Update Fixes Screenshot Glitches, USB Notifications, and Security Vulnerabilities
GNOME 49.7 arrives as a straightforward maintenance release that patches interface glitches and crashes without introducing risky new features. Users will finally see screenshot selection boundaries work correctly, USB autorun notifications trigger properly, and search spinners stop resetting with every keystroke. The update also plugs security holes in Yelp and improves large file handling across core document libraries so routine tasks run smoothly. Distributions should push the release through standard package managers to keep systems stable without forcing manual configuration changes.
June 5th, 2026 — Source

GNOME 50.2 Release Fixes NVIDIA Stutter, Screenshot Glitches, and Core Security Holes
The GNOME 50.2 update patches those lingering memory leaks in GLib while smoothing out the NVIDIA driver freezes that have been tripping up screen recorders lately. Interface quirks like the broken screenshot snapper and search spinner reset get corrected, so desktop navigation actually feels responsive again instead of fighting your keystrokes. Backend adjustments to Evolution-Data-Server and Orca keep email syncs stable and screen readers from double-speaking on Chromium tabs, which matters more than any flashy new feature ever could. Running a standard package manager upgrade will pull everything in cleanly, though rebuilding custom scripts against the updated pygobject and libadwaita versions prevents those pesky template crashes during daily workflows.
June 5th, 2026 — Source

GNOME 51 Retires Legacy NVIDIA Driver Support With Removing EGLStreams
EGLStreams was NVIDIA's original route to supporting Wayland with their official Linux graphics driver stack. Adoption was limited and driver vendors outside of NVIDIA didn't end up going with EGLStreams/EGLDevice. Thankfully, NVIDIA corrected course long ago with DMA-BUF, GBM, and KMS support that aligns with the rest of the ecosystem, and now that old code path is being removed from GNOME Mutter.
June 5th, 2026 — Linux is losing ground on Steam as Windows 11 continues its rise among PC gamers — is Microsoft repairing its reputation?
Steam's latest hardware survey shows Windows 11 continuing to grow while Linux loses ground after reaching a high point earlier this year.
June 5th, 2026 — Source

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Install PHP 8.5.7 and 8.4.22 on Fedora and RHEL Without Breaking Your Stack
Remi Collet just dropped fresh RPM builds of PHP 8.5.7 and 8.4.22 for Fedora and every major RHEL derivative, packing in JIT tracing fixes, OpenSSL 4.0 compatibility, and two critical URI parsing vulnerabilities. Administrators must reset the dnf module stream before enabling the new release, otherwise the package manager will stubbornly keep systems on legacy versions until dependencies are manually untangled. The updates also patch memory leaks in Opcache and DOM extensions while swapping out outdated regex libraries for more stable alternatives that actually play nice with modern enterprise builds. Parallel Software Collection installs remain an option for developers juggling multiple PHP versions, though a clean module switch is faster and far less likely to break existing web server configurations.
June 5th, 2026 — Source

Liberu Genealogy -- web-based genealogy and family history platform
Liberu Genealogy is a web-based genealogy and family history platform built with Laravel 12, PHP 8.5, Filament 5, and Livewire 4.
June 5th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 Continues Improving AMDGPU Support On POWER, ARM
In addition to AMDGPU finally seeing HDMI 2.1 FRL support in Linux 7.2, another change worth noting in this week's AMDGPU pull request is the continued work on enhancing the AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver support for non-4K page size kernel builds. In particular this helps out with AMD graphics and ROCm for the likes of ARM and POWER.
June 5th, 2026 — Source

Linux Cleaner -- make routine Linux maintenance easier
Linux Cleaner is a Python utility designed to make routine Linux maintenance easier by bringing common cleanup tasks together in a simple interface.
June 5th, 2026 — Source

More SpacemiT K3 & K1 Support Landing In Upstream Linux 7.2
In addition to Apple M3 Device Trees for Linux 7.2, the SpacemiT RISC-V SoCs are seeing some notable Device Tree improvements with this next version of the Linux kernel.
June 5th, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA's Nova Driver Continues Being Built Up In Linux 7.2 Along With Other DRM Rust Code
Danilo Krummrich sent out the main set of DRM Rust subsystem changes on Thursday that are targeting the Linux 7.2 kernel. NVIDIA's open-source Nova driver continues seeing a bulk of the DRM Rust work as this modern successor to Nouveau continues taking shape.
June 5th, 2026 — Source

uCareSystem -- automated maintenance utility
uCareSystem is a system maintenance utility for Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, Raspberry Pi OS, WSL2, and other Debian-based systems.
June 5th, 2026 — Source

Vulkan 1.4.353 Released With Three New Extensions
After three weeks without any Vulkan API spec updates, Vulkan 1.4.353 was released today to deliver the latest documentation updates for this high performance graphics/compute API as well as introducing three new extensions.
June 5th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 30th, 2026

6 Best Free and Open Source Linux TUI Clipboard Managers
Technology has its limits. No one becomes a master chef just by buying chef-endorsed saucepans, premium ingredients, or a shelf full of coveted recipes. Productivity software is no different. A diary app can help you record your day, but it won't magically bring order to chaos. A time tracker can measure where the hours go, but only if you remember to start it.
May 30th, 2026 — Source

11 Best Free and Open Source Git Hooks Managers
Git Hooks are a built-in feature of Git that allow developers to automate tasks and enforce policies throughout the Git workflow. By writing custom scripts that Git can execute at key points in the development process, Git Hooks enable developers to streamline their workflow, ensure code quality, and enforce project-specific policies.
May 30th, 2026 — Source

AMD Expands The Range Of Zen 6 CPUs Detected By The Linux Kernel
The latest open-source/Linux patch activity around AMD's next-gen Zen 6 processors is expanding the range of the CPU models detected by the Linux kernel.
May 30th, 2026 — Source

AMD Expands Zen 6 Family Support In Linux, Indicating A Wider CPU Lineup
AMD continues to prepare its next-gen Zen 6 processors for launch as evident from the latest Linux kernel patches.
May 30th, 2026 — Source

AMD Submits More Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.2
On Friday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD pull request landing more kernel graphics/compute driver improvements in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.2 merge window happening in mid-June.
May 30th, 2026 — Source

Bottles 64.1 Sandbox Bug Fix Restores Windows App Launches on Linux
Bottles 64.1 patches a sandbox bug that kept Windows programs from launching when stored outside the container directory. The update restores proper path resolution and environment variable handling, which eliminates those silent permission loops that usually force users into manual workarounds. Anyone running mixed Linux and Windows workflows should pull the latest package through their preferred distribution method to verify the fix. Legacy applications may still require registry tweaks or missing redistributables, but this release noticeably smooths out daily operations for most users.
May 30th, 2026 — Source

diffyml -- compares YAML documents by their structure
diffyml is a command-line utility that compares YAML documents by their structure rather than by raw line changes.
May 30th, 2026 — Source

Fix AI Inference Latency and Stability on AMD Instinct GPUs with ROCm 7.2.4
ROCm 7.2.4 delivers targeted performance patches for AI inference workloads running on AMD Instinct GPUs, focusing on latency reduction and stability improvements. The update trims hipGraphLaunch dispatch delays, fixes a memory copy regression in CPX mode for MI300 series cards, and cleans up profiling traces that previously showed phantom idle gaps during vLLM execution. MIGraphX gains optimizations to skip redundant tensor copies at small batch sizes, though int8-quantized models may experience a minor throughput dip until AMD addresses it. Server administrators should verify firmware compatibility before upgrading and plan their migration away from deprecated profiling tools well ahead of the 2026 end-of-support deadline.
May 30th, 2026 — Source

G7 Agrees On Shared Language Around Open-Source AI, Open Weights AI
Ahead of the 52nd G7 Summit being held in Evian, France next month, the recently conducted G7 Digital and Technology Ministers' Meeting came to agreement on shared language around open-source AI and on the importance of open-source in AI.
May 30th, 2026 — Source

Genode OS 26.05 Released, Finishes Moving From GitHub To Codeberg
Genode OS 26.05 is out this week as the latest update for this original open-source operating system framework. With Genode OS 26.05, they have taken various features of their general purpose Sculpt OS operating system and turned them into reusable framework features.
May 30th, 2026 — Source

GNOME Circle Takes Stand Against AI Slop, Resources App Makes It Into GNOME Incubator
GNOME Circle as the initiative for third-party/independent software applications and libraries extending the GNOME desktop ecosystem is taking a stand against AI slop. The GNOME Circle policy has been updated to reject low-effort, vibe coded applications/libraries where the developer is not able to take responsibility for the work.
May 30th, 2026 — Source

Hulak -- file-based API client for the terminal
Hulak is a file-based API client for the terminal. It lets you define API requests as YAML files, keep them in Git, and run them directly from a project without an Electron-based client or online account.
May 30th, 2026 — Source

New CIFSwitch Linux flaw gives root on multiple distributions
A newly discovered local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed 'CIFSwitch' in the Linux kernel could allow attackers to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions, abuse the kernel's key request mechanism, and gain root privileges.
May 30th, 2026 — Source

NixOS 26.05 Released With 20,442 New Packages, Stage 1 Now Based On systemd By Default
NixOS 26.05 is out today as the latest version of this Linux distribution built around the Nix package manager.
May 30th, 2026 — Source

Plasma 6.6, 6.7 & 6.8 See Plenty Of Bug Fixing This Week
KDE released Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 this week while the current Plasma 6.6 stable series continues seeing fixes as does Plasma 6.8 for what will be the follow-on feature release to Plasma 6.7.
May 30th, 2026 — Source

Wine 11.10 Brings Faster XPath, Better VBScript Support, and vkd3d Upgrades to Linux Gaming
Wine 11.10 delivers a practical update that replaces the heavy libxml2 dependency with a faster built-in XPath engine while upgrading vkd3d to version two point zero for smoother Direct3D 12 performance. The release tightens VBScript compatibility and patches memory leaks in DirectSound and Bluetooth stacks, which stops legacy installers and automation scripts from crashing or hanging at full CPU load. Targeted fixes resolve rendering failures in Age of Empires III, audio glitches in Star Wars Racer, and font display issues in Photolemur by correcting how Windows APIs translate to Linux desktop environments.
May 30th, 2026 — Source

Wine Staging 11.10 Released with Threading Fixes and Graphics Improvements
Wine Staging 11.10 pushes experimental graphics and threading patches to Linux users without waiting for mainline development cycles. The build addresses specific compatibility issues like washed out textures, audio stuttering from timer resolution bugs, and window composition glitches in modern Windows titles. Installing the update requires backing up existing prefix directories first, since mixing staging binaries with stable releases frequently corrupts registry entries and breaks game configurations. Running a single test application before full deployment catches rare regressions while keeping the system reliable for everyday use.
May 30th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 29th, 2026

6 Best Free and Open Source GUI Command Schedulers
The software utility cron also known as cron job is a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like computer operating systems.
May 29th, 2026 — Source

Btrfs Change Coming For Linux 7.2 Yields Very Healthy Performance Gain
A change coming on the way for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle is yielding a significant improvement to the direct I/O write performance. While a big gain, technically it's a regression fix after a change mistakenly dropped the behavior several years ago.
May 29th, 2026 — Source

CachyOS Delivers Lead Over Arch Linux, Pop!_OS & Ubuntu On System76 Thelio Major
The new System76 Thelio Major powered by the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series and optionally with the Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card for an all-open-source AMD Linux stack is a mighty powerful workstation. If desiring even more compute potential out of this high-end desktop/workstation, CachyOS works pretty darn well on this new system with lofty leads over upstream Arch Linux as well as Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and the stock Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution.
May 29th, 2026 — Source

Calibre 9.9 released with improved EPUB page counting, Fedora 44 SSL fix, and more
Calibre 9.9 adds search persistence in virtual libraries, better EPUB page counting, improved ISBN parsing, and WolneLektury updates.
May 29th, 2026 — Source

Canutin -- personal finance application
Canutin is a personal finance application for tracking money data without relying on a hosted finance platform.
May 29th, 2026 — Source

Fedora 45 Considering Use Of PURL Metadata For Uniquely Identifying Software Packages
One of the Fedora 45 change proposals under consideration at the moment is making adding PURL "Package-URL" to Fedora's package metadata for simplifying the mapping between upstream projects and Fedora packages.
May 29th, 2026 — Source

Flowblade 2.24.2 released
Flowblade 2.24.2 patches a nasty crash triggered when the underlying MLT framework jumped to version 7.38, keeping your timeline from throwing fatal errors during rendering. The update leaves the multitrack editing workflow and compositor tools exactly as they were, which means no unnecessary bloat or interface changes to relearn. GPU acceleration through Vaapi and NVENC stays fully functional for faster exports, while custom FFmpeg arguments still let power users tweak compression settings without guesswork.
May 29th, 2026 — Source

Intel To Support DRM Background Color Property With Linux 7.2
Introduced in Linux 7.1 is a dedicated CRTC background color property for DRM graphics/display drivers. The "BACKGROUND_COLOR" property can be used with capable drivers and display controllers as the default background color when not covered by any plane or from transparent regions of higher planes. With the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle, the Intel DRM driver will begin supporting this background color property.
May 29th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 To Bring Graphics Driver Fix For Old Integrated Graphics On Intel Sandy Bridge
For those still making use of Intel Sandy Bridge processors from 15 years ago, the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is bringing a fix for an engine reset issue when using the old integrated graphics with Sandy Bridge.
May 29th, 2026 — Source

Linux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due To AI
Last week's collection of networking subsystem fixes for Linux 7.1 noted craziness continuing with no end in sight with a large pull request of fixes with many of them spurred on by AI/LLM coding agents. This week it's "significantly bigger" than prior kernel cycles for this late stage of kernel development due to this assistance of large language models.
May 29th, 2026 — Source

Linux prepares to axe legacy x32 hybrid mode — hybrid 32-bit/64-bit mode faces complete removal by 2027 due to low adoption
x32 ABI is designed to reduce the memory footprint of 64-bit applications
May 29th, 2026 — Source

MINISFORUM M2 Intel Panther Lake Mini PC Running Linux: Power Consumption
The Minisforum Elite Mini M2 is a compact mini PC built around Intel's Panther Lake platform. In this series, I'll explore the machine in detail from a Linux perspective, looking at hardware support, installation, power consumption, performance, thermals, noise, and everyday usability. I'll also compare the M2 with a range of other mini PCs to see where it excels, where it falls short, and whether it's a good choice for Linux users.
May 29th, 2026 — Source

Open Source Ecosystems
When open strategy meets private tactics
May 29th, 2026 — Source

OpenCircuits -- web-based digital circuit and logic designer
OpenCircuits is a web-based digital circuit and logic designer that provides an interactive environment for building and exploring digital logic designs in the browser.
May 29th, 2026 — Source

Optimized Ubuntu images come to Google Cloud TPU virtual machines
The focus of AI is moving from training massive models to powering real-time interactions. Agentic workflows need seamless coordination between general-purpose compute and machine learning acceleration.
May 29th, 2026 — Source

Radeon Software For Linux 26.12 Brings Ubuntu 26.04 Support
While most Linux enthusiasts and desktop users/gamers are comfortable just riding the latest upstream Linux kernel and Mesa drivers shipped by their distribution, for those enterprises preferring the officially blessed and QA'ed driver packages from AMD, last week marked the release of the Radeon Software for Linux 26.12 driver.
May 29th, 2026 — Source

wayshot -- screenshot tool for wayland compositors
wayshot is a native screenshot utility for Wayland systems that target wlroots-based compositors such as sway and river.
May 29th, 2026 — Source

Zero-Downtime Deployments for Java Apps on Kubernetes
Achieve zero-downtime deployments for Java applications on Kubernetes using rolling updates, readiness/liveness probes, and graceful shutdown strategies.
May 29th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 28th, 2026

19 Best Free and Open Source Remote Desktop Clients
Remote Desktop Control displays the screen of another computer (via Internet or local area network) on a local screen. This type of software enables users to use the mouse and keyboard to control the other computer remotely. It means that a user can work on a remote computer as if he or she was sitting directly in front of it, regardless of the distance between the computers.
May 28th, 2026 — Source

24 Years After The ATI R300 Launched, Open-Source R300 Driver Continues With Big Rework
Independent open-source contributor Pavel Ondračka continues working on the R300g driver and he's been pursuing a big undertaking to get rid of TGSI usage and replace it with NIR. TGSI is the original Gallium3D intermediate representation started by Tungsten Graphics back in the day but all of the modern Mesa drivers have since transitioned to using the better NIR intermediate representation. Pavel is working on the big task of adapting R300g to use NIR directly without the sidestep through TGSI.
May 28th, 2026 — Source

AI is causing a massive headache for Linux and laying the groundwork for legal issues
Linus Torvalds shifts stance on automated tools as the flood of unverified AI patches creates a development bottleneck for Linux 7.1.
May 28th, 2026 — Source

Arm Announces Metis: Agentic AI Security Framework
Arm today announced the open-sourcing of Metis, an agentic AI security framework that delivers context AI-powered security analysis in looking out for software vulnerabilities.
May 28th, 2026 — Source

GTK Introduces Snapping Feature For Better Fractional Scaling Experience
The upcoming GTK 4.23.1 development release is introducing a new feature called Snapping, which should enhance the experience when dealing with fractional scaling on today's high resolution displays.
May 28th, 2026 — Source

IBM and Red Hat are betting $5 billion that open source needs a security guard
IBM and Red Hat announced Project Lightwell, a $5 billion commitment backed by new frontier AI capabilities and a global force of more than 20,000 engineers to help enterprises secure open source software. Together, these investments establish a new model for enterprise use of open source software, from upstream development through production environments.
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Intel Arc G-Series Processors Announced For Handheld Gaming Devices
Ahead of Computex, Intel today announced the introduction of the Arc G-Series. While taking on the "Arc" branding, this isn't a new graphics card from Intel but rather their new processors with integrated graphics for handheld gaming devices.
May 28th, 2026 — Source

Intel Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 Linux Gaming Performance
In recent weeks we have been exploring different areas of the Intel Arc Pro B70 graphics performance on Linux from various OpenCL and Vulkan to Level Zero compute benchmarks, scaling up to four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards, comparing to NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell, and other relevant tests. While not intended for gaming, many Phoronix readers keep raising requests for seeing the Arc Pro B70 performance for Linux gaming given the lack of any consumer BMG-G31 GPU. So for those curious, here is a look at the Linux gaming performance with the Arc Pro B70 graphics card.
May 28th, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 Released With More Bug Fixes
Building off the KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta release earlier in May, a second beta was declared today in preparing for the Plasma 6.7 stable debut in mid-June.
May 28th, 2026 — Source

KRAID Being Developed As New Compiler For Modern Arm Mali Graphics
KRAID is a new Rust-written shader compiler currently being developed for the Panfrost/PanVK open-source Arm Mali driver code. KRAID is designed for Mali's Valhall graphics processors and new as a modern, clean sheet design.
May 28th, 2026 — Source

Microsoft Announces Azure Linux 4.0, Its First General-Purpose Server Linux Distribution
Azure Linux 4.0 is a Fedora-based, general-purpose server distribution for Azure virtual machines, marking the first time Microsoft has offered a supported Linux distribution beyond container hosting. Azure Container Linux, built on the acquired Flatcar project, is an immutable, container-optimized host that is now generally available.
May 28th, 2026 — Source

Microsoft's open-source toolkit for controlling out-of-control AI agents
The Agent Governance Toolkit brings runtime policy enforcement to autonomous agents, targeting the OWASP top 10 agent risks.
May 28th, 2026 — Source

O3DE 26.05 Released With New Open Particle System, Other Engine Improvements
It's been nearly five years already since the start of O3DE as the Open 3D Engine that began as Amazon's Lumberyard project spun into an open-source project under the Linux Foundation umbrella. Out this week is O3DE 26.05 for shipping the latest improvements to this cross platform game engine.
May 28th, 2026 — Source

QEMU Shifting On AI Policy To Allow Some AI/LLM-Generated Contributions
The QEMU processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack had a policy that forbid any contributions including or derived from AI-generated content. But there are now second thoughts with a proposed patch that will permit AI/LLM contributions in non-critical areas.
May 28th, 2026 — Source

ReactOS brings its Windows NT tribute act to ARM64
Experimental build boots on Raspberry Pi 5, but for now the joy is mostly in getting there
May 28th, 2026 — Source

Russh -- low-level Tokio SSH2 client and server implementation
Russh is a low-level SSH2 library written in Rust and built on Tokio. It provides asynchronous building blocks for developers who need to embed SSH client or server functionality into their own software, and the repository includes example implementations for simple clients, interactive PTY sessions, servers, and SFTP workflows.
May 28th, 2026 — Source

smem2 -- reports on memory usage on Linux systems
smem2 is a command line utility for Linux that reports process and system memory usage with a focus on proportional set size (PSS), giving a more realistic picture of shared memory use than RSS alone.
May 28th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 24th, 2026

5 Best Free and Open Source Matrix Servers
Matrix is an open standard for interoperable, decentralised, real-time communication over IP.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

17 Best Free and Open Source Linux Power Management Tools
Computers are often on for many hours each day and therefore while they don't consume much electricity per hour, when you factor in the number of hours the costs can still mount up.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

23 Best Free and Open Source Linux MySQL Tools
MySQL is a relational database management system. It provides a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust SQL (Structured Query Language) database server. MySQL is the most popular open source database, and is the database component of the LAMP software stack. LAMP consists of the Apache web server, MySQL and PHP, the essential building blocks to run a general purpose web server. MySQL is used and championed by many large organizations including Google, Facebook, the BBC, Intel, Sun, SAP, Dell, AMD, Novell, Veritas and many others.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

28 Useful Free and Open Source Linux Git Workflow Tools
Git is an open source distributed version control system which was originally designed by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, in 2005 for Linux kernel development. This control system is widely used by the open source community, handling small to extremely large projects with an emphasis on speed and efficiency, but maintaining flexibility, scalability, and guaranteeing data integrity.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

Boot-Time Wizard Aims To Help Reduce Linux Boot Times
While in the past decade or so Linux desktop/laptop users likely have little to complain about boot times and there hasn't been much emphasis around trying to make boot times even faster on the Linux desktop especially in an era where many systems are always-on and suspend/resume working more reliably these days, boot times are still an important factor in the embedded Linux world. Boot-Time Wizard is one of the new efforts aiming to help embedded Linux makers cut-down on their boot times.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

Fractals Generator -- render and explore fractals in real time
Fractals Generator is a lightweight C/C++ application for rendering and exploring fractals in real time.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

Fractalshades -- create static and interactive fractal visualizations
Fractalshades is a Python package for creating static and interactive fractal visualizations, with a particular focus on ultra-deep zoom exploration of the Mandelbrot and Burning Ship sets.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop
With FreeBSD having worked on improving its laptop support over the past two years with some big changes and ongoing efforts for making a nice KDE desktop experience on FreeBSD, FreeBSD Foundation's Executive Director has been trying to daily drive FreeBSD on laptops.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

git-flow-next -- modern implementation of the Git-flow branching model
git-flow-next is a command-line tool that provides a modern implementation of the Git-flow branching model.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week
For those curious about the growing use of AI and coding agents within the Linux kernel, this week there was another large batch of new patches fixed that were generated or co-authored by agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

KernelScript: A Programming Language For Kernel Customization & App Optimizations
Multikernel Technologies Inc has been working on a multi-kernel architecture for the Linux kernel while in addition to that they have been developing KernelScript as a domain-specific language for carrying out Linux kernel customizations and app-specific optimizations.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1-rc5 Released With Fixes Ramping Up From AI Coding Agents
In the road to releasing Linux 7.1 in June, out today is Linux 7.1-rc5 that continues coming on heavy with fixes.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

Linux To Remove ISA Speech Synthesizer Driver That Likely Hasn't Been Used In Decades
Following the process of phasing out Intel 486 CPU support and other old hardware drivers that were dropped in the Linux 7.1 kernel cycle for reducing the kernel maintenance burden, the upcoming Linux 7.2 cycle is continuing the trend of phasing out some of the old hardware support that is very obsolete, likely having no users on the latest upstream kernels, and no one formally maintaining the obsolete drivers.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

Mail-in-a-Box -- self-hosted email server solution
Mail-in-a-Box is a self-hosted email server solution that turns a fresh Ubuntu LTS machine into a working mail system with a web-based management interface.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

Ortu -- local-first clipboard manager
Ortu is a local-first clipboard manager built with Tauri, Rust, and SvelteKit.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

Roundcube Webmail 1.6.16 LTS and 1.7.1 released
Roundcube Webmail just pushed security patches to both its LTS and stable branches, closing a messy list of flaws that could let attackers inject code or hijack sessions before anyone even logs in. The update specifically targets pre-auth SQL injection, session poisoning bypasses, LDAP code execution risks, and several network and CSS sanitization loopholes that automated scanners love to exploit. Server admins should back up their current files and database, extract the new release over the existing install while preserving custom configs, then run the built-in migration script and clear the cache to avoid interface glitches.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

Shadowfetch Linux -- Debian-based distribution
It ships with KDE Plasma 6 and a wide range of graphics, photography, audio, video, streaming, 3D, CAD, and colour-management applications already installed. The distribution is designed to provide a ready-to-use creative desktop while retaining Debian's familiar package management tools and software ecosystem.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

Ultra Performance Tuning -- Debian-based Linux distribution
Ultra Performance Tuning is a Debian-based Linux distribution designed for deterministic, low-latency workloads. It uses a fully preemptive real-time kernel, aggressive scheduler tuning, IRQ affinity steering, virtual memory adjustments, and a stripped-down XFCE4 desktop.
May 24th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 23rd, 2026

7 Best Free and Open Source Web-Based Email Clients
Email remains the killer information and communications technology. Email volume shows no sign of diminishing, despite the increasing popularity of collaborative messaging tools.
May 23rd, 2026 — Source

AI eyes scanning for bugs create a worrisome Linux security trend
Dirty Frag, Copy Fail, and Fragesia show the new reality
May 23rd, 2026 — Source

AV2 Codec Looks Like It Will Be Officially Released Next Week
For years already AV2 has been in development as the successor to AV1 for this wonderful open-source, royalty-free video codec. While there was talk about releasing AV2 by the end of 2025, that didn't happen but now latest indicators are pointing toward its formal debut next week.
May 23rd, 2026 — Source

DreamWorks' Open-Source MoonRay Renderer Now Part Of The Academy Software Foundation
Back in 2022 it was announced DreamWorks Animation was open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer that has been used in production feature films. It ended up being published as open-source in March 2023 as OpenMoonRay and since then has continued advancing with new feature releases and improvements. Now it's being contributed to the Academy Software Foundation as the newest project.
May 23rd, 2026 — Source

Hot on the Heels of Copy Fail, New Linux Bugs Grant Root Privileges
Multiple Linux exploits have been uncovered over the last few weeks, including Copy Fail, and the newest of which are dubbed "PinTheft" and "SSH-keysign-pwn." Both have been recently patched, but relate to long-running bugs that have been present in the Linux kernel for years, which means many systems are vulnerable and should be patched as soon as possible.
May 23rd, 2026 — Source

Intel's Latest Round Of Open-Source Projects Ended: OBS Studio Plugin, CVE Binary Tool & More
With Intel having been one of the most dominant open-source contributors for years across the software ecosystem, months after they began sunsetting various software projects no longer aligned with today's Intel, they continue formally sunsetting/archiving different open-source projects.
May 23rd, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.8 To Support System Monitor With Intel Xe, Plasma 6.7 Sees More Crash Fixes
KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing for next month's Plasma 6.7 stable desktop release due out in mid-June while also beginning more feature work toward Plasma 6.8.
May 23rd, 2026 — Source

LACT -- Linux GPU Control Application
LACT is a Linux GPU control application for AMD, Nvidia, and Intel graphics hardware.
May 23rd, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 7.0.10 released
Linux Kernel 7.0.10 finally patches the memory accounting bugs that quietly chew through VRAM and network buffers until your system decides to panic mid-render or drop a high-speed connection. The networking stack gets cleaned up so RDS and ksmbd stop leaking file handles and spilling uninitialized stack data into user space, which usually means fewer surprise reboots after running containers all day. Graphics drivers for Intel and AMD now handle buffer allocation failures without freezing your desktop, while Btrfs and Ceph get corrected byte tracking that stops false storage full errors from locking up your drives. Skip the bloatware updates and grab this release if you actually run virtual machines or juggle multiple GPUs, since it targets the exact race conditions that make custom Linux setups feel unstable.
May 23rd, 2026 — Source

Linux LTS Kernel 5.10.257, 5.15.208, 6.1.174, 6.6.141, 6.12.91, and 6.18.33 released
The latest Linux stable kernel updates harden the networking stack by fixing shared fragment marker leaks that could enable memory corruption via ESP decryption and correcting SMB AES-256 key derivation for Kerberos authentication. Graphics drivers receive targeted patches to prevent infinite loops in V3D, resolve VRAM eviction issues on Intel hardware, fix return value leaks in Panfrost, and clean up I2C adapter reference counting on legacy GMA500 systems. Virtualization and security routines get tightened with bounds checking for KVM dirty ring tracking and AMD IOMMU device lookups, alongside a correction to audit logging that was misreporting capability sets.
May 23rd, 2026 — Source

Linux Mint Making Improvements To Its File Manager, Theme & Dialogs
The Linux Mint project today published their May 2026 status report to outline recent work done to this Ubuntu/Debian-based Linux platform and much of their focus in recent weeks on enhancements to their Cinnamon desktop environment.
May 23rd, 2026 — Source

Mailu -- self-hosted mail server stack
It brings together the core services needed to run a modern mail platform, including web-based administration for domains and users, optional webmail front ends, account management features, and integrated mail security components for filtering and protecting messages.
May 23rd, 2026 — Source

Manjaro Linux 26.1 Bian-May Preview 3 released
A new preview release of Manjaro Linux 26.1 has been released. Manjaro 26.1 updates its core desktop environments to GNOME 50, Plasma 6.6, and Xfce 4.20 while shifting the default kernel to version 7.0. The release finally fixes fractional screen scaling on high-density monitors and introduces hardware-accelerated remote desktop streaming that drastically cuts CPU usage during screen sharing. KDE users benefit from automatic day-night theming, new accessibility filters, text extraction in Spectacle, and a cleaner installer that separates disk partitioning from account creation.
May 23rd, 2026 — Source

More ASUS & HP Laptops See Platform Driver Support For Linux 7.1-rc5
This week's x86 platform driver fixes include not only a handful of bug fixes but also enabling some additional laptops within existing drivers for HP and ASUS devices.
May 23rd, 2026 — Source

rsfrac -- terminal-based fractal explorer
rsfrac is a terminal-based fractal explorer written in Rust. The application lets you explore Mandelbrot, Burning Ship, and Julia fractals from a text user interface, bringing interactive fractal rendering directly to the terminal.
May 23rd, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 22nd, 2026

A hacker group is poisoning open source code at an unprecedented scale
GitHub is just the latest victim of TeamPCP, a gang that has carried out a spree of software supply chain attacks.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source

AMD PMC Linux Driver Preps For Zen 6 CPUs
The AMD SoC Power Management Controller Driver is the latest seeing patch activity now in preparing for next-gen Zen 6 processors.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source

Expanded Reset Support Coming For AMDGPU To Recover From More GPU Compute Hangs
A set of 42 patches were posted on Thursday for the AMDGPU kernel driver and associated AMDKFD compute driver code for enabling pipe reset capabilities for compute workloads.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source

HP Panther Lake Systems Now Have Intel ISH Firmware For Linux
For those with a new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop from HP or considering one of these new systems, the Intel ISH firmware has now been upstreamed to linux-firmware.git for enhancing the out-of-the-box support.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source

Linux Provides Better Performance With The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Over Windows 11
Last month with the new AMD Zen 5 "Dual Edition" 3D V-Cache CPU, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition showed great performance on Linux across a range of workloads. Curious if the operating system was playing into the greater benefit of Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 versus just the workloads tested, this article is looking at both the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 on Microsoft Windows 11 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Linux across a range of native benchmarks.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source

Linux Sound Subsystem Also Seeing Many Fixes Driven By AI/LLMs
It's not only the Linux networking subsystem where many fixes have been appearing -- including several notable security fixes for local privilege escalation issues -- leading to "craziness" from AI / LLMs. The Linux sound subsystem has also been seeing an uptick in activity with many "assisted-by" patches coming about in recent weeks.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source

OpenAI's Codex Can Use macOS Apps Even When Your Mac Is Locked
OpenAI has added a major new feature to its Codex desktop app for macOS, and it changes how the AI coding agent works when you are away from your computer. The new locked computer use feature allows Codex to continue using approved Mac apps even while the screen stays locked, which means users can start a task remotely from another device and let Codex keep working in the background.
May 22nd, 2026 — OpenAI's Codex Can Use macOS Apps Even When Your Mac Is Locked
OpenAI has added a major new feature to its Codex desktop app for macOS, and it changes how the AI coding agent works when you are away from your computer. The new locked computer use feature allows Codex to continue using approved Mac apps even while the screen stays locked, which means users can start a task remotely from another device and let Codex keep working in the background.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source

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OpenCL 3.1.1 Released To Address A Possible Performance Regression
Released earlier this month was the OpenCL 3.1 specification with a focus on enhancing AI and HPC workloads for this long-time Khronos specification. Out today is OpenCL 3.1.1 as a point release with an emphasis on addressing a possible performance regression of OpenCL 3.1.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source

PHP 8.4.22RC1 and 8.5.7RC1 Fedora/RHEL Packages released
Remi Collet just pushed release candidate builds of PHP 8.4.22RC1 and 8.5.7RC1 into the testing repositories for Fedora and RHEL-based distributions. System administrators can safely run these versions in parallel using Software Collections or DNF modules without touching existing production environments. The packages include updated extensions like Oracle Instant Client 23.26 and libicu 74.2, which helps catch compatibility issues before the official stable release drops around mid-March.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source

Proposed Multi-Thread Parallel Compilation "MTPC" For LLVM Is Great News
A new proposal volleyed today among LLVM developers is for Multi-Thread Parallel Compilation "MTPC" for the ThinLTO link-time optimization code. This is great news for today's high core count CPUs when looking to compile very large LLVM modules.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 and 9.8 released
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 and 9.8 introduce terminal AI assistants like goose with streaming responses and color output to accelerate command-line troubleshooting while updating nearly every major developer toolchain for improved performance. The release heavily promotes immutable OS deployment through bootc image mode, enabling administrators to stage fleet-wide updates without forced reboots and streamline ephemeral virtual machine testing. Security receives a significant boost with customer-controlled sealed images for end-to-end cryptographic integrity and post-quantum cryptography support in Certificate System 11.0 to future-proof public key infrastructure against emerging threats. Major version migrations are also streamlined through single-step Leapp conversions and Ansible-guided automation, substantially cutting downtime and eliminating manual pre-upgrade fixes.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source

systemd 261-rc1 Released With OS Installer, IMDS Subsystem & New storagectl
The first release candidate of systemd 261 is out today and it includes yet more features for this Linux init system and service manager.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source

TeamPCP Is Ruining Open Source Code At An Alarming Rate
A large amount of the recent GitHub repo poisonings, Mercor breaches and even OpenAI employees are being carried out by a group known as TeamPCP. The hackers are purely motivated by money, they claim they do not hold onto account data, source code and their other ill gotten gains once they sell it to someone. That's one way you can tell PCPer is not related to TeamPCP in any way, if we had that kind of money there would be obvious signs.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source

Why Knowing Your LLM Hallucinated Is Not Enough
"Hallucinated: true" tells you something went wrong. Typed detection tells you which subsystem failed, why it failed, and how to fix it.
May 22nd, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 21st, 2026

AI Bug Reports Have Made Linux Security List Unmanageable, Creator Says
These reports duplicate the same issues over and over—including ones that have already been solved.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

AlmaLinux To Unveil Media/Entertainment Linux OS Edition
AlmaLinux shared with us that they will be introducing a new version of their RHEL-derived Linux operating system that is built specifically for media and entertainment use-cases.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

AMD commits more than $10bn to Taiwan's AI ecosystem with ASE, SPIL and Helios as the visible deliverables
Lisa Su's Taiwan announcement covers advanced silicon, packaging and manufacturing partnerships for the company's rack-scale Helios platform, set for deployment in the second half of 2026.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL & DSC Patches To Linux Kernel, Keeping FRL Disabled By Default
AMD's HDMI 2.1 breakthrough on Linux hits a small roadblock as FRL will stay disabled by default initially.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

AMD Radeon Software for Linux 26.12 released
AMD just pushed Radeon Software for Linux 26.12 to add official Ubuntu 26.04 support while quietly dropping Ubuntu 22.04 from the supported list. The update finally gives the amdgpu-install script automatic GPU detection, which saves users from manually guessing hardware flags that usually break Vulkan or compute features. Architecture-specific ROCm packages also got trimmed down to save disk space and speed up installations on systems with limited storage. Most desktop users should probably just stick with their distribution bundled drivers anyway, since the standalone package only really matters for unsupported distros or brand new cards that havent made it into stable repositories yet.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

chipStar 1.3 Released For Running HIP/CUDA Code On SPIR-V With OpenCL
A new release of chipStar is now available as the open-source tool for compiling and running HIP/CUDA code in a vendor-neutral manner with the SPIR-V intermediate representation on OpenCL or even Intel Level Zero as the run-time alternative. This is part of the ambitious effort to allow NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP code to ultimately run on alternative vendors with increasing levels of success.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

Flipper One is a pocket-sized Linux computer and networking tool
Nearly six years after introducing the Flipper Zero wireless hacking tool, the developers have unveiled a new model that's way more powerful and versatile. The Flipper One is still a pocket-sized gadget with an awful lot of networking features. But it's also a full-fledged Linux computer that runs open source software and support for modular hardware expansion thanks to PCIe, SATA, and USB 3.0 interfaces.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

Flipper One project needs community help to build open Linux platform
Flipper Devices, the maker of the Flipper Zero pentesting tool, is asking the community to help build Flipper One, an open Linux platform for connected devices.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

Flipper unveils a Linux-powered networking gadget built for hackers and tinkerers
Flipper Devices, maker of the Flipper Zero hacking device, today announced a new gadget called Flipper One that has multiple network connectivity chops and can act as a Linux PC (is this the year?). The company has sold over a million Flipper Zero units and has generated over $150 million in sales. However, the new device is not a successor, as it operates on a different layer than the Flipper Zero, the company said.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

Flipper One wants to be the Linux multi-tool in your pocket
Not a Zero successor, ARM box aims for openness, but shipping remains the hard part
May 21st, 2026 — Source

Fractal 14.rc released
The Fractal 14 release candidate lands on Flathub Beta with a faster room list and a smarter sidebar filter that jumps to the first match when you press Enter. Automated alerts like decryption failures now get distinct styling so they stand out from regular chat messages, while incoming call notifications finally appear in the timeline even though actual voice support remains missing. Developers have frozen all interface strings ahead of the stable launch, giving translators a clear window to polish localizations without chasing moving targets. Heavy Matrix users should test this build for smoother daily navigation and report any regressions before the final release locks down the codebase.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

KMSCON 10.0 Released With Natural Scrolling Option, Libseat VT Support
KMSCON 10.0 is out today as the newest feature release to this terminal emulator for Linux that can serve as an alternative to the in-kernel VT.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

