Firefox 146 has been released with native fractional scaling support on Wayland -- finally giving Linux users crisp UI rendering

Founded in 2013, the Finnish company is largely known for its Sailfish OS. After a long hiatus, it is introducing the Jolla Phone as an “independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone”

Berapa ramai dalam kalangan pembaca masih ingat tentang kewujudan Jolla dengan mereka pernah menawarkan telefon dan tablet pintar dengan sistem operasi Sailfish OS berasaskan Linux? Jika anda dalam golongan yang meminati peranti Jolla, tahun depan Jolla Phone baharu akan dilancarkan dengan sistem operasi Sailfish OS 5

FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE arrived this week, notes this report from The Register, which calls it the latest release "of the Unix world's leading alternative to Linux." As well as numerous bug fixes and upgrades to many of its components, the major changes in this version are reductions in the number of platforms the OS supports, and in how it's built and how its component software is packaged

Tiny Core Linux is a true example of just how small a functional desktop operating system can be, even in 2025

The Caligra c100 Developer Terminal is a brand-new computer platform with retro-licious metal wedge case and productivity focused Linux OS

"Homebrew, the package manager for macOS and Linux, just got a handy new feature in the latest v5.0.4 update," reports How-To Geek

Jolla is "trying again with a new crowd-funded smartphone," reports Phoronix: Finnish company Jolla started out 14 years ago where Nokia left off with MeeGo and developed Sailfish OS as a new Linux smartphone platform

Finnish company Jolla has announced a new smartphone after a long hiatus from launching new models. It is called the Jolla Phone and is advertised by Jolla as an "independent European Do It Together (DIT) Linux phone." Jolla says the Jolla Phone is a "real Linux phone" because it runs "actual Linux" on the inside, "not a pseudo-Linux." But that's at the core

Umpteen other distros just put out new versions, but this one is our favorite Kernel 6.18 has already been designated the new LTS release just as we predicted and Alpine Linux 3.23 has arrived carrying it ahead of a flurry of other year-end distro updates.

Nvidias Linux 590 driver drops support for GTX 900 and 10-series GPUs, ending Game Ready updates but quarterly security ones continue

Linus Torvalds new PC build highlights his preference for reliable hardware, strong kernel compatibility, and quiet high-performance components chosen for serious development work

It also has a name: Lepton. As reported by GamingOnLinux, Lepton is supposedly the name of the bridge, which sounds about right

Pada pertengahan tahun ini, ia telah diumumkan bahawa NVIDIA akan mengehadkan sokongan kemaskini perisian untuk siri kad grafik NVIDIA GeForce GTX 900 dan GeForce GTX 1000 kepada kemaskini sekuriti dan prestasi umum sahaja. Terkini, dengan pengenalan kemaskini perisian 590 untuk sistem operasi Linux, orang ramai sudah mengatakan bahawa NVIDIA akhirnya sudah menghentikan sokongan untuk siri […]

There is no official Android version of Hollow Knight: Silksong, one of the best games of 2025, but that doesn't have to stop you anymore. Thanks to a stack of open-source technologies, including a compatibility layer called Proton and an emulator called Fex, games that were developed for x86-based Windows PCs can now run on Linux-based phones with the Arm processor architecture

Nvidia 590 drivers cut support for GTX 900- and 10-series

Bye-bye bcachefs, but hello there bhyve The last new kernel release of 2025 is here, and it's looking likely this will be the new LTS kernel release.

Linux usage has hit an all-time high in the latest Steam hardware survey, indicating the small but growing popularity of SteamOS and its derivatives

ExpressVPN, one of the best VPNs , is launching two brand-new features that sound confusingly like things it already does. Users on Android, Mac and iOS (but apparently not Windows, Linux or smart TVs) can now use Fastest Location to automatically pick the VPN server with the fastest download speed and lowest latency

Steam's November 2025 survey shows Linux gaming climbed to its highest share in a decade "thanks to the success of the Steam Deck, the underlying Steam Play (Proton) software, and now further excitement thanks to the upcoming Steam Machine and Steam Frame," writes Phoronix's Michael Larabel

Whether you want a studio rig or a featherweight desktop, MX Linux spins have you covered AV Linux and MX Moksha are a pair of distros tweaked for audio and music production, each using a different branch of the Enlightenment family of desktops.

Rubber-key revival leans on Linux, emulation, and third-party ROMs The Spectrum is an inexpensive home entertainment gadget from Retro Games Ltd (RGL) that's hauntingly similar to a totally unrelated 1980s home entertainment device that was loved by millions

From the blog 9to5Linux: Linux kernel 6.18 is now available for download, as announced today by Linus Torvalds himself, featuring enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, improvements to file systems and networking,

Bazzite devs boast of 'over 1 petabyte of Bazzite ISOs' downloaded in last month

"By my count, Linux has over 11% of the desktop market," writes ZDNet's Steven Vaughan-Nichols: In StatCounter's latest US numbers, which cover through October, Linux shows up as only 3.49%

If that's a step too far, then there are new versions of CDE and tmux The oldest of the open source Linux desktops is planning its final steps away from X11, while an even older Unix desktop is getting freshened up.

Our expert team of laptop testers stand behind these Windows laptops, MacBooks, Chromebooks, and Linux portables.

