Linus Torvalds has released Linux 7.0, the kernel version that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS runs on. Linux 7.0 includes a new standardised filesystem error reporting system, faster swap performance and hardware video decoding for a crop of Rockchip ARM64 single-bo…
Read MoreWith paid developers gone and only volunteers remaining, the app has until July 8 to secure funding or fade into irrelevance.
Read MoreThe Ghostty terminal is now packaged in the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS repositories – meaning for those on the new long-term support release, it’s only an apt install away. Ghostty is a fast, open-source terminal emulator for macOS and Linux (Windows suppo…
Read MoreDINUM is ditching Windows for Linux as France pushes every ministry to draft a migration plan away from non-European software.
Read MorePeaZip, the free open-source file manager and archive utility, released new major 11.0.0 version few days ago. The new version sped up the archive browsing, improved bookmarks and internal drag and drop feature, and added new test function. First, it added new browser optimization mode to improve speed for opening and navigating large archives. And, […]
Read MoreGreg Kroah-Hartman appears to be running AI-assisted fuzzing on the kernel. Don’t outrage yet, as this may not be a bad thing.
Read MoreA mandatory verification requirement Microsoft introduced in October took them out.
Read MoreAmazon is dropping support for Kindle older models from 20 May, 2026, meaning owners of pre-2013 models will be unable to download new books or set up a device that has been factory reset — deregistering a device will effectively ‘brick’ it…
Read MoreA new version of Miracle-wm, a tiling window manager built around the Wayland compositor Mir, has been released with a new WebAssembly plugin system and Rust API. Developer Matthew Kosarek, an engineer at Canonical who created miracle-wm as a personal …
Read MoreOpenShot, the free open-source Qt-based video editor, released new 3.5.1 version few days ago. The new version introduced preview scaling feature named Optimize Preview and other changes that significantly improved performance for the editing workflow. Different to other video editors (e.g., Kdenlive and Shotcut), OpenShot down-scale the original video sources by generating (or linking to) […]
Read MoreThe new history commands let you undo, redo, or roll back package installs, upgrades, and removals.
Read MoreA clutch of new features are available in Dynamic Music Pill, the slick now playing and media controller extension for GNOME Shell. The “big” new addition is lyrics support. When you listen to a track with synced lyrics in a compatible play…
Read MoreA Linux version of Little Snitch, the iconic network monitoring tool for macOS, has been released. Little Snitch for Linux is written in Rust and uses eBPF for kernel-level traffic interception (this lets sandboxed code run inside the Linux kernel with…
Read MoreApache Software Foundation’s Ruth Suehle says this kind of sustained investment is what keeps critical open source up and running.
Read MoreMeta’s Helion and Hugging Face’s Safetensors are now hosted projects under the PyTorch umbrella.
Read MoreFor those who never warmed up to Breeze, Oxygen and Air are shaping up to be compelling alternatives again.
Read MoreA full functional operating system in the web browser. From coding tools to office suite, it has everything.
Read MoreThe gaming browser lands on Linux with flashy bits, but the defaults need some work.
Read MoreFirefox recently added a free built-in VPN to its desktop browser, but access to the feature is rolling out gradually. It hit my Ubuntu machine last night – and I’m last to be invited to anything, so I thought I’d write a quick rundown of w…
Read MoreThe support remained in the Linux kernel all these years after every other major platform dropped it.
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