Microsoft releases open-source tools to operationalize AI agent safety
By open-sourcing two new tools that promise continuous engineering safety, Microsoft hopes to secure the agent development lifecycle.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

More AMDGPU Driver Fixes Prepped For Linux 7.2
AMD is ready with more AMDKFD compute driver and AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

New Patches Allow The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G To Be More Useful Under Linux
Back in 2024 there were Linux patches to enable a partially-working Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G laptop that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8xc Gen 3 (SC8280XP) SoC. Now in 2026, there are new patches for making that ARM-powered Microsoft Surface laptop actually working more respectably under Linux... Like a working display and more.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

Node.js 24.16.0 (LTS) released
Node.js 24.16.0 LTS has officially arrived with a mix of new features and important stability upgrades. Developers can now generate UUIDv7 identifiers through the crypto module, while the debugger supports edit-free runtime expression probes for smoother debugging sessions. The release also brings substantial dependency updates like OpenSSL 3.5.6 and npm 11.13.0, alongside QUIC protocol refinements and several filesystem improvements that add signal handling to stat operations. Beyond these highlights, the update addresses numerous bug fixes, streamlines test runner capabilities with mock timer support, and cleans up documentation across the entire codebase.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell Performance Delivering Excellent Linux Performance
Recently I received the line-up of the NVIDIA RTX PRO "Blackwell" workstation graphics cards for seeing how these newest professional offerings from NVIDIA are performing on Linux and competing against the AMD Radeon AI PRO and Intel Arc Pro B-Series competition.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

OpenTofu 1.12: the Feature Terraform Never Shipped
The OpenTofu community released version 1.12.0 on May 14, 2026. This update isn't a complete rewrite, but it does resolve some issues that infrastructure teams have faced for a while.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Adding Expandable Heap Support With Linux 7.2
AMD engineers continue enhancing the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux.
May 21st, 2026 — Source

VKD3D 2.0 Released For Wine's Direct3D 12 Implementation Atop Vulkan
Wine developers have announced the release of VKD3D 2.0, the newest feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API. VKD3D is what's used by upstream Wine for D3D12 compared to Valve's downstream VKD3D-Proton within Steam Play (Proton).
May 21st, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 18th, 2026

All of the updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman's battle over OpenAI
Sam Altman and Elon Musk are facing off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of OpenAI and its most well-known product, ChatGPT. In 2024, Musk filed a lawsuit accusing OpenAI of abandoning its founding mission of developing AI to benefit humanity and shifting focus to boosting profits instead.
May 18th, 2026 — Source

AMD's Lemonade SDK For AI Promotes macOS To GA Status, ROCm 7.13 Integrated
The Lemonade SDK for "refreshingly fast local AI" that is largely developed by AMD engineers as an open-source project continues advancing quite rapidly for serving optimized LLMs on GPUs and NPUs.
May 18th, 2026 — Source

Firefox 151 Now Available With Document Picture-in-Picture API
Firefox 151 release binaries are now available as the latest monthly update to Mozilla's open-source web browser.
May 18th, 2026 — Source

Linux 6.6 LTS To Linux 7.1 Bechmarks: Performance Up 13% On AMD Threadripper Over Three Years
The Linux 7.1 kernel performance has been looking quite good on the various Intel/AMD systems I have tested over the past three weeks. Linux 7.1 does bring some solid improvements over Linux 7.0 prior in different workloads and haven't encountered any worrisome regressions compared to the current Linux 7.0 stable kernel. For those wondering the longer-term picture, here are benchmarks of Linux 7.1 Git compared to recent Linux LTS kernel series going back to 2023 for providing a picture at how the upstream Linux kernel has netted 13% faster performance (geo mean) on the same hardware in less than three years.
May 18th, 2026 — Source

Linus Torvalds says flood of duplicate AI-generated vulnerability reports have made Linux security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' — private list 'a waste of time for everybody involved' in switch to new public system
New kernel documentation now formally requires AI-found bugs to be reported publicly.
May 18th, 2026 — Source

Linus Torvalds says Linux security list is becoming 'unmanageable' due to AI bug reports
Reports without fixes, and people finding the 'same things with the same tools,' are causing a logjam.
May 18th, 2026 — Source

Linux AF_ALG Crypto Code Removing Zero-Copy Support Out Of Security Concerns
Given all the recent Linux kernel security concerns and new bugs being discovered, the Linux cryptographic subsystem is proactively dropping zero-copy functionality from AF_ALG due to growing security concerns.
May 18th, 2026 — Source

Linux Gamers Finally Get NVIDIA Reflex 2 On AMD And Intel GPUs As Open-Source Vulkan Layer Closes The Latency Gap With Windows
With such a development, the NVIDIA Reflex could work even on AMD and Intel graphics cards on Linux.
May 18th, 2026 — Source

Linux kernel flaw opens root-only files to unprivileged users
Plus ModuleJail, a radical proposal for minimizing the impact of similar bugs
May 18th, 2026 — Source

Open source tool maker Grafana Labs says hackers stole its code, refuses to pay ransom
Grafana Labs, the maker of its eponymous popular open source web visualization software, confirmed it had been hacked but that it refused to pay the hackers who had threatened to release the company's codebase.
May 18th, 2026 — Source

Open-source project brings NVIDIA Reflex and AMD Anti-Lag 2 to AMD and Intel GPUs on Linux
Reflex support without NVIDIA hardware
May 18th, 2026 — Source

Our Guide to Installing Linux for Gaming w/ CachyOS
We have all been there. You boot up a fresh Windows 11 installation only to be greeted by forced online accounts, AI assistants you didn't ask for, and background bloatware eating into your precious framerates. For years, the alternative has been Linux, but the perceived hassle of terminals and compatibility issues has kept most gamers away. What if I told you that you could ditch Windows, install a heavily optimized gaming OS, and be ready to launch your first Steam game in under 10 minutes?
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PS5 Linux support reaches firmware 6.02 on original PlayStation 5 consoles
PS5 Linux project expands to PS5 firmware 5.50, 6.00 and 6.02
May 18th, 2026 — Source

This ultra-lightweight Linux OS just saved my Windows 10 laptop from the scrapheap
Built on a rock-solid Debian base, Q4OS uses a forgotten desktop environment to breathe new life into bloated, older hardware.
May 18th, 2026 — Source

Torvalds: AI Tools Great When Not Causing Unnecessary Pain & Pointless Make-Believe Work
With yesterday's Linux 7.1-rc4 release are some additional comments by Linux creator Linus Torvalds around AI tooling and the surge in security bug reporting to the Linux kernel due to said LLM-powered tooling.
May 18th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 17th, 2026

AeroFTP -- cross-platform desktop file transfer client that starts with FTP
AeroFTP is a cross-platform desktop file transfer client that starts with FTP and extends into a broader file management platform.
May 17th, 2026 — Source

Claude Code Did The Heavy Lifting To Get Adobe Lightroom CC Running On Linux
An open-source developer with the assistance of Claude Code has managed to get the Adobe Lightroom CC software working on Linux under Wine.
May 17th, 2026 — Source

Commitizen -- create well-structured Git commit messages
Commitizen is a command line utility that helps project contributors create well-structured Git commit messages.
May 17th, 2026 — Source

cz-git -- Commitizen adapter and command-line tool
cz-git is a Commitizen adapter and command-line tool for composing structured Git commit messages.
May 17th, 2026 — Source

FFmpeg Introduces Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan-Powered Video Acceleration
Apple ProRes RAW is similar to the non-RAW ProRes tech but with betterr quality and color reproduction thanks to leveraging the raw data from the camera sensor. Various digital cameras from the likes of Sony, LUMIX, and Nikon plus newer Apple iPhones support ProRes RAW recording.
May 17th, 2026 — Source

FluidX3D Lands A Big Speed-Up For This OpenCL CFD Software
Released this week was FluidX3D 3.7, the latest feature update to this computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software that is CPU/GPU accelerated by way of OpenCL.
May 17th, 2026 — Source

FMD2 -- active fork of Free Manga Downloader
FMD2, or Free Manga Downloader 2, is an active fork of Free Manga Downloader.
May 17th, 2026 — Source

mangadex-downloader -- Python command-line utility
mangadex-downloader is a Python command-line utility for downloading manga from MangaDex.
May 17th, 2026 — Source

Open-Source "low_latency_layer" Brings Reflex & Anti-Lag 2 To AMD & Intel GPUs On Linux
A new open-source project called low_latency_layer is an implicit Vulkan layer that enables AMD Anti-Lag 2 and NVIDIA Reflex 2 to reportedly work in a hardware-agnostic manner so that AMD and Intel graphics cards can both enjoy Reflex or Anti-Lag 2 working on non-AMD graphics cards as well.
May 17th, 2026 — Source

Panther Lake Powered Framework Laptop 13 Pro Sees Linux Microphone Fix
Ahead of the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro laptops beginning to ship in June, an audio microphone fix was merged this weekend to the mainline Linux kernel for these new Intel Panther Lake powered devices.
May 17th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu Concept ISOs Published For CIX P1 AI CPU
Similar to Canonical engineers having published "Ubuntu Concept" ISOs for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops to provide the very latest hardware-specific support that hasn't yet worked its way to the mainline Linux kernel and other packages, Canonical has begun providing Ubuntu Concept ISOs for the CIX P1 as an "AI" focused platform.
May 17th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 16th, 2026

Debian 13.5 Released To Ship The Latest Linux Security Fixes
Debian 13.5 is out today as the newest point release to Debian Trixie for incorporating all of the latest security fixes affecting the Linux kernel and dozens of user-space packages.
May 16th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1-rc4 Seeing The Latest Laptop Quirks
Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc4 kernel test release due out on Sunday, a new round of x86 platform driver fixes were submitted for the week.
May 16th, 2026 — Source

Longtime Leading AMD Linux GPU Driver Developer Now Working For Valve
It seems that Valve isn't done expanding their open-source Linux graphics driver team and securing top talent for enhancing the Linux GPU drivers for a better gaming experience. One of the foremost leading Mesa developers has left AMD to join Valve.
May 16th, 2026 — Source

Plasma 6.7 Improves Its Built-In Remote Desktop Server, Enhances Plasma Notifications
This week marked the release of the KDE Plasma 6.7 beta and even so there were some last-minute features being squeezed into this popular Linux desktop option. Plasma's built-in remote desktop server enhancements and improved Plasma notification effects are among the changes topping out this week.
May 16th, 2026 — Source

segno -- QR code generator
Segno is a Python library and command line tool for generating QR Codes and Micro QR Codes.
May 16th, 2026 — Source

Steam Controller Mapping Merged To SDL Library
A few days ago the widely-used SDL library added support for the new Steam Controller without depending upon the Steam client. Now another improvement for the new Steam Controller has been merged to this widely-used library for cross-platform games/apps with software/hardware abstractions.
May 16th, 2026 — Source

TUI-Journal -- terminal-based journaling and note-taking application
TUI-Journal is a terminal-based journaling and note-taking application written in Rust for people who prefer to stay inside a shell.
May 16th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 15th, 2026

29 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graphical Calculators
One of the basic utilities supplied with any operating system is a desktop calculator. These are often simple utilities that are perfectly adequate for basic use. They typically include trigonometric functions, logarithms, factorials, parentheses and a memory function.
May 15th, 2026 — Source

36 Best Free and Open Source Wallpaper Setters
Do you find your Linux desktop background rather mundane but have problems in finding attractive wallpapers?
May 15th, 2026 — Source

Benchmarking AI Agents on Kubernetes
Brandon Foley published a benchmarking study on the CNCF blog showing that AI coding agents can find and fix isolated bugs. However, they often struggle to understand system-wide impacts. This challenges the idea that improved code retrieval is the main way to enhance automated bug fixing.
May 15th, 2026 — Source

Cloud Hypervisor 52 Now Supports Launching AMD SEV-SNP Confidential VMs With KVM
For what originally began as an open-source Intel software project, Cloud Hypervisor continues seeing robust development outside the confines of Intel Corp these days with ongoing improvements driven by Microsoft, Cyberus Tech, Ant, and other organizations for this Rust-based VMM for cloud workloads.
May 15th, 2026 — Source

Coreboot + AMD openSIL Powered Firmware Published For The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1
3mdeb announced on Thursday their release of Dasharo v0.9 for the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 EPYC server motherboard. This is the first time seeing AMD openSIL and Coreboot available for a readily-available AMD EPYC server motherboard!
May 15th, 2026 — Source

git-history -- analyze Git history using SQLite
git-history is a command-line tool that turns the history of structured data files in a Git repository into a SQLite database.
May 15th, 2026 — Source

KDE neon 20260514 released
KDE neon ships unpatched Plasma updates straight from upstream developers on a stable Ubuntu LTS foundation, which means you get the freshest desktop features without any distribution-level safety nets. Keeping the system running requires using sudo apt full-upgrade instead of standard update commands, since the rapid package turnover constantly breaks traditional dependency chains and leaves half installed desktops in its wake. Graphics card support stays strictly limited to open source drivers, leaving anyone who installs proprietary Nvidia software completely on their own when sessions inevitably fail.
May 15th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0.8 Released & LTS Kernels Updated For ssh-keysign-pwn
Following yesterday's disclosure of the ssh-keysign-pwn vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to read root-owned files, a slew of new stable kernel releases are out today to address this latest Linux security issue.
May 15th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 Supports Newer Logitech Bluetooth Keyboards, Malicious Input Hardware Sanitization
Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc4 release due out on Sunday, a variety of HID subsystem patches were merged overnight to Linux Git.
May 15th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 7.0.8 and 5.10.256, 5.15.207, 6.1.173, 6.6.139, 6.12.89, and 6.18.31 LTS released
The latest Linux kernel security patch finally cleans up a messy ptrace logic flaw that confused memory tracking flags across stable releases from version 5.10 through 7.0.8. That stale flag issue could quietly break debugging tools and container runtimes when processes tried to trace background services without proper permissions. Desktop users can skip the manual compilation headache and just let their package manager handle the update, though keeping an older kernel in the bootloader remains a smart safety net.
May 15th, 2026 — Source

Mini Diarium -- local-only journaling application
Mini Diarium is a local-only journaling application that focuses on privacy, ownership, and a deliberately small feature set.
May 15th, 2026 — Source

Open Sound Meter -- measurement tool
Open Sound Meter is a cross-platform measurement application for tuning sound systems in real time.
May 15th, 2026 — Source

Partiels -- audio analysis tool
Partiels is an audio analysis suite for studying the content and characteristics of sound files.
May 15th, 2026 — Source

Rocky Linux Launches Optional Security Repository To Get Important Fixes Sooner
In response to the likes of the Dirty Frag and Fragnesia vulnerabilities, Rocky Linux is introducing an optional security repository for shipping important security updates sooner.
May 15th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu 25.10 users need to make a critical move before July deadline
Canonical opens the official graphical upgrade path to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS today, preventing impending security risks.
May 15th, 2026 — Source

Vulkan 1.4.352 Introduces VK_NV_cooperative_matrix_decode_vector
Vulkan 1.4.352 is out today as the latest minor spec update to this Khronos API. Besides just a few fixes/clarifications, there is one new extension and that is a NVIDIA vendor extension for cooperative matrix decode vector support.
May 15th, 2026 — Source

ZimaCube 2 Makes For A Nice Personal Cloud/NAS With Power Of Linux + Intel CPU
Earlier this year we reviewed the ZimaBoard 2 for building a Linux home storage server. That was a nifty little device but for those looking for a more polished product than assembling your storage devices in cardboard cut-outs and the like, IceWhale has launched the ZimaCube 2. The ZimaCube 2 is a nice and polished, literal cube, to serve as your personal cloud / network attached storage (NAS) device.
May 15th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 14th, 2026

24 Best Free and Open Source Linux Compression Tools
Data compression is the process of storing data in a format that uses less space than the original representation would use. Compressing data can be very useful particularly in the field of communications as it enables devices to transmit or store data in fewer bits. Besides reducing transmission bandwidth, compression increases the amount of information that can be stored on a hard disk drive or other storage device.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

AMD Preps More AIE4 NPU Hardware Enablement For AMDXDNA Driver In Linux 7.2
Since March we have been seeing patches from AMD software engineers beginning to enable their next-generation "AIE4" NPU platform under Linux. We still don't know for sure when this AIE4 NPU will premiere for sure in new Ryzen AI products, but the Linux enablement continues coming along nicely for the AMDXDNA accelerator driver.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

BFG Repo-Cleaner -- clean unwanted data from Git repository history
BFG Repo-Cleaner is a command-line tool for cleaning unwanted data from Git repository history.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

Container-Based Fedora Hummingbird Designed for Agent-First Builders
Fedora Hummingbird brings the same approach to the host OS as it does to containers to level up security.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

Daily You -- privacy-focused diary and journaling application
Daily You is a privacy-focused diary and journaling application that helps you record daily thoughts, reflections, and meaningful moments in a personal space that stays under your control.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access
Fresh kernel flaw comes with public exploit code and continues ugly run of highly reliable privilege escalation bugs tied to memory and page-cache handling
May 14th, 2026 — Source

Fragnesia: New Linux kernel LPE bug was spawned by Dirty Frag patch (CVE-2026-46300)
Researchers have found and disclosed yet another local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the Linux kernel: CVE-2026-46300, aka "Fragnesia".
May 14th, 2026 — Source

Intel's Cache Aware Scheduling Inches Closer To Being Merged For Linux
I have been writing about the Cache Aware Scheduling work led by Intel engineers on the Linux kernel for more than a year. I've also tested out Cache Aware Scheduling on both Intel and AMD CPUs with the patched Linux kernel to great success. And thus very happy to see the Cache Aware Scheduling patches inching closer to the mainline Linux kernel.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

Issued -- personal comic library server
Issued is a personal comic library server that lets you host a digital comic collection on a home server, NAS, or desktop computer.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

KDE bags €1.3M as Europe realizes it might need an OS of its own
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund backs the desktop project while public sector interest in homegrown alternatives grows
May 14th, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta released
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta finally delivers per-screen virtual desktops and a primary-display window switcher to fix long-standing multi-monitor workflow headaches. The update also cleans up Discover with better Flatpak management, smarter review sorting, and a more logical system tray layout. Practical daily improvements include press-and-hold character input, stylus synchronization for tablet users, and noticeable performance gains for Intel and AMD graphics hardware.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Released With Plasma Big Screen, Union Modules
In working toward the stable Plasma 6.7 desktop release in mid-June, out today is the first beta of KDE Plasma 6.7.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

Kubernetes v1.36 Released: Security Defaults Tighten as AI Workload Support Matures
The Kubernetes project has released version 1.36, named Haru, marking the first major Kubernetes release of 2026. The release contains 70 enhancements: 18 graduating to Stable, 25 entering Beta, and 25 new Alpha features, with a strong emphasis on security hardening, AI and machine learning workloads, and API scalability at scale. The release blog, authored by editors Chad M. Crowell, Kirti Goyal, Sophia Ugochukwu, Swathi Rao, and Utkarsh Umre, describes the release as arriving "as the season turns and the light shifts on the mountain", with contributions from 106 companies and 491 individuals.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.12.88 and 6.18.30 released
This stable LTS kernel update quietly patches a dozen memory safety holes and network stack race conditions that routinely crash production boxes when they hit malformed filesystem images or run out of receive buffers under heavy load. The networking layer finally gets proper bounds checking across SMB clients and multipath TCP, while the storage drivers stop freeing held locks on error paths so corrupted Mac or UDF volumes no longer trigger kernel warnings. Virtualization and hardware teardown sequences get a major cleanup pass, meaning KVM guests will not silently leak page tables anymore and SPI controllers will actually deregister safely when administrators hot-unplug them. Just let the package manager handle the merge, skip manual patching unless debugging use-after-free bugs at two in the morning sounds fun, and enjoy the cleaner dmesg logs.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 7.0.7 released
Linux Kernel 7.0.7 drops a massive batch of stability patches that mostly focus on squashing memory corruption bugs and race conditions across the networking, virtualization, and storage stacks. The update tightens bounds checking in the SMB client and server drivers to stop malicious packets from triggering out-of-bounds reads, while KVM gets critical fixes for shadow paging leaks and nested interrupt routing that used to crash host systems under load. Filesystems like f2fs and btrfs finally get proper transaction handling during directory removals and node migrations, which should stop those dreaded fsck corruption warnings after a sudden power loss or driver timeout.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

Linux's KVM With CET Virtualization Is Causing Some Hosts To Hang
Introduced to the Linux kernel last year was Control-flow Enforcement Technology "CET" virtualization for modern AMD and Intel CPUs. This complements CET that has existed in Linux for quite some time but it's new now to the KVM virtualization world, but some yet to be diagnosed problems are causing some hosts to hang when making use of this virtualization security feature.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

Mesa 26.0.7 released
Mesa 26.0.7 drops today with targeted fixes that actually stop Intel Arc and AMD Radeon drivers from crashing or corrupting textures in Vulkan games. The update also patches render target clearing bugs on ARM hardware and memory handling glitches in the software renderer, keeping heavy workloads from stalling out. System administrators should verify their package versions before installing since mismatched graphics stacks frequently cause silent failures that mimic application bugs rather than driver issues.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

New AMDGPU Driver Pull Request For Linux 7.2 Preps For HDMI 2.1 FRL
Sent out on Wednesday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD driver pull request of new feature code ready for DRM-Next as the staging area ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel. This doesn't yet land the HDMI 2.1 enablement work that's finally been taking place but it is preparing for that with the FRL register headers now in place as part of this merge.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

New Fragnesia Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges
Linux distros are rolling out patches for a new high-severity kernel privilege escalation vulnerability that allows attackers to run malicious code as root.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

New Linux Kernel Vulnerability Fragnesia Allows Root Privilege Escalation
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-46300, is similar to the recently disclosed exploits named Dirty Frag and Copy Fail.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

Nginx 1.31.0 released
The nginx-1.31.0 mainline release patches six critical vulnerabilities, including an HTTP/2 request injection flaw in the proxy module and buffer overflows that could crash worker processes or leak memory. Administrators gain two major new features: least_time load balancing for smarter traffic distribution across uneven backends, and native HTTP forward proxy support for outbound tunneling. The update also brings a refreshed OpenSSL library for Windows builds, ALPN compatibility for stream proxies, tighter WebDAV path validation, and a fix for HTTP/2 keepalive drops. Server operators should apply this upgrade promptly to close security gaps while unlocking better latency handling and routing flexibility.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

Node.js 22.22.3 (LTS) released
Node.js 22.22.3 delivers a necessary LTS update that prioritizes runtime stability by patching a critical crypto null pointer crash and refreshing root certificates alongside an OpenSSL upgrade. The release quietly bumps key dependencies like V8, npm, SQLite, and Acorn to improve garbage collection behavior and package resolution performance. Developers should also note targeted fixes for HTTP socket reuse races and module resolution quirks that previously caused memory leaks or dropped requests under heavy load. Teams are advised to run their full test suites against the new version during low-traffic windows before pushing it into production environments.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23 released
The PostgreSQL team just dropped mandatory security updates for versions fourteen through eighteen, patching eleven vulnerabilities that range from memory corruption flaws to SQL injection holes in replication commands. Database operators can skip the usual dump and reload dance since these minor releases are fully cumulative and only require swapping out the binaries before restarting the service. Several of the fixed bugs quietly break query planning edge cases and timezone handling, so applying this patch now prevents nasty surprises during routine maintenance windows.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

ROCm 7.0.0 versus ROCm 7.2.3 Performance On The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700
With the new System76 Thelio Major workstation review unit having arrived equipped with an AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card, I took the opportunity of having the extra RDNA4 workstation GPU to satisfy a curiosity over whether there has been any meaningful performance gains from ROCm 7.0.0 released last year to now with the latest ROCm 7.2.3 stable release. Here are those benchmarks results if you are curious about the impact of just updating the user-space ROCm components from the end of last summer to the latest ROCm 7.2.3 milestone.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

Weeder -- perform whole-program dead-code analysis
Weeder is a command-line utility for Haskell that performs whole-program dead-code analysis.
May 14th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 11th, 2026

8 Best Free and Open Source Java Static Site Generators
LinuxLinks, like most modern websites, is dynamic in that content is stored in a database and converted into presentation-ready HTML when readers access the site.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

AMD Ryzen AI & Intel NPU Drivers Adding New Power Features With Linux 7.2
Last week's drm-misc-next pull request of new Direct Rendering Manager and accelerator driver feature material destined for Linux 7.2 include some new power management control features both for the AMD Ryzen AI and Intel NPU drivers.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

Apache NetBeans IDE 30 released
Apache NetBeans IDE 30 drops today with a focus on practical workflow fixes rather than chasing new features. The release speeds up Git operations, updates bundled build tools to match current standards, and sharpens code completion for modern Java and PHP syntax. Editor improvements include better markdown previews, automatic TOML and YAML support, and expanded language server protocol integration that now handles Rust directly. Under the hood, startup caching gets optimized, memory overhead drops with compact object headers, and enterprise stack compatibility finally catches up to recent GlassFish and Payara releases.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

Bazzite Linux 44.20260511 released
Bazzite Linux 44.20260511 has been released with its first Open Gaming Collective kernel that handles game threads more smoothly and finally patches the sleep/wake bug that routinely leaves controllers frozen on your desk. The release trims dead package weight while bumping core libraries like gnutls and libcamera to keep non-Steam launchers running cleanly alongside Steam Gaming Mode. Existing installations can switch over instantly using the rollback helper commands instead of wiping drives or chasing manual driver fixes. Stick with this build if you want a gaming desktop that actually respects your time and stops throwing configuration errors at every system wake cycle.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

F2FS Preparing FSERROR Reporting Support
Introduced in Linux 7.0 was FSERROR as generic I/O error reporting infrastructure. Linux to that point had no standardized mechanism for reporting metadata corruption or file I/O errors to user-space with each file-system doing its own thing. The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is now the latest Linux file-system preparing for FSERROR usage.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

GNOME's Help Viewer Updated Due To Flatpak Sandbox Escape Vulnerability
GNOME's help viewer, Yelp, last year was impacted by a serious security issue for arbitrary file reads. There's a new vulnerability affecting the GNOME help viewer that led to the Yelp 49.1 release to address a possible Flatpak sandbox escape vector.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

git-autofixup -- Git helper that creates fixup commits for topic branches
git-autofixup is a Git helper that creates fixup commits for topic branches.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

Gtk2-NG, next generation of Gtk 2, comes back to life
Debian 14 plans to ax Gtk2 -- and hard pruning stimulates fresh growth
May 11th, 2026 — Source

Insanely Small Linux -- minimalist x86_64 Linux system
Insanely Small Linux is a minimalist x86_64 Linux system focused on reducing the operating system footprint as far as possible while retaining a functional bootable environment.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

Intel IGC 2.34.4 Compiler Brings Many Improvements
The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.34.4 release is out today as this compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime for Level Zero and OpenCL compute on Intel graphics hardware plus is also used as the graphics shader compiler under Windows.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

IPFire 2.29 - Core Update 202 is available for testing
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 202 has been released for testing and upgrades to Linux kernel 6.18.28 to patch local privilege escalation flaws in the IPsec and cryptographic subsystems. OpenVPN moves to version 2.7 with kernel-accelerated data channel offloading, which pushes tunnel throughput toward ten gigabits while cutting CPU spikes. The release also fixes several daily management headaches by stopping pointless IPS logging bloat, correcting comma-separated port rules, cleaning up zombie IPsec firewall entries, and enabling outbound DNS proxy access without manual configuration.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0.6 Released To Finish Mitigating the Dirty Frag Vulnerability
Linux 7.0.6 is out as stable this morning to finish mitigating the Dirty Frag vulnerability that was made public last week.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 To Add Support For Switchtec PCIe Gen6 Switches
The upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel will be adding support for Microchip's Switchtec PCIe Gen6 switches.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

Linux developers weigh emergency "killswitch" for vulnerable kernel functions
Linux kernel developers are reviewing a proposal for an emergency risk mitigation mechanism ("Killswitch") that would allow administrators to disable vulnerable kernel functions at runtime.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 7.0.6 and 6.18.29 released
A recent Linux kernel update to versions 7.0.6 and 6.18.29 patches a nasty rxrpc bug that mishandled network packets carrying shared memory fragments. When applications route data through splice() or socket loops, the old code incorrectly assumed those pages belonged to the kernel and fed them straight into decryption routines without copying. This oversight could easily trigger out-of-memory crashes or corrupt sensitive traffic under heavy network load. The fix now properly isolates externally owned fragments while keeping zero-copy performance intact for standard kernel buffers, so users should grab the latest stable release to keep their networking stack secure and enjoy a smoother ride.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

Linux kernel maintainers pitch emergency killswitch after CopyFail and Dirty Frag chaos
Instead of waiting for patch cycles, admins could simply shut down vulnerable functions before attackers get there
May 11th, 2026 — Source

Manjaro 26.1 Preview Unveils New Features
The latest Manjaro 26.1 preview has been released with new desktop versions, a new kernel, and more.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

Minisforum AI X1 Pro: Easy Diffusion
This is a series of articles looking at the Minisforum AI X1 Pro running Linux. In this series, I examine every aspect of this mini PC in detail from a Linux perspective.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

neostandard -- successor to the standardjs javascript style guide
neostandard is an ESLint shareable configuration and helper designed as a modern successor to the standardjs style guide.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

New 'Dirty Frag' Linux Vulnerability Possibly Exploited in Attacks
Also called Copy Fail 2 and tracked as CVE-2026-43284 and CVE-2026-43500, the exploit was disclosed before a patch was released.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

OpenAI sued by spouse of FSU shooting victim
The spouse of a Florida State University mass shooting victim is suing OpenAI, accusing the company of providing the alleged shooter with "input and assistance." The lawsuit was filed by Vandana Joshi; Tiru Chabba was one of two university employees that was killed during the April 2025 event which left seven others injured.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

OpenAPI Validator -- configurable and extensible validator/linter
OpenAPI Validator is a configurable validator and linter for OpenAPI documents.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

Picocrypt NG -- lightweight file encryption tool
Picocrypt NG is a lightweight file encryption tool designed to protect files with a simple, approachable workflow.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

Red Hat extends open source technology into space
Red Hat and Voyager Technologies announced the successful deployment of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 and Red Hat Universal Base Image (UBI) to Voyager's LEOcloud Space Edge IaaS Micro Datacenter aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
May 11th, 2026 — Source

Sculpt OS 26.04 Can Finally Be Used To Self-Host For Developing/Building Genode
Sculpt OS as the general purpose operating system built off the Genode OS Framework is out with a new feature release.
May 11th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 10th, 2026

14 Best Free and Open Source GUI ebook Readers
Digital books are well established. Project Gutenberg, an online library of books that can be downloaded free of charge, has been expanding its collection since 1971. Almost its entire library consists of books that are available in the public domain, although there are a few copyright texts which are also included.
May 10th, 2026 — Source

15 Useful Free and Open Source DNS Tools
The internet uses numbers, not names, to find computers. Domain Name System (DNS) is the internet's directory service: It takes a human readable name, like "www.linuxlinks.com", and converts that name to a machine readable "IP" address that your computer can use to connect to www.linuxlinks.com.
May 10th, 2026 — Source

26 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Git Clients
Git is an open source distributed version control system which was originally designed by Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, in 2005 for Linux kernel development. This control system is widely used by the open source community, handling small to extremely large projects with an emphasis on speed and efficiency, but maintaining flexibility, scalability, and guaranteeing data integrity.
May 10th, 2026 — Source

AMD's legendary K5, its first independently-designed processor, is being removed from the Linux kernel — 4.3-million-transistor chip gets the axe because it lacks Time Stamp Counter (TSC) support, making it a coding burden
The K5 (1996) is important in AMD history as it was its first independently designed x86 processor.
May 10th, 2026 — Source

Axboe Hacking On New Linux Patches For 60% Increase To Per-Core I/O Performance
Following a presentation at last week's Linux storage, file-system, memory management and BPF summit (LSFMM) in Croatia where Linux I/O overhead compared to the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) was presented, Jens Axboe was motivated to pursue some new Linux kernel optimizations for greater per-core I/O performance. This lead IO_uring developer and Linux block maintainer has managed to achieve around a 60% increase to the per-core I/O performance with his latest patches.
May 10th, 2026 — Source

Both Fedora and Ubuntu will get AI support -- soon
Furores are fermenting in the forums
May 10th, 2026 — Source

Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages
With half-way through the Debian 14 "Forky" development cycle, the Debian release team is out with an update this weekend and some big news.
May 10th, 2026 — Source

Genoverse -- HTML5 scrollable genome browser
Genoverse is a JavaScript and HTML5 genome browser that lets users explore genomic data interactively in the browser.
May 10th, 2026 — Source

igv.js -- embeddable genomic visualization
igv.js is an embeddable interactive genome visualization component developed by the Integrative Genomics Viewer team.
May 10th, 2026 — Source

ML4W 2.12.3 released
ML4W 2.12.3 keeps Hyprland 0.55.x setups running without forcing a config rewrite, which saves hours of tweaking for anyone who has already customized their workspace. The update finally moves the Fastfetch system status overlay into a simple sidebar toggle so users can disable it when they want a cleaner desktop or need to run performance tests. Developers are also flagging an upcoming Lua migration in version 2.13 that will replace the legacy text configs with a more structured scripting format.
May 10th, 2026 — Source

Norish -- self-hosted recipe app
Norish is a self-hosted recipe application designed for households, families, and friends who want a shared place to manage recipes, plan meals, coordinate groceries, and cook together.
May 10th, 2026 — Source

Obsidian Chess Studio -- chess analysis platform
Obsidian Chess Studio (OCS) is a modern chess analysis application designed for players who want to study games, explore positions, and build structured training workflows on their own machines.
May 10th, 2026 — Source

OpenAI's Coding Agent Helped Create A New AMD Temperature Driver For Linux
The newest open-source AMD Linux driver on the Linux kernel mailing list that has recently been undergoing review is prom21-xhci that exposes the temperature sensors found on the AMD Promontory 21 chipsets' xHCI controllers.
May 10th, 2026 — Source

Python 3.14.5 released
Python 3.14.5 drops with roughly one hundred fifty fixes but quietly undoes the incremental garbage collector because production environments kept choking on memory pressure. Mac users get a straightforward Tcl Tk upgrade to version 9.0.3 that finally cleans up blurry window rendering without any manual tweaking. The project also swaps traditional PGP signatures for Sigstore verification, which removes key management headaches while keeping release integrity intact. Developers should still review pending C API deprecations before upgrading since the broader 3.14 series packs free threading support and an experimental JIT compiler that will quietly break older extensions if left untested.
May 10th, 2026 — Source

SirKali -- Qt/C++ GUI front end
SiriKali is a Qt and C++ graphical application for working with encrypted folders and remote file systems.
May 10th, 2026 — Source

Vanilla Cookbook -- self-hosted recipe manager
Vanilla Cookbook is a self-hosted recipe manager that aims to keep the user experience simple while handling much of the complexity behind the scenes.
May 10th, 2026 — Source

Znai -- build functional, maintainable, beautiful user guides
Znai is a documentation generator for building user guides and tutorials from Markdown with an extensible plugin system.
May 10th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 9th, 2026

14 Best Free and Open Source Self-Hosted Cloud Storage Tools
Cloud computing is not a new technology. It was invented by J.C.R Licklider, an American psychologist and computer scientist, for ARPANET in the 1960's. The first commercial versions saw the light of day in 1983 by CompuServe. Today there are many cloud providers available.
May 9th, 2026 — Source

18 Best Free and Open Source Linux Tools for Novelists
Writing is one of the essential skills in modern society. Being able to communicate effectively is paramount both at work and at home. It makes your thinking visible to others, and is the main way in which work, learning, and intellect is judged by others.
May 9th, 2026 — Source

29 Best Free and Open Source Linux Chemistry Tools
Chemistry is the study of matter and the changes it undergoes. It is an extremely vivacious science which deals with a molecular scale and atomic interpretation of the world we live in, helping us to understand that world. Chemistry is regarded as the central science, given its close links with physics and engineering, with biology and medicine, and with geology and earth science.
May 9th, 2026 — Source

FEX 2605 Brings Performance Improvements, Initial Snapdragon X2 Elite Fixes
FEX 2605 is out this weekend as the newest monthly feature release to this emulator for running Linux x86_64 binaries on ARM64 (AArch64) devices. This is the open-source project sponsored by Valve and planned for use with the upcoming Steam Frame as well as being relevant to Linux gaming on other 64-bit ARM laptops and other devices.
May 9th, 2026 — Source

Fonttrio Launches as Open-Source Font Pairing Registry for shadcn/ui
Fonttrio, a new open-source font pairing registry built specifically for shadcn/ui projects, has launched with 49 curated font combinations that can be installed with a single CLI command. Created by developer Dima Kapish, the tool aims to eliminate the time-consuming process of selecting, pairing, and configuring fonts for web applications built on the popular component framework.
May 9th, 2026 — Source

Holo -- terminal user interface for Android developers
Holo is a terminal user interface for Android developers who prefer to inspect, debug, and control devices without switching away from the command line.
May 9th, 2026 — Source

Hyprland 0.55 Released With Lua-Based Configuration, User-Defined Layouts
Hyprland 0.55 is out today as a big feature update for this Wayland-based compositor.
May 9th, 2026 — Source

Linux Enables Auto Counter Reload "ACR" For Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids
Merged as part of the perf subsystem fixes overnight is enabling Auto Counter Reload (ACR) functionality for upcoming Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. This ACR enabling for Diamond Rapids "DMR" is happening in time for Linux 7.1-rc3 on Sunday while the work is also marked for back-porting to existing stable kernels.
May 9th, 2026 — Source

Linux mascot Tux the penguin hits 30 years old — Linus Torvalds outlined the design of the 'slightly overweight penguin' on May 9, 1996
The contented penguin had to be overweight like it had eaten a bucketful of herring, as the only other kind of happy penguin is one that has 'just gotten laid,' reasoned the Linux supremo.
May 9th, 2026 — Source

Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 With Many Security Fixes
Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 on Saturday in order to ship the latest security fixes affecting a wide variety of open-source software projects.
May 9th, 2026 — Source

Nocturne Is The Latest Music Player For GNOME To Hit v1.0
While since GNOME 48 Decibels is the new audio player of the GNOME desktop, there is no shortage of other GNOME/GTK-aligned music players. Last month was the big Amerbol music player update and there are Lollypop and others. The latest GNOME-aligned music player now hitting the 1.0 milestone is Nocturne.
May 9th, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.17 Fixes Support For GB10 Powered Systems
The open-source, community-developed NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver that provides a Video Acceleration API (VA-API) implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC video decode interface is out with a new release. This is the open-source project that's motivated by getting accelerated video decoding to work within Mozilla Firefox and other apps when running with NVIDIA's packaged Linux driver.
May 9th, 2026 — Source

privage -- terminal-based password manager
privage is a terminal-based password manager and general file encryption tool that uses age to protect credentials and other secret files.
May 9th, 2026 — Source

semdiff -- semantic diff tool
semdiff is a semantic diff tool written in Rust for comparing files and directories.
May 9th, 2026 — Source

xmldiff -- compare XML documents
xmldiff is a Python library and command-line utility for comparing XML documents structurally instead of line by line.
May 9th, 2026 — Source

ytm-player -- terminal-based client for YouTube Music
It provides a keyboard-driven interface for browsing and playing music from a YouTube Music account, with playback handled by mpv. The application is written in Python and is designed for users who want a capable music player experience without leaving the terminal.
May 9th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 8th, 2026

