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There was a panic to remove references to Albanian from the GNOME Foundation web site

Incus 6.3 rolls out with initial support for running OCI application containers, new VM options, live migration improvements, and more.

Sipeed launched the Lichee Pi 3A, an advanced development board designed for various computing tasks, including embedded systems and AI development. Powered by the K1 processor, a 22nm, RISC-V 1.6GHz CPU with eight cores, it ensures efficient performance for demanding applications.

Adobe FrameMaker is a document processor designed for writing and editing large or complex documents, including structured documents.

The upcoming Release Candidate 3 (RC3) of the Aeon Desktop is set to introduce a comprehensive Full Disk Encryption (FDE) feature.

Killport is a Linux command-line tool that allows users to quickly kill processes listening to a single or multiple ports.

Mozilla Thunderbird 128 open-source email client is now available for download as a major update introducing new features and many improvements. Here’s what’s new!

KDE's latest release, Frameworks 6.4.0, offers upgraded functionality, new features, and crucial fixes. Get the details!

Discover the step-by-step guide to easily installing the Firefox nightly package using the Mozilla-provided APT repository.

Today, Fakespot, a free browser extension and website that protects consumers from unreliable reviews and sellers, announced the Amazon product categories with the most reliable and unreliable reviews, just in time for the big summer sales and back-to-school shopping season.

KDE Frameworks 6.4 software suite is now available with ColorScheme-Accent and JXR support, as well as various other improvements. Here’s what’s new!

This week AWS announced that Graviton4 went into GA with the new R8G instances after Amazon originally announced their Graviton4 ARM64 server processors last year as built atop Arm Neoverse-V2 cores. I eagerly fired up some benchmarks myself and I was surprised by the generational uplift compared to Graviton3. At the same vCPU counts, the new Graviton4 cores are roughly matching Intel Sapphire Rapids performance while being able to tango with the AMD EPYC "Genoa" and consistently showing terrific generational uplift.

A year ago, I transitioned from the TUXEDO Pulse 15 Gen2 with a Ryzen 7 5700U processor to the TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 16 Gen8 with an Intel Core i7-13700H. While the InfinityBook Pro 16 is a powerful laptop, I, like many Linux users, increasingly value AMD processors for their strong Linux compatibility and focus on open-source development (Intel is busy with other things). It seems TUXEDO Computers listened! They recently announced the TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 - Gen9, offering an AMD variant for pre-order. Let's delve into the key features of this exciting new Linux ultrabook!

PipeWire 1.2.1 multimedia framework update brings better audio with KODI, smoother KDE previews, and robust script execution.

THE Linux Foundation almost never chooses the GPL (it didn't choose it for Linux or Git) and it's hardly surprising given the true controllers of this so-called 'charitable' (not!) foundation. Bruce Perens said that “Linux Foundation is an infringer's club.” They dislike the GPL, but sometimes they merely inherit it.

Desktop search is a software application which searches the contents of computer files, rather than searching the internet. The purpose of this software is to enable the user to locate information on their computer that they just cannot seem to find.

System76 continues working vigorously on COSMIC, their Rust-written Linux desktop environment being written for Pop!_OS and to see availability on other Linux distributions as well. They are finishing up last minute changes before putting the flag on a COSMIC alpha release.

The GNOME Project released today GNOME 46.3 as the third maintenance update to the latest GNOME 46 “Kathmandu” desktop environment series bringing more bug fixes and small improvements.

Ubuntu’s Flutter-based App Center can now open and install 3rd-party DEB installers. An App Center update that adds support for ‘side-loading’ DEB packages began rolling out to users on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS in the past few weeks (but as snaps update in the background silently, without any indication or alert, I only just noticed).

Pine64 recently introduced the Quartz64 Zero, a compact and economical single board computer featuring the Rockchip RK3566T SoC. Designed for both hobbyists and commercial applications, this board offers scalable features and a guaranteed long-term supply.