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Review: FreeBSD 15.1 with install-time desktop
News: Asahi fixes macOS boot bug, reasons to run Gentoo, Ubuntu reverts Rust-based copy command, Astral g…
This is to announce CSSC-1.5.0, a beta release.
There have been 424 commits by 2 people since 1.4.1. Thanks to Greg A. Woods for helping to improve CSSC.
See the NEWS below for a brief summary.
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Read MoreSupport for Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” ends 9 July 2026 – which is this week. If you’re still using it, you can upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS directly to keep receiving updates. Ubuntu 25.10 was released in October 2025. As an ̵…
Read MoreBleachBit, the free open-source system cleaner application for Linux and Windows, released new 6.0.2 version yesterday. The new version of this CCleaner alternative application introduced many new cleaner functions, UI improvements, new universal package for Linux, and various bug-fixes. As AI is getting so popular today, BleachBit finally added support cleaning caches for many AI‑powered […]
Read MoreThe NanoKVM-Go connects with a single USB-C cable, runs over WiFi 6, and exposes every KVM function as an MCP server for AI agents like PicoClaw and Claude Code.
Read MoreDid you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.
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GNOME 51, the Linux desktop expected as default in Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora 45, is now available for Alpha testing! The new version of this popular Linux desktop environment finally removed the code for legacy NVIDIA drivers support! Meaning the old graphics cards, such as GeForce 700 series (except GTX 750 Ti, GTX 750, and […]
Read MoreCanonical is putting money behind a Rust rewrite of Ubuntu’s time-syncing tech, becoming a Gold Sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation – a snip at €40,000 a year – to help fund the non-profit’s memory-safe software projects. That includes …
Read More Hello and welcome to another Qoth! Here’s what’s been happening in Q2
of 2026!
Joshua Branson added a pretty cool svg logo for our ethernet
multiplexor. He built that image
with Inkscape whilst using a Hurd laptop (Thinkpad 420) running on
real ir…
Canonical’s Snap Store will be shutting down for database maintenance this weekend, meaning users won’t be able to install or update snap software until it’s back online. The planned downtime starts on Sunday, 5 July 2026 at 22:00 UTC…
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Ultramarine Linux, a Fedora-based desktop distribution, has published a new release, version 44. The new version includes updates to three of the four desktop environments: “We have …
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The CalyxOS team have announced the return of the project to active status and, with it, the launch of version 7.2.2.0 of the mobile operating system. “CalyxOS 7.2.2.0 is up online. This…
Read MoreIf you installed Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and noticed video and music files weren’t showing image thumbnails in the file manager, a packaging oversight was to blame, not anything you did. It turns out that Ubuntu’s Default install option (aka minim…
Read MoreThe newly reinstated Anthropic model topped charts for automating work. Here’s what that means for the future.
Read MoreVersion 2.5.21 introduces Kyber/ML‑KEM, tweaks internals for newer libraries, and signals that users should move off the now‑unsupported 2.4.
The post GnuPG 2.5.21 Released With Kyber Support as 2.4 Reaches End of Life appeared first on FOSS Force.
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. M. R. Richardson, a science fiction writer and author of the Galactic Mandate series of science fiction books, has announced the release of Galactic Mandate Linux 99. Based on Ubuntu 26….
Read More Several security issues (CVE IDs pending) have been identified in guix substitute, a helper utility invoked by
guix-daemon,
which enable a variety of harmful activities including remote privilege
escalation to the build daemon user, remote store corr…
The desktop suite’s first major update pulls features from CODE 26.04.
Read MoreThe Fourth of July weekend brings tons of sales on top laptops we’ve reviewed, from Apple, Acer, Lenovo, and more.
Read Moreby George Whittaker
The PorteuX project has officially released PorteuX 2.6, bringing a new round of updates to the lightweight Slackware-based Linux distribution. Designed to be fast,…
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