16 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Flashcard Software
A flashcard stores information on a set of cards, with the information being typically portrayed as words and numbers. The purpose of flashcards is to enable individuals to store verbal and visual information, often as a learning drill by way of spaced repetition. The Leitner system is a popular method of studying with flashcards using spaced repetition.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

AMD's Local, Open-Source AI Can Now Easily Interact With Your Gmail
AMD software engineers continue rapidly advancing their open-source software efforts around local AI/LLM use on consumer-class Radeon and Ryzen hardware. AMD GAIA 0.17.6 was released on Thursday with more improvements for local AI processing on Windows, Linux, and even macOS. For those trusting enough in local LLM pipelines to do the right thing, there is even integration now for AMD GAIA to interface with your Gmail account.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

ByteSync -- file synchronization, backup, and deduplication
ByteSync is a cross-platform application for synchronizing datasets, consolidating storage, and cleaning up duplicate files across local and remote systems.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

cruxpass -- minimal CLI password manager
It's designed to stay simple and dependency-light while using SQLCipher for encrypted database storage and libsodium for cryptographic operations. The project derives keys with Argon2id, protects credentials with AES-256 encryption, and keeps decrypted database contents in memory instead of writing them back to disk unencrypted.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

'Dirty Frag' Linux flaw one-ups CopyFail with no patches and public root exploit
Broken disclosure embargo left admins facing a fresh root-level flaw with no CVE
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DM-INLINECRYPT Expected For Linux 7.2 To Leverage Inline Encryption
Queued for merging as part of the DeviceMapper changes for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle is the new dm-inlinecrypt target for leveraging inline block device encryption.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

HP Z6 G5 A Continues Working Out Well For Linux-Friendly, High-End Workstation
In late 2023 I reviewed the HP Z6 G5 A workstation that at the time was built around the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 series and NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation graphics. More recently, HP has revised the Z6 G5 A workstation for the latest Threadripper PRO 9000 series and NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell graphics. HP sent over the upgraded Z6 G5 A workstation that I've been benchmarking the past few weeks. This workstation remains Linux-friendly down to convenient LVFS/Fwupd support and delivers stellar performance with the Zen 5 Threadripper and NVIDIA Blackwell combination.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

KDE neon 20260507 released
KDE neon 20260507 drops straight onto a stable Ubuntu LTS foundation and pushes unpatched Plasma updates the moment upstream developers release them. The distribution clearly targets desktop tinkerers who want bleeding edge tools, so anyone running mission critical work should probably stick to slower release cycles. Graphics driver support stays strictly limited to open source Nouveau, while traditional apt packages get filtered out in favor of Snap and Flatpak alternatives. Keeping the system from breaking requires running full-upgrade through the terminal or Discover, which means regular backups are basically mandatory before hitting refresh.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

Linux Erroneously Thinks Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs Run At 7GHz
With Intel's recently-launched Bartlett Lake P-core-only processors intended for the embedded market, there is a rather surprising oversight under Linux: the Intel P-State driver reporting a 7.0+ GHz clock speed. While many would yearn for a 7GHz CPU, the Core 9 273PE where this issue was discovered in reality can only boost up to 5.7GHz for its maximum turbo frequency.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 5.10.255, 5.15.205, and 6.1.171 released
The latest Linux kernel LTS update patches a subtle networking bug that could silently corrupt encrypted UDP traffic when shared memory fragments are improperly handled. Instead of safely copying network buffers before decryption, the vulnerable code path overwrites original data in place, creating race conditions under heavy tunneling workloads. Users can resolve the issue by installing standard distribution packages through their regular package managers without relying on bloated third-party utilities or forcing immediate reboots.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.6.138, 6.12.87, and 6.18.28 released
The latest stable Linux kernel LTS releases patch a critical memory handling flaw that could corrupt encrypted UDP traffic during IPsec operations. When the network stack spliced shared pipe pages into sockets, it incorrectly assumed full ownership of the data and decrypted packets in place instead of making safe private copies. This update forces the system to trigger a proper copy-on-write routine whenever shared fragments are detected, preventing silent memory overwrites without impacting standard performance. Administrators and power users should apply these kernel updates immediately through their distribution package managers to maintain reliable network connectivity and prevent unexpected packet drops.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 7.0.5 released
Linux Kernel 7.0.5 patches a critical IPsec bug that silently corrupted network traffic by decrypting shared UDP memory pages without proper ownership checks. The update adds missing safety flags to match TCP behavior and forces the kernel to copy data before modifying it, preventing silent packet loss and VPN instability. System administrators should verify their running kernel version includes this fix and monitor system logs for dropped packets after upgrading. Rolling out the patch ensures encrypted tunnels stay reliable without sacrificing performance on standard network configurations.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

Minisforum MS-02 Ultra 285HX running Linux -- Introduction
The Minisforum MS-02 Ultra 285HX targets users who want a compact but highly expandable workstation or mini server. It's aimed at professional creators, AI developers, engineers, homelab users, small-business IT teams, and power users who need far more expansion than a typical mini PC offers.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA Releases CUDA-Oxide 0.1 For Experimental Rust-To-CUDA Compiler
A new NVIDIA Labs project is greatly improving the capabilities of using the Rust programming language for developing CUDA kernels for NVIDIA GPUs.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta's Content-Aware Compression Software
Last October engineers at Meta announced OpenZL as a format-aware compression framework. OpenZL aims to be speedy yet capable of delivering high compression ratios depending upon what is being compressed. OpenZL is viewed as their next leap in data compression beyond their wonderful work on Zstandard (Zstd). This week there's finally a new OpenZL software release available.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

Qt Creator 20 Beta Expands AI Integration
The Qt Group released the Qt Creator 20 Beta today for this Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment (IDE). In building off the trends of recent releases of Qt Creator and development tools at large, AI integration continues to be a big area of focus.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

RuscaLinux -- Debian-based Linux distribution optimized for Italian-speaking users
It's designed to make Debian easier to try and install, with a live and installable ISO that boots into Italian by default. The distribution provides a ready-to-use desktop and multimedia environment built around GNOME, and includes common desktop applications for productivity, web browsing, graphics, email, and media playback.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

Sysinternals tools receive major updates
Microsoft updates Sysinternals tools with packaged app support, process tree dumping, webcam overlays, and broader Linux distro compatibility.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

WareWoolf -- minimalist novel-writing system
It uses a simple three-panel layout for chapters, editing, and notes, and it's designed to work well with keyboard-driven workflows instead of mouse-heavy toolbars and menus. The software also targets standalone writing devices and writerDeck-style setups, with support for manuscript organization, revision, and exporting work into multiple formats while keeping chapter files in accessible text-based form.
May 8th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 7th, 2026

11 Best Free and Open Source Go Linter Tools
A linter is a tool used in software development to analyze source code for potential errors, stylistic issues, and adherence to coding standards. It essentially acts as a static code analyzer, examining the code without actually executing it. Linters help developers catch issues early in the development cycle, improving code quality and maintainability
May 7th, 2026 — Source

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cksum
This article spotlights alternative tools to cksum, a tool to compute and verify file checksums.
May 7th, 2026 — Source

AMD Instinct MI350P: PCIe Add-In Card For High Performance Open-Source AI/Compute
While there is the AMD Instinct MI400 series coming this year, today AMD announced an interesting and arguably overdue offering for the Instinct MI350 series: the MI350P. The AMD Instinct MI350P is a PCIe add-in-card to add Instinct MI350 compute capabilities to existing PCIe 5.0 air-cooled servers as an alternative to the Open Accelerator Module (OAM) currently used by the Instinct MI350 series.
May 7th, 2026 — Source

AMD RadeonSI Code Reorganized To Support Multimedia-Only Driver Builds
Merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel was a reorganization of the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code to better separate the graphics and multimedia acceleration code from the rest of the driver.
May 7th, 2026 — Source

Dell and Lenovo become top-tier sponsors of Linux firmware update service
Dell and Lenovo join LVFS as top-tier sponsors
May 7th, 2026 — Source

Flattened Image Tree 1.0 Specification For Embedded Linux Systems
The Flattened Image Tree "FIT" 1.0 specification was recently finalized for this container format used by U-Boot on embedded systems for providing various boot components like DTBs, the Linux kernel image, and more into a single file.
May 7th, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering
KDE developer Xaver Hugl has whipped up another nice improvement for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. Due to QtWidgets still relying on CPU-based rendering and finding the performance subpar with Wayland shared memory "wl_shm" usage, Xaver has leveraged UDMABUF for avoiding excess buffer copies to provide a much more fluid experience when dealing with CPU-based rendering / shared memory usage on KDE under Wayland.
May 7th, 2026 — Source

Leading Open Source Author Calls for Verification over Trust in Software Supply Chains
In a blog post published in March 2026, Daniel Stenberg, creator and lead developer of curl, makes the case that the software industry's default position of trusting well-known components is no longer adequate. Stenberg argues that users and organisations should actively verify the software they consume, and he uses curl's own practices as a concrete example of how that can be done.
May 7th, 2026 — Source

LFK -- TUI to navigate and manage Kubernetes clusters
LFK is a terminal user interface for navigating and managing Kubernetes clusters from the command line.
May 7th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.2 To Support Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet
The Realtek RTL8159 has been appearing in some 10G-rated USB network adapters at online retailers, some for less than $100 USD. But currently the RTL8159 is only supported by Realtek's out-of-tree Linux kernel driver, but fortunately there will be mainline support coming with the Linux 7.2 kernel this summer.
May 7th, 2026 — Source

Linux Drivers For The AMD Elan SoCs From The 1990s On Track For Retirement
Merged for the current Linux 7.1 cycle was beginning to phase out the Intel 486 processor support from the mainline kernel moving forward. That initial step with Linux 7.1 was dropping the various Kconfig options to allow compiling Linux kernel builds for targeting various i486 platforms. As part of that, the AMD Elan SoC configuration patches were dropped. The next step is proceeding on the AMD Elan side with beginning to remove the actual driver code.
May 7th, 2026 — Source

Liquorix Linux Kernel 7.0-1 released
The first Liquorix kernel built around the Linux 7 series swaps standard power saving defaults for aggressive interactivity tweaks that keep desktops feeling snappy under heavy loads. It forces a two millisecond scheduling timeslice, switches to kyber or bfq disk schedulers, and rewrites CPU frequency scaling to stop idling during short bursts of activity. Installing it on Debian or Ubuntu systems takes just one curl command that handles dependencies and drops the new binaries straight into your package manager. Desktop users chasing smoother frame pacing or tighter audio latency will notice the difference immediately, though you should expect slightly higher power draw when the processor refuses to idle.
May 7th, 2026 — Source

Mado -- fast Markdown linter
Mado is a command-line Markdown linter written in Rust. It is designed to check Markdown documents for style and formatting issues, and it is compatible with both CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown. The tool can be used to lint individual files, glob patterns, or entire directories, making it suitable for documentation repositories, technical writing projects, and Markdown-heavy codebases.
May 7th, 2026 — Source

Node.js 26.1.0 (Current) released
Node.js 26.1.0 brings an experimental FFI module that allows JavaScript code to load dynamic libraries and invoke native symbols directly, but developers should note this feature requires explicit flags and carries inherent memory safety risks if misused. Core modules also saw meaningful upgrades throughout the release cycle including a fresh randomUUIDv7 function in crypto, cancellation signals for file system operations, and stricter option merging inside http requests. The testing framework gained mock timer support alongside randomized test ordering to help developers catch flaky failures more easily while several internal streams received important leak prevention fixes.
May 7th, 2026 — Source

NHS code clampdown draws open source backlash
Plus a petition for the UK Civil Service to go FOSS by default
May 7th, 2026 — Source

SR-IOV Support Appears To Be Coming For Next-Gen Ryzen AI NPUs
AMD recently upstreamed Linux support for their next-gen AIE4 NPU. That next-gen AMD NPU support is expected to premiere in Linux 7.2 while this week an interesting new patch series has surfaced for SR-IOV support with those upcoming neural processing units.
May 7th, 2026 — Source

Why I moved over to CachyOS from Manjaro
LinuxLinks has kindly given me the space to publish a semi-regular blog where I share my thoughts on open source, the Linux ecosystem, Windows, and other topics. It's a place for my opinions and personal perspectives. As you might expect, everything I write here reflects my own views and prejudices.
May 7th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — May 4th, 2026

8 Best Free and Open Source Linux MPRIS Tools
MPRIS (Media Player Remote Interfacing Specification) is a standard D-Bus interface which aims to provide a common programmatic API for controlling media players. This interface is most commonly used to pass media key control through to a media player, such as play and pause and music playback.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

16 Best Free and Open Source Color Scheme Generators
This roundup looks at useful software that generators color schemes.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

AMD is adding HDMI 2.1 support for Linux. That's good news for the Steam Machine.
Fixed Rate Link being added now; Display Stream Compression coming soon.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

AMD submits HDMI 2.1 FRL patches for open-source Linux driver
AMD has submitted a series of Linux kernel patches to the AMDGPU driver that introduce support for the HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) feature. The move follows years of rejection from the HDMI Forum regarding open-source implementations of the standard. This initial support enables higher bandwidth for Radeon GPUs on Linux, supporting resolutions such as 4K at 120Hz and 5K at 240Hz.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

Apache HTTP Server 2.4.67 released
Apache HTTP Server 2.4.67 drops with urgent patches for critical memory safety flaws in mod_proxy_ajp and a dangerous double free vulnerability in HTTP/2 that could allow remote code execution. The release also closes authentication bypass gaps, fixes proxy crashes, and corrects response splitting issues caused by compromised backend servers. Submodules like mod_md and mod_http2 get updated to resolve certificate renewal bugs and third-party memory allocator conflicts that frequently break custom setups.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

CachyOS Switches Python To Using Tail-Call Interpreter For 5~15% Better Performance
CachyOS is a very fast out-of-the-box Linux distribution and for those concerned about Python performance, the newest updates to this Arch Linux based distribution will provide even better performance.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

CISA flags actively exploited 'Copy Fail' Linux kernel flaw enabling root takeover across major distros — unpatched systems may remain vulnerable to attack
Researchers released a working exploit before patches were ready.
May 4th, 2026 — Source or Source

GCC 16 Compiler Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains Over GCC 15
With the GCC 16.1 compiler released last Thursday, I have begun running more compiler benchmarks on this first GCC 16 stable feature release. GCC 16 comes heavy on new changes in being the annual feature release and delivering changes from AMD Zen 6 and Arm AGI CPU support to new C++ features and even the Algol 68 programming language front-end. It's also looking quite good in the performance department relative to the GCC 15 compiler from last year.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

hexcurse-ng -- ncurses-based console hex editor
hexcurse-ng is an ncurses-based console hex editor for working with binary data in a terminal.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

Ketcher -- web-based chemical structure editor
Ketcher is a web-based chemical structure editor for drawing small molecules, biomolecules, and chemical reactions in a browser.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

Linux File-System Proliferation A Burden: Requirements Laid Out For Any Future File-Systems
The growing number of file-systems within the Linux kernel source tree is causing an ongoing burden for upstream developers maintaining the virtual file-system (VFS) code around it and associated code. As a result of the continuing rise of new file-systems being proposed for the Linux kernel, documentation is being introduced to establish clear guidelines for getting new file-systems accepted into the mainline kernel.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

Mesa Begins Seeing Patch Activity For AMD GFX12.1 Graphics
Since last November we've begun seeing new open-source driver activity for their next-gen GPU IP with their GFX12.1 graphics engine. GFX12 (12.0) was for the Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4 hardware while GFX 12.1 is some new revision for yet-to-be-known products while there is also GFX13 bring-up and GFX12.5 too.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

nellaOS -- Linux distribution made in Venezuela
nellaOS is a Linux distribution made in Venezuela that aims to work on all 64-bit computers. Its goal is to provide a pleasant, lightweight, and attractive experience.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

Omarchy 3.7 Linux Distribution Overhauls Gaming Support, Adds Unified CLI
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Omarchy-3.7-Released
May 4th, 2026 — Source

RDKit -- cheminformatics and machine-learning software
RDKit is a cheminformatics toolkit that helps users work with molecular structures, chemical data, and machine-learning workflows.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

pff -- Pretty Fast Find
It's designed as an iterative, multithreaded alternative to the traditional find command, using breadth-first directory traversal to locate matching files and directories. The tool includes built-in filtering, sorting, and output labelling, reducing the need to pipe results through additional command-line utilities.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

Scaleclaw -- Linux distribution image built around Universal Blue's base image
Scaleclaw is a Linux distribution image built around Universal Blue's base image. It offers an opinionated atomic GNOME desktop with branded installation media, Flatpak integration, a minimal GNOME application set, and Universal Blue tooling underneath. The project provides regular and NVIDIA variants, with ISO generation instructions available for users who want to build or test the image themselves.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

Slim-Lint -- configurable tool for analyzing Slim templates
Slim-Lint is a command-line utility for checking Slim templates for style, consistency, and common problems.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

Tails 7.7.2 released
Tails 7.7.2 drops as an emergency patch that slams shut a critical Linux kernel flaw known as Copy Fail. The vulnerability lets attackers chain exploits to grab administrator rights, which could easily break system anonymity if left unpatched. Users must download the fresh ISO, verify its signature against official records, and flash it to a clean USB drive before booting. Alongside that kernel bump to 6.12.85, the release quietly fixes several stability hiccups that tend to derail long anonymous sessions anyway.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

Valve's Steam Controller Now Shipping
For those eager to get their hands on Valve's new Steam Controller, the gaming controller is now shipping.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

YARD-Lint -- lint YARD documentation
YARD-Lint is a command-line tool for Ruby and Ruby on Rails projects that lint YARD documentation.
May 4th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 27th, 2026

AMD VPE 2.0 Support Merged For Mesa 26.2
Merged overnight to the latest Mesa graphics driver development code is enabling the VPE 2.0 engine to be found with future AMD Radeon GPUs.
April 27th, 2026 — Source

Easily Exploitable 'Pack2TheRoot' Linux Vulnerability Leads to Root Access
A race condition in PackageKit allows unprivileged users to escalate privileges when installing packages.
April 27th, 2026 — Source

fscrypt -- Go tool for managing Linux filesystem encryption
fscrypt is a high-level command-line utility for managing Linux native filesystem encryption on supported filesystems.
April 27th, 2026 — Source

Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Provides Exceptional Value For Linux Users
After looking at the new Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processor earlier this month with its nice performance evolution for Arrow Lake on Linux, today we are looking at the other new Intel desktop CPU offering: the Core Ultra 5 250K Plus that retails for just $219 USD.
April 27th, 2026 — Source

Kdenlive 26.04.0 released
Kdenlive 26.04.0 delivers a practical workflow overhaul focused on smoother timeline navigation, including continuous panning, multi-clip speed adjustments, and a lockable playhead. Transitions now feature animated previews and auto-duration matching, while new effects like the Euclid Eraser expand creative options without cluttering the interface. Longstanding audio capture and subtitle editing bugs are finally resolved, giving editors more reliable control over external hardware and dialogue workflows. The update also adds useful quality-of-life tweaks like monitor mirroring, direct render-to-bin placement, and AMF encoding support for faster Windows exports.
April 27th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 7.0 Fedora Test Days: Safe Installation, QA Testing, and Bug Reporting Guide
The Fedora QA team is running Linux Kernel 7.0 test days on versions 43 and 44 to catch early regressions before they reach stable release channels. Users should prepare a dedicated virtual machine or spare system, then install the pre-release kernel using standard DNF updates for traditional setups or rpm-ostree overrides for atomic distributions like Silverblue. Testing involves running the built-in regression suite alongside real-world usage checks, with all issues documented through detailed Bugzilla reports that include exact reproduction steps and system logs.
April 27th, 2026 — Source

Linux kernel's 'second-in-command' uses local AI bot to hunt bugs, powered by 'clanker' system with AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ — Framework Desktop has resulted in close to two dozen patches
Greg Kroah-Hartman's "Clanker T1000" runs entirely on AMD Ryzen AI Max+ hardware.
April 27th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 Adds SoC Slider Support To x86_energy_perf_policy Utility
One of the last feature pulls merged by Linus Torvalds prior to tagging Linux 7.1-rc1 this weekend were some power utility updates for those tools living within the kernel source tree.
April 27th, 2026 — Source

Metamorphosis -- inspect and change embedded metadata
Metamorphosis is a desktop utility for inspecting and changing embedded metadata across media and document files.
April 27th, 2026 — Source

New Hack Lets 30-Year-Old Windows PCs Run Modern Linux
WSL9x lets Windows 9x systems run a modern Linux 6.19 kernel without virtualization, showing how vintage PCs can still stretch beyond old limits.
April 27th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout The Next Year
Now that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has shipped, Canonical is opening up on their next major focus for Ubuntu development: lots of AI features.
April 27th, 2026 — Source

UniGetUI 2026.1.7 released
UniGetUI 2026.1.7 finally brings Linux and macOS package management directly into its interface, supporting APT, DNF, Pacman, Snap, and styled .app bundles without forcing users back to the terminal. The update patches a few stubborn crashes, fixes Apple Silicon Homebrew errors, and adds a WinGet fallback that keeps the application from freezing when components misbehave. Developers also trimmed unnecessary bloat by removing the bundled Chocolatey CLI, which means separate installation becomes necessary but saves space and reduces security blind spots.
April 27th, 2026 — Source

TWSLA -- TWSNMP's Simple Log Analyzer
TWSLA is a command-line log analysis tool from the TWSNMP project. It's built for administrators and operators who want to work directly with large log sets without deploying a heavier log management stack.
April 27th, 2026 — Source

VictoriaLogs -- high-performance log database
VictoriaLogs is a high-performance log database designed to ingest, store, and query log data efficiently across everything from small single-node deployments to larger clustered environments.
April 27th, 2026 — Source

With Linux 7.1 The Mainline Kernel Now Supports Real-Time "RT" On ARM
The Linux 7.1 mainline kernel will allow building a real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel for the ARM architecture with no longer needing any out-of-tree patches.
April 27th, 2026 — Source

XWayland 24.1.11 Brings Crash Fixes
Red Hat's Olivier Fourdan announced today the availability of XWayland 24.1.11 that brings a few bug/regression fixes.
April 27th, 2026 — Source

ZelixOS -- Arch Linux based distribution
ZelixOS is an Arch Linux based distribution focused on offering a fast, approachable desktop system with polished defaults and custom tools.
April 27th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 26th, 2026

11 Best Free and Open Source Console MPD Clients
MPD is a powerful server-side application for playing music. In a home environment, you can connect an MPD server to a Hi-Fi system, and control the server using a notebook or smartphone. You can, of course, play audio files on remote clients. MPD can be started system-wide or on a per-user basis.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

19 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI News Aggregators
A news aggregator is software which collect news, weblog posts, and other information from the web so that they can be read in a single location for easy viewing. With the range of news sources available on the internet, news aggregators play an essential role in helping users to quickly locate breaking news.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Almighty Linux -- hybrid distribution based on Debian and Kali
It's designed for intelligence gathering and OSINT workflows, combining a MATE desktop environment with a curated collection of reconnaissance, analysis, privacy, isolation, and security tools. The distribution also includes custom-built OSINT utilities and a Chromium-based Almighty OSINT Browser tailored for investigation work.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Apple M3 Support On Asahi Linux Is Approaching The Original Alpha Quality Of The M1
A new progress report from the Asahi Linux project is now published that highlights recent upstreaming work for the Linux 7.0 kernel release as well as the latest additions to the downstream Asahi Linux code. The Asahi Linux project also pushed out their first updated Asahi installer in nearly two years.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

BigBlueButton -- virtual classroom platform
BigBlueButton is a virtual classroom platform designed for online teaching, tutoring, office hours, and collaborative learning.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

CachyOS April 2026 Update Fixes AMD Boot Glitches and Upgrades NVMe Scheduling for Faster Performance
CachyOS April 2026 swaps Octopi for Shelly as the default GUI package manager while automatically creating a permanent post-installation snapshot for easy recovery. Storage performance sees a practical boost by switching the NVMe scheduler to kyber, and AMD laptop display glitches during boot are finally resolved. Privacy and security get a meaningful upgrade with built-in DNS-over-HTTPS support and native fingerprint authentication for administrative commands.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

CachyOS Introduces New Default GUI Package Manager, Kyber For NVMe I/O Scheduler
The April 2026 ISO refresh of the Arch Linux based CachyOS is now available with a variety of refinements, new hardware support, and other polishing.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Developer of the Week: Greg Kroah-Hartman
This series shines a spotlight on open source developers who make a real difference. Too often, their contributions go unrecognised. By highlighting their achievements, this series aims to give these talented developers the recognition they deserve and to celebrate the dedication, creativity, and passion that drive the open source community forward.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

DistroRack -- Qt/QML-based GUI for Distrobox containers
DistroRack is a Qt/QML application that provides a graphical interface for creating and managing Distrobox containers on Linux.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Legacy NVIDIA xf86-video-nv Driver Sees First Release In Years
The legacy xf86-video-nv driver for user-space mode-setting on old NVIDIA GPUs is out with a rather rare release and the first in over two years with a collection of different bug fixes.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Nobara 43 2026-04-25 for NVIDIA released
The latest Nobara Linux NVIDIA build ships preconfigured drivers to get you to the desktop faster, though first boot will pause while DKMS compiles kernel modules on your hardware. This release draws a hard line at older graphics cards since Nvidia's shift to open source kernel modules completely drops support for Pascal architecture and anything before Turing. X11 has been stripped from the distribution entirely, forcing all users onto Wayland while offering four distinct desktop environments to match different workflows. Anyone still running a GTX 10 series or older will need to stick with legacy distributions since Nobara refuses to maintain outdated driver branches.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

OpenWebRX+ -- improved version of OpenWebRX
OpenWebRX+ is an improved version of OpenWebRX, a multi-user software defined radio receiver that runs through a web interface.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

PiPedal -- guitar effect pedal for Raspberry Pi
PiPedal turns a Raspberry Pi into a guitar effects pedal that you can configure and control from a phone, tablet, or desktop browser.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Power Tab Editor -- view and edit guitar tablature
Power Tab Editor is an easy-to-use cross-platform guitar tablature editor and viewer.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

SEE is a terminal user interface for inspecting logs from systemd services.
SEE is a terminal user interface for inspecting logs from systemd services.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

The New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI Max
Earlier this month on Phoronix we were the first to draw attention to a new fuzzing tool / AI bot uncovering kernel bugs by Greg Kroah-Hartman, the "second in command" for Linux kernel development and stable maintainer. Greg has now shared more light on the "gregkh_clanker_t1000" for this tool that has been uncovering more Linux kernel bugs the past few weeks.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

The Linux Kernel Tree About To Hit 40 Million Lines, AMD Driver Above 6 Million Lines
Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release due out later today for closing the Linux 7.1 merge window, I was curious if all the code removals would lead to a negative change in line count over Linux 7.0. The removals were not enough and Linux 7.1 Git is fast approaching 40 million lines.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 24th, 2026

9 Best Free and Open Source Graphical SSH Frontends
SSH or Secure Shell is a cryptographic network protocol for operating network services securely over an unsecured network. Typical applications include remote command-line, login, and remote command execution, but any network service can be secured with SSH.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

14 Best Free and Open Source Linux IPTV Players
IPTV is an acronym for Internet Protocol Television. It's a digital TV service that delivers video over the internet. IPTV can be live or on-demand.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

AMD SBI Driver Preps For EPYC Venice With Linux 7.1
The Linux kernel continues getting ready for AMD's upcoming Zen 6 processors.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Another IPTV Player -- IPTV streaming solution
Another IPTV Player is a Flutter-based IPTV client designed for Linux desktop systems and other major platforms.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Arm C1-Ultra Scheduling Model Merged For LLVM/Clang 23
Merged recently to the latest LLVM/Clang compiler development tree is the Arm C1-Ultra scheduling model for helping with delivering optimal binaries for that flagship next-gen Arm mobile CPU.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

capa -- command line malware analysis tool
It examines executable files and related analysis reports to identify behaviors such as persistence, command execution, file system access, network communication, encryption, anti-analysis checks, and other capabilities commonly relevant to reverse engineering and threat intelligence work.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Detect It Easy -- file inspection utility
Detect It Easy, also known as DiE, is a file inspection utility designed to identify executable formats, archives, packers, protectors, compilers, installers, and other file characteristics.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Duff Linux -- opinionated distro based on Void
Duff Linux is an opinionated desktop Linux distribution based on dani-77's d77void project.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal
Linus Torvalds did it! He merged the pull request to rid the Linux kernel of the old Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) subsystem and various other old network drivers largely for PCMCIA era network adapters. This was the code suggested for removal given the recent influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports against this dated code that likely has no active upstream users remaining.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

FLOSS -- malware analysis utility
FLARE Obfuscated String Solver (FLOSS) is a malware analysis utility that automatically extracts and deobfuscates strings from executable binaries.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Framework's new Linux laptop is selling faster than its Windows one
According to a promotional post, Framework is selling more Ubuntu versus Windows variants of its new premium Laptop 13 Pro.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Fwupd 2.1.2 Brings Support For Firmware Updates On More Hardware
Fwupd 2.1.2 is out today as the latest update to this open-source firmware updating utility that allows for updating system firmware and device/peripheral firmware under Linux.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

GCC Establishes Working Group To Decide On AI/LLM Policy
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) now has a working group established by their steering committee to study the use of AI and large language models (LLMs) within the context of GCC compiler development.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

hashdeep -- generate and verify file hashes
hashdeep is a command line tool for generating and verifying file hashes across large collections of files.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 Is Performing Well Overall In Early Benchmarks
With the Linux 7.1 merge window winding down ahead of the planned Linux 7.1-rc1 release on Sunday, I have begun testing out the Linux 7.1 Git state on various systems in my lab. So far Linux 7.1 appears to be looking good in the performance department with seeing a number of performance improvements in different areas but also a few possible regressions.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 Removes Drivers For Long Obsolete Input Hardware: Bye Bus Mouse Support
Beyond Linux looking to remove old drivers due to the surge of AI/LLM bug reports, the Linux 7.1 kernel is also removing some old hardware drivers simply on the basis of long obsolete hardware. The input subsystem saw several drivers removed this week for decades old hardware.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Many Intel & AMD Laptop Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1
As usual in recent years, there were many x86 platform driver changes merged this cycle for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen and Intel Core (Ultra) laptops. A variety of new features and laptop hardware support additions were merged for Linux 7.1.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Megacubo -- IPTV streaming app
Megacubo is a multi-language, cross-platform IPTV player that lets users load M3U playlists and watch live TV streams through a simple desktop-style interface.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Minisforum MS-R1 ARM Mini Workstation running Linux: Power Consumption
This is a new series looking at the Minisforum MS-R1 ARM Mini Workstation running Linux. In this series, I'll examine every aspect of this mini workstation in detail from a Linux perspective. I'll compare the machine with other machines to put my findings into context.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

More ancient Linux device support faces the chop
One way to deal with bug hunting LLMs: ditch the old drivers
April 24th, 2026 — Source

NetTool -- web-based network diagnostic console
NetTool is a web-based network diagnostic console for Raspberry Pi and other Linux devices.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

New 'Pack2TheRoot' flaw gives hackers root Linux access
A new vulnerability dubbed Pack2TheRoot could be exploited in the PackageKit daemon to allow local Linux users to install or remove system packages and gain root permissions.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Pull Request For Linux To Remove Old Network Drivers, ISDN Subsystem Due To AI/LLM Noise
It was just days ago we reported on a proposal to drop old network drivers due to AI-driven bug reports becoming a burden on upstream kernel developers. Last night that culminated with an initial pull request to clear out some old, unused networking drivers plus also clearing out the entire ISDN subsystem and more.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

System76 Pangolin Pro is a 3.6 pound Linux laptop with a 16 inch screen and Ryzen AI 7 350
The new System76 Pangolin Pro is a Linux laptop with a 16 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel, 165 Hz matte LTPS display, an AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 "Krackan Point" processor. Compared with the previous-gen Pangolin laptop, that processor upgrade along might be enough reason to call this a "pro" model. But it also has a few other improvements.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

This tool brings Linux to Windows 95 without using virtualization
WSL9X runs a modern Linux kernel inside Windows 95 with no emulation required.
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu Resolute Raccoon spits out Xorg, but still lets you run X11 apps
New LTS is here, with more tooling for GPGPU and AI workloads
April 24th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 23rd, 2026

7 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graphical Port Scanners
A port scanner is a utility which probes a server or host to verify if the virtual ports of a system are open or closed. Ports allow different applications on the same computer to share network resources simultaneously.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

23 Best Free and Open Source DNS Servers
The internet uses numbers, not names, to find computers. Domain Name System (DNS) is the internet's directory service: It takes a human readable name, like "www.linuxlinks.com", and converts that name to a machine readable "IP" address that your computer can use to connect to www.linuxlinks.com.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

AlmaLinux 9.8 Beta released
AlmaLinux just dropped the 9.8 Beta preview across x86_64, ARM64, PowerPC, and IBM Z architectures so administrators can catch upgrade headaches before they hit actual servers. The build ships Python 3.14, refreshed database streams, updated container runtimes, and tightened security policies that routinely break legacy automation scripts when tested without proper isolation. Teams should only mount these ISOs in virtual machines or dedicated lab rigs since the foundation explicitly warns against touching production hardware with beta code.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Apache NetBeans IDE 30 RC2 released
Apache NetBeans IDE 30 RC2 arrives with a bundled Maven upgrade to version 3.9.15, which keeps build pipelines consistent and patches recent dependency resolution quirks. The preview also resolves a stubborn JavaScript formatting glitch that previously scrambled indentation whenever static initializer blocks appeared in the code. Editor developers get a quick win too since the environment file hints panel finally registers correctly for managing external configuration files. Teams should run this release candidate through their standard project workflows to catch edge cases before the stable build ships.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

AXEM-SX -- openSUSE based Linux distribution
AXEM-SX is a modular Linux operating system built on an openSUSE Leap foundation and distributed as bootable ISO images.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Better IPTV -- cross-platform IPTV player
Better IPTV is a cross-platform desktop IPTV player that combines a Rust backend with a Tauri-based interface for Linux, Windows, and macOS.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Exploring The Workloads Where The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Makes A Lot Of Sense
With this week's launch of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition I've found some of the commentary quite surprising among those arguing it's really not a competitive or interesting product. While the cost may be hard to justify at $899 USD compared to the existing Ryzen 9000 series products or Intel's new Core Plus CPUs, particularly for developers, technical computing, etc the performance of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is quite interesting. I've had much enjoyment benchmarking the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 for technical use-cases.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Framework Laptop 13 Pro Competes with the Best
Framework has released what might be considered the MacBook of Linux devices.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

FreeRDP 3.25 Adds Experimental AV1 Support
FreeRDP as a leading open-source implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) has introduced experimental AV1 codec support.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Godot 4.7 Will Finally Have HDR Output, Including On Linux With Wayland
The upcoming Godot 4.7 open-source, cross-platform game engine release is rolling out support for high dynamic range (HDR).
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

How open source ideals must expand for AI
The new definition of open must consider implementation, specification, and governance as three critical factors that must be woven together.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Intel shutters open-source evangelism program and archives key community projects — closures point to significant shift in open-source leadership
The latest round of GitHub closures underscores a broader pullback in Intel's open-source footprint amid ongoing restructuring.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

KDE neon 20260423 released
KDE neon 20260423 drops fresh Plasma updates and Qt libraries onto a stable Ubuntu base, targeting tinkerers who want bleeding edge desktop tools without waiting for full system refreshes. The setup deliberately skips corporate patches and forced configurations, which means technical users get exactly what upstream developers intended but must handle their own troubleshooting when things break. Graphics drivers especially fall outside official support, so anyone chasing high performance on NVIDIA hardware should expect to fix black screens or dependency conflicts independently. Keeping the system stable requires running sudo apt full-upgrade instead of standard upgrade commands, and casual desktop users will likely save themselves headaches by sticking with traditional LTS releases.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 Lands The Apple SMC Power Driver For Reporting Battery Metrics On MacBooks
The Linux Multi-Function Device "MFD" subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 ahead of the merge window closing on Sunday.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Mages -- Matrix chat client
Mages is an experimental Matrix chat client built as a cross-platform application with a Rust core and a Compose Multiplatform interface.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Many USB Improvements & New Hardware Merged For Linux 7.1
Ready to go ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window closing at week's end are numerous new USB device support additions and other USB subsystem enhancements.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Mesa 26.1.0 Release Candidate 2 released
Mesa 26.1.0-rc2 delivers targeted stability patches rather than new features, focusing on fixing real-world rendering bugs across multiple graphics drivers. AMD users get crucial updates that resolve GPU hangs in Vulkan titles and correct legacy r600 transparency issues, while Intel hardware receives improved compute queue detection and specific hardware workarounds. The Android and Windows sides of Mesa see cleaner performance counter handling and corrected shader compilation paths to prevent texture sampling errors and video playback glitches.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

OpenBLAS 0.3.33 Released With Automatic "BIGNUMA" For More Than 256 CPU Cores
OpenBLAS 0.3.33 is out today as the latest update to this vendor-neutral, optimized Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms "BLAS" library.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

PackageKit, strongSwan, Kernel updates for Ubuntu
Ubuntu released several security notices to address critical flaws in PackageKit, strongSwan, and multiple Linux kernel variants. The PackageKit update prevents local attackers from gaining root access through improper transaction handling, while the strongSwan patches fix remote vulnerabilities that could crash the VPN software or allow arbitrary code execution. Kernel updates for FIPS, Azure, and standard configurations resolve numerous issues across ARM64 architecture, cryptographic APIs, GPU drivers, and network subsystems on older LTS releases.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Plaso -- Python-based digital forensics framework
Plaso, also known as log2timeline, is a Python-based digital forensics framework that builds timelines from timestamped events found in individual files, directories, storage media images, and devices.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Tails 7.7 released
Tails 7.7 drops with routine upgrades to Tor Browser and Thunderbird while finally patching a permissions glitch that left the root directory wide open. The release adds a practical warning about expiring Secure Boot certificates, giving operators time to update firmware before legacy machines refuse to boot next year. Background tweaks tighten package pinning to block unpatched Debian updates and add exFAT support so kexec bootloaders can actually find the ISO on modern flash drives. Verify those checksums before flashing your drive and let the new certificate alerts guide any necessary motherboard updates.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

