FSF Events: Too many eyeballs? Free software security in the LLM era with Sean O’Brien

August 8, 2026 at 16:30 EDT.

FSF Events: Can we route around the app stores? With Sean O’Brien

August 16, 2026 at 16:00 EDT.

FSF Events: Reverse engineering binary blobs on mobile with Rob Savoye

August 6, 2026 at 14:00 PDT.

Ubuntu Virtualization HWE Stack brings newer Qemu, libvirt to LTS users

Ubuntu’s hardware enablement (HWE) effort has been expanded to make newer virtualisation tech available to users on the current LTS release. If you’re not familiar with the HWE, it’s what brings newer versions of the Linux kernel, GPU…

GOG Officially Expands Linux Support with Native Galaxy Client in Development

by George Whittaker

After years of requests from the Linux gaming community, GOG has officially confirmed that it is developing native Linux support for the GOG Galaxy launcher. The an…

Ubuntu Touch gets big browser update, notch & printing support

Notch support, a screenshot editor and a more modern web browser engine are among changes arriving with the latest update to Ubuntu Touch, the community-run mobile operating system based on Ubuntu. With many devices supported by Ubuntu Touch, like Fair…

A GrapheneOS Privacy Feature Just Became the Basis for a Federal Indictment

Samuel Tunick faces up to five years in prison after the passcode he gave CBP agents wiped his phone.

Enable/Disable The New Virtualization HWE stack in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Ubuntu announced a virtualization HWE stack for the latest Ubuntu 26.04 LTS one day ago. Check what it is and how to enable or disable it. As you may know, Ubuntu LTS features hardware enablement (HWE) stack that backports most recent kernels and Mesa graphics drivers from newer Ubuntu releases, for example Ubuntu 24.04 now […]

We finally revived our Firefox add-on (10 years late)

The official OMG! Ubuntu add-on for Firefox is back – albeit far later than planned (sorry about that). If you’ve used our Chrome extension over the last decade, this add-on will be familiar as it’s the same thing, just in Firefox. Same look and …

I Really Want to Love This Markdown Editor, But One Thing Holds It Back

It gives an IDE feel with lots of features that fits the workflow of developers working on technical documentation of their projects.

Fooyin Music Player 0.12.0 Added PulseAudio Output & New Visualizer Plugins

Fooyin, the Foobar2000 alternative music player with native Linux support, released new 0.12.0 version today. The new version of this free open-source Qt music player added native PulseAudio audio output, audio conversion, three new visualization plugins, as well as many improvements and bug-fixes. Modern Linux Distributions have switched to PipeWire sound server, but the traditional […]

NetBird: Securely Connect Linux Machines with a WireGuard Mesh VPN

The post NetBird: Securely Connect Linux Machines with a WireGuard Mesh VPN first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .NetBird creates an encrypted WireGuard network between your devices without requiring a traditional VPN server or m…

OpenUK Wants Britain to Stop Giving Away Open Source Creations

They point to MCP, built by two engineers in London, that ended up under US-based governance.

Mission Center update brings battery and power reporting + more

A new version of Linux system monitoring app Mission Center is available for download, adding new hardware stats, first-run setup prompt and bug fixes. Mission Center 1.2.0 adds a new Battery page in the Performance tab, surfaces per-partition usage de…

Distribution Release: Emmabuntüs DE6-1.02

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Emmabuntüs project has published an update to its Debian Edition 6 branch, which is based on Debian 13 “Trixie”. The latest version focuses on accessibility improvements and is avail…

FireDragon Browser Swoops in With New Wings

It’s been rewritten from scratch to provide some good gains.

Yet Another Linux Kernel Vulnerability Discovered

Affecting millions of systems, a kernel flaw discovered by Qualys could allow users to gain root privileges.

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.

libc @ Savannah: The GNU C Library version 2.44 is now available

The GNU C Library

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The GNU C Library version 2.44 is now available.

The GNU C Library is used as the C library in the GNU system and

in GNU/Linux systems, as well as many other systems that use Linux

as the kernel.

The GN…

The FFmpeg GUI Frame 0.32.0 Released with UI Scaling Support

Frame, the free open-source graphical front end for FFmpeg media library, released new 0.32.0 version for Linux, Windows, and macOS. For those who never heard of Frame, it’s a Rust written application that use GPUI-CE (the community edition of GPU-accelerated user interface framework) for a modern graphical interface to manage FFmpeg operations. As you see […]