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Today, July 24, Douglas DeMaio posted news on the openSUSE Project's homepage that the openSUSE Leap 42.1 Milestone 1 is now available for download and testing, based on the source code of the acclaimed SUSE Linux Enterprise operating system. Probably the most exciting things about openSUSE Leap 42.1 Milestone 1 is the fact that it's powered by a highly optimized kernel from the Linux 4.1 LTS series, bringing power enhancements to x86 and ARM hardware, as well as encryption support to the EXT4 file system.

Canonical's Lukasz Zemczak informed us all that the full-featured Mir 0.14 display server update landed in the devel branch of Ubuntu Touch. While the Mir 0.14 update is currently available in the Wily Werewolf devel branch of Ubuntu Touch, the devs are working hard these days to push the update to the stable, Vivid Vervet based branch as well.

Konstantin Dmitriev announced the release of the first maintenance release for Synfig Studio, an open source, industrial-strength vector-based 2D animation software that can be used for producing feature-film quality animations.

We reported last week that Kubuntu's Jonathan Riddell expressed his feelings regarding Canonical's IP (Intellectual Property) policy for the Ubuntu Linux operating system, which was updated on the same day.

The Orca open-source screen reader and magnifier software has reached version 3.17.4 as part of the upcoming GNOME 3.17.4 desktop environment.

Today, we announce that the Linux 4.0 kernel series reached end of life, as Greg Kroah-Hartman has published details earlier about the release of the ninth maintenance version. At the moment of writing this article, numerous GNU/Linux distributions, including Fedora, are still using a kernel from the Linux 4.0 series, so they should upgrade their kernel packages to the Linux 4.1 LTS branch as soon as possible.

After several months of hard work, the developers behind the next-generation Kodi open-source and cross-platform media center software, formerly XBMC Media Center, were more than proud to announce the release of Kodi 15.0, codename Isengard.

Today, July 21, Google announced that it promoted the the Google Chrome 44 web browser for Chrome OS, GNU/Linux, Mac OS X, as well as Microsoft Windows operating systems to the stable channel.

At the request of our readers, we have decided to make a quick video that showcases the installation of the latest Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 software update released by Canonical on July 20, 2015.

The developers of the MKVToolnix open-source and cross-platform application used for manipulating MKV (Matroska) files announced recently that MKVToolnix 8.2.0 is available for download and that all users must upgrade.

We reported a few days ago a very interesting and awesome fact about the creator of the Linux kernel, Mr. Linus Torvalds, who, apparently, loves to go Zero-G in a T-33 fighter jet aircraft to relax in between kernel pulls.

The Arch Linux ARM project announced earlier on their Twitter account that it is now possible to install the famous, customizable and lightweight Arch Linux operating system on the ARMv7l ODROID-XU4 board.

Cuma Temmuz from the Pisi Linux development team was glad to inform us all earlier today about the immediate availability for download of the final release of Pisi Linux 1.2, a GNU/Linux distribution forked from Pardus Linux.

Another Sunday, another Linux kernel release is available for testing, as announced by Linus Torvalds a few minutes ago. The third Release Candidate version of the forthcoming Linux 4.2 kernel series is now ready for download.

Canonical, the company behind the world's most popular free operating system, Ubuntu, the UbuContest 2015 team, as well as the Ubucon Germany 2015 team, are proud to announce the first UbuContest event.

The FreeBSD Project, through Glen Barber, announced recently that the second Beta build of the forthcoming and highly anticipated FreeBSD 10.2 operating system is now available for download and testing.

SUSE announced recently that the fourth SP (Service Pack) update for its SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 operating system is now available for download for existing customers.

Canonical's ?ukasz Zemczak sent in his daily report informing users about some interesting aspects of the Monday launch of the Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 update.

You probably won't believe this, but Linus Torvalds, father of the Linux kernel, has just posted three astonishing photos bragging about doing fighter jet flights to relax in between Linux kernel pulls.

Martyn Russell, the developer of the open-source semantic data storage engine for desktop and mobile devices that is heavily used in the GNOME desktop environment, announced the immediate availability of Tracker 1.5.0.