The Pod Prometheus Never Saw: Kubernetes' Sampling Blind Spot
Prometheus sampling gaps are irreducible — reducing the scrape interval just moves the threshold. The Kubernetes watch API eliminates it entirely.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Timesketch -- collaborative forensic timeline analysis
Timesketch is a collaborative forensic timeline analysis platform that helps investigators work with event data from multiple sources inside a shared sketch.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu 26.04 Allows "sudo apt install rocm" But It's Months Out-Of-Date
Canonical announced last year that in collaboration with AMD they would be bringing the ROCm software libraries into the Ubuntu archive for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The plan has been to ship AMD ROCm AI/ML and HPC libraries in the Ubuntu archive so it would be as easy as sudo apt install rocm for getting started with AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. With today being the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release day, I decided to revisit the topic.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Moving the Industry forward with Linux 7.0 and More
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) was released today in April 2026 (hence the "26.04") with significant updates for server and infrastructure deployments. This long-term support release brings Linux kernel 7.0, a new HWE virtualization stack model, Intel TDX confidential computing host support, and numerous improvements across virtualization, databases, and security. Since the Ubuntu LTS edition releases only happen every two years and offer a five-year support cycle, they tend to be important industry milestones given how popular Ubuntu is. Let us get into some of the details.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Now Available & Powered By Linux 7.0
The official release ISOs of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS, and the various other Ubuntu flavors are now available for download.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu Linux 26.04 LTS released
Ubuntu Linux 26.04 LTS drops with TPM-backed encryption, GNOME 50 on Wayland, and Arm Livepatch support to tighten security while finally pushing modern desktop compositing into the mainstream. Existing users on version 25.10 get an automatic upgrade prompt right away, but those sticking with the current 24.04 LTS release will need to wait until August for the first point update before the system offers the transition. The main server and cloud editions carry five years of maintenance while most desktop flavors stick to three-year support windows unless you pay for extended security contracts.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS Will Now Automatically Install HWE/OEM Kernel Packages
Ubuntu LTS releases on the desktop have automatically installed OEM vendor kernels where needed and hardware enablement "HWE" kernels in later point releases by default. This provides a better out-of-the-box experience for Ubuntu desktop users and one less chore post-install if desiring a newer/better kernel. With Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS, the server installer is finally doing the same.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Ventoy 1.1.12 released
Ventoy 1.1.12 drops a targeted patch set that finally resolves stubborn Ubuntu 24.04.4 install failures and Oracle Linux 6.9 compatibility snags while cleaning up VirtualBox UEFI display glitches. The upgrade process skips the usual reinstall headache by preserving every ISO already sitting on the USB drive, so users just run the installer and let it swap out the core boot files. A quiet side release called iVentoy also arrives to handle network based PXE deployments across x86 and ARM systems without forcing admins to wrestle with traditional DHCP or TFTP setups. Grabbing the official zip or tarball requires a quick SHA-256 verification step before flashing, but the update keeps the tool lean while fixing exactly what breaks in real world lab environments.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

XanMod Kernel 7.0.1, 6.19.14, and 6.18.24 LTS released
The latest XanMod kernel releases pack in memory management tweaks, BBRv3 networking improvements, and hardware optimizations that actually matter for desktop workstations and gaming rigs. Setting it up is straightforward through the official APT repository or standalone packages, though users should expect a short wait for NVIDIA and virtualization drivers to catch up. Power users juggling heavy compilations, streaming setups, or GPU passthrough will notice the performance gains, while casual office workers will barely register the difference. Testing the update in a safe environment first prevents broken display outputs from derailing the work week.
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

You can now run Linux on your ancient Windows 95 desktop with a new tool — very old Windows PCs, back to Intel 486, can cooperatively run very modern Linux kernels with WSL9x
Dev reckons the Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux is one of their 'greatest hacks of all time.'
April 23rd, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 21st, 2026

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Benchmarks: The Best Desktop Performance For Linux Developers, Creators
Today we can finally share performance benchmarks of the long-rumored AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor. This new halo product for the Ryzen 9000 series desktop line-up offers captivating performance for developers frequently compiling code, creators, technical computing workloads for students or hobbyists or those not able to afford a Threadripper / EPYC type workstation, or similar heavy computing use. With the 16 cores / 32 threads and both CCDs having 3D V-Cache, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 offers leading performance among current generation desktop processors.
April 21st, 2026 — Source

Edconv -- user-friendly FFmpeg GUI
Edconv is a desktop application that gives FFmpeg a more approachable graphical interface for audio and video work.
April 21st, 2026 — Source

Enterprises are rethinking Kubernetes
Enterprises once viewed Kubernetes as the universal answer to modern application deployment. Operational realities and the rise of better abstractions are driving a reassessment.
April 21st, 2026 — Source

Frame -- desktop media conversion utility
Frame is a desktop media conversion utility that provides a native graphical interface for FFmpeg.
April 21st, 2026 — Source

Intel IRDMA Driver Adds Support For GEN4 Hardware In Linux 7.1
The IRDMA driver as Intel's modern Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) Linux driver for their high-end Ethernet network controllers is preparing support for new hardware.
April 21st, 2026 — Source

Initial Linux Driver Patches For Smart Data Accelerator Interface "SDXI"
Recently sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list was the initial patches for implementing the Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI) as a vendor-neutral architecture for memory-to-memory data movement offload.
April 21st, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 Lands Workaround For Arm C1-Pro Erratum
Merged yesterday to the Linux 7.1 kernel is a workaround for an Arm C1-Pro CPU hardware bug around its Scalable Matrix Extension implementation.
April 21st, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 Staging Ushered In More Developers To Make Their First Kernel Contributions
Over the weekend Greg Kroah-Hartman sent out his various pull requests for the areas of the kernel he oversees. Among those is the staging area where this time around the notable activity isn't too much about feature work but many developers making some of their first contributions to the upstream kernel.
April 21st, 2026 — Source

Minisforum MS-R1 ARM Mini Workstation running Linux: Benchmarks
This is a new series looking at the Minisforum MS-R1 ARM Mini Workstation running Linux. In this series, I'll examine every aspect of this mini workstation in detail from a Linux perspective. I'll compare the machine with other machines to put my findings into context.
April 21st, 2026 — Source

OpenAI introduces Chronicle for Codex, a Recall-like memory feature for developers on macOS
OpenAI has introduced Chronicle, an opt-in research preview for the Codex app on macOS designed to streamline developer workflows.
April 21st, 2026 — Source

RADV Driver Enables Host Image Copy By Default For RDNA2 & Newer
Introduced back in 2023 with Vulkan 1.3.258 was VK_EXT_host_image_copy to copy data between host memory and images on the host processor without needing to stage the data through a CPU-accessible buffer. This direct CPU-to-GPU image data transfer path can reduce memory usage during asset loads and all around more efficiency and performance. Finally now the RADV open-source Radeon driver is enabling support by default.
April 21st, 2026 — Source

watch -- small command-line utility written in C
watch is a small command-line utility written in C that periodically runs a shell command at a user-defined interval.
April 21st, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 17th, 2026

4 Best Microsoft Office Alternatives for Linux Users
Linux users seeking alternatives to Microsoft Office often face challenges balancing functionality, compatibility and cost. In a detailed breakdown by Explaining Computers, four prominent options are explored: LibreOffice, FreeOffice (and its paid version, SoftMaker Office), OnlyOffice and WPS Office. Each suite offers unique strengths, such as LibreOffice's open source flexibility or OnlyOffice's emphasis on collaboration and cloud integration. However, none of these alternatives achieve flawless compatibility with Microsoft Office files, especially when handling complex formatting or macros. This underscores the importance of aligning your choice with specific workflow needs.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

9 Best Free and Open Source Photo Metadata Editors
A metadata editor is computer software which allows users to view and edit metadata tags interactively and save them in the graphics file. So, metadata is information that is part of the image file and contains information about the image itself and the creation of the image. It can set textual information such as title, description, exposure time, ISO value, focal length, and copyright. Some modern digital cameras and camera phones are GPS enabled and they can save the location co-ordinates (latitude and longitude) with the photographs.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

19 Best Free and Open Source CLI Data Hashing Tools
Hashing is the process of passing data through a formula that produces a condensed fixed-value representation, called a hash value. That hash is typically a string of characters and the hashes generated by a formula are always the same length, regardless of how much data fed into it. For example, the MD5 formula produces 128-bit checksums. It converts data into blocks of specific sizes and manipulates that data a number of times.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

arTui -- keep up with recent arXiv submissions
arTui is a terminal user interface for keeping up with recent arXiv submissions from within the console.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

Fedora 44 Will Not Be Released Next Week
Fedora 44 final had been aiming for an early release target of 21 April, but due to outstanding blocker bugs, it's now revised to target a release on 28 April.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

GCC Compiler Adds Arm AGI CPU Target
The GCC open-source compiler has landed initial targeting support for Arm's newly-announced AGI CPU.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

Glibc Lands A Big Optimization For LoongArch CPUs
Merged yesterday to Glibc Git is a LoongArch-specific change to enable transparent hugepages (THP) aligned load segments by default for LoongArch64. Aligning ELF load segments to THP boundaries is providing a consistent performance win for large binaries by reducing transparent lookaside buffer (TLB) pressure and improving instruction fetch efficiency.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

icd -- makes changing directories quicker
It replaces the usual cd workflow with an interactive selector for previously visited paths, helping you jump around the filesystem without repeatedly typing long directory names. The project is lightweight, integrates with popular Zsh plugin managers, and also includes support for the Fish shell.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

IChingDiviner -- desktop I-Ching divination application
IChingDiviner is a desktop I-Ching divination application that brings the traditional Chinese oracle to Linux with a modern interface.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Linux Graphics Performance Up ~17% Over Past Year
Given the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release being imminent and also realizing it's been nearly one year to the day since reviewing the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition laptop under Linux, I ran some fresh benchmarks for seeing how the integrated Xe2 graphics have evolved on Linux over the past year.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 Crypto Code Rework Enables More Optimizations By Default
Linux libcrypto cryptography subsystem changes for the v7.1 kernel are enabling more optimizations by default and in turn helping to achieve better crypto/hashing performance on this next kernel version.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 x86/x86_64 Aligns With Other Architectures Now For Supporting Custom Restart Handlers
With the vast majority of x86/x86_64 systems supporting restarting the system using ACPi, BIOS, or even the KBD keyboard controller, with Linux 7.1 is now support in place for using custom restart handlers registered by drivers, such as in place for other CPU architectures.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

New Lenovo Fan Driver, More ASUS Motherboards With Sensor Monitoring For Linux 7.1
All of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

Open source malware sees a 21 percent increase
A new report from Sonatype identifies 21,764 malicious open source packages in the first quarter of the year, up 21 percent from the same period last year and bringing the total logged since 2017 to 1,346,867.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

PangoTerm -- modern cross-platform SSH client
This is a series where I'll pick one proprietary Linux application each week. Although LinuxLinks primarily focuses on open source software, we'll explore proprietary software along the way.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

Sheets -- terminal-based spreadsheet application
Sheets is a terminal-based spreadsheet application for working with CSV data from the command line.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Final Freeze Explained: What Gets Blocked and How to Test Before Launch
The Ubuntu 26.04 LTS final freeze is now active, which means only critical installer fixes or post-release SRU patches will clear the gate before next week's launch. Anyone pushing packages must tie their changes to a Launchpad bug report and include the standard SRU template, otherwise the upload queue just rejects them automatically. Testing those upcoming release candidate images stays mandatory since catching broken drivers or missing firmware now saves everyone from day one panic on fresh installs.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

Valve Developer Lands RADV/ACO Changes For AMD's GFX11.7 / RDNA 4m
The open-source Linux graphics driver work continues around AMD's GFX11.7 GPU target for some yet-to-be-launched APUs/SoCs and to be branded as "RDNA 4m".
April 17th, 2026 — Source

Zorin OS 18.1 adds guided migrations, stronger app compatibility and wider hardware support, making switching from Windows far more practical for millions [clone]
A practical update that reduces friction for Windows users considering a move to Linux.
April 17th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 14th, 2026

16 Best Free and Open Source Linux Web Servers
In hardware terms, a web server is a computer that stores web server software and a website's component files such as HTML documents, images, CSS and JavaScript files. A web server connects to the Internet and supports physical data interchange with other devices connected to the web.
April 14th, 2026 — Source

AMD Ready With CPPC Performance Priority & Dynamic/Raw EPP In Linux 7.1
Power management and ACPI subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki of Intel sent out the feature pull requests this weekend for Linux 7.1. There are some new AMD and Intel updates worth mentioning along with a lot of smaller, low-level code improvements for this next kernel version as it pertains to power management.
April 14th, 2026 — Source

Archium Linux -- Arch-based distribution
Archium Linux is an Arch-based Linux distribution designed to simplify installation and initial system setup without sacrificing the flexibility and transparency of Arch Linux.
April 14th, 2026 — Source

BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Gets ARM64 Port Booting
Over the course of March there was much progress made on the ARM64 port of Haiku OS, the open-source operating system serving as the spiritual successor to BeOS.
April 14th, 2026 — Source

Beyond One-Click: Designing an Enterprise-Grade Observability Extension for Docker
Docker Extensions extend Docker Desktop beyond a local development environment. With minimal setup, developers can install tools that display logs, metrics, and traces directly within their workflow. This instant visibility reduces debugging cycles and improves understanding of container behavior during development.
April 14th, 2026 — Source

GrimRipper -- graphical application for ripping audio CDs
GrimRipper is a graphical application for ripping audio CDs on Linux.
April 14th, 2026 — Source

KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years
A request made a KDE user all the way back in June 2005 on KDE 3.3.2 is finally resolved. After being sought after for 21 years, the latest KWin code now has support for per-screen virtual desktops.
April 14th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 Lands ARM64 NEON-Accelerated CRC64-NVMe For ~6x Improvement
Merged yesterday were all the CRC code updates for the Linux 7.1 kernel. Most notable with that pull is an ARM64-optimized CRC64-NVMe implementation that can deliver multiple times faster performance.
April 14th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 Revamps T10 PI Data Integrity Handling For Better Read Performance
Merged yesterday for the Linux 7.1 kernel is overhauling the T10 PI code for generating and verifying data integrity information. In turn the new code is cleaner while also allowing for better read storage performance.
April 14th, 2026 — Source

Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play
As a big helper for Valve's Steam Play with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged its initial support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap Vulkan extension.
April 14th, 2026 — Source

OpenSSL 4.0 Released With Encrypted Client Hello, RFC 8998 Support
OpenSSL 4.0 was just released as a big update for this widely-used SSL/TLS and crypto library.
April 14th, 2026 — Source

Phantom Overload -- atmospheric first person shooter game
Phantom Overload is an atmospheric first person shooter built with Godot for Linux and Windows.
April 14th, 2026 — Source

Sunshine Game Streaming Introduces Vulkan Video Encode Support
Sunshine v2026.413.143228 released this week as a new feature release for this self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight, an open-source game streaming client that is an implementation of the NVIDIA GameStream protocol. Notable with this Sunshine release is Vulkan Video encode support as an alternative to using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) for game streaming.
April 14th, 2026 — Source

The Windows 11 customization scene is thriving because Microsoft won't give users what they want
Third-party tools are increasingly becoming popular among Windows 11 users, and it's likely that Microsoft is to blame.
April 14th, 2026 — Source

X.Org Server 21.1.22 Released Due To Five New Security Vulnerabilities
X.Org Server 21.1.22 is out today and driven by five new security vulnerabilities being disclosed for the aging codebase. In turn these vulnerabilities also impact XWayland too and thus necessitating the XWayland 24.1.10 release.
April 14th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 13th, 2026

7 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based File Sharing Tools
There are many ways you can transfer files between computers. Here's a few methods. We can transfer files between two hosts on Linux using the scp command. The scp command establishes a secure connection between the two hosts and it uses the standard SSH port in order to transfer files. Alternatively, many people send files as attachments although there are often limitations with this method. Or users frequently use file hosting services in the cloud, WebTorrents, a personal server, wormhole and many others.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

10 Microsoft account settings I wish I had checked sooner
Secure your Microsoft account, secure your PC.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

28 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graphical Task Managers
A task manager is software which enables users to compile a list of tasks to be completed. This list is also known as a to-do list or things-to-do. For the purposes of this article, the term 'task manager' should not be confused with monitoring software which provides information about programs and processes running on a computer.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

33 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Time Tracking Software
Time tracking software is a type of computer software that records time spent on tasks. This category of software can enable users to run billing reports, and prepare invoices for clients.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Seeing Many Fixes For Linux 7.1
Nearly one year ago to the day I noted Linux developers were considering the removal of the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the kernel. They were orphaned the past decade and turning into a maintenance burden for upstream developers. But then to some surprise, a few developers stepped up to maintain the HFS(+) drivers. One year later it's proving to be a success story with more fixes for this aging Apple file-system support continuing.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

AutoTidy -- desktop file organiser
AutoTidy is a desktop file organiser that helps keep folders such as Downloads, Screenshots, and Desktop under control.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

axe -- xargs alternative
axe is a command-line utility that serves as an alternative to xargs, with a particular focus on argument processing and argument ordering.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

Beware! This "Windows 11 24H2" update download can quietly steal your sensitive data
The malicious 24H2 update download website is able to evade detection from anti-virus and other boot-time security on Windows 11.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

Btrfs Brings Performance Improvements, Shutdown ioctl Stable With Linux 7.1
Among the early pull requests sent out to Linus Torvalds even before the Linux 7.0 kernel officially released on Sunday were the Btrfs file-system updates. This feature-packed CoW file-system is seeing more performance optimizations for Linux 7.1 as well as its shutdown ioctl feature no longer being experimental and a variety of fixes.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

cargo-audit -- Cargo subcommand
cargo-audit is a Cargo subcommand for Rust projects that checks the dependencies recorded in Cargo.lock against the RustSec Advisory Database to help identify crates with known security vulnerabilities.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

CoreX -- hardware monitor
CoreX is a Linux hardware monitor that helps you keep track of system health and performance from a desktop dashboard.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

France's digital directorate dumping Windows desktops, adopting Linux instead
Après ça, le deluge, as plans call for move away from plenty more American software and hardware
April 13th, 2026 — Source

FTRFS: New Fault-Tolerant File-System Proposed For Linux
Sent out today was an initial patch series for comment on introducing the FTRFS file-system. The FTRFS proposal is more interesting than last week's VMUFAT file-system proposal.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

GNU Linux-libre 7.0 Deals With Deblobbing More Drivers & Cleansing DT Files
Building off last night's release of the Linux 7.0 kernel is now the GNU Linux-libre 7.0-gnu kernel release for that downstream kernel that removes support for loading non-free-software kernel modules, blocks the loading of loadable microcode/firmware even when it means greatly reduced hardware support, and other sanitization of code in the name of software freedom.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

Kanri -- modern offline Kanban board
Kanri is a modern desktop Kanban board application for personal task and project management.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 arrives as Linus Torvalds embraces a new era of AI-driven kernel development
The milestone Linux 7.0 release brings massive hardware gains for Intel and AMD alongside a surge of AI-refined code and self-healing filesystems.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 is out, bringing XFS repair features and more Intel and AMD support
Linux 7.0 released with better swapping, and new hardware support
April 13th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 Kernel Starts Enabling Intel FRED, Expands AMD GPU Defaults, And Dropping Of Intel 486 CPU Support
Early Linux 7.1 Patches Reveal a Major Cleanup and Modern CPU Enablement, and Driver Improvements for AMD, Intel, and NVIDIA Hardware
April 13th, 2026 — Source

Linux's Power Sequencing PCIe M.2 Driver To Support M.2 Key-E Connectors
Merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel was a power sequencing driver for PCIe M.2 connectors as part of an effort to allow describing PCIe M.2 connectors in Device Tree files. For Linux 7.1, that driver is extending support for PCIe M.2 Key E connectors.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

Mesa 26.1 RadeonSI Driver Lands Improvement For AMD APUs With Rusticl
For those wishing to make use of modern OpenCL 3.0 capabilities on AMD APUs/SoCs with integrated Radeon graphics using Mesa's Rusticl driver, an improvement was merged this weekend to the RadeonSI driver ahead of this quarter's Mesa 26.1 release.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

Mold 2.41 Linker Released With New Features & Fixes
Mold 2.41 is out as the latest major update to this high performance linker and viable alternative to the linkers from the GNU and LLVM projects.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA Hiring More LLVM Engineers To Work On CUDA Tile
Last year NVIDIA announced the new CUDA Tile programming model as one of the biggest updates ever to the CUDA platform. CUDA Tile brings a virtual ISA for tile-based parallel programming and they subsequently open-sourced the CUDA Tile IR as an intermediate representation built atop LLVM's MLIR. Now they are looking to hire additional LLVM compiler engineers to help foster their CUDA Tile initiatives.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

Qualcomm and NetEase expand Snapdragon X gaming support with 25 PC games
Snapdragon X PCs add 25 NetEase titles
April 13th, 2026 — Source

Rust For Linux 7.1 Bringing Experimental Option That Can Help Performance
In advance of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening, Miguel Ojeda sent out all of the Rust feature updates on Friday. This includes bumping the minimum Rust version for building the Linux kernel as well as a new experimental option that can provide better performance for Rust code within the kernel, alongside other updates.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

Servo Browser Engine Making It Easier For Embedded Use
The open-source, Rust-based Servo browser engine has been improving its Servoshell demo browser application while one of the most promising potentials for this engine is around embedded use as an alternative to the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). With the latest moves by Servo developers, they are making for a more compelling story for its use.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

Super Productivity -- todo app with timeboxing & time tracking capabilities
This is a series where I hand-pick an open source Linux application each week that has not previously been covered on LinuxLinks. Each application must meet a very high standard.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

Why Linux Is Quietly Becoming the Ultimate Gaming Platform in 2026
Linux gaming has undergone a remarkable evolution, becoming a legitimate choice for gamers seeking alternatives to traditional platforms. A key factor in this progress is Valve's Proton compatibility layer, which enables many Windows-exclusive games to run smoothly on Linux by translating Windows APIs into Linux-friendly instructions. Hardware Overview examines how recent updates to Proton, such as improved DirectX 12 translation and optimized shader compilation, have significantly enhanced performance and reduced stuttering in demanding titles. These advancements, combined with strides in graphics driver development, have made Linux a more accessible and capable platform for gaming.
April 13th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 12th, 2026

5 Useful Free and Open Source Graphical GRUB Config Tools
GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) is a boot loader software commonly used in Linux systems.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

10 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Typing Tutors
Being able to touch type is the ability of typing without looking at the keyboard. When touch-typing, the individual uses all fingers instead of just a few fingers. Consequently, typing speed increases dramatically.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Terminal-Based Clocks
One of the strengths of Linux is the vast number of small, niche utilities that are made available under an open source license.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

12 Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Clocks
One of the strengths of Linux is the vast number of small, niche utilities that are made available under an open source license.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

15 Best Free and Open Source Linux TUI Typing Tutors
Being able to touch type is the ability of typing without looking at the keyboard. When touch-typing, the individual uses all fingers instead of just a few fingers. Consequently, typing speed increases dramatically.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cal
This article spotlights alternative tools to cal.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

CMake Pursuing Tighter Integration With Package Managers, Other Improvements
While the Meson build system has been capturing much of the limelight in recent years by open-source projects, the cross-platform CMake build system also shows no signs of slowing down and continues evolving with new features and functionality.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

Developer of the Week: Matthias Ettrich
This series shines a spotlight on open source developers who make a real difference. Too often, their contributions go unrecognised. By highlighting their achievements, this series aims to give these talented developers the recognition they deserve and to celebrate the dedication, creativity, and passion that drive the open source community forward.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

Katalog -- manage catalogs of disks and files
Katalog is a desktop application for cataloging files and storage devices so you can search, browse, and analyze their contents even when the original media is offline.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 enables three new AI-specific keys for keyboards, an apparent expansion beyond the Copilot key — Google authors both the HID spec and the kernel patch
New "Action on Selection," "Contextual Insertion," and "Contextual Query" keys go beyond Microsoft's Copilot button.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 Sees Last Minute Fix For Bogus Hardware Errors On AMD Zen 3
Ahead of the Linux 7.0 stable kernel release expected later today are some last minute pull requests sent out this morning. Notable for those using AMD Zen 3 hardware is addressing some bogus hardware errors that began appearing for some users on recent versions of the Linux kernel.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

Linux lays down the law on AI-generated code, says yes to Copilot, no to AI slop, and humans take the fall for mistakes — after months of fierce debate, Torvalds and maintainers come to an agreement
After months of fierce debate, Linus Torvalds and the Linux kernel maintainers have laid down the law on AI-generated code.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

Linux Out-Of-Bounds Access Fixed For Unprivileged Users With Specially Crafted Certs
An out-of-bounds access within the Linux kernel has existed in mainline the past three years that could be exploited by an unprivileged user submitting a specially crafted certificate to the kernel.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

Many Wonderful Improvements Expected For Linux 7.1, Especially For AMD & Intel
With Linux 7.0 expected for release later today, in turn the Linux 7.1 merge window will kick off for the two week period of landing all sorts of exciting new features, changes, and removal of old features from the kernel. Here is a look at some of what is on the table for the Linux 7.1 merge window.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

MODOS -- small Debian-based operating system
MODOS, formerly known as G0ll0'Z SmollOS, is a small Debian-based operating system aimed at people who want a portable Linux desktop on external storage such as a USB drive.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

rush -- command-line tool for executing jobs in parallel
It is intended for users who want a flexible alternative to parallel and similar utilities, with support for complex command construction, replacement strings, retries, timeouts, and resumable workflows. The project is particularly well suited to shell-based batch processing and data-heavy pipelines where you need controlled parallel execution from the command line.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

solidtime -- modern time tracking application
solidtime is a modern time tracking application aimed at freelancers, agencies, and teams.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

Trisquel 12.0 Released For Free Software Foundation Endorsed Distribution
For those sticking to absolute free software ideals, Trisquel 12.0 was released this weekend for this Free Software Foundation (FSF) approved distribution for only containing free software and foregoing loadable microcode/firmware and running on the Linux-libre kernel even with its reduced scope in hardware support.
April 12th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 11th, 2026

11 Best Free and Open Source Wireless Security Tools
Wireless security is the prevention of unauthorized access or damage to computers or data using wireless networks, which include Wi-Fi networks. The term may also refer to the protection of the wireless network itself from adversaries seeking to damage the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of the network.
April 11th, 2026 — Source

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graphical IRC Clients
13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Graphical IRC Clients
April 11th, 2026 — Source

AIFiles -- organize your files
AIFiles is a command-line application that uses AI to analyse files and help organise them into structured folders with meaningful names.
April 11th, 2026 — Source

AMD's GAIA Now Allows Building Custom AI Agents Via Chat, Becomes "True Desktop App"
In addition to their efforts around the Lemonade SDK itself, AMD software engineers working on their AI initiatives continue to be investing quite a bit into the Lemonade-using GAIA, the project that originally stood for "Generative AI Is Awesome". AMD's GAIA now allows building your own custom AI agents via chatting with GAIA as well as becoming a "true desktop app" so it's easier to deploy across Windows, Linux, and macOS environments.
April 11th, 2026 — Source

Cage 0.3 Released With New Wayland Protocol Support
Cage as the Wayland compositor providing a kiosk mode for single, maximized apps is out with a new feature release more than six months after its prior version.
April 11th, 2026 — Source

D7VK 1.7 Brings More Improvements For Legacy Direct3D On Vulkan
D7VK as the open-source project that began as a fork of DXVK in adding support for Direct3D 7 atop Vulkan has with time extended its range to also supporting Direct3D 6, 5, and 3 APIs. Out today is D7VK 1.7 in continuing to better support those vintage versions of Microsoft's Direct3D API.
April 11th, 2026 — Source

darya -- disk usage explorer
Darya is a keyboard-driven disk usage explorer for the terminal written in Rust.
April 11th, 2026 — Source

FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE Feature Coming For Linux 7.1
FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE is a new feature developed by Christian Brauner. Using the FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE flag with fsmount() allows creating a new mount namespace with the newly-created file-system attached to a copy of the real root file-system. A namespace file descriptor is returned rather than the O_PATH mount file descriptor.
April 11th, 2026 — Source

GNOME-Aligned Amberol 2026.1 Music Player Released, Phosh Improves X11 Support
A few weeks past the GNOME 50 release and there continues to be a lot of ongoing GNOME app activity worth highlighting.
April 11th, 2026 — Source

Krita AI Diffusion 1.49.1 released
This update to the Krita AI Diffusion plugin targets the visual artifacts and model errors that often plague generative painting sessions. Artists using Flux models will finally get relief from the border glitches that left ugly lines after internal resizing. Custom workflow creators benefit from a new reset button while seed controls expand to support much larger numbers for precise randomness. Legacy users get a reprieve as the installer attempts pulling older PyTorch versions for GTX cards that typically fail with newer builds.
April 11th, 2026 — Source

Laser -- simple CD ripper for the GNOME desktop
It offers a straightforward graphical interface for extracting audio tracks from compact discs to common audio formats, while integrating metadata lookup and artwork handling so albums can be archived with tags and cover images intact.
April 11th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.1.168, 6.6.134, 6.12.81, 6.18.22, 6.19.12 released
Linux Kernel 6.1.168, 6.6.134, 6.12.81, 6.18.22, and 6.19.12 are now available. The USB gadget subsystem took the biggest hit with patches fixing race conditions that caused crashes when users unbound devices or entered suspend modes. Kernel memory safety also gets a boost by ensuring kallsyms and thermal zones handle module removal and power events without dangling pointers.
April 11th, 2026 — Source

Microsoft Upgrades Its WSL2 Kernel Against Linux 6.18 LTS
Microsoft on Friday released linux-msft-wsl-6.18.20.1 as the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) kernel updated against the Linux 6.18 LTS series.
April 11th, 2026 — Source

Original Apollo 11 code open-sourced by NASA — original Command Module and Lunar Module code repos are now public domain resources
View and download this historic assembly code for your own space program
April 11th, 2026 — Source

RISC-V BeagleV Ahead Single Board Computer To See Working HDMI With Linux 7.1
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.
April 11th, 2026 — Source

StartOS -- Debian-based Linux distribution optimised for personal servers
StartOS is a graphical Linux distribution designed to turn a computer into a personal server for self-hosting services.
April 11th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 9th, 2026

25 Essential Free and Open Source LaTeX Tools -- typeset beautifully
LaTeX is a document preparation system and document markup language for high-quality typesetting. The system was originally developed by Leslie Lamport in the early 1980s. LaTeX is based on Donald E. Knuth's TeX typesetting language. Lamport says that LaTeX "represents a balance between functionality and ease of use".
April 9th, 2026 — Source

AMD Making It Easier To Embed Lemonade AI Capabilities Into Other Apps
The open-source Lemonade local AI server that enables using Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux for LLM usage as well as AMD Radeon GPU support and common x86_64 CPU support (in addition to Microsoft Windows support) is now becoming easier to embed within other apps for AI usage.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

ASUS Armoury Driver Supports A Few More Laptops With Linux 7.0
Merged back in Linux 6.19 was the ASUS Armoury driver to enhance support for the ROG Ally gaming handhelds and modern ASUS laptops. The ASUS Armoury driver enables various laptop features to be toggled under Linux and since its introduction it has continued expanding support for more ASUS devices. Ahead of Linux 7.0 coming out on Sunday, a few more devices are now supported by this upstream driver.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

Bringing databases and Kubernetes together
OpenEverest is an open-source platform for automating the provisioning and management of any database on any Kubernetes infrastructure.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan-Accelerated 360 Degree Video Conversion
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.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

How Claude's Computer Use Update Unlocks Full Desktop Automations
Claude Code's latest update introduces the ability to directly interact with graphical user interfaces (GUIs), expanding its automation capabilities. As highlighted by World of AI, this feature enables users to perform tasks such as automating spreadsheet workflows, testing application interfaces and debugging visual components. Currently offered as a research preview for Mac OS Pro and Max users, the update integrates code-based operations with GUI interactions. For those on Windows or Linux, similar functionality can be achieved through an open source workaround using Node.js and the Playwright framework.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

Intel NPU Linux Driver To Allow Limiting Frequency For Power & Thermal Management
The Intel IVPU accelerator driver used on Linux for the neural processing unit (NPU) on Core Ultra SoCs saw a patch posted for allowing the NPU clock frequency to be limited in the name of power and thermal management.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

KDE neon 20260409 released
The latest build of KDE neon showcases latest KDE software for users who want immediate access to Plasma updates. Enthusiasts should expect some instability since the team does not guarantee stability when using bleeding edge applications daily. Owners of Nvidia hardware must install proprietary drivers themselves because the project offers no support for issues outside the core KDE stack. Upgrading requires running sudo apt full-upgrade instead of standard commands to ensure all packages install correctly on this fast-moving system.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

lazyjira -- terminal user interface for Jira
lazyjira is a terminal user interface for Jira designed to reduce the friction of working with tickets through the browser.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

MinIO Client -- work with object storage
MinIO Client, usually invoked as mc, is a command-line utility for working with object storage from a Unix-style shell.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

Mir-Based Miracle-WM 0.9 Introduces A WebAssembly Plugin System
Miracle-WM as the Wayland compositor / window manager built atop Canonical's Mir project is out with a big new feature release. This "hackable" and i3/Sway-inspired Wayland compositor has landed a WebAssembly-based plug-in system for opening up new possibilities as well as a new Rust API with this week's v0.9 release.
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RadioGoGo -- surf global radio waves
Internet radio, also known as web radio, online radio, or streaming radio, is a digital broadcasting service that delivers audio content over the internet rather than through traditional AM or FM frequencies.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

RADV Lands Support For Vulkan's New Primitive Restart Index Extension
The newest Vulkan API extension now wired up for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is VK_EXT_primitive_restart_index that was introduced last week.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

RISC-V Optimized strnlen Implementation For Linux 7.1 Yields Big Speed-Up
In addition to RISC-V discontinuing its eXecute In Place "XIP" kernel support for Linux 7.1, there is an optimized strnlen() function coming for Linux 7.1 on RISC-V as well as some other optimized functions.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

SafeScript -- code snippet manager
It gives developers a dedicated place to store and organize reusable code fragments in a local SQLite database, helping keep snippets accessible in a focused native application instead of scattered across text files.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

Samba 4.22.9 released
Samba 4.22.9 is out and it fixes a nasty regression where Kerberos authentication would silently break on Linux file servers. Administrators running long-term deployments should upgrade immediately because rpc workers were leaking memory until they consumed all available RAM. The update also patches critical failover bugs in CTDB clusters that caused state synchronization errors during node switches. Get this patch applied before your next maintenance window to keep Windows clients connected without authentication headaches.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

ShredOS -- disk eraser operating system
ShredOS is a small bootable Linux distribution built specifically for secure disk erasure.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

Siggy -- terminal-based client for the Signal messaging service
Siggy is a terminal-based client for the Signal messaging service that uses signal-cli as its messaging backend and presents conversations in a text user interface with an IRC-inspired look and feel.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

SiFive Raises $400M To Double Down On High Performance RISC-V For Data Centers
RISC-V processor IP purveyor SiFive just announced they have raised $400 million USD in an over-subscribed Series G financing round. This latest funding is so they can further focus on delivering high performance RISC-V designs for the data center.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

Super Lite Linux -- lightweight distribution
Super Lite Linux is a lightweight Linux distribution that aims to make lightweight systems more visually appealing to new users.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

Top Text-to-Speech Models of 2026: Proprietary vs Open Source Compared
Text-to-speech (TTS) technology in 2026 has reached a level where synthesized voices can closely mimic human speech in both accuracy and expressiveness. Trelis Research examines this progress by analyzing leading TTS models using metrics like Character Error Rate (CER) and Mean Opinion Score (MOS). For a rigorous evaluation, the "Tricky TTS" dataset was employed, presenting challenges such as proper noun pronunciation and prosody handling. This guide highlights how proprietary models like Gemini and Eleven Labs excel in naturalness, while open source options like Kokoro offer competitive performance for resource-constrained environments.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

Valve Developer Improves The Linux Gaming Experience For Limited vRAM Hardware
Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics driver team primarily working on the RADV Vulkan driver has come up with a new interesting creation: patches to the Linux kernel and KDE for sharply improving the gaming experience for those running systems with limited amounts of video memory. Such as for graphics cards with just 8GB of dedicated vRAM, the patches now available -- initially on CachyOS for a nice out-of-the-box experience -- provide a noticeably better Linux gaming experience.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

Why Developers Are Switching to Qwen 3.6 Plus for Complex Coding
Qwen 3.6 Plus has made waves in the open source AI landscape with its impressive ability to handle up to 1 million tokens in a single context. Highlighted by World of AI, this model is particularly suited for large-scale, complex tasks like project-level coding, strategic planning and comprehensive document analysis. Its standout features, such as multimodal reasoning and agentic coding, enable it to integrate text, images and videos while automating workflows and debugging intricate systems. These capabilities position Qwen 3.6 Plus as a versatile option for professionals tackling resource-intensive challenges.
April 9th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 8th, 2026

5 Useful Free and Open Source Linux Background Noise Generators
Ambient noise generators occupy a niche on Linux: they don't demand attention, but they can make a workspace feel calmer, less distracting, and more comfortable for long sessions at the keyboard.
April 8th, 2026 — Source

12 Best Free and Open Source GUI Image Compression Tools
Data compression is the process of storing data in a format that uses less space than the original representation would use. Compressing data can be very useful particularly in the field of communications as it enables devices to transmit or store data in fewer bits. Besides reducing transmission bandwidth, compression increases the amount of information that can be stored on a hard disk drive or other storage device.
April 8th, 2026 — Source

Bazzite Linux Updates Shrink Image Size and Bring Better Handheld Control to Steam UI
Bazzite Linux has dropped a new kernel and Mesa update into its testing branch to prepare for the upcoming version 44 release. Security protocols now include signed ISOs while image sizes shrink by shifting emulation tools to the separate DX variant. Handheld owners will notice TDP control moving directly into the Steam UI alongside an OpenGamepadUI overlay for better access to hidden settings. Desktop users can test these changes right now but should hold off on updating handheld images until the team confirms stability.
April 8th, 2026 — Source

Chrome 147 Stable Released With New Restrictions, Web Printing API
Google on Tuesday announced the Chrome 147 stable release to all Windows, macOS, and Linux users. There are a number of refinements in this latest routine Chrome stable update paired with various fixes and new developer capabilities.
April 8th, 2026 — Source

Fedora Linux 44 RC 1.1 released
Fedora Linux 44 has finally reached its first release candidate stage so testers can start hunting for critical bugs before the final launch. Testers will find detailed test coverage statistics on the OpenQA dashboard. Anyone running an evaluation should check the tracker for known blocker bugs because some configurations might face a rough upgrade path without warning. Community support remains available on the Fedora Quality chat channel or through the Discourse if real-time assistance is needed during testing failures.
April 8th, 2026 — Source

Hugging Face Contributes Safetensors To PyTorch Foundation To Secure AI Model Execution
Announced today from the PyTorch Conference EU in Paris is word that Hugging Face has contributed their Safetensors project to the PyTorch Foundation, which is an umbrella organization under the Linux Foundation for hosting AI initiatives. Safetensors aims to help mitigate arbitrary code execution risks and more.
April 8th, 2026 — Source

Intel Arc Pro B70 Benchmarks With LLM / AI, OpenCL, OpenGL & Vulkan
Last month Intel announced the Arc Pro B70 with 32GB of GDDR6 video memory for this long-awaited Battlemage G31 graphics card. This new top-end Battlemage graphics card with 32 Xe cores and 32GB of GDDR6 video memory offers a lot of potential for LLM/AI and other use cases, especially when running multiple Arc Pro B70s. Last week Intel sent over four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards for Linux testing at Phoronix. Given the current re-testing for the imminent Ubuntu 26.04 release, I am still going through all of the benchmarks especially for the multi-GPU scenarios. In this article are some initial Arc Pro B70 single card benchmarks on Linux compared to other Intel Arc Graphics hardware across AI / LLM with OpenVINO and Llama.cpp, OpenCL compute benchmarks, and also some OpenGL and Vulkan benchmarks.
April 8th, 2026 — Source

Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026.1 With Backend For Llama.cpp, New Hardware Support
Intel's OpenVINO toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inferencing across their range of hardware platforms is out with its newest quarterly feature update. There is official support for Intel's latest hardware as well as enabling more large language models and other new AI innovations for this excellent open-source Intel software project.
April 8th, 2026 — Source

Lenovo Laptops To Enjoy Better Fan Speed Monitoring With Linux 7.1
Set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is the "Yogafan" hardware monitoring driver to provide fan speed monitoring not only for Lenovo Yoga laptops but also various Legion and IdeaPad laptops too.
April 8th, 2026 — Source

mpdscribble -- MPD client
mpdscribble is a client for Music Player Daemon that submits information about tracks being played to scrobbler services such as Last.fm.
April 8th, 2026 — Source

otel-tui -- terminal-based observability viewer
otel-tui is a terminal-based observability viewer that lets you inspect telemetry data directly from a text user interface.
April 8th, 2026 — Source

PHP 8.4.20 released
The PHP 8.4.20 update addresses critical Opcache JIT compiler bugs that silently produced incorrect arithmetic results alongside infinite loop vulnerabilities and use-after-free memory corruption issues. Multiple extensions including FFI, Sysvshm, and SNMP received fixes for resource leaks and undefined behavior that could cause gradual performance degradation or random crashes in long-running processes. Web developers get corrections to XML attribute handling in the DOM parser, AVIF image detection support through GD, and XSLT compatibility improvements between different document object types.
April 8th, 2026 — Source

Purple -- terminal-based SSH host manager
Purple is a terminal-based SSH host manager that helps administrators work with large or frequently changing server inventories from a single text user interface.
April 8th, 2026 — Source

ShrikeLinux -- Arch-based Linux distribution
ShrikeLinux is an Arch-based distribution with a customised Xfce desktop and Nordic-inspired theming, designed to deliver a minimal, fast, and polished Linux experience.
April 8th, 2026 — Source

Tails 7.6.1 released
The Tails team just pushed out version 7.6.1 as an emergency update to patch critical security vulnerabilities found in Tor Browser. Even though developers say they have not seen these flaws actively exploited yet, ignoring them leaves anonymity tools open to potential traffic analysis attacks. This release brings the Tor Client and Thunderbird up to date while also fixing firmware packages that struggle with newer Wi-Fi cards on laptops. Users should treat this as a mandatory fix rather than an optional upgrade since the underlying browser engine received significant security hardening.
April 8th, 2026 — Source

Zen Browser 1.19.7b released
Zen Browser version 1.19.7b updates its Firefox engine to 149.0.2 while fixing a critical bug that made toolbars unresponsive on Linux systems after dragging tabs in Wayland sessions. The release also resolves issues where addon installation failed in compact mode and disabling page swipe broke workspace switching on MacOS devices. A new keyboard shortcut for duplicating tabs has been added to settings alongside several minor visual fixes like double separator lines in menus. Users upgrading should check if they had workarounds enabled for the previously broken Linux input handling or MacOS gesture conflicts.
April 8th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 6th, 2026

6 Best Free and Open Source Graphical Audio Grabbers
CD audio grabbers are designed to extract ("rip") the raw digital audio (in a format commonly called CDDA) from a compact disc to a file or other output. This type of software enables a user to encode the digital audio into a variety of formats, and download and upload disc info from freedb, an internet compact disc database.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

A Small But Useful Debugging Addition For AMD Zen Systems With Linux 7.1
A small but convenient feature is coming with the Linux 7.1 that will be useful in debugging AMD Zen system problems and information reporting/transparency purposes.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: awk
This article spotlights alternative tools to awk, software specialized for textual data manipulation. It reads a text file line by line, and for each line that matches a pattern expression, it executes an action (which normally prints output).
April 6th, 2026 — Source

claws -- terminal user interface for managing AWS resources
Inspired by k9s, it provides a keyboard-driven interface with vim-style navigation for browsing, inspecting, filtering, and acting on resources across a wide range of AWS services, including compute, storage, databases, containers, and serverless components. It also supports working across multiple AWS profiles and regions, and includes an AI chat assistant that uses AWS Bedrock for contextual analysis.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

Google Proposes JSIR As A High-Level IR For JavaScript
Google engineers have been developing JSIR as a high-level intermediate representation (JSIR) for JavaScript that they are already using in production at the company code code analysis and transforming other code/bytecode to JavaScript as well as for deobfuscating JavaScript code.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

Duolingo's Kubernetes Leap
Franka Passing discusses the architectural shift of Duolingo's 500+ backend services to Kubernetes. She explains the move toward GitOps with Argo CD, the transition to IPv6-only pods, and the "cellular architecture" used to isolate environments. She shares "reports from the trenches" on managing developer trust, navigating AWS rate limits, and productionizing early adopter services.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

KDE is bringing back the Oxygen and Air themes, here's what they look like
Oxygen and its close sibling, Air, were removed back in 2024. Now, KDE is restoring them as optional packages for Plasma 6.7.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

Linux devs start removing support for 37-year-old Intel 486 CPU — head honcho Linus Torvalds says 'zero real reason' to continue support
Linus Torvalds recently telegraphed that there was 'zero real reason' to continue support for these ancient CPUs.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.6.133 released
Linux Kernel 6.6.133 releases as a quick fix designed to stop systems from crashing after a bad update slipped through. The issue stemmed from a previous change that removed vital checks for invalid file descriptors used in extended attribute calls. This release undoes those changes to prevent kernel panics reported by security researchers and admins alike. Anyone running production servers should install this version right away since stability matters more than new code tweaks.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

Many MediaTek MT76 WiFi Driver Improvements Coming For Linux 7.1
Separate from the recently discussed work on MediaTek MT7927 "Filogic 380" support being worked on for the MT76 Linux driver (still undergoing review), a number of other MediaTek MT76 wireless driver improvements are queued up ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening as soon as next week.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

mplay -- command-line music player inspired by cplay
mplay is a command-line music player inspired by cplay, but with a richer terminal interface and a strong emphasis on customization.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

NetBSD 11.0 Nears Release With RC3 Released For Testing
For the better part of the past year NetBSD developers have been preparing for the NetBSD 11.0 release and in February NetBSD 11.0-RC1 released followed by 11.0-RC2 and now a third release candidate was announced today.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

onsen -- rain sounds and white noise
onsen is a small Python command line utility that brings a relaxing hot-springs theme to the terminal.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

OWASP Amass- attack surface mapping and asset discovery framework
OWASP Amass is an attack surface mapping and asset discovery framework. It performs network mapping of attack surfaces and external asset discovery using open source information gathering and active reconnaissance techniques.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

PaddleOCR -- OCR and document-parsing toolkit
This is a series where I hand-pick an open source Linux application each week that has not previously been covered on LinuxLinks. Each application must meet a very high standard.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

Patch to end i486 support hits Linux kernel merge queue
After a year of patchwork, maintainers look ready to start retiring 486-class CPUs
April 6th, 2026 — Source

Tiny Corp Begins Accepting Pre-Orders For Their $10M Exabox
Open-source friendly company Tiny Corp that is behind the Tinygrad MIT-licensed neural network framework and developing a "sovereign" AMD GPU driver stack with their Tinybox hardware offerings has their sights on shipping the Exabox next year. The Tiny Corp's Exabox is expected to retail for around $10M USD but offer immense AI compute power.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS makes it even easier to enable 10 years of security updates
Canonical is adding Ubuntu Pro enrollment to the Welcome tool in the upcoming 26.04 LTS release, simplifying 10-year support access.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu's latest version now needs more RAM than Windows 11
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS requires a dual-core 2GHz CPU and 6GB RAM, which is more than Windows 11's 1GHz and 4GB minimums.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

Wine Staging 11.6 Ships Big Patch Series For Working On DirectComposition
Following Friday's release of Wine 11.6 with reviving the Android driver and improving game mod support as part of DLL loader updates, Wine-Staging 11.6 is out today with extra patches atop.
April 6th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 3rd, 2026

13 Best Free and Open Source Linux Photo Management Software
Photo management software is a type of computer application that helps users to organize their digital image collection.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

A popular Linux distro now has higher system hardware requirements than Windows 11
Ubuntu, a popular Linux distro, is getting a new version soon, and its requirements are seemingly higher than that of Windows 11.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

AMDGPU Driver Ready To Be The Default For Aging Kaveri / Kabini / Mullins APUs
With Linux 6.19 AMD GCN 1.1 and GCN 1.1 dGPUs now default to the AMDGPU driver rather than the legacy Radeon Linux driver. For these Southern Islands and Sea Islands graphics cards it means much better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other improved functionality in using this modern AMDGPU kernel graphics driver on Linux.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

CachyOS Delivers More Performance Out Of Intel Panther Lake
Most of my Intel Panther Lake benchmarking over the past two months for the new Core Ultra Series 3 hardware has been done with Ubuntu Linux given the pervasiveness of it, especially in the corporate/enterprise space. But for those looking at achieving even greater out-of-the-box Linux performance on Intel Panther Lake, the Arch Linux based CachyOS does a pretty fine job at further advancing the performance.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

FreeBSD Laptop Project Hopes To Port Newer Linux Graphics Drivers This Year
Developers working on the FreeBSD laptop initiative to make the FreeBSD operating system more suitable for running on modern laptop hardware have drafted their road-map of further action items they hope to accomplish in 2026.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

Gentoo Releases Experimental Images Using GNU/Hurd
Following an April Fools' Day tease of Gentoo claiming they were going to switch to GNU Hurd as their primary kernel moving forward, they have now acknowledged the joke but in fact also announcing there are now experimental Gentoo GNU/Hurd images available.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

Gnucap -- general purpose circuit simulator
Gnucap is a general purpose circuit simulator aimed at analysing and simulating electronic circuits. It supports both analog and digital simulation, allowing engineers, researchers, and students to experiment with circuit designs and evaluate behaviour under different conditions.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

Hands On with OpenClaw Node for VS Code: Real Workflow, Real Friction
With all the hoopla around OpenClaw and its potential for proactive assistants and personal agents, I have been curious about how it would actually work in a real editor-based workflow.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.32 Adds Wildcat Lake Support
Intel today released their Linux NPU Driver 1.32 as the user-space driver components that interacts with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for supporting the NPU hardware with Core Ultra processors.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

Internet Bug Bounty program hits pause on payouts
HackerOne is the latest organization to struggle with AI submissions.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

KDE neon 20260402 released
KDE neon loads fresh Plasma software onto an Ubuntu LTS foundation specifically for enthusiasts who care more about new features than rock-solid stability. Developers prioritize new features over guaranteeing a system that works without issues during critical tasks so users need to manage their own risk. Proprietary Nvidia drivers require manual installation and are unsupported, meaning anyone with graphics issues must handle troubleshooting without official backing. System updates demand the use of apt full-upgrade instead of standard commands to prevent dependency breakages on this rolling software stack.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

Linux NPU Driver v1.32.0 released
Intel Linux NPU Driver v1.32.0 brings essential Wildcat Lake support and cleans up the messy dependency chains that frustrated Ubuntu users for months. Automatic Level Zero resolution removes the headache of manually hunting down binaries while a new documentation file clarifies exactly what features are active in the UMD driver. Successful installation demands purging legacy packages first to avoid conflicts with the specific libze1 version pulled directly from the graphics PPA snapshot. Users must confirm hardware recognition by inspecting /dev/accel devices and dmesg logs instead of trusting a silent install process.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily
Meta's great Linux engineering team have been working through some fresh performance optimizations recently from optimizing /proc/interrupts outputs to renewing their investment in jemalloc. A new Linux kernel patch this week provides another optimization to avoid a possible situation of throttling the TCP throughput unnecessarily on Linux systems.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

OpenAI executive shuffle includes new role for COO Brad Lightcap to lead 'special projects'
A handful of OpenAI executives are transitioning into new roles, according to a report from Bloomberg. An OpenAI spokesperson confirmed the personnel changes to TechCrunch.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

Pulse -- local-first burnout and energy tracker for GNOME
Pulse is a GNOME application designed to help users monitor their energy levels and manage burnout.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

Redox OS Introducing New CPU Scheduler For ~1.5x Performance In Heavy Tasks
The Rust-based Redox OS operating system is preparing to land a new CPU scheduler thanks to work being carried out by open-source developer Akshit Gaur on modernizing the platform's process scheduling subsystem.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

ShoopDaLoop -- advanced live looping application with DAW-like elements
ShoopDaLoop is an advanced live looping application with DAW-like elements.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

Snapdragon X2's Adreno X2-85 GPU Sees Driver Improvements For Linux 7.1
Rob Clark on Thursday sent out the batch of MSM DRM driver feature changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window. This new work for DRM-Next includes enhancements to the Adreno X2-85 GPU support as found within the new Snapdragon X2 laptop SoCs plus various enhancements to existing Qualcomm graphics/display hardware.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

Snu Photo Manager -- feature-rich photo manager
Snu Photo Manager is a feature-rich desktop application for managing and editing photos and videos, written in Python and built using the Kivy framework.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

Speed of Sound -- voice typing for the Linux desktop
Speed of Sound is a voice typing application for the Linux desktop that enables users to dictate text and have it automatically transcribed into any focused application.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

SteamOS propels Linux to record 5.33% share in latest Steam Survey
The latest Steam Hardware and Software Survey results for March 2026 show Linux crossing the 5% market share threshold for the first time in the platform's history. According to the data, Linux-based systems jumped to 5.33% of the total user base, a massive 3.10% increase over the previous month.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

Tencent is building an enterprise empire on top of an Austrian developer's open-source lobster
Tencent Holdings has launched ClawPro, an enterprise AI agent management platform built on OpenClaw, the open-source framework that has become the fastest-growing project in GitHub's history and the unlikely centrepiece of a national technology craze in China. The tool, released in public beta by Tencent's cloud division on Thursday, allows businesses to deploy OpenClaw-based AI agents in as little as 10 minutes, with controls for template selection, model switching, token-consumption tracking, and security compliance. During its internal beta, ClawPro was adopted by more than 200 organisations across finance, government, and manufacturing, sectors that require the kind of strict data governance that the open-source version of OpenClaw was never designed to provide.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu Raises CPU And RAM Requirements Above Windows 11 Amid Linux's Steam Surge
Canonical has posted a new set of system requirements for the release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, otherwise known as Resolute Raccoon, and they are now higher than what Microsoft recommends for Windows 11. Notably, the new requirements arrive amid another surge in Linux usage on Steam, with the latest Steam survey revealing an all-time high metric for Linux.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

Vulkan 1.4.348 Ships Four New Extensions - Including One To Help OpenGL Emulation
Vulkan 1.4.348 released this morning as the latest routine update to this high performance graphics and compute API. With Vulkan 1.4.348 comes four new extensions.
April 3rd, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 2nd, 2026

AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" Enjoys Great Performance Gains With Latest Linux Software
With the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release due out in three weeks, I have been re-testing a number of different devices on this newest Ubuntu release. One of the most significant improvements to note was when running the Framework Desktop with Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" and quantifying the performance gains of the Radeon 8060S Graphics since launch last year. Here's a look at how the Vulkan and OpenGL performance has evolved for the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 since its launch last year in going from Ubuntu 25.04 to Ubuntu 26.04.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

Bottles 63.2 released
Bottles 63.2 has dropped as a quick fix for the crash that was killing Wine apps whenever GTK tried to refresh from another thread. This threading conflict caused applications to quit without warning, which is exactly the kind of instability nobody needs after setting up a complex environment. Users should grab the update through Flatpak or their package manager immediately before running any containers. Ignoring this release means risking unexpected failures that could ruin testing sessions or gaming setups.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

CentOS Launches Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement For Driving NVIDIA AI Factories
The CentOS project has established the Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement "AIE" special interest group with a focus on providing a "fast lane" for "in-flight" patches. This CentOS AIE SIG is particularly focused on carrying the code needed for enabling NVIDIA AI factories.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

Glate -- Google Translator and Text To Speech Service on Linux Desktop
Glate is a desktop application for Linux that provides text translation and text-to-speech capabilities using Google's translation services. It offers a straightforward interface for translating text between a wide range of languages while also allowing users to listen to pronunciations or generate speech audio files. The application is designed for everyday use, combining translation and speech synthesis into a single, lightweight tool.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

hyprquickshot -- screenshot utility for Hyprland built with Quickshell
hyprquickshot is a screenshot utility for Hyprland built with Quickshell. It provides a graphical capture interface with smooth animations, giving users a more polished workflow than a simple shell script or basic command-line frontend.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

IBM Collaborating With Arm For Dual-Architecture Hardware
IBM announced today a strategic collaboration with Arm around new dual-architecture hardware.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

IBM Lays Out Patches For ARM Virtualization Acceleration On IBM Z Servers
Following this morning's announcement of IBM working with Arm on "dual architecture" hardware, we have some more details on at least what's happening from the software side... It's improving Arm virtualization on IBM Z Systems (s390).
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

Intel Posts Fourth Version Of Cache Aware Scheduling For Linux
Just over one year ago Intel Linux engineers began working on cache-aware load balancing for Linux or more commonly referred to as Cache Aware Scheduling. The functionality for helping modern Intel Xeon and AMD EPYC processors especially hasn't yet been upstreamed to the Linux kernel but yesterday the fourth version of these patches were posted for review.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

KTransformers Adds AVX2 MoE Support For Viable Performance On CPUs Without AMX/AVX-512
KTransformers 0.5.3 released today for this framework for efficient inferencing and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) with a focus on CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing. With this release, KTransformers 0.5.3 is now more applicable for CPUs lacking Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) and AVX-512 in now providing some AVX2-only kernels too.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

Linux Fixes Performance Bug Affecting Qualcomm Ath11k & Ath12k WiFi Drivers
Sent out today were the networking subsystem fixes for the ongoing Linux 7.0 kernel. These networking fixes in time for Sunday's Linux 7.0-rc7 release include addressing performance issues within the Qualcomm Ath11k and Ath12k WiFi drivers that have always existed ever since the drivers were upstreamed.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

Linux Installations Rise to 5% in Latest Steam Hardware Survey, RTX 5070 Falls Back
The latest Steam hardware survey has shown a very interesting picture, with strong growth in Linux installations among gamers. The share of users using Linux rose from 2.13% in February to 5.33% in March. This is a significant jump, putting the open-source operating system well ahead of macOS, which stands at 2.35%, although it still remains far behind Windows, which continues to dominate with 92.33%, despite a drop of 4.28%.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.19.11, 6.18.21, 6.12.80, 6.6.132 released
The latest Linux kernel drops for versions 6.19.11, 6.18.21, 6.12.80, and 6.6.132 prioritize boring stability work over exciting new features. Ext4 receives patches to prevent panic messages when unmounting or handling corrupted block groups during normal file operations. Drivers for Xilinx DMA engines and Intel Bluetooth stacks are fixed to manage hardware resets properly without leaking memory. System administrators managing servers should apply these patches quickly to avoid crashes caused by critical use-after-free bugs.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

Linux users surge on Steam, doubling in a year
The Steam Deck is a huge part of that, obviously... but it's a smaller factor in the total Linux number than you might think.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents
Microsoft today announced their newest open-source (MIT-licensed) software project.. the Agent Governance Toolkit. Microsoft is trying their hand at coming up with runtime security governance for autonomous AI agents.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

New Red Hat subscription simplifies long-term enterprise Linux support
Red Hat has announced Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extended Life Cycle Premium, a new subscription that provides a predictable 14-year life cycle for major Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases. This stand-alone subscription consolidates extended support, simplifying the management of multiple support streams. It helps organizations maintain their most sensitive, change-averse workloads on a single, hardened foundation for more than a decade.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

OpenAI just bought TBPN
The talk show will reportedly maintain editorial independence but also help with OpenAI comms and marketing.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

OpenSSH 10.3 released
OpenSSH 10.3 arrives with critical patches that fix command injection vulnerabilities capable of executing arbitrary shell commands through user names. The update enforces stricter certificate rules so an empty principals section fails authentication instead of acting as a dangerous wildcard. New escape sequences and multiplexing flags make debugging active connections significantly easier without killing background sessions. System administrators should prioritize this upgrade immediately because the patches close known exploitation paths in standard setups.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

pgAdmin 4 v9.14 released
The pgAdmin 4 v9.14 update finally puts an end to the frustration of seeing AI tools when they are disabled in the settings. Power users can now copy text directly from chat panels and download binary data without hunting for external utilities. Underneath the hood, fixes prevent crashes during OAuth2 authentication and stop geometry viewers from displaying stale information. The team also improved how the AI Assistant manages conversation context to keep token budgets in check during long sessions.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

Proposed Wine Code Uses Zink For OpenGL-On-Vulkan By Default
A CodeWeavers engineer opened a merge request yesterday for Wine to use Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver by default. This would build Zink as a Windows Portable Executable (PE) for allowing OpenGL to go straight to the Vulkan API with the host Vulkan drivers.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

Steam on Linux Surpasses 5% Market Share in the Latest Survey Update
As we enter a new month, Steam's Hardware and Software Survey data has been processed, providing us with a clearer view of the overall gaming market that uses Steam platform. Today, the most notable change in the Steam Survey is the increase in Linux gamers, who have moved from their historically low single-digit market share to mid-single digits. As of March, Linux-based operating systems were running Steam on 5.33% of all polled systems. This represents an impressive 3.10% increase over February's data, which showed a dip in Linux market share from January's 3.5%.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

Switchfin -- third-party native Jellyfin client
Switchfin is a third-party PC player for Jellyfin that provides a native user interface to browse and play movies and series.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

SystemRescue 13 lands with Linux 6.18 and bcachefs support
And other handy tools that could save your data in a crisis
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Raises Recommended Memory Requirement to 6 GB
Canonical increased the recommended system memory for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS "Resolute Raccoon" to 6 GB of RAM, a first major change since 2018. According to the release note, the 26.04 LTS now lists 6 GB of RAM as the baseline for a comfortable desktop experience, alongside a 2 GHz dual-core CPU and 25 GB of storage, unchanged from previous generations. This represents a 50% increase over Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, which in 2018 raised the bar to 4 GB, and a notable shift from earlier releases that ran on as little as 1 GB. The change is not caused by a heavier core OS. Instead, it reflects the reality of modern workloads.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018
Not the best timing due to the RAMpocalypse, but there are leaner distros like Lubuntu available if you need them.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

The Best Lightweight Linux Distros to Revive Your Old Hardware
Lightweight Linux distributions offer an effective way to rejuvenate older computers, allowing them to perform everyday tasks efficiently despite hardware limitations. As highlighted by ExplainingComputers, these distros are designed to minimize resource usage, making them ideal for systems with constrained memory or processing power. For instance, Lubuntu, which runs on as little as 1 GB of RAM and a 1 GHz CPU, provides a modern interface while remaining highly resource-efficient. By carefully matching a distro like Lubuntu, MX Linux, or Antix Linux to your computer's specifications, you can ensure optimal performance even on aging hardware.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

wak -- compact implementation of the awk programming language
wak is a compact implementation of the awk programming language designed for both standalone use and integration with Toybox.
April 2nd, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — April 1st, 2026

20 Best Free and Open Source Linux Speech Synthesis Tools
Speech synthesizers are text-to-speech systems used with computers. This type of software is programmed to include phonemes and the grammatical rules of a language, so that words are pronounced correctly. A text-to-speech (TTS) system converts normal language text into speech. The reverse process is speech recognition. We cover speech recognition in a separate roundup.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

April 1 Linux Patches: Verified Birth Date For File Creation, Block Emacs From Running
What's more annoying: half-baked AI slop open-source patches or April Fools' Day with programmers trying to have some fun? This year, April 1 is seeming more patches than usual.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

Bazaar 0.7.13 released
Bazaar version 0.7.13 lands with a focus on stability rather than flashy new features for its Flatpak application store. The update forces the GNOME 50 runtime while resolving nasty bugs where opening random URIs would crash the app entirely. Visual tweaks clean up double shadows and fix label wrapping issues that plagued high DPI displays during recent testing. While permission editing made a brief appearance, it was removed to prioritize fixing crashes and ensuring bundles open correctly for users.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

Briefkasten -- self-hosted bookmarking application
Briefkasten is a self-hosted bookmarking application for users who want to manage saved links on their own infrastructure.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

Daphne -- audio player and music library manager for Linux
Daphne is a modern Linux music player that's built with GTK4 and the giD bindings for D. It's free and open source software.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

Dell XPS 13 Snapdragon Elite Laptop Sees New EC Linux Driver To Improve Support
Last month Dell upstreamed the firmware needed for their XPS 13 935 Snapdragon X1 Elite laptop. This makes the Linux outlook for this ARM-based Dell XPS laptop much better than before in not having to worry about extracting necessary firmware blobs from Windows 11. Now another step forward for the Dell XPS 13 9345 is being made with a new EC driver being posted to enhance the hardware support.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

camera-streamer -- low-latency camera streaming project for Raspberry Pi systems
camera-streamer is a high-performance, low-latency camera streaming project for Raspberry Pi systems and similar single-board computers.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

Change of Platform Coming Soon to LinuxLinks
After a great deal of reflection, benchmarking, soul-searching, and one suspiciously long meeting near the photocopier, we're thrilled to announce a bold new direction for the future of our computing life.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

grimblast -- helper for screenshots within Hyprland
grimblast is a command-line screenshot utility for Hyprland. Based on grimshot, it offers a simple interface over grim, slurp, and jq, making it easier to capture screenshots in Wayland sessions.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

HarfBuzz 14.0 Released With New GPU Accelerated Text Rendering Library
HarfBuzz is the open-source text shaping engine originally born out of the FreeType project and now widely-used by GNOME, KDE, Java, Flutter, Godot, Chromium, LibreOffice, and countless other applications. HarfBuzz 14.0 released today and making this release quite exciting is introducing a GPU-accelerated text rendering library.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

Javi-OS -- Debian-based Linux distribution
Javi-OS is a Linux distribution designed to deliver a smooth and secure user experience. It's based on Debian for Spanish users.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

KDE Linux Hardening Their OS Against Updates Making Systems Unbootable
KDE Linux as the in-house, leading-edge Linux distribution for showcasing the latest KDE Plasma innovations has promoted itself as being an atomically updated Linux distribution. But these atomic updates didn't quite work out as planned recently with some users finding their system(s) unbootable. But improvements are being made now for better robustness moving forward.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

MeloTTS -- high-quality multi-lingual text-to-speech library
MeloTTS is a multilingual text-to-speech library written in Python for generating natural-sounding speech locally.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

New Patches Allow Building Linux IPv6-Only, Option To Deprecate "Legacy" IPv4
Longtime Linux developer David Woodhouse sent out a patch series today to "deprecate legacy IP" support within the Linux kernel. While some of his commentary his April 1st-esque, he does acknowledge much of this work has merit. Ultimately it can allow for building a Linux kernel with IPv6-only support and working on allowing "legacy" IPv4 support to be disabled as part of the kernel build.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

OpenAI raises $122 billion in boosted funding round
OpenAI on Tuesday said that the startup was valued at $852 billion in a freshly closed funding round that raised $122 billion.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

PLD Linux -- RPM-based Linux distribution
PLD Linux is a free, RPM-based Linux distribution for advanced users and administrators who value flexibility and are comfortable with occasional manual tweaking.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

Raspberry Pi 4 3GB Launches, Raspberry Pi Prices Go Up Again Due To RAM
Raspberry Pi prices are going up yet again due to the continued memory squeeze on the industry. To help offset the memory prices for some use-cases, Raspberry Pi also announced the introduction of the Raspberry Pi 4 3GB model at $83 to help fill the void between the 2GB and 4GB options.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

rawk -- POSIX compatible AWK written in Rust
rawk is an AWK implementation written in Rust for people who want a Rust-based take on the classic text-processing language.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

The Linux Kernel's Minimum Rust Version Supported Prepares For Rust 1.85 Baseline
The Rust-For-Linux crew is preparing to raise the minimum supported Rust version for building the Linux kernel and and similarly also bumping the minimum supported version of bindgen, the tool for generating Rust FFI bindings for C code in the kernel.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

Wayland Protocols 1.48 Released With XDG Session Management
Wayland Protocols 1.48 is out today with the long-awaited XDG Session Management protocol in tow as well as several new experimental protocols.
April 1st, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 31st, 2026

16 Useful Free and Open Source Linux Column-Oriented Databases
A database is a collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system. Database tools and applications are designed to help you store and manage data in a controlled and structured manner. A database is a vital system for any organisation that stores mission critical information. The continual failure of a company's database system will inevitably lead to the demise of the organisation; companies cannot function without a fully working database system.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

A Lot Of Rust Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.1, NVIDIA Nova Driver Additions
Sent out yesterday were the DRM Rust feature changes for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window coming in April. The Rust graphics/display driver code for Linux 7.1 includes more programming language abstractions and other Rust infrastructure work to make graphics drivers written in Rust more capable.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

Best Free and Open Source Software: March 2026 Updates
Here's the newest scoop on our handpicked software recommendations! This month marks another record for us — we've published 163 new and updated roundups in the month. But our focus doesn't end with software; our website is also brimming with informative hardware content.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

French open-source orchestration platform Kestra raises $25M
The French open-source orchestration platform has grown enterprise revenue 25x in 18 months and executed over 2 billion workflows in 2025. RTP Global leads the round; total funding reaches $36M.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

GNOME 49.5 released
The GNOME 49.5 release lands as a stable bugfix update that warrants immediate attention for its critical security patches within the GLib library. Epiphany has reverted its default content filters to fix site compatibility issues caused by overly aggressive adblocking rules in recent versions. This build also resolves several common interface glitches including unexpected keyboard layout changes and Nautilus crashes during daily use. Meanwhile, developers should note that GTK+ 3 is officially entering maintenance mode with major updates unlikely until March 2027.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

gscreenshot -- screenshot utility for Linux
gscreenshot is a screenshot utility for Linux that provides both a graphical interface and command line frontend for multiple screenshot backends. It supports X11 and Wayland environments, automatically detects the available backend tools on the system, and can adapt its functionality based on the installed dependencies.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

How Apache Kafka flexed to support queues
The latest release of Apache Kafka delivers the queue-like consumption semantics of point-to-point messaging. Here's the how, what, and why.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

Intel Panther Lake & Linux AI/LLM Debates Dominated Q1 For Linux Users
With Q1 wrapping up, here is a look back at the most popular news and reviews for the quarter that excited Linux readers the most. During this quarter on Phoronix were 881 original news articles thus far and 61 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

Kodi 22 'Piers' Alpha 3 is out -- download it now!
It's been three months -- 101 days, to be exact -- since the Kodi Foundation released the second Alpha build of Kodi 22 "Piers," the long-awaited next generation of its widely used home theater software. During that time, the development team has continued refining the platform, addressing early feedback, fixing bugs, and steadily improving performance and compatibility across supported devices.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

Krita 5.3.1 released
This update mainly fixes a nasty Windows performance bug where accessibility tools like PowerToys caused menus to crawl due to excessive system queries. Version 6.0.1 stays experimental because of the Qt6 migration so anyone needing reliability should probably stick with version 5.3.1 for now. Android and Linux users get several patches fixing stylus quirks and clipboard issues that broke workflows on specific hardware setups.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

Kubernetes Autoscaling Demands New Observability Focus beyond Vendor Tooling
As adoption of Kubernetes autoscalers like Karpenter accelerates, a new set of platform-agnostic observability practices is emerging, shifting focus from traditional infrastructure metrics to deeper insights into provisioning behavior, scheduling latency, and cost efficiency. While highlighted in a recent blog by Datadog, these principles reflect a broader industry trend: understanding autoscaling systems requires visibility into how and why infrastructure changes occur, not just whether systems are healthy.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

KubeVirt v1.8 Brings Multi-Hypervisor Support and Confidential Computing to Kubernetes
Version 1.8 of KubeVirt was announced at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026. The release is aligned with Kubernetes v1.35, and the most significant addition is a Hypervisor Abstraction Layer (HAL) that allows the project to use backends other than KVM. In an announcement post on the CNCF blog, the maintainers announced the new release, broken down by their SIGs (special interest groups): compute, networking, storage, and scale & performance.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

MediaTek MT7927 "Filogic 380" WiFi Support Coming Together For Linux
In addition to the MediaTek MT7902 WiFI Linux support emerging in recent months, the Linux support for the MediaTek MT7927 is also coming together for WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 support for the upstream Linux kernel.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

Meta Optimizing /proc/interrupts Reading As It's Too Costly At Scale: 29% Speedup
One of the latest Linux kernel optimizations being worked on by Meta's large kernel engineering team is making reading of /proc/interrupts less costly. Due to monitoring of their servers frequently reading /proc/interrupts, it's actually become a noticeable cost over time with their massive fleet of systems.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

Orpheus-FastAPI -- high-performance self-hosted text-to-speech server
Orpheus-FastAPI is a high-performance self-hosted text-to-speech server built with FastAPI.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

Raspberry Pi Imager -- create bootable media
Raspberry Pi Imager is a cross-platform application designed to simplify the process of preparing bootable media for Raspberry Pi devices.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

Servo 0.0.6 Released With Many Great Improvements
Servo 0.0.6 is out today to round out the month with many great improvements made in recent weeks to this Rust-based browser engine advancing with its servoshell implementation and many prospects around using it for embedded browser use cases.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

The Integrated ROCm Story For Ubuntu 26.04 Still Playing Out
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is just three weeks out for release with many great features in tow from the GNOME 50 desktop to the very leading-edge Linux 7.0 kernel and many other package updates. One feature that many had been looking forward to is Canonical's plans to ship AMD ROCm directly in the Ubuntu archive for a much cleaner experience for those wanting to make use of AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. As a common question in recent weeks from readers, it remains to be seen if that milestone will be achieved for the Ubuntu 26.04 launch day.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

The Next LVFS Actions Begin Tomorrow To Encourage More Hardware Vendors To Step Up
Last year the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) announced plans for major vendors to pay or contribute code to this project that makes it easy for deploying new system and device firmware on Linux systems. They are asking those with less than 99 employees to contribute $10k USD annually or those larger organizations to contribute $100k USD annually or to be employing engineer(s) to work full-time on LVFS/Fwupd. Beginning tomorrow the next phase of their transition to encourage vendors to support the open-source project goes into effect.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

unFTP -- modern FTP(S) server
unFTP is a modern FTP(S) server designed with cloud-native environments in mind. Built on top of the libunftp library and the Tokio asynchronous runtime, it offers a flexible and extensible approach to running FTP services while integrating with modern infrastructure such as cloud storage, monitoring systems, and container platforms.
March 31st, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu 26.04 beta arrives packing GNOME 50, which no longer supports Google Drive
Yep, you read that right. And there's no official Linux client from Google
March 31st, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 24th, 2026

4 Fun Free and Open Source Meme Generation Tools
The popular Syrian artist and meme creator Saint Hoax, who has millions of Instagram followers, defines a meme as a piece of media that is repurposed to deliver a cultural, social or political expression, mainly through humour.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

6 Best Free and Open Source Virtual Globes
A virtual globe is a three-dimensional (3D) software model or representation of Earth or another world. A virtual globe provides the user with the ability to freely move around in the virtual environment by changing the viewing angle and position. Virtual globes may be used for study or navigation (by connecting to a GPS device) and their design varies considerably according to their purpose.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

17 Best Free and Open Source Linux File Managers
A file manager is software which provides a user interface to assist in the organisation of files. It helps users with their daily work in managing their files on a hard drive or other storage device. With terabyte hard disks becoming prevalent, file managers represent an essential tool in managing file systems.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

30 Best Free and Open Source Linux Shells
The shell is a program that takes commands from the keyboard and gives them to the operating system to perform. This environment lets users run commands, programs, and shell scripts. The shell is both an interactive command language and a scripting language, and is used by the operating system to control the execution of the system using shell scripts.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

Additional AMD RDNA 4m GPU Targets Coming: GFX1171 & GFX1172
Back in February AMD engineers introduced a new GFX1170 GPU target in LLVM for their AMDGPU shader compiler and was marked with new "RDNA 4m" branding. It's part of the GFX11 family associated with RDNA3 but carrying this new "4m" branding. In follow-up commits they made further ISA changes distinguishing it from existing RDNA 3 GPUs. Now there are two more RDNA 4m targets being added.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

amux -- terminal UI for running multiple coding agents in parallel
amux is a terminal user interface for running multiple coding agents in parallel with a workspace-first model.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

Blender Optimization Leads To Twice As Fast Performance With CPU Bottlenecked Scenes
Proposed code for Blender's EEVEE engine can lead to both the OpenGL and Vulkan performance doubling in instancing-heavy scenes that are CPU bottlenecked.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC running Linux: BIOS
This is a series looking at the BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC running Linux. In this series, I examine every aspect of this Mini PC in detail from a Linux perspective.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

Krita 5.3.0 and 6.0.0 released
Krita has officially released versions 5.3.0 and 6.0.0 simultaneously, though users are advised to stick with 5.3.0 for stable daily work since version 6 relies on experimental Qt 6 technology. The update brings major workflow improvements including on-canvas text editing with full OpenType support and a smarter fill tool capable of closing gaps automatically during inking tasks.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

Krita 6.0 Released With Qt6 Port & Better Wayland Support
Krita 6.0 debuted today as the Qt6 port of this digital painting program aligned with KDE/Qt development. Krita 6.0 also brings improved Wayland support while Krita 5.3 is being simultaneously released for running on the mature Qt5 toolkit.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux Driver Debuts As Stable R595 Build
Building off the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux beta driver that brought DRI3 v1.2 support and new Vulkan capabilities, the NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux driver released this morning as the first stable Linux driver build in the R595 release branch.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA Talks Up "Expanding The Open-Source Horizon" Around AI & Kubernetes
KubeCon Europe is running this week in Amsterdam and NVIDIA used the event to talk up their open-source work around AI and newest open-source contributions.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

OpenBLAS 0.3.32 Brings Improved Detection Of Newer Intel CPUs
OpenBLAS 0.3.32 is now available for this optimized open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms "BLAS" library. Notable with the OpenBLAS 0.3.32 release is improving CPU auto-detection for newer Intel processors.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

Playwright -- framework for web testing and automation
Playwright is a framework for web testing and automation. It lets developers automate Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit with a single API, making it suitable for end-to-end testing, browser automation, and cross-browser quality assurance workflows.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

Pop!_OS 24.04 versus Ubuntu 24.04 LTS versus Ubuntu 26.04 Development Benchmarks
While having the new System76 Thelio Mira desktop in the lab, I took the opportunity to run some benchmarks to see how Pop!_OS 24.04 is currently performing relative to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for which it is based as well as looking ahead at how Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in its current near-final development form is looking on the same hardware.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

Ruby on Rails 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1 released
Rails versions 7.2, 8.0, and 8.1 just received emergency patches for critical vulnerabilities that could let attackers steal data or crash your servers entirely. The update blocks path traversal attempts in Active Storage while the DebugExceptions middleware gets protection against accidental cross-site scripting leaks. Ignoring this leaves the door wide open for denial of service attacks through oversized file streams or malicious glob injection during deletions. Running bundle update now is better than waiting until a breach forces everyone's hand later.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

