Arch Linux Available for Windows Subsystem for Linux

If you’ve ever wanted to use a rolling release distribution with WSL, now’s your chance.

FSF Blogs: April GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Twenty-one new GNU releases!

Twenty-one new GNU releases in the last month (as of April 30, 2025):

FOSS Force’s Top Ten for April

Here’s what people were reading the most on FOSS Force during the month of April, 2025.
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www @ Savannah: Malware in Proprietary Software – April 2025 Additions

The initial injustice of proprietary software often leads to further injustices: malicious functionalities.

The introduction of unjust techniques in nonfree software, such as back doors, DRM, tethering, and others, has become ever more frequent. N…

We’re Off — Ubuntu 25.10 Opens for Development

Development today opened on Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka”, the next short-term release of Ubuntu, due for release in October. Canonical engineer Utkarsh Gupta fired the figurative starting pistol for developers in a post to the Ubuntu mail…

Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! Open Source Labs Badly Needs Your Help!

An organization that among other things provides hosting for over 500 free and open source projects from all over the world suddenly finds itself needing a helping hand.
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How to Build Custom Distributions from Scratch

by George Whittaker

Introduction

In a world teeming with Linux distributions — from Ubuntu to Arch, Debian to Fedora — the idea of building your own may seem daunting, if not redundan…

Distribution Release: ALT Linux 11.0

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Maria Fokanova has announced the release of ALT Linux 11.0 “Workstation”, an independently-developed Linux distribution with RPM package management and (newly) GNOME as the default deskt…

Ubuntu finally Made NVIDIA 570 for 24.04 | 22.04 Desktop

For NVIDIA users, Ubuntu finally backported the latest NVIDIA 570 driver for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 24.10 desktop. NVIDIA 570 is so far the latest production branch driver for Linux that was initially released in February. The driver features variable refresh rate (VRR) support on multiple monitors, systemd suspend-then-hibernate sleep method, […]

BSD Release: DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The DragonFlyBSD project has published its first update in over two years. The update to the 6.4.x branch introduces several fixes in the kernel, userland, and package manager. “6.4.1 fi…

GNU Health: GNU Health Hospital Information System 5.0 enters alpha

We are very happy to announce that the upcoming version of GNU Health Hospital Information System has entered feature-complete alpha stage. This upcoming version of GNU Health HIS 5.0 supposes over a year of work and is the largest release in terms o…

FOSS Weekly #25.18: Linux Magazine, Modern Terminals, Muse Pi, apt Guide and More

Going retro, going futuristic.

Exploring Firefox Tab Groups: Has Mozilla Redeemed Itself?

Firefox’s Tab Groups help you organize tabs efficiently. But how efficiently? Let me share my experience.

Calculating Mathematical Expressions in Shell Scripting – Part 5

The post Calculating Mathematical Expressions in Shell Scripting – Part 5 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .By now, you must be feeling a bit more confident writing and understanding basic shell scripts. If you’ve followed th…

Linux App Release Roundup (April 2025)

April brought a solid set of software updates to an assortment of different apps. In this post, I run through recent releases that didn’t get the “whole article” treatment on this blog. Sometimes, it’s a challenge to cover everything …

How to easily run your favorite local AI models on Linux with this handy app

With GPT4ALL, you can easily switch between local LLMs like Llama, DeepSeek R1, Mistral Instruct, Orca, and more. It’s also available on MacOS and Windows.

openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Public Beta Testing with Agama Installer, Linux 6.12 LTS

openSUSE Leap 16 is now available for public beta testing with the new Agama installer and based on SUSE’s Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP).
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Free Software Foundation completes its board member review

FSF News: Free Software Foundation completes its board member review

Track Moon Phases From Your Ubuntu Desktop With Luna

Luna brings moon phases to your Ubuntu desktop with a simple GNOME Shell extension. Track current phase, illumination percentage, and upcoming changes right from your panel.
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