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DCOX, PDFs Were Not Built for AI. This New Open Standard Wants to Change That

The spec looks to simplify how AI systems read and process documents under a vendor-neutral umbrella.

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Microsoft brings Coreutils to Windows – natively

Microsoft 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)…

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KaOS Releases First Dinit-Based ISO, but It's Not Ditching Systemd Entirely

The distro ditches systemd as the init system while keeping some key components around.

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Ubuntu MATE Will Quite Possibly Have 26.10 Release

Ubuntu 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 […]

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HandBrake 1.11.2 Released with WebM MIME Type Support for Linux

HandBrake, 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 […]

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Good News For Linux Terminal Junkies! Proton Drive Now Has a CLI

Something to work with before the GUI client for Linux drops.

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Firefox for Android adding Google Integrity checks

Mozilla 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…

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ONLYOFFICE DocSpace 3.7 Lets You Generate Files Using AI

The update also adds DeepSeek, xAI, and Google AI support alongside a revamped form-filling experience.

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Collabora's CODE 26.04 Release Might Be Its Biggest One Yet

The experimental online office suite gets AI tools across all three editors and a lot more in this release.

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Bambu Lab Keeps Locking Down, The Community Keeps Building Up

As Bambu Lab tightens its grip on its ecosystem, tools like Bambuddy are giving owners back control of hardware they paid for.

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LibreOffice slams Euro-Office as ‘de facto ally’ of Microsoft

Euro-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 …

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Audacious 4.6.1 Now Uses XDG Cache Dir for Better Flatpak/Snap Support

Just 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 […]

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Proton Drive client is (finally) coming to Linux

Proton 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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HandBrake fixes 2-pass encode crashes, WebM on Linux

A new version of HandBrake, the open-source and cross-platform media conversion tool, is available to download. HandBrake 1.11.2 is a maintenance update in the current 1.11.x stable release, which was released in March 2026 and added DNxHR and ProRes e…

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This dev’s personal website is a working GNOME 2 desktop

Reliving the glory days of the GNOME 2 desktop is but a browser tab away – well, kinda. The personal website of Benny Powers, a software developer at Red Hat, is not a traditional vertical column of text. Nor is it a slop-soup of purple gradients, roun…

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GNOME 50.2 Released with Files, Screenshot Improvements & NVIDIA Fixes

GNOME 50, the default desktop for Ubuntu 26.04 and Fedora 44, announced its second maintenance update one day ago. The new small version of this popular Linux desktop environment introduced numerous bug-fixes, fixes and improvements for NVIDIA support, as well as its Nautilus file manager and built-in screenshot tool. First, GNOME 50.2 fixed that the […]

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Proton Drive is Now Faster (And Getting a Linux Client Soon)

The overhaul is part of a broader SDK rebuild that has been in the works throughout 2026.

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New options added to (slick) Dynamic Music Pill GNOME extension

Dynamic Music Pill, the blingy GNOME Shell extension that adds now playing track info, media controls and even real-time lyrics to your desktop, has gained some new options. “Like what?”, you ask… If you don’t want to see the na…

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Rustdesk 1.4.7 Released with Deploy Option for Android Device

Rustdesk, the popular rust written remote desktop application for Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, released new 1.4.7 version a few days ago. The new version of this free open-source application introduced some new features, security improvements, and various bug-fixes. First, Rustdesk 1.4.7 introduced new Deploy setting option for Android client. Meaning user can now […]

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Canonical Promotes Steam Snap to Stable on ARM64, With Plans to Rebuild It from Scratch Later

The current snap bundles FEX to emulate x86 Steam on ARM hardware, but that approach might be shortlived.

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