Some Linux Distros Skirt Age Verification Laws
To get around this, MidnightBSD has decided to add a clause in its license that reads, "California residents are not authorized to use MidnightBSD for desktop use in the state of California effective January 1, 2027."
March 24th, 2026 — Source

svelte-jsoneditor -- view, edit, format, transform, and validate JSON
svelte-jsoneditor is a web-based tool to view, edit, format, transform, and validate JSON.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

System76 Retools Thelio Desktop
The new Thelio Mira has landed with improved performance, repairability, and front-facing ports alongside a high-quality tempered glass facade.
March 24th, 2026 — Source

Systemd-free antiX Linux 26: Debian 13, in bonsai form
Plus: Still supports 32-bit hardware or VMs
March 24th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 22nd, 2026

Bottles 63.0 released
Bottles 63 lands to stop Windows software from crashing mid-installation or failing to launch on Linux. The update fixes crashes caused by zero-byte ghost files and ignores temporary data that often ruins registry backups during interruptions. The interface gets smarter with alphabetical sorting, automatic font loading, and reliable Steam shortcut integration for daily use. Users behind firewalls will appreciate the new proxy settings while terminal commands finally handle special characters correctly.
March 22nd, 2026 — Source

D7VK 1.6 Overhauls Interaction With DXVK's D3D9 Backend
D7VK is the open-source project that began as a Direct3D 7 implementation atop the Vulkan API for Linux gamers and with time expanded to support all the way back to Direct3D 3. Out today is D7VK 1.6 with continuing to enhance this D3D compatibility layer atop Vulkan for enhancing retro/vintage gaming on Linux.
March 22nd, 2026 — Source

Electron's Investment Into Good Wayland Support
For years Electron apps were notorious for continuing to depend upon X11/XWayland and not jive well with the modern Wayland experience on modern Linux desktops. But for the past several months, Wayland has been well supported out-of-the-box on upstream Electron. An Electron blog post this week outlined the technical work done for achieving good Wayland support.
March 22nd, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0-rc5 Released: Linux 7.0 "Starting To Calm Down"
Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 7.0-rc5 as we inch toward the stable Linux 7.0 kernel release in April.
March 22nd, 2026 — Source

Linux Security Roundup for Week 12, 2026
Many Linux distributions released security notifications covering AlmaLinux, Debian, Fedora, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux which contain critical flaws in core system files. Administrators should install patches immediately for applications like Chromium and ImageMagick because these vulnerabilities could enable denial of service attacks or remote code execution risks. Critical fixes address issues within tools like Python and libpng to stop attackers from exploiting known flaws. Users on other distributions such as Oracle and Ubuntu also need to prioritize updates for kernel components and webmail software to ensure safety against active exploits in the wild.
March 22nd, 2026 — Source

Loongson Linux Display Driver No Longer Orphaned
The Loongson Direct Rendering Manager driver for handling the display controller on LS7A/LS2K SoCs is no longer orphaned with new Loongson engineers stepping up to maintain the code moving forward.
March 22nd, 2026 — Source

mdadm 4.6 Released With Boot Failure Fixes, New Lockless Bitmap
The mdadm utility for managing software RAID on Linux systems is out with a new release that adds new features while addressing some recent boot failure issues that were reported.
March 22nd, 2026 — Source

OneXPlayer Configuration HID Driver Posted For Linux By Valve Developer
Open-source developer Derek Clark of Valve's Linux engineering team has been responsible for many improvements for gaming handheld devices. Such as Lenovo Legion improvements for Linux, Ayn gaming handheld improvements, and most recently Linux 7.1 set to introduce the new Lenovo Legion Go HID drivers. With the latest Lenovo Legion driver work wrapped up for Linux 7.1, Derek Clark today posted a set of patches providing a OneXPlayer Configuration HID Driver.
March 22nd, 2026 — Source

Wine-Staging 11.5 Released With A Few New Patches
Building off Friday's exciting release of Wine 11.5 with Syscall User Dispatch support, Wine-Staging 11.5 is now available for this experimental/testing build of Wine that at the moment is some 228 patches atop the upstream code.
March 22nd, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 21st, 2026

Godot 4.6.2 RC 2 released
The Godot team has released a second release candidate for version 4.6.2 because the first pass required more critical bugfixes than usual. Core stability gets a serious boost with fixes for crashes on empty strings and memory buffer overreading issues that could crash projects unexpectedly. Editor users will appreciate improvements to animation keyframes selection while platform teams see Windows driver handling and macOS VM rendering sorted out. Developers should wait for the final stable release unless they are specifically hunting down one of these known regressions right now.
March 21st, 2026 — Source

GraphicsMagick, Python, Mumble, Tempo, Composer updates for SUSE
Several security updates have been released for openSUSE Tumbleweed, Leap, and SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions to patch known vulnerabilities. GraphicsMagick receives an important update addressing buffer overflows while moderate fixes cover packages like Python libraries and the Mumble voice chat tool.
March 21st, 2026 — Source

ImageMagick, Libvirt, Chromium updates for Debian
Three Debian security advisories were released regarding critical package vulnerabilities. Libvirt users running bullseye must upgrade because a recent Linux update caused valid netlink flags to be rejected incorrectly. Chromium requires immediate attention for both oldstable and stable systems since the discovered flaws enable attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause denial of service attacks on affected machines. Finally, imagemagick users on stretch need patches for over twenty flaws including potential security policy bypasses and information leaks.
March 21st, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.7's KWin Lands Support For 3D LUTs To Help With Modern GPUs
In addition to releasing Plasma 6.6.3 this week, KDE developers remain quite busy working on new features for the Plasma 6.7 desktop while also already queuing some changes for the next Plasma 6.6.4 point release.
March 21st, 2026 — Source

LibreOffice 26.8 To Add A Donation Banner To Its Start Center
LibreOffice 26.8 merged initial support for adding a donation banner to its Start Center. This initial UI when launching LibreOffice aims to make users aware of the community-driven focus of the project and to hopefully solicit additional donations from the community.
March 21st, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 Lands Fix For Years Old Bug Affecting AMD Hainan GPUs
Merged overnight for Linux 7.0 and set to be back-ported to existing Linux stable kernel versions is a fix for aging AMD GCN 1.0 "Hainan" GPU models. This closes a 2021 bug report that was long neglected and ended up being just a small tweak to fix the issue reported of GPU hangs.
March 21st, 2026 — Source

Linux Driver Being Worked On For Pulsar Gaming Mice
A Linux HID driver is being developed for Pulsar branded gaming mice to expose additional information and capabilities.
March 21st, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel updates for Ubuntu
Two Ubuntu Security Notices address critical flaws found within the Linux kernel affecting versions 18.04 and 16.04 LTS. These issues impact critical areas like x86 architecture and access control frameworks which could allow an attacker to compromise the system.
March 21st, 2026 — Source

OpenSSH, Uxplay, Wordpress, and more updates for Fedora
A batch of security advisories was issued for Fedora Linux versions 42, 43, and 44. These updates address significant flaws in packages such as openssh and cpp-httplib that could allow unauthorized access or denial of service events. System administrators must apply these changes using the dnf upgrade program with specific advisory identifiers.
March 21st, 2026 — Source

Payment biz pulls plug on open source charity after KYC spat
Free Software Foundation Europe says it was asked for supporters' passwords; Nexi insists it only wanted test credentials to check cancellation flows
March 21st, 2026 — Source

Qualcomm shuts door on Snapdragon X DSP headers open-sourcing, Linux support hopes fade
Qualcomm says no to open DSP headers for Snapdragon X
March 21st, 2026 — Source

SUSE's Agama Installer Sees Architectural Revamp
The modern Agama OS installer for SUSE/openSUSE is out with its first new release since November. With the time since the prior release, SUSE engineers have been making key improvements to Agama and enhancing its architecture to more align with their original vision for it.
March 21st, 2026 — Source

SysV Init 3.16 Released With Cleanups, Improved systemd Unit To SysV Script Conversion
For any holdouts still running SysV Init instead of systemd or other alternatives like OpenRC, SysV Init 3.16 is out as the first release in a half-year and bringing a few refinements.
March 21st, 2026 — Source

Wine 11.5 released
Wine developers have pushed out version 11.5 of the compatibility layer, bringing critical fixes for games that rely on direct syscall instructions. The release incorporates C++ build support and includes bundled ICU libraries to improve how the software handles international text. Gamers will see stability improvements for demanding titles like Red Dead Redemption 2 while office users get fixes for apps like Evernote that previously failed to install.
March 21st, 2026 — Source

Wine Staging 11.5 released
Wine Staging 11.5 drops experimental patches for storage files and Vulkan graphics that aim to smooth out compatibility issues on Linux systems. This testing branch pushes features faster than the main release, meaning users get fixes sooner but must accept a bit more instability alongside them. Installation is straightforward for most distributions since packages land in /opt/wine-staging rather than the standard system paths by default. Those attempting to build from source must rely on the patchinstall.py utility to handle dependencies and apply patches in the proper order.
March 21st, 2026 — Source

Yggdrasil, Libarchive, VIM, and more updates for AlmaLinux
AlmaLinux released several security notifications covering versions eight through ten during late March 2026. Important fixes address critical flaws in applications like GIMP and libarchive that could allow remote code execution or denial of service attacks. Moderate severity patches also resolve issues within the Linux kernel, Python modules, and network utilities used across these distributions.
March 21st, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 20th, 2026

Dell Upstreams Firmware For The XPS Snapdragon X Elite Laptop
When it comes to using Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops on Linux, one of the big challenges have involved the need to extract the necessary firmware from the Windows 11 partition due to most vendors not providing the firmware in an easily redistributable and public form. The one exception has been the Lenovo ThinkPad with X1 Elite having upstream firmware in linux-firmware.git while now the Dell XPS model has joined the party too.
March 20th, 2026 — Source

KDE neon 20260319 released
KDE neon 20260319 released
March 20th, 2026 — Source

Kubernetes Scheduler Plugins: Optimizing AI/ML Workloads
Custom Kubernetes scheduler plugins improve GPU utilization by understanding GPU topology, workload types, and gang scheduling requirements.
March 20th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 Adding DRM Dedicated CRTC Background Color Property
Sent out today was the latest weekly round of drm-misc-next patches for queuing ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window that is set to happen in mid-to-late April.
March 20th, 2026 — Source

Linux Patches Updated To Steal Tasks For Improving CPU Utilization
Huawei engineer Chen Jinghuang posted the latest request for comments (RFC) patches for stealing tasks from overloaded CPUs in the same last level cache (LLC) in order to improve overall CPU utilization with today's large core count servers.
March 20th, 2026 — Source

Mageia 10 Beta 1 released
Beta 1 of Mageia 10 has been released for testing. This build brings significant upgrades like kernel 6.18 LTS, Plasma 6.5, and GNOME 49 though users should expect to deal with bugs before the official April 2026 launch. The team intends to prioritize fixing blockers and updating documentation for Beta 2 since rushing an April 2026 release would just guarantee user frustration. Both classical and live desktop images are available for download so users with either legacy hardware or modern systems can give them a spin.
March 20th, 2026 — Source

Mageia 10 Beta Now Available For Those Who Reminisce About Mandrake Linux
It's been nearly three years since the release of Mageia 9 for this Linux distribution who's lineage traces back to the glorious Mandrake Linux. Following the Mageia 10 alpha release back in January, Mageia 10 beta builds are now available.
March 20th, 2026 — Source

Mesa 26.0.3 released
An unscheduled bugfix release for Mesa 26.0.3 landed to fix critical raytracing issues affecting games on Linux systems. This update specifically targets stability problems in the radv and Zink drivers that previously caused crashes during mesh shader operations. While most distributions will roll this patch through package managers within days, users needing immediate fixes can grab the source tarball directly from the project site. It remains worth checking version numbers after updating to ensure the system received the necessary improvements before launching demanding titles.
March 20th, 2026 — Source

Mutt 2.3.1 released
Mutt 2.3.1 released
March 20th, 2026 — Source

Patches Sent Out For Booting Linux On Apple M3 But Without Much Functionality
Asahi Linux developers have been working for a while now on porting Asahi Linux to the Apple M3 hardware that launched back in 2023. Sent out today to the Linux kernel mailing list were finally Device Tree files for booting Linux on Apple M3 hardware but it's far from functional for end-users.
March 20th, 2026 — Source

Opera GX has finally been released for Linux
After years of sustained community demand across subreddits and forums, Opera has officially released Opera GX for Linux. The gaming browser finally brings its suite of resource-limiting tools and gamer-centric aesthetics to the Linux ecosystem.
March 20th, 2026 — Source

Sashiko: AI code review system for the Linux kernel spots bugs humans miss
Beats getting roasted on the mailing list
March 20th, 2026 — Source

Steam Linux Beta Prepares For 64-bit, Can Be Run Inside Steam Runtime Container
An interesting new Steam client beta dropped overnight from Valve with some exciting low-level enhancements.
March 20th, 2026 — Source

SteamOS 3.8 Preview Preps For Steam Machine, KDE Plasma Desktop With Wayland By Default
In addition to last night's SteamOS 3.8 Preview Preps For Steam Machine, KDE Plasma Desktop With Wayland By Default
In addition to last night's Steam client beta with Steam Runtime container support for the client and that " target="new" class="RM1">Steam client beta with Steam Runtime container support for the client and that SteamRT3 client now a 64-bit build, Valve also released a big preview update to the forthcoming SteamOS 3.8. The SteamOS 3.8 preview release brings initial support for Steam Machine hardware, various handheld gaming device support improvements, various other Steam Deck updates, improved compatibility with newer Intel and AMD platforms, and its KDE Plasma desktop is now using Wayland by default
March 20th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu 26.04 Delivers Enhanced Performance For AMD Radeon Linux Gaming
Earlier this month was a preview of the Ubuntu 26.04 performance benefits for NVIDIA Linux gaming while today's article is providing an early look at how the open-source AMD Radeon gaming experience is looking for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.
March 20th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces MicroCloud Cluster Manager
Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today MicroCloud Cluster Manager that is now in beta as a new cloud platform for managing lightweight cloud clusters.
March 20th, 2026 — Source

Ungoogled Chromium 146.0.7680.153-1 released
The newest ungoogled chromium update arrives with a strict focus on cutting off connections to Google servers while maintaining the standard engine experience. It enforces this by replacing internal domains with fake addresses and blocking any attempts to reach them at runtime through domain substitution techniques. Most privacy controls remain disabled by default so users must manually enable features within chrome://flags to gain full transparency over their browsing data.
March 20th, 2026 — Source

VSCodium 1.112.01907 released
VSCodium version 1.112.0 brings targeted fixes for Linux AppImage users while patching internal dependencies to keep the editor stable. The update resolves reporting glitches in the insiders channel and corrects CSS order issues that can mess up dark mode layouts during editing sessions. A bump in the flatted library prevents configuration crashes caused by nested JSON objects, which often go unnoticed until startup fails silently.
March 20th, 2026 — Source

Vulkan 1.4.347 Debuts With Three New Extensions
Vulkan 1.4.347 made its debut overnight as the latest routine update to this high performance graphics and compute API. Beyond the usual maintenance churn over the past week, Vulkan 1.4.347 brings three new extensions.
March 20th, 2026 — Source

WSL graphics driver update brings better GPU support for Linux apps
Meanwhile, WINE and OpenGL tweaks speed Windows apps on 64-bit hosts
March 20th, 2026 — Source

XanMod Kernel 6.19.9 and 6.18.19 LTS released
The XanMod team has pushed out kernel versions 6.19.9 and 6.18.19 LTS for users who want to squeeze extra performance out of their Linux desktops without waiting for standard cycles. These builds ship with Google's BBRv3 congestion control enabled by default alongside specific tweaks for AMD 3D V-Cache processors that most distros ignore. Installation requires adding a new repository key and ensuring DKMS dependencies are present before attempting an update on Debian or Ubuntu systems.
March 20th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 18th, 2026

6 reasons a minimal Linux install might be the smartest move you make
It turns out, there are reasons why those tiny 'minimal install' options are available on Linux.
March 18th, 2026 — Source

Arm Preparing Live Firmware Activation Support For Linux
A new platform feature being worked on by Arm engineers for the Linux kernel is Live Firmware Activation to allow for updated firmware components to be deployed without requiring a system reboot.
March 18th, 2026 — Source

Btrfs Performance From Linux 6.12 To Linux 7.0 Shows Regressions
Last week I provided a look at the EXT4 and XFS performance from Linux 6.12 LTS through Linux 7.0 in its current development form. As mentioned in that article and as requested by many Phoronix readers, benchmarks have since wrapped up looking at how the Btrfs copy-on-write file-system performance has evolved since that late 2024 period and all major Linux kernel releases past that Long Term Support version.
March 18th, 2026 — Source

Fedora Asahi Remix 43 released
Fedora Asahi Remix 43 lands with a heavy backend update swapping to RPM 6.0 and the DNF5 package manager for better speed. Apple Silicon owners gain actual support for Mac Pros, M2 microphone input, and smoother 120Hz refresh rates on compatible screens.
March 18th, 2026 — Source or Source

GE-Proton10-33 released
GE-Proton10-33 has been released by Glorious Eggroll with bleeding-edge Wine updates and core component refreshes for Linux gaming compatibility. The build introduces new VR capabilities through WiVRn support, allowing players to run specific titles on Meta Quest 3 without relying solely on Steam. Specific game fixes target popular releases like Star Citizen and Planet Crafter to resolve launch errors and enable demo save imports. Additionally, an improved umu.exe launcher mimics steam behavior to help third-party applications run more reliably within the environment.
March 18th, 2026 — Source

GNOME 50 Released With Many Fantastic Improvements
GNOME 50 is out today, on-schedule and just in time for being the default desktop of the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44.
March 18th, 2026 — Source

Google Engineers Launch "Sashiko" For Agentic AI Code Review Of The Linux Kernel
Google engineers have been spending the past number of months developing Sashiko as an agentic AI code review system for the Linux kernel. It's now open-source and publicly available and will continue to do upstream Linux kernel code review thanks to funding from Google.
March 18th, 2026 — Source

GRUB Bootloader Development Moves To FreeDesktop.org
The widely-used GRUB bootloader is now being developed on FreeDesktop.org with a modern GitLab-based workflow.
March 18th, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.6.3 released
KDE Plasma 6.6.3 serves as a March bugfix release that follows February's feature refinements and includes new translations from contributors. Key corrections address font category icons in Discover and prevent false search results when running Kate sessions as Flatpaks. Updates resolve segmentation faults during pointer mode changes in KWin and improve dimming responsiveness for specific display hardware. The patch set stabilizes panel animations and fixes widget resizing issues to ensure consistent behavior on both X11 and Wayland sessions.
March 18th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 Better Supporting The Logitech MX Master 4 Bluetooth Mouse
For those that happen to have the Logitech MX Master 4 wireless mouse or are considering this high-end ~$120 USD Bluetooth mouse, better support for it was merged yesterday to Linux 7.0.
March 18th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel, LibSSH, VIM, Snapd updates for Ubuntu
Ubuntu Security Notices detail critical vulnerabilities affecting core system software. The majority of these notifications concern kernel vulnerabilities where attackers could manipulate AppArmor profiles or exploit network drivers to escalate privileges on cloud instances. Other affected packages like Vim, libssh, and snapd also contain bugs that allow privilege escalation or denial of service attacks if exploited by local attackers. System administrators must apply the specific package updates listed in the notices immediately to patch these security holes and maintain overall system stability.
March 18th, 2026 — Source

Linux MGLRU Improvements Net A 30% Increase For MongoDB, More Than 100% On HDDs
It's been a while since having any improvements to talk about for the MGLRU multi-gen LRU functionality for the Linux kernel to optimize page reclamation and help with system performance especially when enduring memory pressure. But this week a Tencent engineer posted some very promising patches for further enhancing this kernel feature.
March 18th, 2026 — Source

PS5 Linux hack leads to first Mesa update for Sony GPU
Mesa 26.1-devel adds PS5 GPU support as AMDGPU patches follow
March 18th, 2026 — Source

Roundcube Webmail 1.5.14, 1.6.14, and 1.7 RC5 released
Roundcube Webmail has released new versions to patch several critical vulnerabilities that could compromise user accounts and mail servers. Administrators should update production installations immediately because flaws exist that allow attackers to change passwords without knowing the old credentials. The fixes also address dangerous issues like IMAP injection and XSS bugs in HTML previews that might let scripts run inside the client interface. Backing up data before applying these changes remains a necessary precaution since skipping them leaves the system exposed to known exploits.
March 18th, 2026 — Source

Samba 4.24 Released With Remote Password Management Support, Other Improvements
Samba continues strong in 2026 for this leading open-source SMB protocol re-implementation for Microsoft Windows file and print services interoperability. Samba 4.24 brings more features, including remote password management support.
March 18th, 2026 — Source

Samba 4.24.0 released
The Samba team has released version 4.24 as the first stable update for this series, bringing essential security hardening to Linux-based Active Directory controllers. Defaulting to AES encryption types and enforcing stricter certificate bindings helps plug vulnerabilities that previously allowed attackers to exploit weaker authentication protocols. Administrators will find the new samba-tool commands for managing Windows Hello keys particularly useful alongside improved compatibility with cloud password reset systems like Entra ID. It remains a solid upgrade for any server acting as a domain controller, provided administrators review their smb.conf settings to ensure legacy clients do not get locked out by the stricter Kerberos policies.
March 18th, 2026 — Source

Systemd 260 kills SysV, tells AI not to misbehave
The latest release of the most widely used Linux init system is here, and between dropping init script support and AI-assisted coding, we feel sure that this release will win it yet more admirers.
March 18th, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu's Snap Affected By Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Last week it was security issues with AppArmor to worry about on Ubuntu Linux while this week a "high" rated vulnerability for Ubuntu's Snap daemon has been revealed.
March 18th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 16th, 2026

AMD Preps More Graphics Driver Code For Linux 7.1
Last week yet more AMDGPU kernel graphics driver updates were submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window happening in April.
March 16th, 2026 — Source

Fedora Workstation 44 Beta Benchmarks On The AMD Ryzen AI Max Framework Desktop
Since last week's Fedora 44 Beta release I have been testing out this upcoming Fedora Linux version on a few systems in the lab, most notably with the Framework Desktop powered by the powerful AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo". Fedora Workstation 44 Beta has been looking nice and running stable albeit in some instances seeing lower performance at this point than Fedora Workstation 43 but overall in good shape.
March 16th, 2026 — Source

I tried Zenclora, a hyper-fast Linux distro with no bloat - and one truly standout feature
This Debian-based distribution is an absolute delight to use and relatively easy to use, with some minor caveats.
March 16th, 2026 — Source

Imagination's Open-Source PowerVR Vulkan Driver Now Plays Nicely With Zink OpenGL
The past several years Imagination Tech has been investing in an upstream and open-source DRM kernel graphics driver as well as a PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa. Their Mesa focus has exclusively been on the PowerVR Vulkan driver with the plans all along to use the Zink generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation. With next quarter's Mesa 26.1 release, that goal is being realized with Zink now working nicely atop the PowerVR Vulkan driver for in turn achieving open-source OpenGL support on PowerVR.
March 16th, 2026 — Source

Lenovo Legion Go HID Drivers Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.1
The work by Derek Clark on enhancing the Lenovo Legion Go gaming handheld support for Linux continues panning out nicely. The latest driver effort, the creation of the Lenovo Legion Go and Go S Series HID Drivers to help with controller configuration, is set to be introduced in Linux 7.1.
March 16th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 adds power reporting for AMD Ryzen AI NPUs
AMD Ryzen AI NPUs gain live power metrics in Linux 7.1
March 16th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 Kernel Will Enhance Support for AMD Ryzen AI NPUs
AMD's hardware has generally enjoyed better support on Linux than its Intel and NVIDIA competition, although adoption and feature-parity to Windows can sometimes be a little slow. This has been the case with the AMD's APUs, which only just received power and usage monitoring via a pull request for Linux 7.1. The new AMDXDNA driver will expose power monitoring metrics for AMD Ryzen AI NPUs via DRM_IOCTL_AMDXDNA_GET_INFO, alongside new metrics to expose real-time NPU busy metrics to applications.
March 16th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 To Retire UDP-Lite - Allows For Better Performance With Cleansed Code
The upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel cycle is set to retire UDP-Lite support. The UDP-Lite protocol allowed for partial checksums where potentially damaged/corrupted packets are still delivered to the application. Since the Linux 2.6.20 days there has been UDP-Lite support but the kernel is now set to retire it given breakage that has persisted for years and cleaning up the networking code can yield a performance advantage for non-UDP-Lite users.
March 16th, 2026 — Source

RADV Driver Lands Another Optimization: "Missing In RADV For A Very Long Time"
A four year old optimization idea for the RADV driver was scratched off the TODO list last week for next quarter's Mesa 26.1 release.
March 16th, 2026 — Source

Zen Browser 1.19.3b released
Zen Browser version 1.19.3b introduces workflow controls such as background tab duplication and selective space unloading from the context menu. Critical fixes address split view behavior during fullscreen toggles and ensure the chrome hide toolbar flag is respected for new windows. Navigation updates stop accidental urlbar reactivation when pressing CTRL+T while the search field remains open. Additional quality of life changes keep bookmarks visible on full screen and improve accessibility options for split view controls.
March 16th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 13th, 2026

After 30 years with Linux, I gave Windows 11 a chance - and found 9 clear problems
Going from Linux to Windows felt like taking one step forward and two steps back. Here's a list of what went wrong.
March 13th, 2026 — Source

After years of being stood up, ARM64 Linux users finally get Chrome date
Someone, somewhere, ticked a box on a build farm. The wait is over
March 13th, 2026 — Source

FreeRDP 3.24 Released With Security Fixes & Improved X11 Client Support
FreeRDP as this open-source and cross-platform Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation is out with FreeRDP 3.24 to ship new security fixes as well as other improvements.
March 13th, 2026 — Source

GNOME Infrastructure Now Battling Bots & AI Scrapers Using Fastly
GNOME's GitLab infrastructure has already been using Anubis for a while to help fend off bots and AI scraper traffic from wreacking havoc on their server resources and also their hosting budget. GNOME recently began redirecting some GitLab traffic to their GitHub repositories as another step in dealing with bots/scrapers. Now they have taken an added step of using the commercial, closed-source Fastly in their battle with bots.
March 13th, 2026 — Source

Google Chrome is coming to Arm-powered Linux devices later this year
Because of existing demand? Or because of what's next?
March 13th, 2026 — Source

Google is ready to bring Chrome to ARM64 Linux devices
Like so many web browsers, Chrome is available for just about every platform imaginable -- but not all. Looking to change this, Google has announced that it is about to bring Chrome to ARM64 Linux devices.
March 13th, 2026 — Source

I used Omega Linux to revitalize a junk PC, and it's noticeably better than Ubuntu
If you're looking for a distribution for an aging machine, consider Omega, based on Arch.
March 13th, 2026 — Source

Intel NPU Driver 1.30 Released For Linux
For going along with the Intel IVPU kernel accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel is the Intel NPU driver support in user-space. Released yesterday was the Intel NPU Driver 1.30 milestone for advancing the Intel NPU user-space support on Linux with this open-source support for Core Ultra SoCs.
March 13th, 2026 — Source

Intel Updates LLM-Scaler-vLLM With Support For More Qwen3/3.5 Models
Intel's LLM-Scaler project that makes it easy to deploy various large language models on modern Arc Graphics hardware is out with a new test release to expand its LLM coverage.
March 13th, 2026 — Source

Intel Xe Driver In Linux 7.1 Preps For Intel Nova Lake P, Introduces VM_BIND DECOMPRESS
Sent out this week were more Intel Xe driver feature patches to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window.
March 13th, 2026 — Source

Linux 6.12 Through Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks For EXT4 + XFS
Earlier this month were various Linux 7.0 file-system benchmarks showing how XFS is leading the race in the overall upstream Linux file-system performance on this forthcoming kernel. Stemming from that testing some premium supporters requested a fresh look at the historical performance of XFS as well as EXT4. So today's article is a look at how XFS and EXT4 have performed on every kernel release going back to Linux 6.12 LTS.
March 13th, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 AMDGPU Fixing Idle Power Issue For RDNA4 GPUs After Compute Workloads
A fix is on the way to the Linux 7.0 kernel today for addressing an idle power issue with AMD RDNA4 GPUs reporting high power consumption and full utilization even after being "idle" following compute workloads like Llama.cpp.
March 13th, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel API Specification Framework Advances Past RFC Stage
After going through five rounds of review under a Request For Comments (RFC) flag, today the latest round of Kernel API Specification Framework patches were sent out with the RFC flag removed.
March 13th, 2026 — Source

Miss Windows 7? How I went back to basics with PCLinuxOS
There's another Linux distribution that's ready to welcome Windows users with open arms, and this one's been around for a long time.
March 13th, 2026 — Source

Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting
Age-verification laws target operating systems because apparently teenagers having root access is now a safeguarding crisis
March 13th, 2026 — Source

Vulkan 1.4.346 Released With Notable VK_KHR_device_address_commands
Vulkan 1.4.346 was published today with one big new extension in tow: VK_KHR_device_address_commands.
March 13th, 2026 — Source

Your Linux PC should never be running slow when this built-in diagnostic tool exists (for free)
If your Linux machine is taking its own sweet time to boot, you have a built-in tool to help you discover where the problem lies.
March 13th, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 12th, 2026

After 30 years with Linux, I gave Windows 11 a chance - and found 9 clear problems
Going from Linux to Windows felt like taking one step forward and two steps back. Here's a list of what went wrong.
March 12, 2026 — Source

AMD HDR/Color Improvement For Their Linux Driver & KDE - Co-Developed By Claude Code
Introduced with Linux 6.19 was the long in development DRM Color Pipeline API while it's not the end of the road yet on enhancing the Linux desktop for modern high dynamic range (HDR) displays and color pipeline handling. AMD engineer Harry Wentland has more improvements pending for the AMDGPU driver as well as example compositor/desktop-side integration with KDE's KWin.
March 12, 2026 — Source

AMD ZenDNN 5.2 Brings A Major Redesign, AOCC 5.1 Recently Released
AMD today released ZenDNN 5.2 as the latest versio nof their deep nueral network library that now introduces their next-generation runtime architecture. ZenDNN 5.2 is designed to deliver better performance and geater scalability over earlier versions of this AMD library that began as their take on Intel's open-source oneDNN.
March 12, 2026 — Source

AMD, NVIDIA, OpenAI & Others Form An Optical Scale-up Consortium
AMD, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI jointly announced today the formation of the Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) optical scale-up consortium.
March 12, 2026 — Source

EndeavourOS Titan Released With Linux 6.19, Improved GPU Driver Integration
EndeavourOS Titan is out today as the latest ISO refresh for this Arch Linux powered distribution. There is a lot of updates as part of this routine ISO refresh as well as some new tooling and GPU driver integration enhancements.
March 12, 2026 — Source

Fedora Linux 44 Beta Released: Key Features, Updates and Downloads
The Fedora Linux 44 Beta has made several key changes, including switching both Budgie and KDE Plasma to run on Wayland by default, eliminating the need for X11. This shift reduces flicker on high-refresh monitors and improves power management. In addition to this major change, the beta introduces various new package updates, such as Go 1.26 and MariaDB 11.8. The release also includes several tweaks to improve user experience and security.
March 12, 2026 — Source

Fwupd 2.1.1 Released With Lots Of New Hardware Support
Richard Hughes of Red Hat just announced the release of Fwupd 2.1.1 as the newest feature update to this solution for deploying system firmware updates and other device/peripheral firmware updates under Linux. Paired with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS), Fwupd has made firmware updating a breeze on Linux for an increasing number of devices.
March 12, 2026 — Source

I didn't need this, but I found a free Linux app that makes memes in seconds (no GIMP required)
If you want to make memes using your own images - without AI or complicated editors - there's a free Linux tool that you can try today.
March 12, 2026 — Source

Igalia Developing Moonforge As New Linux Distribution
Linux consulting firm Igalia announced this week Moonforge, a new in-house Linux distribution by them based on Yocto and OpenEmbedded.
March 12, 2026 — Source

Intel Linux NPU Driver v1.30.0 released: How to install on Ubuntu 24.04
Intel has released version 1.30.0 of its Linux NPU driver, which can be installed on Ubuntu 24.04 with a quick-start guide that skips unnecessary steps and focuses on getting the fresh NPU stack up and running. To install the driver, you'll need to strip away old Intel components using a single purge command and then download the release archive from GitHub, which contains all Debian packages for Ubuntu 24.04.
March 12, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.18.17 Update: Key Fixes for Smoother Performance and Improved Security
The latest Linux kernel patch series, version 6.18.17, brings over 500 tweaks to improve performance and security on PCs. Key fixes include tighter networking, which eliminates mysterious crashes and packet drops, as well as smoother GPU performance for Intel and AMD cards. Memory safety has also been improved with patches that prevent potential crashes when using huge pages or accessing SMB shares. Additionally, peripheral drivers have been fixed to behave correctly, resolving issues like kernel panics on ThinkPads during boot.
March 12, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.19.7 Update: What's New and How It Improves Network Stability
The latest Linux kernel update, 6.19.7, focuses on addressing subtle networking bugs and improving BPF-related issues. Key fixes include resolving a negative XDP tailroom bug that could cause system crashes, as well as other tweaks such as security hardening and memory-allocation fixes for NVMe drivers. The patch set also brings discipline to BPF helper macros by caching indirect calls, tightening reference counts, and adding sanity checks to prevent race conditions.
March 12, 2026 — Source

Mesa 26.0.2 Has Plenty Of Graphics Driver Fixes From Intel & RADV Vulkan To Old R300g
Mesa 26.0.2 is now available as the latest bi-weekly stable point release for this set of open-source graphics drivers predominantly used on Linux systems.
March 12, 2026 — Source

Mesa 26.0.2 Released: Quick Fixes for Radeon, Intel, and Zink GPU Glitches
Mesa 26.0.2, the latest bug‑fix patch for the open‑source graphics stack, has just been released and includes over twenty fixes that resolve rendering glitches on Radeon, Intel, and NVidia hardware. The update removes a race condition that could crash the X server under heavy OpenGL use, tightens shader constant folding to prevent frame‑rate drops on older GPUs, and eliminates a memory leak in Intel's Zink path.
March 12, 2026 — Source

Qt Creator 19 IDE Released With Minimap, Built-In MCP Server For AI / LLMs
Qt developers today released Qt Creator 19 as the newest version of this cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE).
March 12, 2026 — Source

Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Finally Lands VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect
In Mesa 26.1 the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has finally landed support for the VK_KHR_copy_memory_indirect extension that was introduced to the Vulkan API last year.
March 12, 2026 — Source

Unity expands official support for Steam, Linux, Steam Deck, and Steam Machine
Unity says official Steam and native Linux support are expanding
March 12, 2026 — Source

Unity Officially Gets Steam, SteamOS, and Linux Support
Unity game engine is finally getting native integration and support across more gaming platforms, according to James Stone. What we are getting now is the first actual native port instead of the emulation we've been dealing with until now. Game developers using the Unity engine have been shipping Unity games on Steam. However, Steam was never an official Unity platform, and developers used Steamworks in the past to make it happen. That's now a thing of the past, as Unity is officially supporting one of the biggest gaming platforms in existence.
March 12, 2026 — Source or Watch Video

XanMod Kernel 6.19.7 and 6.18.17: How to Install, What Drivers Need Updating, and When the Default Debian Kernel Still Wins
XanMod has released kernel versions 6.19.7 and 6.18.17, built with LLVM ThinLTO and enhanced scheduling that can lower CPU usage and improve latency for heavy workloads. Installing the kernel is as easy as adding a signed repository line to APT, updating the package list, and running sudo apt install linux-xanmod-x64v3. Users with NVIDIA, OpenZFS, VirtualBox, or VMware modules should verify driver compatibility first, since some proprietary modules lag behind the new thinlto patches and can cause panics.
March 12, 2026 — Source

Your Linux PC should never be running slow when this built-in diagnostic tool exists (for free)
If your Linux machine is taking its own sweet time to boot, you have a built-in tool to help you discover where the problem lies.
March 12, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 11th, 2026

8 powerful apt commands every Linux user should know - or else you're missing out
The Debian/Ubuntu package manager isn't just for installing and removing software. There's more to Apt than you might know.
March 11, 2026 — Source

Node.js 25.8.1 Release Corrects CommonJS Module Errors in ES‑Module Projects
Node.js 25.8.1 finally resolves the annoying "extensionless CommonJS in type: module" issue by forcing Node to treat such files as CommonJS rather than silently misinterpreting them as ES modules—a fix that has saved projects from mysterious syntax errors when adding new utilities without a .js suffix. The crypto API now scopes --use-system-ca per‑environment, eliminating cross‑process leakage, and restores missing AES dictionaries so encryption behaves exactly as the spec describes. Additionally, an unsafe use‑after‑free in HTTP parsing is patched, V8 dependencies are trimmed for non‑bundled builds, and async context helpers are exposed to JavaScript for clearer debugging.
March 11, 2026 — Source

AlmaLinux To Focus On Increased Testing & Other Goals For 2026
Developers behind AlmaLinux as this popular community alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) have drafted some new goals for 2026.
March 11, 2026 — Source

AMD Ryzen AI NPUs Are Finally Useful Under Linux For Running LLMs
Over the past two years AMD has developed the AMDXDNA accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel for supporting the AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. But when it comes to user-space software on Linux actually able to leave the Ryzen AI NPUs it's been... extremely limited with nothing really useful besides some niche bits of code. Even AMD's own software like their GAIA on Linux has used Vulkan with their iGPUs rather than any NPU support. But finally today there is a significant shift with the Ryzen AI NPUs becoming useful on Linux and able to handle LLMs.
March 11, 2026 — Source

Another Linux distro has dropped KDE Plasma, and I'm not surprised to see why
The rolling release distro switches to Niri, a scrollable, tiling compositor that's better than you'd think. See why.
March 11, 2026 — Source

Azure Linux 3.0 Enables Core Scheduling, More Tracing Capabilities
Microsoft on Tuesday released Azure Linux 3.0.20260304 as the newest monhtly update to their in-house Linux platform.
March 11, 2026 — Source

D7VK 1.5 Released With Direct3D 3 Now Implemented Over Vulkan
The open-source D7VK project began to implement Direct3D 7 over Vulkan similar to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton providing support for newer Direct3D APIs atop Vulkan. With succeeding releases D7VK was extended to Direct3D 6 too and then Direct3D 5 support. Now with today's D7VK 1.5 release, Direct3D 3 is implemented for faster acceleration using Vulkan.
March 11, 2026 — Source

Entangled Kubernetes Objects
A multimodal neural network that unifies per-modality losses and optimizers into a single cumulative loss, enabling flexible, scalable training across heterogeneous data.
March 11, 2026 — Source

Fedora 44 Beta Goes Live With Updated Gnome and KDE Desktops and Linux 6.19 Kernel
The full release of Fedora Linux 44 is drawing near, and, as such, the Fedora Project has officially made Fedora 44 Beta available for download for those who want to test the upcoming version of the workstation Linux distribution. Fedora 44 has a long changelog, but some of the biggest changes are simply newer versions of the included defaults, like the move to Gnome 50 and KDE Plasma 6.6 as well as an update to Linux 6.19. Like many distributions that use KDE, the Fedora 44 KDE Desktop edition officially makes the move from SDDM to Plasma Login Manager as the default
March 11, 2026 — Source

