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Someone Turned a PS5 Into a Linux Gaming PC, and It Actually Works

It runs Linux, plays Steam games, and only time will tell how long before Sony DMCAs it.

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You can run Ubuntu on your PS5 (and play Steam games)

Someone has hacked their PlayStation 5 to run Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and used it to play GTA V Enhanced on Steam at a smooth 60fps at 1440p – and now you can too. The feat was pulled off by security engineer Andy Nguyen, who announced a public release of his…

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Enabling Ubuntu Pro in Security Center is super easy

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS dropped the Software & Updates utility from default installs and added Ubuntu Pro settings to the Security Center app. But is the setup experience any better? The short answer is yes, mostly. The range of options sti…

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Sovereign Tech Agency Opens Paid Standards Program for Open Source Maintainers

The chosen maintainers could get up to €5,200 a month for IETF, W3C, and ISO standards work.

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Good News! AI-first Warp Terminal is Now Open Source

Years after the idea was first floated, Warp’s dual MIT and AGPL-licensed code is finally on GitHub.

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Linux App Release Roundup (April 2026)

April 2026 has been and gone, but not before delivering an array of Linux software updates, including new versions of popular FOSS video editor Kdenlive and Oracle’s virtualisation offering VirtualBox. We also got Firefox 150 with GTK emoji picke…

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LVFS Has Turned Up the Heat on Vendors Who Won't Contribute

Announced last year, the first wave of LVFS restrictions went live at the start of this month.

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Ubuntu 16.04 LTS security support has ended – unless you pay

If you’re still running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), heads up: Extended Security Maintenance (ESM) ended this month and your system is no longer receiving security updates. Having debuted in April 2016, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS received five years of…

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Linux is Getting a New Default Folder in Your Home Directory

It may look like a small addition, but standardizing something many Linux users already do can improve workflows, application behavior, and even documentation over time.

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Ubuntu is Going Big on AI (But Not The Copilot Kind You Dread)

Canonical’s plan favors local inference and open models over cloud-dependent AI services.

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Microsoft Might Be Rebasing Azure on Fedora Linux

Chatter from a Fedora developer meeting points to Microsoft wanting to shift Azure Linux closer to Fedora.

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Canonical is ‘ramping up’ AI in Ubuntu this year

AI features are coming to Ubuntu in 2026, though Canonical has made clear that the distro is not becoming an AI product. In a community post, Jon Seager, VP of engineering at Canonical, says the company is “ramping up its use of AI tools in a foc…

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BleachBit 6.0.0 Released with Cookie Manager B LibAdwaita Image Viewer / OrganizerManager & LibAdwaita Image Viewer / Organizer Expert Mode

gThumb, the free open-source image viewer and organizer, is finally porting to GTK4 plus LibAdwaita. With version 4.0 alpha, the user interface has been rewritten in Vala that looks modern and native in recent GNOME based distros, such as Ubuntu and Fedora Workstation. As you see in the screenshot, the new development version features rounded […]

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MinIO Is Done With Open Source, What Are Your Options?

Archived, unarchived, and archived again, the repo’s status may keep changing, but MinIO’s direction hasn’t.

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Firefox’s free VPN is getting the one feature it was missing

Mozilla has attracted kudos since it added a free built-in VPN to its Firefox web browser, not least because of the generous 50 GB a month usage limit. Now it’s set to add another sweetener: server location choice. Mozilla began rolling out VPN i…

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Canonical finally gives Launchpad (a bit of) a glow-up

Launchpad, the home of Ubuntu development, has finally received some design attention. Canonical last updated the site’s homepage back in 2024, but many of the pages that the distro’s developers actually use or reference on a regular basis …

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Firefox Has Quietly Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine

Mozilla shipped it in Firefox 149 without a mention in the release notes.

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Will You Pay $119 For This Open Source KVM Built on Rust and Buildroot?

The LeafKVM packs a 2.4-inch touchscreen, Wi-Fi 5, and PoE into a CNC aluminum box.

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Lubuntu 26.04 LTS Ships LXQt 2.3, and Keeps Wayland on the Backburner

The lightweight Ubuntu flavor hits the 30 release mark with a refreshed app stack and Wayland support still in the works.

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Kubuntu 26.04 LTS Drops X11 Support and Goes All in On Wayland

You also get Plasma 6.6, Linux 7.0, and three years of standard LTS support.

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