Linux 7.1 arrives with a rewritten NTFS driver, Apple Silicon battery reporting, and Steam Deck OLED audio fixes alongside massive legacy code removals.
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A hijacked contributor account let an AI agent loose on Fedora’s bug tracker, closing bugs, posting hallucinated fixes, and getting bad code into Anaconda.
Read MoreUbuntu 25.10, code-name Questing Quokka, will reach end of life next month on 9 July 2026. It was announced a few days ago: Ubuntu announced its 25.10 (Questing Quokka) release almost 9 months ago, on 9 October 2025 and its support period is now nearing its end. Ubuntu 25.10 will reach end of life on […]
Read MoreUbuntu 26.10, the next Ubuntu version planned for October 15, is finally available for testing on AMD and Intel PCs / laptops. The development of Ubuntu 26.10, code-name Stonking Stingray, was started in last month. It however lacked the .iso desktop image for testing on modern amd64 platform, even in the first snapshot release. As […]
Read MoreYserver is a vibe-coded project that ditches legacy code to work cleanly on modern Linux systems.
Read MoreAudacity, the free open-source audio editor, released new 3.7.8 version yesterday along with the Beta for next 4.0 major release. The new version introduced some minor new features, improved UI for Linux, and fixed various issues. And, Ubuntu PPA has been updated for those who prefer native .deb package. First, the new version fixed a […]
Read MoreYou’ll be able to customise the look of LibreOffice’s Tabbed UI in the free office suite’s next major release, which his due out in August 2026. LibreOffice 26.8’s Tabbed UI (also known as the Notebookbar and modelled after the …
Read MoreThe spec looks to simplify how AI systems read and process documents under a vendor-neutral umbrella.
Read MoreMicrosoft has released Coreutils for Windows, allowing a stack of familiar “Linux-like” command-line utilities to run natively on Windows. The project is based on uutils, the Rust-based reimplementation of GNU coreutils that Ubuntu (mostly)…
Read MoreThe distro ditches systemd as the init system while keeping some key components around.
Read MoreUbuntu MATE, the official Ubuntu flavor features MATE desktop environment, will quite possibly have a 26.10 release few months later in October! As you may know, the prior team lead stepped down thus there’s no Ubuntu MATE 26.04 LTS release. Many users asked about how to upgrade if there was no 26.04 release, and/or the […]
Read MoreHandBrake, the free open-source video transcoder, released new 1.11.2 version a few days ago. The new version of this popular application features some improvements for Windows, Linux, and macOS support, library updates, and several bug-fixes. First, the new version updated to FFmpeg 8.0.2 for audio/video decoding and applying filters. And, it updated the SVT-AV1 AV1 […]
Read MoreSomething to work with before the GUI client for Linux drops.
Read MoreMozilla is added support for Google’s Play Integrity API, known for blocking users of custom ROMs from accessing banking apps, to Firefox for Android. According to a resolved issue in Mozilla’s public tracker, a new lib-integrity-googl…
Read MoreThe update also adds DeepSeek, xAI, and Google AI support alongside a revamped form-filling experience.
Read MoreThe experimental online office suite gets AI tools across all three editors and a lot more in this release.
Read MoreAs Bambu Lab tightens its grip on its ecosystem, tools like Bambuddy are giving owners back control of hardware they paid for.
Read MoreEuro-Office launches its stable 1.0 release on June 9, billed as a ‘truly open’ sovereign alternative to Microsoft Office – a claim riling The Document Foundation, makers of LibreOffice. In an open letter published today, TDF’s Italo …
Read MoreJust a week since the last 4.6 version, the lightweight Audacious music player announced new 4.6.1 bug-fix release. The new version of this free open-source application adopted XDG cache dir, added new Georgian translation, and fixed some bugs. Improved Flatpak / Snap support First, the new Audacious 4.6.1 now stores temporary files in XDG cache […]
Read MoreProton has confirmed it is working on a Proton Drive client for Linux desktops. The announcement slipped out as part of a broader platform update. Proton has rebuilt Drive around a new shared SDK, with a single codebase powering its official apps on Wi…
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