I tried Zenclora, a hyper-fast Linux distro with no bloat - and one truly standout feature
This Debian-based distribution is an absolute delight to use and relatively easy to use, with some minor caveats.
March 11, 2026 — Source

Intel Posts New Linux Graphics Driver Patches For Improved Adaptive Sync Support
Posted today were new Intel kernel graphics driver patches for Linux to enable Adaptive Sync SDP (Secondary Data Packet) handling for Panel Replay and Auxless Adaptive Link Power Management (ALPM) modes.
March 11, 2026 — Source

Linux Patches Make The IPv6 Stack Less Modular To Lower Architectural Burden
Currently the Linux IPv6 networking stack can be built into the Linux kernel, built as a loadable kernel module, or not built at all. With proposed patches from a SUSE engineer, the IPv6 networking stack would be limited to being a kernel built-in or not at all. In doing away with IPv6 as a loadable kernel module would allow simplifying some code and lowering the Linux networking maintenance burden.
March 11, 2026 — Source

Linux's KVM Virtualization Preparing For Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX)
Intel's Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) debuting with Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids is ready with Linux 6.16+ and recent open-source compilers. One piece of the support puzzle still coming together though that will be especially important for Xeon Diamond Rapids is the KVM virtualization support. New patches there were posted this week.
March 11, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA Linux Driver 580.142 Fixes Adaptive‑Sync Blanks and Vulkan Swapchain Freezes
NVIDIA's 580.142 Linux driver squashes three nagging bugs that have been creeping into the 470.x line. Adaptive‑sync monitors now stay lit even when a USB‑C‑to‑HDMI dongle is in use, a Vulkan swapchain no longer stalls after a few seconds of heavy X11 rendering, and four 4K screens configured as separate X screens on one GPU will finally mode‑set correctly at boot. Those fixes stop the sudden blackouts, frame freezes, or display failures that can ruin both gaming sessions and professional workflows. After applying the update, monitors should stay bright, frames keep rolling, and multi‑screen setups resume functioning without a hitch.
March 11, 2026 — Source

Nvidia Reportedly Preps NemoClaw as Open-Source Enterprise AI Agent Rival
Nvidia is reportedly preparing a new entry into the AI agent market, with Wired claiming the company is building an open-source platform called NemoClaw aimed squarely at enterprise deployments. The reported project would place Nvidia in more direct competition with OpenClaw, the fast-rising open-source agent framework that helped push autonomous AI tools into the mainstream discussion over the past few months. What makes the report notable is the way NemoClaw is said to be positioned. Rather than focusing on consumers or hobbyist experimentation, Nvidia appears to be targeting business users that want stronger privacy, security, and governance around AI-driven automation.
March 11, 2026 — Source

OpenSUSE Leap 15.6 Reaches End‑of‑Life - Upgrade to Leap 16.0 for Ongoing Security Updates
The last security patch for openSUSE Leap 15.6 will be removed from the mirrors on April 30, 2026, ending all future updates and leaving systems exposed to new vulnerabilities. After that date, the operating system will no longer receive bug‑fixes or driver support, which can break development workflows that depend on up‑to‑date libraries. The recommended remedy is to upgrade to openSUSE Leap 16.0 using the official zypper tool or a manual reinstall of packages from a saved list, ensuring all kernel modules and proprietary drivers are recompiled for the newer kernel.
March 11, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu 26.04 With GNOME 50 Offering Some Performance Benefits For NVIDIA Linux Gaming
With GNOME 50 that is being used by default with the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, you may be curious about the out-of-the-box performance especially compared to prior Ubuntu Linux releases -- especially with Mutter 50 having some NVIDIA optimizations. In today's article is a first look at how the NVIDIA Linux gaming performance on Ubuntu 26.04 is looking compared to the current Ubuntu 25.10 release.
March 11, 2026 — Source

Zen Browser 1.19.2b Release Brings Security Fixes and Faster Space Switching
Zen Browser 1.19.2b delivers a tightened security layer and a jump to Firefox 148.0.2, giving users newer web‑standard support and fewer vulnerabilities. It fixes broken RSS live folders for feeds that were stuck at "no updates," so readers can keep their daily digests running. Performance improvements now make switching between spaces feel almost instant, especially with many tabs open. After the update, some legacy add‑ons may need a quick reinstall due to the engine change.
March 11, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 5th, 2026

AMD DCN 4.2 IP, GFX 12.1 Updates For AMDGPU Driver In Linux 7.1 Plus GCN 1.1 APU DC
AMD has begun staging AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver improvements for the upcoming Linux 7.1 cycle.
March 5, 2026 — Source

AMD HSMP Linux Driver Preps For Zen 6 EPYC With Finer Power Controls
The AMD Host System Management Port (HSMP) Linux driver that provides access to various system management features on modern EPYC server processors is preparing for the upcoming EPYC Zen 6 "Venice" processors.
March 5, 2026 — Source

Best OpenLens Alternatives for Kubernetes Visibility in 2025
OpenLens is a solid Kubernetes IDE, but as environments scale, teams need alternatives with better multi-cluster visibility and governance.
March 5, 2026 — Source

Debian Still Debating AI Contributions Plus A Need For More Diverse Contributors
Debian Project Leader "DPL" Andreas Tille provided an update today on various happenings within the project and personal reflections on some recent topics. Among the topics in today's DPL updates were around AI contributions, Debian's need to become more diverse with its contributors, and needing more "thank yous" to show appreciation for contributions.
March 5, 2026 — Source

Intel GMA500 "Poulsbo" Driver Still Seeing New Open-Source Activity In 2026
Approaching twenty years after Intel's Poulsbo platform began giving Linux users nightmares due to its Imagination PowerVR SGX graphics IP that blocked open-source 3D driver support, the GMA500 driver that ended up coming about to provide open-source display support at least is still seeing occasional upstream activity for the Linux kernel.
March 5, 2026 — Source

Intel Xe Linux Driver Ready With Fix For Brand New Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 Laptop
This week at MWC 2026, Lenovo announced the ThinkPad T14 Gen 7 as one of their new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" powered laptops alongside other products. With Panther Lake running rather well on Linux, the new ThinkPad T14 G7 should be in good standing on Linux and especially with a pending Xe graphics driver fix that is on the way.
March 5, 2026 — Source

libavif 1.4 Released For Advancing AVIF Image Support
The Alliance For Open Media on Wednesday released libavif 1.4, the latest version of this reference library for encoding and decoding AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) content.
March 5, 2026 — Source

Linux Foundation Reports that Open Source Delivers Better ROI
In a report that may surprise no one in the Linux community, the Linux Foundation found that businesses are finding a 5X return on investment with open source software.
March 5, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.12.76, 6.6.129 and 6.1.166 Updates: Fixes, Reverts and Download Links
The latest stable Linux update, version 6.12.76, 6.6.129, and 6.1.166, has been released on March 5th with a range of fixes aimed at both everyday users and developers who build their own kernels from scratch. A key change is the rollback of a recent patch that added an IMA sanity check for kexec due to implicit function declaration errors in multiple stable streams. This change affects mainly those compiling the kernel from source, particularly hobbyists building custom boot loaders or embedded devices.
March 5, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 File-System Benchmarks With XFS Leading The Way
With a number of file-system improvements in Linux 6.19 and more file-system optimizations in Linux 7.0, it's past due for running some fresh file-system benchmarks. Here is a look at how the prominent file-system contenders are performing on the latest Linux 7.0 development kernel.
March 5, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 To Prevent Intel NPUs From Being Exhausted By Single Programs
The Intel IVPU accelerator driver will be introducing limits on Intel NPU resource usage by non-root user-space programs beginning with the Linux 7.1 kernel.
March 5, 2026 — Source

Linux MAINTAINERS Cleaning For Recently Departed Intel Devs, Altera Drivers Oprhaned
The layoffs and restructuring at Intel in 2025 caused unfortunate hits to their Linux/open-source engineering including various driver maintainers leaving and even their CPU temperature driver being orphaned for lack of maintainers. Sent out today were a number of additional updates to the MAINTAINERS file for the Linux kernel to reflect other Intel departures in recent months. Plus some of the Altera drivers have also been orphaned now for having no upstream maintainers.
March 5, 2026 — Source

Liquorix Kernel 6.19-1 released: The Smoother Gaming and AV Experience
Liquorix Kernel 6.19-1 has been released, offering a smoother gaming and AV experience by tweaking scheduler parameters and disabling performance-dragging features. Users who tested the previous 6.18 release reported less "jitter" in video editing timelines and improved frame rates while playing competitive titles. The new build includes bug fixes from earlier iterations and can be installed on Debian, Ubuntu, or Arch using a single-liner installer that pulls the package from the Liquorix repository.
March 5, 2026 — Source

Nginx CGI Tutorial: How to Install and Configure Version 0.15
A new version of the Nginx CGI module, version 0.15, can be easily installed on recent Debian or Ubuntu releases by adding the GetPageSpeed repository keyring and then installing the nginx and nginx-module-cgi packages. To use the module, you need to add a load statement to your configuration file if Nginx was compiled manually or stores modules in a custom location, and enable CGI for specific URI prefixes with the cgi on directive. A minimal shell script that prints a greeting can be created by placing a bash file in the document root's cgi-bin directory and ensuring it has execute permission.
March 5, 2026 — Source

Node.js 22.22.1 LTS and 20.20.1 LTS Released: Key Updates and What You Need to Know
Node.js has released two long-term support versions: 22.22.1 LTS and 20.20.1 LTS, both of which bring important fixes and performance tweaks to the JavaScript runtime environment. One key change is that Node now uses a newer set of root certificates, known as NSS 3.119, which replaces old CA files and helps prevent TLS connections from failing on services like GitHub or AWS. Another significant update is that Buffer.of no longer allocates memory on the stack, but instead uses the heap, which can help prevent accidental overflows and improve memory usage patterns.
March 5, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver Beta Brings New Vulkan Support & DRI3 v1.2
Following the recent NVIDIA R595 driver release for Windows, NVIDIA today released the 595.45.04 driver for Linux users as a beta version in the R595 release stream.
March 5, 2026 — Source

pgAdmin 4 Version 9.13: AI Features, ERD Fixes, and More
A new version of pgAdmin 4, version 9.13, is out with several notable updates and fixes. This release includes a rewritten core infrastructure for language models, allowing users to integrate their own AI providers or run them locally, which provides features like instant security report scans and schema summaries. Additionally, the ERD tool has been improved by restoring foreign key relationships when copying diagrams and making the drag-and-drop interface more intuitive.
March 5, 2026 — Source

Redox OS Gets Vulkan & Node.js Working On This Rust-Based Open-Source OS
There were some fairly exciting improvements made by the Redox OS developers over the course of February. They have the Vulkan API working on Redox OS for the first time along with more COSMIC desktop software and even Node.js.
March 5, 2026 — Source

Rust 1.94 Released With Stable Support For AVX-512 FP16 Intrinsics, Array Windows
Rust 1.94 was rolled out today as the newest routine stable update for the Rust programming language.
March 5, 2026 — Source

Upgrade to XanMod Kernels: Boost Linux Performance with Optimized 6.19.6 and 6.18.16 LTS Releases
XanMod has released two new kernels, 6.19.6 and 6.18.16 LTS, which offer significant performance improvements for tasks like number crunching and high-resolution video streaming. To install these kernels on Debian or Ubuntu systems, you'll need to add a PGP key and register the XanMod repository; this process involves running two commands in the terminal. After installing the kernel, be sure to reboot your system and verify that it's working correctly by checking the version number in /proc/version; if everything went smoothly, the output should contain "xanmod" followed by the exact version number.
March 5, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 4th, 2026

AMD Engineer Leverages AI To Help Make A Pure-Python AMD GPU User-Space Driver
AMD's VP of AI Software, Anush Elangovan, has used Claude Code to help craft a pure-Python AMD GPU user-space driver. This Python user-space driver is currently being created to help exercise other ROCm code and for debugging in passing through the ROCm/HIP user-space stack.
March 4, 2026 — Source

AMD EPYC Achieves Performance Leadership In New OCUDU Project For 5G/6G RAN
Announced this week at Mobile World Congress (MWC) by the Linux Foundation was the establishing of the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation for advancing open-source AI-RAN (Radio Access Network) innovations. OCUDU is building a reference platform and innovations around 5G and early 6G network solutions. With OCUDU being benchmark-friendly, I have been putting the early code through some performance tests on current AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon server platforms.
March 4, 2026 — Source

Intel Begins Preparations For Xe3P Upstreaming To Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers
Following the mainline Linux kernel beginning to see Xe3P graphics enablement for upcoming Nova Lake integrated graphics as well as the Crescent Island AI inference accelerator, Intel's Mesa OpenGL "Iris" and Vulkan "ANV" drivers are preparing to begin laying out their Xe3P driver support.
March 4, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.19.6 Update: Key Features and Benefits for Improved Stability
The latest Linux Kernel, version 6.19.6, has been released with a handful of driver tweaks and security patches that aim to improve stability and security. The updates include fixes for AMDGPU and Intel NIC drivers, which could cause issues like random "page faults" or link drops on Wi-Fi cards. Security-related changes include hardening the tracing ring buffer against out-of-bounds reads and preventing use-after-free errors in the swap subsystem. Overall, the update should provide a slightly safer kernel with fewer driver crashes and improved system stability.
March 4, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel Updates: 6.18.16, 6.6.128, 6.12.75, 6.1.165, 5.15.202, and 5.10.252 LTS
The latest Linux updates, including versions 6.18.16, 6.6.128, 6.12.75, 6.1.165, 5.15.202, and 5.10.252 LTS, bring various bug fixes and performance enhancements that affect nearly every part of the system. These patches resolve issues with AMD GPUs and performance counters, GPU fence handling, perf tool reliability, MOST driver resource leaks, ARM64 counter stability, and other problems in the kernel, such as incorrect slot tracking and clamp allocation hints for io_uring. Additionally, updates to device drivers like Intel i40e/iwp2200, macb (Zynq Ethernet), and AMD Radeon display driver have improved their functionality and reduced instability in networking and graphics.
March 4, 2026 — Source

Linux Mint Ready With Its Wayland-Compatible Cinnamon Screensaver
Linux Mint developers recently outlined their work on developing a new Wayland-compatible screensaver for use with their Cinnamon desktop environment. Linux Mint developers announced today that their new screensaver solution is ready for use.
March 4, 2026 — Source

Linux Preps IBPB-On-Entry Feature For AMD SEV-SNP Guest VMs
Heading toward the Linux 7.0 kernel and marked for back-porting to current stable Linux kernel versions is employing a new SEV-SNP security feature found on AMD Zen 5 processors for enhancing security of guest virtual machines.
March 4, 2026 — Source

ML4W 2.11.1 Update: Fresh Look, Easier Setup, and Enhanced Features
The latest release of ML4W, version 2.11.1, brings a fresh new look and feel to the desktop with its updated icon theme and cursor combo. The default kora-pgrey icon set and return to Bibata cursor theme provide a cleaner and more polished interface that works well on both dark and light backgrounds. Additionally, the release introduces Hyprsunset as a replacement for Hyprshade, offering more flexible color overlays and smoother transitions between light and dark modes.
March 4, 2026 — Source

Old ATI R300 Open-Source Driver Sees Another New Fix In 2026
The Radeon R300 series turns 24 years old this year and thanks to the open-source ATI R300 Gallium3D driver that began via reverse engineering, it's still continuing to see the occasional random fixes from the open-source community.
March 4, 2026 — Source

systemd 260-rc2 Released With More Changes
Last week marked the release of systemd 260-rc1 with a new "mstack" feature, a new "FANCY_NAME" field for os-release, dropping System V service script support, and other changes. Out today is systemd 260-rc2 release with more changes in further working its way toward a stable release for empowering 2026 Linux distributions.
March 4, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu Still Figuring Out A Plan For Dealing With California's Digital Age Assurance Act
The talk this week among open-source projects from Linux distributions to app stores like Flathub is how to deal with California's latest insanity: the Digital Age Assurance Act. California's AB 1043 state law is mandating that operating systems -- Linux included -- collect age information during account setup and exposing that age to eligible apps beginning on 1 January 2027. That leaves much uncertainty for Linux distributions and other repositories/stores and more. Canonical issued a statement today to clarify that they basically don't have a solution to announce yet.
March 4, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 3rd, 2026

AMD DPTCi Driver Posted For Linux To Better Enhance Ryzen Gaming Handhelds
A request for comments (RFC) patch series was posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list to introduce the AMD Dynamic Power and Thermal Configuration Interface "DPTCi" driver. With this driver it would provide better upstream Linux kernel support for tuning the power / performance / thermals of modern Ryzen-powered gaming handheld devices. Though don't get too excited right away as the driver was assembled in part by AI that is already causing a bit of a ruckus on the LKML due to lack of disclosure.
March 3, 2026 — Source

AMD Makes rocprof-trace-decoder Open-Source
AMD open-sourced the ROCprof Trace Decoder "rocprof-trace-decoder", a tool useful for developers targeting the AMD GPU compute stack.
March 3, 2026 — Source

Apple Announces "Fusion Architecture" With M5 Pro & M5 Max
Apple announced today the new Fusion Architecture with the M5 Pro and M5 Max SoCs that also feature a next-generation GPU.
March 3, 2026 — Source

ARCTIC Cooling Publishes ARCTIC Fan Controller Driver For Linux
A Linux driver has been published for the ARCTIC Fan Controller to be able to read fan speeds under Linux as well as setting the PWM fan speed for each of the ten fans supported by this controller. Making this driver all the more exciting is that ARCTIC Cooling is directly working on this driver rather than just being a community/third-party creation. Furthermore, ARCTIC Cooling is working on getting this driver to the upstream Linux kernel.
March 3, 2026 — Source

BunsenLabs Carbon keeps the CrunchBang flame alive with Debian 13
Release lays the groundwork for going Wayland, if that's your sort of thing
March 3, 2026 — Source

GitHub's Points to a More Global, AI-Challenged Open Source Ecosystem in 2026
GitHub has released its yearly look at open-source trends. They used data from the Octoverse 2025 report to help the open-source community get ready for the coming year. The picture that emerges is one of extraordinary scale and the structural strains that come with it.
March 3, 2026 — Source

GNOME Mutter 50.rc Released With Better NVIDIA Performance, SDR-Native & Better HDR
There is two weeks to go until the GNOME 50 stable release while out today is the release candidate of Mutter 50. This Mutter 50.rc release brings some exciting last-minute enhancements to this Wayland compositor.
March 3, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.6.2 Bug Fix Release: Bug Fixes, UI Enhancements and New Device Support
KDE Plasma 6.6.2 brings a large set of stability improvements and bug fixes throughout the system, from UI quirks in KWin and Plasma Desktop to backend issues in Flatpak Permissions and libplasma. Developers addressed critical crashes such as output device mode updates, RDP connection destructors, and missing include files, while also tightening security by fixing permission traversal and session sorting logic. New hardware support was added with Fairphone 5 and Nothing Phone (1), and several mobile and network manager features were refined to better handle bridges, VLANs, and activity information via D‑Bus.
March 3, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.6.2 ships with several bug fixes and improvements
KDE Plasma 6.6 shipped less than a month ago with new features like the new First-Run Wizard, a dedicated Plasma Login Manager, OCR support in Spectacle, and font management in Discover. Now, it is getting its second bug fix release, dubbed version 6.6.2, bringing fixes for issues in kdrp, KWin, Discover, and more.
March 3, 2026 — Source

Keep Android Open
Google has announced that, soon, anyone looking to develop Android apps will have to first register centrally with Google.
March 3, 2026 — Source

Intel Adapting Linux's LAM In Preparing For ChkTag
Last year AMD and Intel as part of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group announced ChkTag for x86 memory tagging across processors to better fight buffer overflows and use-after-free errors. In preparing for ChkTag with future processors, Intel has begun adapting their Linear Address Masking (LAM) support to more nicely jive with it.
March 3, 2026 — Source

Intel Preps A Lot Of Xe3 Code For Linux 7.1 Kernel
Intel yesterday sent out their first "drm-xe-next" pull request to DRM-Next of new Xe kernel graphics driver improvements they have readied for their eventual upstreaming into the Linux 7.1 kernel.
March 3, 2026 — Source

Intel Rendering Toolkit & OpenVINO AI GPU Performance On Intel Panther Lake's Xe3 B390
Over the past month I have been running a lot of Linux benchmarks on Intel's new Panther Lake using the Core Ultra X7 358H and its Xe3-based Arc B390 Graphics. The Arc B390 on Linux has been quite interesting with its OpenGL and Vulkan graphics performance compared to prior generations of Intel graphics plus the Intel Compute Runtime / OpenCL performance too.
March 3, 2026 — Source

Linux PC booting slowly? This handy tool shows why in seconds - here's how
If your Linux machine is taking its own sweet time booting, you have a built-in tool to help discover where the problem lies.
March 3, 2026 — Source

Node.js 25.8.0 Released: New API Docs, SQLite Limits, Security Fixes
Node.js 25.8.0 has been released, bringing a range of updates to documentation tooling, SQLite integration, diagnostic channels, and permission auditing. The new release introduces an enhanced API doc workflow, adds a limits property to DatabaseSync, brings C++ support for diagnostics, and adds a --permission‑audit flag to the command line interface. Numerous commits refine performance and security, such as optimizing buffer.concat, adding null pointer checks in crypto routines, validating ClientRequest paths, and bumping dependencies like undici, minimatch, npm, and simdjson.
March 3, 2026 — Source< or Source

Open-Source GitOps at the Edge: Deploying to Thousands of Clusters With Rancher Fleet
Establish GitOps-driven CI/CD pipelines to create zero-downtime deployments across thousands of edge locations with automated rollbacks.
March 3, 2026 — Source

Sovereign Tech Fellowship Opens Up To Community Managers, Technical Writers
Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency announced a new and expanded Sovereign Tech Fellowship program that is now open to community managers and technical writers, beyond just FOSS maintainers from the prior round.
March 3, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — March 2nd, 2026

AMD Announces Ryzen AI PRO 400 Series Desktop CPUs For AI-Focused Computing
AMD is using Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona this week to announce new Ryzen AI PRO 400 Series products, including Ryzen AI PRO 400 desktop processors.
March 2, 2026 — Source

AMD EPYC Turin 128 Core Comparison: EPYC 9745 "Zen 5C" versus EPYC 9755 "Zen 5"
The AMD EPYC 9755 128-core Zen 5 server processor has been benchmarked a lot at Phoronix since the EPYC 9005 "Turin" launch as their top-end Zen 5 server processor with "full fat" cores compared to the denser Zen 5C cores that extend up to the EPYC 9965 at 192 cores. For those eyeing the 128 core per socket sweet spot, there is also the EPYC 9745 that is made up of 128 Zen 5C cores that allows for a 400 Watt TDP compared to the 500 Watt EPYC 9755.
March 2, 2026 — Source

Armbian 26.02 Released: New Boards, Powered By Linux 6.18 LTS & RISC-V Xfce Desktop
Armbian 26.02 has been released released for this Debian-derived Linux distribution primarily focused on supporting a range of Arm and RISC-V platforms. With Armbian 26.02 there is yet more new boards added while moving to the Linux 6.18 LTS kernel and also adding a RISC-V Xfce desktop install option.
March 2, 2026 — Source

Got an old PC? Omega Linux can make it feel new again - here's how
If you're looking for a distribution for an aging machine and you want to go with something other than a Ubuntu-based distribution, walk through the Arch with Omega.
March 2, 2026 — Source

Intel Releases llm-scaler-vllm 0.14.0-b8, Talks Up 1.49x Performance With BMG-G31
Intel kicked off the new month by releasing the latest version of LLM Scaler vLLM (llm-scaler-vllm) as their Docker-based solution for running vLLM on Intel Battlemage GPUs for AI inferencing.
March 2, 2026 — Source

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 200: New Features, Security Patches, and DNS Firewall Preview
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 200: New Features, Security Patches, and DNS Firewall Preview
March 2, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 Shows Off Nice Performance Gains For Databases In Small AMD EPYC Servers
Last week with my ongoing testing of the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel I found nice performance improvements for PostgreSQL and other workloads when testing on a 128-core AMD EPYC 9755 "Turin" server. Curious if those wins were due to optimizations focused on better scalability with today's "big" servers, I also ran some comparison Linux 7.0 benchmarks on the smaller AMD EPYC 4005 class servers too. Some nice wins carried over.
March 2, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.1 Will Power Off The System By Default If A Fatal ACPI Error Occurs
An important default kernel behavior change worth noting in advance for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is that the system will attempt to power-off automatically if encountering any fatal ACPI errors. Up to now the Linux kernel has just logged ACPI fatal errors.
March 2, 2026 — Source

More ASUS Desktop Motherboards Will Support Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.1
ASUS desktop motherboards have been seeing broader sensor monitoring support on Linux in recent years. ASUS motherboards for Intel and AMD processors have been seeing more support added thanks to the open-source community with new additions to the likes of the ASUS-EC-Sensors driver and other hardware monitoring (HWMON) driver code. This is continuing for Linux 7.1.
March 2, 2026 — Source

NebiOS turns your Linux desktop into a Google Workspace alternative - with one caveat
If the developers stick with it, NebiOS has the potential to become something truly special.
March 2, 2026 — Source

New Zlib-rs Delivers More Performance With AVX-512 VNNI Adler32 Implementation
Zlib-rs as the Rust programming language implementation of Zlib from the Trifetca Tech Foundation is out with a shiny new release (actually, releases) today.
March 2, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 24th, 2026

AIDA64 Download Version 8.25
AIDA64 released version 8.25, adding updated hardware detection and benchmarking capabilities for modern computing platforms. The update includes improved support for NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5000-series GPUs, alongside enhanced compatibility with the latest AMD and Intel CPU architectures. Several stability and stress-testing components were refined to help evaluate memory bandwidth, GPU processing behavior and overall system reliability under sustained workloads.
February 24, 2026 — Source

AMD's HIP Moves To Using LLVM's New Offload Driver By Default
A change merged to upstream LLVM Git yesterday for LLVM 23 is moving AMD's HIP to using the new/modern offload driver by default. This aligns with a prior change for NVIDIA CUDA and already in place for OpenMP offloading too.
February 24, 2026 — Source

CGIT 1.3 Web Frontend For Git Released After Six Years
Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard and Linux cryptography fame has taken a break from that to release a new version of CGIT, the lightweight web interface for Git repositories. CGIT 1.3 is the first new release in six years and comes with a lot of changes.
February 24, 2026 — Source

D7VK 1.4 Released With More Improvements For Old Direct3D On Vulkan Under Linux
D7VK 1.4 has continued improving the Direct3D D3D6 / D3D5 game compatibility with more games now working correctly under this portability layer. There is also initial support for depth write-back, support for color key transparency, consolidating the legacy DDraw interoperability, and other fixes and enhancements.
February 24, 2026 — Source

Google Cloud N4 Series Benchmarks: Google Axion versus Intel Xeon versus AMD EPYC Performance
Google Cloud recently launched their N4A series powered by their in-house Axion ARM64 processors. In that launch-day benchmarking last month was looking at how the N4A with Axion compared to their prior-generation ARM64 VMs powered by Ampere Altra. There were dramatic generational gains, but how does the N4A stand up to the AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon instances?
February 24, 2026 — Source

Intel Formally Ends Four Of Their Go Language Open-Source Projects
This latest round of Intel open-source projects being archived were focused on various codebases targeting Google's Go programming language. These Intel Go projects weren't exactly popular or widely-used as far as I know so not necessarily a big impact besides those programmers that are fans of the Go system programming language as an alternative to the likes of C or Rust.
February 24, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.6 isn't forcing systemd but the arguments rage on
BSD support improves, FreeBSD eyes a desktop option, and the init wars refuse to die
February 24, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.6.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes
KDE Plasma 6.6.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes
February 24, 2026 — Source

LLVM/Clang 22 Compiler Officially Released With Many Improvements
LLVM/Clang 22.1 was released overnight as the first stable release of the LLVM 22 series. This is a nice, feature-packaged half-year update to this prominent open-source compiler stack with many great refinements.
February 24, 2026 — Source

Mabox 26.02 Release: New Features, Fixes, and Enhancements
The latest Mabox build introduces a fresh audio menu that can be accessed with the W-a shortcut, allowing users to launch music players or activate visualizers. The Cava Colorizer has been rebuilt from scratch and now features more vibrant color shifts, along with new options for customizing its behavior. Screen recording in Mabox 26.02 finally captures audio correctly, eliminating a problem introduced by a previous driver update. Additionally, the Picom compositor is disabled by default to improve performance on older machines, but can be manually enabled for users who need translucency or shadows.
February 24, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA job listings mention Vulkan and Proton performance work on Linux
NVIDIA looking at Proton games compatibility
February 24, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 17th, 2026

3 ways to switch Linux distros without losing all your data
If you're thinking about distro-hopping, and you're wanting to retain your data, here's how you can do it.
February 17, 2026 — Source

5 atomic Linux distros I trust for stress-free OS updates - and why
Atomic Linux distros keep updates from breaking your system. Here's how, and which ones I prefer.
February 17, 2026 — Source

AMD Preparing Linux Kernel For "RMPOPT" To Help Reduce Overhead On SEV-SNP Servers
AMD sent out a set of Linux kernel patches today for enabling use of a new instruction dubbed RMPOPT. Given the timing of these patches, RMPOPT is presumably a feature coming with next-gen AMD EPYC Zen 6 "Venice" processors.
February 17, 2026 — Source

DNF 5.4 Released With Some New Options & AI Contributions Policy
DNF 5.4 is out today as the latest release for this next-generation RPM package management solution used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and various other RPM-based Linux distributions.
February 17, 2026 — Source

Experimental Out-Of-Tree Code Aims To Provide HDMI 2.1 FRL For AMD Linux Driver
One of the limitations of the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver has been the lack of its support for HDMI 2.1 and later. AMD has wanted to support HDMI 2.1+ functionality under Linux but it's been legally blocked by the HDMI Forum. But anxious independent users have been working on open-source patches for wiring up HDMI 2.1 into the AMDGPU driver outside of the realm of AMD and the HDMI Forum's blessings.
February 17, 2026 — Source

Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware
Gentoo's official migration from Microsoft-owned GitHub to Codeberg is underway, as the Linux distribution fulfills a pledge to ditch the code shack due to "continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories."
February 17, 2026 — Source

GhostBSD To Use XLibre Server, MATE versus Gershwin Desktop Decision In Future
GhostBSD lead developer Eric Turgeon published an update regarding X.Org Server versus XLibre versus Wayland planning for the GhostBSD distribution moving forward as well as some future uncertainties to this desktop-focused, FreeBSD-derived OS.
February 17, 2026 — Source

Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids Memory Scaling Performance From 6 To 12 MRDIMMs
With memory pricing being as wild as it is these days and with MRDIMMs on Xeon 6 Granite Rapids offering much more memory bandwidth than conventional DDR5 RDIMMs, you may be wondering about the performance impact when not populating all twelve memory channels on the Xeon 6900 series processors. In this article are benchmarks to demonstrate the performance difference of MRDIMM-8800 memory across using six, eight, ten, and twelve MRDIMMs with a Xeon 6980P server.
February 17, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.6 is finally here with lots of new goodies to try out
The new stable version, KDE Plasma 6.6, is now available for download, bringing features like OCR in Spectacle and more.
February 17, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.6 Officially Released
KDE released Plasma 6.6 today, the latest version of the popular Linux desktop environment, also used in Steam Deck desktop mode. The biggest addition is the new Plasma Login Manager, a potential replacement for Simple Desktop Display Manager (SDDM) in distributions like Fedora Linux 44, CachyOS, and EndeavourOS. Note that it requires systemd, so it won't work on systemd-free distros. The Spectacle screenshot tool gains OCR capabilities, and a new USB portal lets sandboxed apps request access to USB devices. Users running Linux kernel 6.19 can now adjust the visual sharpness of all on-screen content. You can also turn your current Plasma setup into a global theme.
February 17, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 Lands New TI RGB LED Driver With "Autonomous Animation Engine" Control
The LED subsystem updates for the Linux kernel typically aren't too noteworthy each kernel cycle but with Linux 7.0 is a new TI RGB LED driver that captured my attention in being curious over its "autonomous animation engine" integration.
February 17, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 Merges "Significant Improvement" For close_range System Call
The close_range system call for closing all file descriptors "FDs" in a given range should enjoy a nice speed boost with the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel.
February 17, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.6 Brings Useful Upgrades and Accessibility Improvements
KDE Plasma 6.6 brings several quality-of-life upgrades, including an improved on-screen keyboard that can auto-detect focused text fields and slide up from the bottom. Other new features include Spectacle's ability to run OCR on screenshots, making it easier to extract text from images, and a QR code scanner for joining Wi-Fi networks with a webcam. The update also includes tweaks like direct volume control from the task manager and an emoji skin tone selector, as well as significant accessibility improvements such as color-blind filters and a reduced motion toggle.
February 17, 2026 — Source

KDE Plasma 6.6 Released With Many Excellent Improvements
KDE Plasma 6.6 is now officially out as the newest feature update to this prominent open-source desktop environment. Plasma 6.6 is self-described by KDE developers as "the best desktop in the known universe (according to us). Plasma 6.6 is all about making your life as easy as possible without sacrificing any of the flexibility."
February 17, 2026 — Source

Microsoft .NET On Linux Patches Use IO_uring For Massive Performance Benefits
A pull request for the Microsoft .NET Runtime build on Linux to use IO_uring for sockets is showing some massive performance benefits.
February 17, 2026 — Source

Nova Lake S Support Added To Intel LPSS Driver In Linux 7.0
The latest Nova Lake enablement work for the Linux kernel to land is adding support for Nova Lake S platforms to the Intel LPSS driver in the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel.
February 17, 2026 — Source

OpenAI Publishes Codex App Server Architecture for Unifying AI Agent Surfaces
OpenAI has recently published a detailed architecture description of the Codex App Server, a bidirectional protocol that decouples the Codex coding agent's core logic from its various client surfaces. The App Server now powers every Codex experience, including the CLI, the VS Code extension, the web app, the macOS desktop app, and third-party IDE integrations from JetBrains and Apple's Xcode, through a single, stable API.
February 17, 2026 — Source

Proactive Autoscaling for Edge Applications in Kubernetes
Over the past ten years, Kubernetes has evolved into one of the foundational platforms underlying today's modern IT infrastructure. Kubernetes allows organizations to manage large-scale, highly distributed, container-based workloads through its ability to provide an extendable architecture, as well as to automate a variety of tasks by providing a declarative model for defining resources.
February 17, 2026 — Source

SparkyLinux 8.2 arrives with updated desktops and packages
The second quarterly update to the Sparky 8 "Seven Sisters" stable series has arrived. SparkyLinux 8.2 features updated packages and desktop environments, plus a handful of fixes. The release keeps close compatibility with Debian 13 Trixie, so users get a familiar base with a lightweight, ready-to-use system that stays current.
February 17, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 15th, 2026

GE-Proton 10.31 Hotfix Brings Fixes for Wayland Users and Specific Titles
GloriousEggroll has released GE-Proton 10.31, a hotfix that patches several regressions affecting Wayland users and players of specific titles. The update addresses issues such as crashes in Warhammer 40k Darktide and Nioh 3, as well as video playback problems in various games. For gamers who regularly play these affected titles, switching to GE-Proton 10.31 is a no-brainer, but users with stable Proton installations may prefer to stay on the safe side due to experimental Wine code.
February 15, 2026 — Source

Installing PHP 8.5.3, 8.4.18, and Backported Security Builds on Debian with Ondřej Surý's Repository
Ondřej Surý has released updated PHP packages for Debian users, including PHP 8.5.3 and 8.4.18, which offer improved performance, bug fixes, and security patches over Debian's native PHP stack. By adding Surý's repository to their system, users can access the latest PHP versions without having to wait months for official updates or turn their system into a "Frankenstein build." To install these packages, users need to ensure their host can speak HTTPS to apt and then run a series of commands to fetch the signing key, add the repository source, and refresh the package index.
February 15, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel Improvement Can Make Hibernation Several Times Faster With Slow SSDs
A patch series sent out for review this weekend can significantly improve the system hibernation performance under Linux. Particularly for those with slower SSDs, the patches can make Linux hibernate up to several times faster.
February 15, 2026 — Source

Mesa's KosmicKrisp Vulkan-On-Metal Achieves MoltenVK Feature Parity
Announced last year by consulting firm LunarG was KosmicKrisp as a Vulkan-on-Metal driver for efficiently leveraging the Vulkan API on Apple macOS systems as an alternative to the MoltenVK project. KosmicKrisp was upstreamed for Mesa 26.0 and continues making great progress for opening up more Vulkan possibilities in Apple's world.
February 15, 2026 — Source

New world for users and brands as ads hit AI chatbots
The introduction of advertisements and sponsored content in chatbots has spawned privacy concerns for AI users as brands scramble to stay relevant in a fast-changing online environment.
February 15, 2026 — Source

NFS Server Adds Dynamic Thread Pool Sizing In Linux 7.0
NFSD is now capable of handling dynamic thread pool sizing to adjust the thread pool as needed. There is also a new control to set the minimum number of threads and from there it can scale up as needed or ramp down when the server is idle. The knob for server administrators to be aware of is "min-threads" for setting the desired minimum number of threads for an NFS server via the nfsdctl Netlink interface.
February 15, 2026 — Source

Power Sequencing Driver For PCIe M.2 Connectors Makes It Into Linux 7.0
The power sequencing subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 cycle. Typically not an area of the kernel too exciting but one new driver addition is the "pwrseq-pcie-m2" to provide power sequencing for PCIe M.2 connectors.
February 15, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 14th, 2026

A Quiet Polish: What's New in GNOME 49.4
GNOME 49.4 is the latest stable bug-fix release for distributions that ship GNOME 49, promising a smooth transition with under-the-hood tweaks. The bulk of the work in 49.4 involves minor polishing and stability patches to prevent random crashes, including fixes for Evolution, Nautilus, and libadwaita. Upgrading now saves you from potential bugs and annoyances later on, especially if you rely on Evolution for contacts, and ensures you have the latest security patches.
February 14, 2026 — Source

Contain your Windows apps inside Linux Windows
Can't live without Adobe? Get on board WinBoat -- or WinApps sails a similar course
February 14, 2026 — Source

Firmware Upstreamed For Linux Speaker Support On The ASUS Zenbook 14 UM3406GA
For those that may be considering the new ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED (UM3406GA) laptop that has been refreshed for the new AMD Ryzen AI 400 series, Cirrus Logic has now upstreamed the necessary firmware for the cs35l41 audio amplifier for working speaker support.
February 14, 2026 — Source

GNOME 50 Beta Arrives: What Developers Need to Know Before Upgrading
The GNOME 50 beta release is now available, marking the start of the UI, feature, and API freezes known as The Freeze. This freeze locks in new features and requires developers to squash any remaining bugs before the final 50 release. Developers are encouraged to test their applications early, especially those that rely on libraries or extensions with breaking changes between beta and stable releases. By testing early, developers can adjust to any necessary updates and ensure a smooth transition when GNOME 50 is released.
February 14, 2026 — Source

