Rust 1.89 is out today as the newest update to this popular programming language implementation prided by its memory safety features and more...

Q4OS is a Debian-based desktop Linux distribution designed to offer classic-style user interface (Trinity) and simple accessories, and to serve stable APIs for complex third-party applications, such as Google Chrome, VirtualBox and development tools. The system is also very useful for virtual cloud environments due to its very low hardware requirements.

Similar to Clang-Tidy for tidying up C/C++ code using LLVM/Clang components, Flang-Tidy is in development as a tool for Fortran static analysis built upon LLVM's modern Flang compiler code. Flang-Tidy may be upstreamed in the future to LLVM while for now it's developed by TU Munich and Max Planck Computing...

It has taken until 2025 for the AT/PS2 keyboard driver to map F13 through F24 function keys by default. But that day has come and the support was merged today as part of the input driver changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel...

Intel is phasing out 16x multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) with modern upscaling tech like XeSS / FSR / DLSS being superior and more performant plus there being alternative anti-aliasing techniques. Upcoming Xe3 graphics are seeing 16x MSAA support retroactively disabled as the Intel graphics driver moves away from this highest-level MSAA sampling count...

The Linux 6.17 sound subsystem code last week introduced support for AMD ACP 7.2 as the next version of AMD's Audio Co-Processor IP. This appears to be for yet-to-be-released hardware and now over in the SoundWire subsystem is similar enablement work landing for AMD ACP 7.2...

iDeal OS is a computer operating system, a custom respin of the powerful MX Linux distribution, with the best privacy and security settings enabled by default. The main goals of iDeal OS are privacy and security, offering to surf, shop, trade and bank online with complete peace of mind, without annoying advertisements, tracking, logging, bugs, viruses or unwanted disclosure of personal information. iDeal OS is available in two different editions: "Emerald", which offers applications for everyday computing needs, and "Diamond", with is a powerful digital workstation with a wide range of professional tools.

Linux Mint 22.2 beta ISOs are being tested according to information on the distro's internal testing server. This suggests a public beta is imminent.

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Mesa 25.2 open-source graphics stack for Linux is now available for download with numerous new features and improvements for existing graphics drivers, as well as better support for numerous video games.

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KaOS Linux 2025.07 independent distribution is now available for download with the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment and Linux kernel 6.15. Here’s what’s new!

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Audacity 3.7.5 open-source digital audio editor and recording software is now available for download with various changes. Here's what's new!

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NetworkManager 1.54 open-source network connection manager is now available for downlaoad with support for configuring per-device IPv4 forwarding and other changes. Here’s what’s new!

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NVIDIA 580 graphics driver series is now available for public beta testing with improved Wayland support and other changes. Here’s what to expect!

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KDE Plasma 6.4.4 is now rolling out with various improvements and bug fixes for the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series.

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PorteuX 2.2 Linux distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.16, GNOME 48.3, KDE Plasma 6.4.2, and NVIDIA 575.64.05. Here's what else is new!

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Darktable 5.2.1 open-source RAW image editor is now available for download with support for new cameras, new noise profiles, and bug fixes. Here's what's new!

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4MLinux 49.0 distribution is now available for download with support for Bcachefs installations, new default apps, and other changes. Here's what's new!

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TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Linux laptop is now available for pre-order with the AMD Ryzen AI 300 processor and updated components.

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PyTorch 2.8 released today as the newest feature update to this widely-used machine learning library that has become a crucial piece for deep learning and other AI usage. There are a few interesting changes worth highlighting with the new PyTorch 2.8 release...

The KVM feature changes were merged a few days ago with all of their enhancements for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel. Some nice improvements made it this cycle for enhancing the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

Free office suite ONLYOFFICE has been updated with a new AI Agent, preinstalled plugins, and a flurry of fixes. Details on what the agent can do inside.

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Microsoft today released an updated version of Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" that allows running Linux binaries atop Windows 11. There is only one change noted and it's for a yet-to-be-public security vulnerability...

Microsoft formally announced today its newest open-source project: Wassette. The Wassette is MIT-licensed and includes Linux and macOS support alongside Windows while being a Rust+WebAssembly-based project focused on securing AI agents...

SmartOS is an open-source UNIX-like operating system based on illumos, a community fork of OpenSolaris. It features four technologies - ZFS (a combined file system and logical volume manager), DTrace (a dynamic tracing framework for troubleshooting kernel and application problems), Zones (a lightweight virtualisation solution), KVM and bhyve (two full virtualisation solutions for running a variety of guest operating systems, including Linux, Windows, BSD and Plan9). SmartOS is designed to be particularly suitable for building clouds and generating appliances.