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Miss Windows XP or 7? Then I have a free, open-source alternative for you

If you’re looking for a Windows alternative, but aren’t ready for Linux, the open-source ReactOS is now as easy to install as Windows.

FSF Blogs: FSD meeting and weekly recap 2026-05-01

Check out the important work our volunteers accomplished
this week and at today’s Free Software Directory (FSD) IRC meeting.

qBittorrent 5.2.0 Released with Lots WebUI Improvements

qBittorrent, the popular Qt BitTorrent application, released new major 5.2.0 version yesterday. The new version of this free open-source app introduced many improvements to its Qt UI and Web UI, optimized search engine support, and fixed various issues. First, the new version exchanged the “Add Torrent File” and “Add Torrent Link” button, so the plus […]

How this travel company’s AI rollout drove a 73% satisfaction boost: A 5-step playbook for your business

Too many AI explorations get stuck at the starting gate. Here’s how to ensure your agents reach the finishing line.

FSF Blogs: April GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali featuring nineteen new GNU releases: Parallel, Time, and more!

Source: Planet GNU

What Are Linux Mint HWE ISOs and Do You Actually Need One?

These images ship with a newer kernel, and they exist for a good reason.

How to Monitor Linux Performance with Sysstat Tools

The post How to Monitor Linux Performance with Sysstat Tools first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Sysstat is a collection of performance monitoring utilities for Linux that includes mpstat, pidstat, iostat, and sar, and together…

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1171

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: Xubuntu 26.04
News: Ubuntu plans AI features, Devuan developer creates GTK2 fork, Mint introduces hardware enablement install media, Linux runni…

gThumb is barely recognisable in its GTK4/libadwaita port

gThumb, the open-source image viewer and organiser, has been rewritten in Vala and ported to GTK4/libadwaita – and compared to the old UI, it’s barely recognisable. An alpha build of gThumb 4.0 is available for testing. Alongside the visual revam…

Linux Lite 8.0 RC1 Released! Based on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Linux Lite, the lightweight, beginner friendly, and Ubuntu based Linux Distribution, announced the RC1 release for the next 8.0 major version yesterday morning. This new release, code-name Hematite, features Linux Kernel 7.0, XFCE 4.20 desktop, and Ubuntu 26.04 package base. While, the final release is scheduled to be released on 1st June, 2026. Thanks to […]

FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending May 1, 2026

Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.
The post FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending May 1, 2026 appeared first on FOSS Force.

watch: The One Linux Command You Keep Forgetting to Use

The post watch: The One Linux Command You Keep Forgetting to Use first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .You’re running df -h every 30 seconds by hand to watch a disk fill up, typing the same command over
The post watch: The …

GNU Taler news: LibEuFin Connector for Dolibarr is out

by Bohdan Potuzhnyi

Is It Panic Time? Linux’s Big Bad ‘Copy Fail’ Security Exploit

‘Copy Fail’ puts Linux users on alert as kernel patches race out and distros scramble to push them to the update channel.
The post Is It Panic Time? Linux’s Big Bad ‘Copy Fail’ Security Exploit appeared first on FOSS Force.

www @ Savannah: Malware in Proprietary Software – Latest 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…

FSF Blogs: It’s May, and we’ve been keeping busy

All four teams at the Free Software Foundation (FSF) have been working tirelessly the past four months, and we have a lot to show for it!

This ‘cardputer’ sits between the Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero – but it’s uniquely better

The M5Stack Cardputer Adv is a self-contained pocket computer with plenty of promise.

Shotcut 26.4 Released with GPU Acceleration for Speech to Text

Shotcut video editor released new 26.4 version one days ago. The new version named “All the Small Things”, though there are also some exciting new features and various fixes. First, the new Shotcut 26.4 improved timeline by adding drag’n’drop support from Recent to Timeline, symmetric resize (grow or shrink equally on both sides, keeping center […]

Development Release: Linux Lite 8.0 RC1

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Jerry Bezencon has announced the availability of the initial release candidate for the upcoming Linux Lite 8.0, a major update of the project’s Ubuntu-based distribution featuring the Xf…

health @ Savannah: GNU Health featured at the Cyber|Show UK

GNU Health at the Cyber|Show!

Grab a coffee and listen to the 40 min. interview Andy Farnell and Helen Plews made to Luis Falcón in their wonderful show. ❤️

They covered key aspects on citizen and patient data privacy, hospital management, fede…