GNOME OS To Use systemd-confext, RustConn Provides Modern GTK4 Connection Manager
In addition to this week's GNOME 50 beta release, there were also other exciting developments in the GNOME ecosystem.
February 14, 2026 — Source

Godot 4.7 Dev 1 Snapshot: Essential fixes and New Tools
The Godot 4.7 development snapshot introduces a built‑in VirtualJoystick node with three practical modes, eliminating the need for external mobile input plugins. DrawableTexture offers a straightforward API for drawing directly onto textures, removing the cumbersome viewport workaround most users relied on. Path3D now includes an optional collider‑snap feature that aligns points to nearby geometry, and the Remote Tree Inspector preserves enum names even when they aren't exported.
February 14, 2026 — Source

Intel Ends Work On Quantum Compiler Open-Source Bits
Following Intel recently discontinuing a number of open-source projects, this week they formally discontinued their Quantum Passes open-source project that was intended to provide additional passes for their LLVM-based compiler in the Intel Quantum SDK.
February 14, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 Lands 8D-8D-8D Octal DTR Support In SPI NAND For Better Performance
The Linux Memory Technology Device (MTD) subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel and include introducing Octal DTR "8D-8D-8D" support in SPI NAND for better performance.
February 14, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 Merges Support For Rock Band 4 PS4 / PS5 Guitars Plus More Laptop Quirks
The HID subsystem changes were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 7.0 kernel merge window. Among the Human Interface Devices (HID) work this cycle were supporting more guitars while also adding more device IDs and different laptop quirks.
February 14, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 Wires Up Arm's 64-byte Single-Copy Atomic Instructions LS64/LS64V
Beyond all of the exciting Intel/AMD x86_64 changes and improvements to enjoy with the upcoming Linux 7.0, there is one notable ARM64 feature addition this kernel cycle.
February 14, 2026 — Source

Roundcube 1.7 RC4 Released: Important Bug Fixes and Improved Installer
Roundcube 1.7 RC4 has been released with several important bug fixes that resolve minor issues affecting sysadmins. The most notable change is the correction of file permissions, which previously prevented users from writing logs or saving settings due to inadequate folder access. Additionally, the installer now correctly links to download the generated configuration file, making it easier to retrieve config.inc.php without searching through the filesystem. This release candidate addresses two minor issues and is primarily intended to resolve a file permission problem that hindered fresh installs of Roundcube 1.7.
February 14, 2026 — Source

Vim 9.2: What You Need to Know About the Latest Update
Vim 9.2 has introduced several changes that can impact daily workflows, including a revamped completion engine with fuzzy matching and improved performance when dealing with large files. The new version also introduces diff improvements, allowing users to split large files into logical sections for easier comparison. Additionally, Linux users can now enjoy native Wayland clipboard handling and UI integration, although this feature is still experimental. Overall, the update brings incremental improvements that are solid enough for everyday editing, but may not necessitate a massive overhaul of existing settings or workflows.
February 14, 2026 — Source

Zen Browser 1.18.7b Update Brings Accessibility Improvements and Crash Fixes
Zen Browser  1.18.7b finally adds proper ARIA labels to the workspace‑switcher and other toolbar buttons, so screen‑readers can announce each control correctly. The build also forces the session cache to flush before a crash, which stops the blank‑tab nightmare that showed up after Windows forced a reboot. Anyone who relies on accessibility tools should upgrade right away, and even users without those needs will notice a steadier tab restore. The update is tiny, installs cleanly, and doesn't demand a restart—so there's really no excuse to stick with the buggy predecessor.
February 14, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 13th, 2026

4 Linux distros that made Hyprland easy to use - and this one seriously impressed me
Hyprland is a hot topic among Linux users and will only continue to grow in popularity. But which distributions make this new(ish) desktop viable for most people?
February 13, 2026 — Source

A Few More ASUS Motherboards Now Support Sensor Reporting With Linux 7.0
All of the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.0 merge window.
February 13, 2026 — Source

Atomic versus immutable Linux: Why choose one when these nine distros offer both?
If immutable and atomic distributions are the path forward for Linux, how do you choose? Maybe you don't have to. I break it all down.
February 13, 2026 — Source

Evaluating The Performance Cost To AMD SEV-SNP On Modern EPYC VMs
AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization with Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) provides memory encryption and integrity protections that can be especially useful in modern cloud computing. Typically a 2~10% performance overhead is reported when engaging AMD SEV-SNP for these hardware-backed security protections. In this article is an extensive look at the current AMD SEV-SNP performance impact for confidential computing on EPYC servers.
February 13, 2026 — Source

GNOME 50 Beta Released With Stable VRR, GDM Improvements
The GNOME 50 beta release is now available ahead of the official GNOME 50 desktop due out in March.
February 13, 2026 — Source

Gnome 50 Desktop Environment Public Beta Launches with VRR and dGPU Improvements
The Gnome Project has officially announced the Gnome 50 public beta testing phase and API, feature, and UI freeze ahead of the desktop environment's official launch later this year. The freeze effectively means that the features that are part of the new public beta version will be part of the official release when that lands on March 18, 2026.
February 13, 2026 — Source

Haiku OS Lands Improved Touchpad Support, Still Working Toward Beta 6
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS kicked off 2026 by making many improvements to its kernel, device drivers, and user-space software.
February 13, 2026 — Source

Intel Nova Lake Sound Support In Linux 7.0
Merged for the Linux 6.19 kernel was initial Nova Lake S audio support. Now merged this week for the Linux 7.0 kernel is enabling sound support for additional Nova Lake platforms.
February 13, 2026 — Source

KDE Frameworks 6.23.0 Brings Faster Baloo Indexing and Improved Memory Safety
KDE Frameworks 6.23.0 has been released to improve Baloo indexing and overall memory safety, with a focus on cleaning up the file-indexing pipeline and tightening ownership rules across core components. The update also includes changes to Bluez Qt and Breeze icons, such as a new "update-busy" state and color-aware kdeconnect-symbolic assets that respect dark themes. LeakSanitizer has been enabled in the release to catch memory bugs before they ship, although this may result in a modest increase in build time for some projects. Developers who rely on Baloo should consider upgrading to 6.23.0, but those using older Qt versions will need to upgrade their packages first.
February 13, 2026 — Source

Libinput 1.31 Released With Configurable Timeouts, Fast 3-Finger Swipes
Red Hat's leading input expert Peter Hutterer announced the release overnight of libinput 1.31, the input handling library used by the Linux desktop on both X.Org and Wayland desktop sessions.
February 13, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 Lands ML-DSA Quantum-Resistant Signature Support
Adding to the exciting features for the big Linux 7.0 kernel release is support for the Module-Lattice-Based Digital Signature Algorithm "ML-DSA" quantum-resistant signature algorithm.
February 13, 2026 — Source

Linux Gets Rid Of Intel 440BX EDAC Driver For Old Pentium CPUs After Being Broken For 19+ Years
Linux Gets Rid Of Intel 440BX EDAC Driver For Old Pentium CPUs After Being Broken For 19+ Years
February 13, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.12.71 Brings Subtle Fixes for Smoother Performance
The latest point release of the Linux Kernel 6.12 series has arrived, bringing a few focused fixes that address subtle bugs in areas like virtual socket tests and VLAN packet handling in tunnels. The patches aim to improve the kernel's networking and storage subsystems by ensuring accurate data storage, streamlining io_uring reads for better async performance, and providing clearer error messages when packets are dropped due to VLAN tags.
February 13, 2026 — Source

MariaDB 12.3.1 RC: Unlock Lightning-Fast Performance with Crash-Safe Binlog
MariaDB 12.3.1 has been released as a first candidate for its long-term support line, bringing significant changes to the binary log, XML data type, and Oracle-compatibility tweaks. The new binlog implementation embeds it inside InnoDB, reducing commit latency by up to 50% and making the binlog crash-safe even with relaxed flush settings. To enable this feature, users must add a specific directive to their my.cnf file, but should not treat this as a production release due to potential replication issues until at least one point release is available. The update also brings new features in MariaDB 12.2.2, including expanded Oracle compatibility and improved JSON handling, making it a safer upgrade for those already on the 12.1 series.
February 13, 2026 — Source

Multi-Lane SPI Support Merged For Linux 7.0
With the Serial Peripheral Interface "SPI" subsystem updates for the Linux 7.0 kernel comes support for multi-lane SPI.
February 13, 2026 — Source

NVIDIA Posts Open-Source Nouveau GSP Driver Support For GA100
One of the latest NVIDIA open-source contributions this week wasn't for the in-development Nova kernel driver but for enhancing the existing Nouveau kernel driver. The patch posted is for bringing up the NVIDIA GA100 GPU under Nouveau using the GPU System Processor (GSP).
February 13, 2026 — Source

Sheaves Ready To Play A Bigger Role In Linux 7.0
The slab memory allocator feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel. Most notable this cycle is expanded use of the recently-introduced Sheaves functionality.
February 13, 2026 — Source

Why my favorite Linux distro is slowing down - and I'm thrilled about it
Linux Mint release cycles are changing: Here's why and when to expect the next one.
February 13, 2026 — Source

Zen Browser 1.18.6b: Enhancing Performance and User Experience with Enhanced UI
Zen Browser 1.18.6b moves overflowing extensions to a row below the address bar in single‑sidebar mode, clearing up a crowded UI. The program now stores its Linux configuration under ~/.config/zen and respects XDG standards while still supporting the legacy folder if it exists. Crash recovery has been tightened so unpinned tabs stay closed when "Restore previous session" is disabled, and bookmark syncing with Mozilla accounts finally functions reliably. A new --blank-window command‑line switch opens a clean window without any pinned tabs or restored spaces, which is handy for testing or starting fresh.
February 13, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 12th, 2026

Apache NetBeans IDE  29 RC3 Fixes Missing Localization Keys
The third release candidate for Apache NetBeans IDE 29 mainly fixes missing resource‑bundle keys that caused placeholder text to appear in several language packs. The update cleans up the UI for non‑English locales, eliminating the "???" labels that could confuse users. It also includes minor internal tweaks such as reduced console logging noise and removal of obsolete test cases.
February 12, 2026 — Source

Arch Linux Running Well On LoongArch - Loongson 3B6000 Benchmarks
Earlier this month I posted benchmarks of the Loongson 3B6000 for this 12-core / 24-thread LoongArch Chinese CPU with DDR4 ECC memory. Those initial benchmarks were done with Debian LoongArch64 while since then I've shifted over to using Arch Linux on LoongArch.
February 12, 2026 — Source

How to use your Android phone to master Linux Bash scripts (instead of doomscrolling)
Enable the Linux terminal on any Android device, and you can practice your Bash scripting on the go. Here's how.
February 12, 2026 — Source

Intel Is Making It Easier In Linux 7.0 To Monitor Energy Use For A Group Of Tasks
Intel has upstreamed some Resource Control "resctrl" improvements to Linux 7.0 for enhanced telemetry monitoring. This is the good kind of telemetry with this new code being useful for being able to monitor how much energy or work is attributed to a group of tasks / process IDs on the system.
February 12, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 Brings A Significant Improvement For Workqueue Rescuer
The Linux kernel's workqueue for async task handling within a dedicated kernel thread is seeing some useful improvements with Linux 7.0.
February 12, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 Networking: Prepping For WiFi 8 UHR While Dropping Last Parallel Port Ethernet Driver
The Linux 7.0 networking pull request showcases two extremes and the diversity and robustness of the open-source kernel ecosystem. Linux 7.0 is laying the groundwork for WiFi 8 Ultra-High Reliability (UHR) support while this kernel version is also bidding farewell to the last Ethernet driver for use over parallel printer ports.
February 12, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 Performance Events Prep For Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids
The performance "perf" events changes for the Linux 7.0 kernel are continuing to prepare for next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors as the successor to current Xeon 6 Granite Rapids.
February 12, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 Removes Support For Signing Modules With Insecure SHA-1
The Linux 7.0 kernel has removed support for signing kernel modules using SHA-1 as it's no longer considered secure but existing SHA-1 signed modules can still be loaded.
February 12, 2026 — Source

Linux Mint team considers longer gaps between releases in attempt to accelerate development efforts — current six-month cycle means 'we spend more time testing, fixing, and releasing than developing'
Renowned for its slow and steady approach, Mint's pace of change may become even slower and steadier.
February 12, 2026 — Source

Media Driver Updates Merged For Linux 7.0 - Still Without The AMD ISP4 Driver
All of the media subsystem driver updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel and brings some new work around AV1 acceleration as well as other driver updates.
February 12, 2026 — Source

Mesa 26.0 Rolls Out, Bringing Major Vulkan And Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon GPUs On Linux
The open-source Mesa 3D graphics stack has reached a major milestone with the official release of Mesa 26.0, which brings significant improvements for AMD GPUs.
February 12, 2026 — Source

Mesa 26.0.0 Release: Boosting Performance and Graphics on Linux
The latest release of Mesa brings several performance tweaks, including new Vulkan-to-Metal layer, KosmicKrisp, which allows for smoother gameplay on macOS without needing proprietary software. RADV raytracing also gets faster with a more aggressive geometry handling path that reduces stutter in games like Quake II RTX. RadeonSI switches to ACO by default, cutting down shader compilation time and improving performance, but it may resurface some obscure edge-case bugs.
February 12, 2026 — Source

PikaOS 26.02.11 Release: Smoother Gameplay and Performance
The latest PikaOS 26.02.11 release includes a fresh package set that promises smoother gameplay and improved performance, particularly for users who have struggled with driver issues on other operating systems. The PikaOS comes in several editions, including GNOME, KDE, Hyprland, COSMIC, Niri, and a Handheld ISO (coming soon), each offering unique features and desktop experiences. Users can choose between regular and NVIDIA variants of each edition, depending on their graphics card - the NVIDIA ISO is required for RTX-series cards or GTX 1650 and newer models.
February 12, 2026 — Source

Sad news? Linux Mint may soon be shutting down its shorter development cycle
The Linux Mint team has published its January report, outlining several improvements and plans to move to a longer development cycle.
February 12, 2026 — Source

SPARC & Alpha CPU Ports Still Seeing Activity In 2026 With Linux 7.0
In addition to all of the exciting Intel and AMD x86_64 enhancements that have been landing this week so far for the Linux 7.0 kernel, the aging SPARC, Alpha, and Motorola 680x0 "m68k" CPU ports have also seen some patches for this new kernel.
February 12, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Now Available With Linux 6.17 HWE Kernel
Canonical released Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS today as the newest point release to the Noble Numbat.
February 12, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu Linux 24.04.4 LTS Update Brings New Kernel, Mesa, and Firefox Improvements
Ubuntu Linux 24.04.4 LTS brings several key updates, including a new Linux kernel 6.17 and Mesa 25.2.8, which add support for fresh hardware and improve gaming performance. The update also includes newer versions of Firefox, Snapd, and LibreOffice, making most users' experiences smoother and more stable.
February 12, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 11th, 2026

AMD ROCm TheRock 7.11 Released, Ubuntu Making Progress On Shipping ROCm Packages
Two useful bits of ROCm news today for those interested in AMD's open-source GPU compute stack.
February 11, 2026 — Source

Compiler-Driven Static Analysis Locking Context Checking Merged For Linux 7.0
The locking code changes have been merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel and it introduces support for a new compiler-driven feature being introduced on the compiler side with the upcoming LLVM Clang 22.
February 11, 2026 — Source

GNOME 48.9: A Breakdown of New Features, Fixes, and Upgrades
GNOME 48.9 is an incremental update that patches several memory leaks, thumbnail issues, and MTP crashes without adding any new features. The core desktop components have been tightened up for security and cleaning up stray memory allocations, making it a solid update for users who run third-party apps in containers or notice thumbnail glitches. For those heavily reliant on file management, remote mounts, or online accounts, the Nautilus and GVFS fixes alone make 48.9 worth upgrading to, while others may not see significant changes.
February 11, 2026 — Source

Intel Arc B390 Panther Lake Generational Performance Since The Gen9 Graphics Era
Last week on Phoronix we provided initial Linux graphics benchmarks for the new Xe3-based Arc B390 graphics found with the higher-end Panther Lake SoCs with 12 Xe cores. Those benchmarks showed great gains over recent generations of Intel graphics like with Lunar Lake, Meteor Lake, and even Alder/Raptor Lake... But what if you hold onto your laptop for even longer? In this article is an Intel integrated graphics comparison looking at the general performance and power efficiency going all the way back to the Gen9 graphics era for what seemed like an eternity of Gen9-derived graphics during the Skylake era.
February 11, 2026 — Source

Intel Releases New Compute Runtime, Upstreams More SYCL Code To LLVM
Intel today released a new version of their Compute Runtime stack and IGC graphics compiler for Level Zero and OpenCL usage with their integrated and discrete graphics. Separately they also upstreamed more SYCL code this week into mainline LLVM.
February 11, 2026 — Source

Kubernetes Drives AI Expansion as Cultural Shift Becomes Critical
Kubernetes has transitioned from a versatile framework for container orchestration to the primary engine powering the global surge in artificial intelligence development.
February 11, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 Now Defaults To Intel TSX Auto Mode For Performance Benefits On Newer CPUs
The x86/cpu changes have been merged for Linux 7.0 and include finally setting the default Intel TSX mode to "auto" rather than being off by default.
February 11, 2026 — Source

Linux 7.0 Scores +12% In UDP Network Performance Test From Manually Inlining Function
The core timer changes to the Linux 7.0 kernel score a rather nice performance improvement in a UDP receive network stress test from inlining a function that compilers haven't been able to tackle with their optimizations.
February 11, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernels 6.18.10, 6.12.70, 6.6.124, 6.1.163, 5.15.200, and 5.10.250 released
The Linux Kernels 6.18.10, 6.12.70, 6.6.124, 6.1.163, 5.15.200, and 5.10.250 have been released with various fixes and improvements. The latest kernel series addresses issues with sound cards, Wi-Fi radios, NVMe storage, and power management on laptops, among other things. Specific problems that are now resolved include audio glitches with the Behringer UMC2020HD, erratic behavior of Intel and AMD GPU drivers, and bogus disconnect warnings when switching between wireless networks.
February 11, 2026 — Source

Linux Mint Developing New Wayland-Compatible Screensaver
The Linux Mint developers have been hard at work continuing to develop new features following their recent Mint 22.3 release. There is continued enhancements around keyboard support, a new administration tool for users, and there are also considerations being made around moving to a longer development cycle between Linux Mint releases.
February 11, 2026 — Source

OpenVPN 2.7 Released With Multi-Socket Server & DCO Linux Kernel Driver Support
For those using the open-source OpenVPN for your virtual private networking (VPN) needs, OpenVPN 2.7 is out today with some notable improvements.
February 11, 2026 — Source

Python 3.15 Alpha 6 Unveiled: Top Features, Performance Boosts, and What Developers Need to Know
Python 3.15 alpha 6 brings several changes, including a built-in statistical profiler and default UTF-8 encoding. The release also includes an upgraded just-in-time compiler that provides modest speed improvements, about three to four percent on x86-64 Linux and seven to eight percent on AArch64 macOS. Additionally, the new release introduces features such as unpacking inside comprehensions and typed dictionaries with extra items, but warns that these additions are still experimental and may change before the final release.
February 11, 2026 — Source

Tails 7.4.2 Release: Critical Security Fix for Linux Users
Tails 7.4.2 has been released with critical kernel bug fixes and several minor annoyances resolved. The update patches a dangerous Linux-kernel flaw, bumps Thunderbird to 140.7.1, and improves language handling on the welcome screen. Skipping this upgrade leaves the operating system exposed to an attacker who could potentially seize admin rights and strip away anonymity. To upgrade safely, you can either use the built-in automatic updater or manually run a script in a terminal to download and install the new image.
February 11, 2026 — Source

Upstream Wine Making Progress On Patches For Satisfying Adobe Photoshop
There were recently patches for getting the Adobe Photoshop 2025 installer to work on Linux under Wine. Those patches were picked up by Wine-Staging and now more traction is coming for getting those patches into the upstream Wine codebase, some of which have now been merged.
February 11, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 6th, 2026

AMD Introduces New GPU Target To AMDGPU LLVM: GFX1170 "RDNA 4m"
In addition to their ongoing AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end work for upcoming GFX1250 and recently the GFX13 target for their graphics IP, today AMD compiler engineers introduced a new "GFX1170" target to the LLVM codebase that is also called RDNA 4m.
February 6, 2026 — Source or Source

"DHEI" Proposed For Linux To Help Cloud-Native Orchestrators & High Frequency Traders
Sent out today as a request for comments is a new patch series for Dynamic Housekeeping and Enhanced Isolation (DHEI). DHEI aims to provide run-time adjustments to kernel behavior around CPU isolation for helping with latency-sensitive tasks. The expressed goal is for helping cloud-native orchestrators and high frequency trading platforms dynamically re-partition CPU resources without downtime.
February 6, 2026 — Source

DKnife Linux toolkit hijacks router traffic to spy, deliver malware
A newly discovered toolkit called DKnife has been used since 2019 to hijack traffic at the edge-device level and deliver malware in espionage campaigns.
February 6, 2026 — Source

Forget VirtualBox - I discovered a better, more reliable VM manager for Linux
Virt-Manager is a free and easy-to-install virtual machine manager. Here's how it compares to VirtualBox.
February 6, 2026 — Source

GTK Developers Working On Session Saving Support & Better Accessibility This Year
GTK toolkit developers met in Brussels once again for their annual hackfest during FOSDEM week.
February 6, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel 6.18.9 released
The latest point release of the Linux kernel, version 6.18.9, arrives with a focused set of patches that tighten stability and eliminate subtle bugs across many subsystems. It cleans up crashes from driver races in AMDGPU, Intel Xe, and network devices like mlx5e while also correcting misleading error counters on Intel NICs and fixing memory leaks in bcache, btrfs, and NFC routines.
February 6, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernels 6.12.69, 6.6.123, 6.1.162, 5.15.199, 5.10.249 released
Linux Kernel 6.12.69 has been released alongside earlier stable branches such as 5.10.249, 5.15.199, 6.1.162, and 6.6.123, bringing a wide array of bug fixes and feature refinements across the kernel. The log shows improvements to bpf self‑tests, RDMA device handling under Hyper‑V, pinctrl driver changes for Qualcomm SoCs, AMDGPU queue resets, and a critical writeback CPU‑usage fix that stops infinite busy loops when the dirtytime interval is zero.
February 6, 2026 — Source

ML-LIB: Machine Learning Library Proposed For The Linux Kernel
Sent out today as a request for comments (RFC) by a Linux kernel engineer employed by IBM is a machine learning library for the Linux kernel. The intent is on plugging in running ML models to the Linux kernel that could be used for system performance optimizations and various other purposes.
February 6, 2026 — Source

OpenAI inks huge lease in Bellevue, doubling down on Seattle region near Microsoft and Amazon HQs
OpenAI is placing a bigger bet on the Seattle region, signing a massive new lease in Bellevue as the ChatGPT-maker expands near the headquarters of two key corporate cloud partners.
February 6, 2026 — Source

Toyota Developing A Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine - Using Flutter & Dart
Well, here's an unexpected combination... Toyota's Toyota Connected North America unit is developing a console-grade open-source game engine. Making it even more unusual is their engineering choices of building around the Flutter toolkit and in turn the Dart programming language. This new game engine creation is called Fluorite.
February 6, 2026 — Source

VRR Improvements Merged To GNOME 50 For Lower Latency, Wayland Commit Timing
While just missing out on the recent Mutter 50 beta release, merged today to Mutter Git ahead of next month's GNOME 50 desktop release are some improvements to the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support.
February 6, 2026 — Source

Wine 11.2 Released With More Improvements & 32 Bug Fixes
Wine 11.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release in the road toward the Wine 12.0 stable release next January.
February 6, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 4th, 2026

AMD Expands FPGA Offerings With Mid-Range Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2
AMD announced today an expansion of their FPGA prodict line-up with the Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 for "intelligent, high performance systems" for medical, industrial, and other fields.
February 4, 2026 — Source

ConnectSecure introduces Linux patching capability to simplify cross-distro updates
ConnectSecure announced the launch of a new cross-platform Linux operating system patching capability. The update eliminates the complexity of managing fragmented Linux environments by delivering a single, unified interface for deploying critical security updates across the four most widely used Linux distributions: Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, and CentOS.
February 4, 2026 — Source

GIMP Post-3.2 Will Be Looking At Hardware Acceleration, Full CMYK & More
With GIMP 3.2 releasing soon, GIMP developer Ondřej Míchal presented at FOSDEM 2026 this past weekend on some of the feature work being eyed for post-3.2 developments.
February 4, 2026 — Source

GNU Coreutils 9.10 Released With Many Improvements
Earlier this week Rust Coreutils 0.6 released while out today is GNU Coreutils 9.10 as the de facto standard for this set of core utilities on Linux systems and other platforms.
February 4, 2026 — Source

Intel Driver Disabling Vulkan Video Encode On Newer Hardware Due To Insufficient Testing
While Vulkan Video is a cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode and decode API that is beginning to gain traction by multimedia applications and frameworks, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver has for now taken a step-back on its encode support with newer hardware. Newer Intel graphics hardware is seeing Vulkan Video encode support disabled due to insufficient testing.
February 4, 2026 — Source

libinput 1.31 Bringing Support For Fast Three-Finger Swipes
Linux input expert Peter Hutterer of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of libinput 1.31, the input handling library used by both modern X.Org Server and Wayland desktop environments.
February 4, 2026 — Source

LibreOffice 26.2 released
LibreOffice 26.2 is the latest free office suite from The Document Foundation, offering improvements in speed, Markdown support, and better Microsoft file compatibility. A performance boost allows for faster opening of large documents and smoother scrolling in Calc, while Markdown import/export enables users to easily convert between formats. While upgrading isn't necessary if your workflow with LibreOffice 26.1 is smooth, the new version solves several long-standing annoyances for power users, such as anchored objects and connector support in Calc.
February 4, 2026 — Source

Mesa Will Now Prevent Compiling With LTO Due To "Random Impossible-To-Debug Bugs"
While link-time optimizations "LTO" can deliver some nice performance benefits out of this compiler optimization technique, it can make debugging said binaries more challenging. Due to various bugs in Mesa being attributed to the use of compiler link-time optimizations when compiling Mesa, the builds are being blocked on using LTO.
February 4, 2026 — Source

Microsoft is even gobbling up PC resources on Linux — Visual Studio Code could be hogging hard drive space
An issue first raised back in 2024 with VS Code continues to plague the official Snap package.
February 4, 2026 — Source

Nginx 1.29.5 and 1.28.2 released
A new security pupdate, Nginx 1.29.5, has been released to fix a critical SSL upstream injection bug (CVE-2026-1642) that could allow attackers to bypass host-based access controls and expose internal data to the internet. This vulnerability affects Nginx instances with SSL termination and is particularly relevant for public-facing servers using TLS. The patch adds proper logging and tightens read-before-write logic to prevent the attack, but users should still upgrade their Nginx version as soon as possible to ensure security.
February 4, 2026 — Source

One Line Fix Coming For Achieving Better Linux Performance On The HP OMEN 8E41 Laptop
A one-line patch to the HP WMI x86 platform driver for Linux was posted for allowing the HP OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-fb1xxx to correctly hit its rated TDP limit for allowing better performance outside of the Microsoft Windows confines.
February 4, 2026 — Source

OWASP CRS 4.23.0 released
The latest OWASP CRS 4.23.0 release includes new detection rules, false-positive clean-ups, and housekeeping efforts that most users won't notice. The new rules include protection against Vite.js path traversal attacks, fake Mozilla user-agent blocks, and "trap" command block exploitation attempts, as well as PHP session file upload prevention. Additionally, the release fixes several common false-positives, such as ad and tracker cookie noise and malformed SSRF URLs.
February 4, 2026 — Source

PikaOS 26.02.03 released
PikaOS 26.02.03 has been released with a new kernel and drivers, but users who upgraded from an older ISO need to run a migration script to fix their console keymap and encrypted boot issues. The migration involves deleting old config files, setting a generic keymap, fixing package references, installing the kbd stack, refreshing packages, applying the actual keymap, and recreating initramfs images.
February 4, 2026 — Source

This new Linux desktop runs like an app on your existing desktop - and I highly recommend it
Orbitiny is snappy, portable, and feels like a native experience - but it's not. Here's how it works.
February 4, 2026 — Source

Ubuntu 26.04 surprised me - this upcoming release is seriously secure
The next release of Ubuntu desktop Linux is on the horizon, so I dove into the latest daily build to see what was what, and came away nodding my head in approval at the heightened security.
February 4, 2026 — Source

Zen Browser 1.18.4b released
Zen Browser has released version 1.18.4b, which fixes a major issue with drag-and-drop functionality in split views, allowing users to finally reorganize tabs without frustration. The update also includes several minor quality-of-life tweaks and bug fixes, but no new UI features or major changes. Users who regularly work with multiple windows or rely on drag-and-drop for research are recommended to upgrade now, as the fix removes a significant hiccup that can cost minutes of focus.
February 4, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 2nd, 2026

Barman 3.17 released
Barman 3.17, a disaster recovery solution for PostgreSQL, introduces several practical improvements that make remote backups easier, such as allowing commands like list‑backup and get‑wal to run against servers marked inactive so you can query or restore without re‑enabling a node. It also adds safety for S3 Object Lock by aborting deletes when locked objects exist and lets users specify non‑standard SSH ports during restores with a single flag. The release drops the old custom_compression filter, urging teams to switch to built‑in algorithms like gzip, lz4, or zstd for faster, supported compression.
February 2, 2026 — Source

Experimental Linux Code For 1GB PUD-Level THPs Shows 34% Faster Memory Access Times
Early, experimental code for implementing 1GB PUD-level THPs in the Linux kernel are showing positive benchmark results but other upstream stakeholders were surprised by this patch series appearing and it looking like it could be a while until if/when the patches are mainlined for helping to reduce transaction lookaside buffer (TLB) pressure without resorting to Hugetlbfs.
February 2, 2026 — Source

Forget Google Search: I found a search tool that doesn't track me or push AI - and it gets better
YaCy is fully private and can be installed on Linux, Mac, and Windows PCs. Here's my experience so far, and how to use it yourself.
February 2, 2026 — Source

Gear Lever  4.3.1 released
Gear Lever has released version 4.3.1 on Flathub and GitHub, fixing bugs that had frustrated Portuguese users by adding missing pt‑PT translations The update also adds a proper source repository link to the About page, satisfying Flathub's open‑source compliance requirement and allowing anyone to inspect the code behind their AppImages. Additionally, Gear Lever now correctly handles pre‑release GitHub update URLs, pulling the latest "nightly" or "beta" builds without error.
February 2, 2026 — Source

Git 2.53 Released With More Optimizations, One Step Closer To Making Rust Mandatory
While we might see Git 3.0 released around the end of 2026, Git 2.53 is out today as the latest feature release and continuing to make changes with an eye toward that big Git 3.0 milestone.
February 2, 2026 — Source

Help! Does anyone on the bus know Linux?
Open source operating system fans, your time has come
February 2, 2026 — Source

Intel ISH Firmware Upstreamed For Linux With Dell's New Panther Lake Laptops
Ahead of Dell's new XPS 14 and XPS 16 laptops powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" expected to be shipping in volume beginning in March, more of the Linux support for these premium Panther Lake laptops continues to be finished up.
February 2, 2026 — Source

Linux From Scratch Abandoning SysVinit Support
Linux From Scratch was one of the holdouts continuing optional SysVinit init system support through 2026, but that's now ending. Linux From Scratch "LFS" and Beyond Linux From Scratch "BLFS" are ending their System V Init support moving forward.
February 2, 2026 — Source

ML4W OS 2.10.0 released
ML4W OS 2.10.0, the latest Hyprland‑based dotfiles collection rebranded from "ML4W Dotfiles", now ships a beta live ISO that boots directly into Hyprland with wallpaper‑derived adaptive material colors, adds a calendar app, improves btop's theme support, and stabilises the Welcome and Settings apps. The ISO is an Arch base configured for systemd‑boot, so you should write it to a UEFI bootable USB; installing on Arch requires running sudo install-ml4w-os from the live session, while other distros can copy dotfiles via the Flathub Dotfiles Installer but still need to resolve dependencies manually.
February 2, 2026 — Source

My proven way to speed up Linux when RAM upgrades aren't worth it (and it's free to do)
RAM prices are out of control. Here's how to speed up Linux without buying more.
February 2, 2026 — Source

Loongson 3B6000 Benchmarks: How China's LoongArch CPU Compares To AMD Zen 5, Intel Arrow Lake & Raspberry Pi 5
Recently I finally got my hands on a LoongArch processor, the ISA developed by China's Loongson Technology as an evolution from their earlier use of the MIPS64 ISA and inspired by RISC-V and other modern ISAs. The Loongson-3B6000 features 12 cores / 24 threads with dual channel DDR4 ECC memory support. Here is a look at how that latest-generation LoongArch desktop processor compares to the current generation AMD Zen 5 and Intel Arrow Lake desktop processors under Linux. Plus also tossing in the Raspberry Pi 5 (Raspberry Pi 500+) for an ARM reference point.
February 2, 2026 — Source

Raspberry Pi Raises Prices As Much As $60 Due To Memory Demand
Last year Raspberry Pi announced price increases due to memory demand. Today they have announced another round of increased prices as a result of the memory shortages going on industry-wide.
February 2, 2026 — Source

Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong
Sylvestre Ledru who serves as the lead developer of the uutils project for the Rust Coreutils implementation presented at FOSDEM 2026 this weekend on this initiative. Ledru has spoken at FOSDEM in prior years on Rust Coreutils and this year's talk focused primarily on Ubuntu 25.10's adoption of it in place of GNU Coreutils.
February 2, 2026 — Source

Security Researchers Find Current RISC-V CPU Implementations Coming Up Short
While many open-source enthusiasts like to flaunt RISC-V as not having the security challenges as x86_64 CPUs have seen over the past several years with various speculative execution / side-channel attacks and arguing for the benefits of an open-source ISA in stronger security, in practice it's not so clear-cut. Security researchers at Germany's CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security have found current RISC-V CPU implementations coming up short for their actual security.
February 2, 2026 — Source

Steam Survey Results For January 2026
After Steam on Linux gaming hit a record high in December of 3.58%, the January 2026 numbers are now published.
February 2, 2026 — Source

This Debian-based Linux distro has one of the smartest security features I've tested in years
If you're looking for a bit of extra security with an MX Linux-based distribution, iDeal OS might be an ideal solution.
February 2, 2026 — Source

Software — Open Source — February 1st, 2026

AI Arms Race Targets Google TPUs as DOJ Charges Ex-Googler with Espionage
The AI arms race is now in full swing, and corporate espionage is reaching levels beyond what we previously imagined. According to the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), former Google software engineer Linwei Ding has been convicted of economic espionage and theft of confidential AI technology, specifically related to Google Tensor Processing Units (TPUs). An FBI investigation revealed that the ex-Googler was suspected of stealing information about the entire infrastructure surrounding TPUs, including chip architecture, external connectivity, and more.
February 1, 2026 — Source

AI security startup CEO posts a job. Deepfake candidate applies, inner turmoil ensues.
'I did not think it was going to happen to me, but here we are'
February 1, 2026 — Source

Arch Linux 2026.02.01 released
Arch Linux has released new install media with kernel version 6.18.7, providing a stable foundation for computing needs. Characterized by its "Keep It Simple" philosophy, Arch Linux offers a straightforward and flexible experience through its optimized packages and community-operated repository. The distribution's community is diverse and supportive, making it an excellent resource for users seeking help or knowledge on various aspects of Arch Linux.
February 1, 2026 — Source

cTGP Graphics Power Setting Coming For Uniwill / TUXEDO Laptops With Linux 7.0
Upstreamed for the Linux 6.19 kernel is the Uniwill laptop platform driver for exposing more features/settings for laptops made by this Taiwanese OEM/ODM, including the laptops from TUXEDO Computers. Coming for the next kernel cycle is further extending the Uniwill platform driver for now having support for adjusting the custom total graphics power "cTGP" for those laptops with a dedicated GPU.
February 1, 2026 — Source

Framework 13 To See Fan Target & Fan Temperature Thresholds Support With Linux 7.0
For newer Framework devices like the Framework 13 AMD that make use of the ChromeOS Embedded Controller (EC), the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel is adding fan target support as well as fan temperature threshold handling.
February 1, 2026 — Source

GNOME Resources 1.10 Adds Monitoring Support For AMD Ryzen AI NPUs
GNOME Resources 1.10 was christened today as the newest version of this modern system monitoring app for the GNOME desktop that is now used by default on the likes of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. With GNOME Resources 1.10 they have added AMD Ryzen AI NPU monitoring support and other new capabilities.
February 1, 2026 — Source

GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building
Samuel Thibault offered up a status update on the current state of GNU/Hurd from a presentation in Brussels at FOSDEM 2026. Thibault has previously shared updates on GNU Hurd from the annual FOSDEM event while this year's was a bit more optimistic thanks to recent driver progress and more software now successfully building for Hurd.
February 1, 2026 — Source

Linux Kernel AI Chatter, ReactOS Developments & AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Topped January
During the last month on Phoronix were 296 original news articles from the Linux/open-source perspective as well as another 18 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews, written by your's truly. Here is a look back at the most popular news and reviews in the Linux world over the past month.
February 1, 2026 — Source

Linux's b4 Kernel Development Tool Now Dog-Feeding Its AI Agent Code Review Helper
The b4 tool used by Linux kernel developers to help manage their patch workflow around contributions to the Linux kernel has been seeing work on a text user interface to help with AI agent assisted code reviews. This weekend it successfully was dog feeding with b4 review TUI reviewing patches on the b4 tool itself.
February 1, 2026 — Source

PikaOS 26.01.31 released
PikaOS has released version 26.01.31 with several new features and updates. The update includes new install images based on different desktop environments, such as GNOME 49, KDE 6.5.4, Hyprland, Niri, and COSMIC, each offering unique features like improved rendering speed or flexible window management. Additionally, the kernel has been upgraded to 6.18.7 for smoother system performance and stability, and graphics-related updates include the latest Mesa driver.
February 1, 2026 — Source or Source

smolBSD Builds On The NetBSD-MicroVM Kernel For Booting To Service VMs In Milliseconds
A new BSD distribution I only learned about for the first time this weekend is smolBSD, a project built atop the netbsd-MICROVM kernel coming with NetBSD 11 for providing insanely fast booting micro-VMs intended for micro-services and similar environments.
February 1, 2026 — Source

UniGetUI 3.3.7 released
UniGetUI version 3.3.7 has been released, focusing on improving its user interface and stability after some beta testing with .NET 8 and AppSdk 1.7. New features include automatic updates for specific software components, better handling of unfamiliar package versions, and improved detection of the NPM dependency manager. Under the hood, several fixes have been made to address issues such as stuck update checks, failed version upgrades, and crashes during certain update sequences. Additionally, aesthetic upgrades include proper dark mode support and refreshed installer iconography, making the interface more modern and user-friendly.
February 1, 2026 — Source

Open Source Software — Resources