Tuxedo cancels Snapdragon X Elite Linux notebook after technical hurdles, planning to monitor Snapdragon X2 Elite for potential future development

Planned Snapdragon goes puff and disappears, but the code will survive German Linux box vendor Tuxedo Computers has canned its long-planned Qualcomm device, citing numerous problems with the state of the Linux-on-Arm art.

Can't or won't upgrade to Windows 11? You're not alone, and one Linux distro is attracting a lot of attention since Windows 10 support ended

Pipes tend to make code more readable than other ways to implement serial operations. Anyone familiar with the Unix/Linux command line or programming languages like R, F#, Clojure, or Elixir may have used the pipe operator

In October Zorin OS claimed it had 100,000 downloads in a little over two days in the days following Microsoft's end of support for Windows 10

Linux godfather supports vibe coding for learning while rejecting its use in critical kernel development due to maintenance and quality concerns

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"Vibe coding may be a horrible, horrible idea from a maintenance standpoint, if you actually tried to make a product," Torvalds said.

Windows chief Pavan Davuluri announced the agentic OS plans in a post on X last week and faced immediate criticism in hundreds of replies before they were locked days later. "It's evolving into a product that's driving people to Mac and Linux," one person wrote, while another asked for a return to Windows 7's "clean UI, clean icon, a unified control panel, no bloat apps, no ads, just a pure performant OS." Davuluri later responded to software engineer Gergely Orosz, saying "we care deeply about developers" and acknowledging Microsoft has "work to do on the experience, both on the everyday usability, from inconsistent dialogs to power user experiences." Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told the Dwarkesh Podcast that the company's business "which today is an end user tools business, will become, essentially an infrastructure business in support of agents doing work." The Recall feature already spooked users when it was initially turned on by default before Microsoft reworked it to be opt-in

PostmarketOS pushed for the change, but devs warn it may not last Along with new functionality, systemd is broadening its distro support even further, which will surely delight members of the wider Linux community

Linus Torvalds is "fairly positive" about vibe coding as a way for people to get computers to do things they otherwise could not. The Linux kernel maintainer made the comments during an interview at the Linux Foundation Open Source Summit in Seoul earlier this month

Another highly influential Linux kernel engineer, David Hildenbrand, is leaving Red Hat after a decade of major contributions to memory management, virtualization, and VirtIO

Blender 5.0 has been released with major upgrades including HDR and wide-gamut color support on Linux via Wayland/Vulkan, significant theme and UI improvements, new color-space tools, revamped curve and geometry features, and expanded hardware requirements

Linux inventor also discusses Rust in the kernel, Nvidia's proprietary code, and the problem of AI crawlers Linux and Git inventor Linus Torvalds discussed AI in software development in an interview earlier this month, describing himself as "fairly positive" about vibe coding, but as a way into computing, not for production coding where it would likely be horrible to maintain

And while I might question the company's decision to ship a system with only 8GB of VRAM in 2026, I believe the "Gabecube" will do more for PC gaming than anything Microsoft has done in the last decade. With SteamOS and Linux, Valve has polished away many of the things that make PC gaming unapproachable to some people

their OS doesn't look like anything a builder who wants OS control could choose. Mac or Linux it is for devs." Davuluri "has since disabled replies on his original post..." notes the blog Windows Central, "which some people viewed as an attempt to shut out negative feedback." But he also replied to that comment..

With Rust support now mature for building Android system services and libraries, we are focused on bringing its security and productivity advantages elsewhere. Android's 6.12 Linux kernel is our first kernel with Rust support enabled and our first production Rust driver

Enterprise Linux vendors keep jostling to see who can prop up geriatric distros the longest Last year, Canonical increased its paid extended support lifespan to 12 years

Banned in the US, antivirus manufacturer Kaspersky has launched a new line of Linux antivirus packages

Linux-powered PC, Arm VR headset, and refreshed controller all land on pre-order for next year The holiday season is almost upon us, but the new gear on gamers' wish lists won't arrive until next year.

Even after launching a new Linux-based Vega OS for anti-piracy measures.

Systemd-free option still available if you choose that download MX Linux 25 "Infinity" is now available , and the new version has some significant differences from the 2023 release, with things that used to be boot-time choices having become pre-install decisions.

While it does have a customizable front plate and an LED light strip, the default all-black colorway could hardly be less attention-grabbing. In case you missed yesterday's announcement, the Steam Machine is a Linux-based mini PC that runs SteamOS and is designed to be plugged into your TV, like a console

The goal of 'oxidizing' the Linux distro hits another bump Two vulnerabilities in Ubuntu 25.10's new "sudo-rs" command have been found, disclosed, and fixed in short order

Third-party framework builds alternative backend using its own renderer and WebAssembly Microsoft's MAUI (Multi-platform App UI), the official .NET solution for cross-platform desktop and mobile apps, will get Linux and browser support via Avalonia, a third-party framework

And created a new Fire TV OS with Linux

Valve has unveiled a new Steam Machine console, taking a second shot at living room gaming a decade after its 2 Steam Machine initiative failed. The 6-inch cube runs Linux-based SteamOS but plays Windows games through Proton, a compatibility layer built on Wine that translates Microsoft graphical APIs

Better yet, its planning to release them both in early 2026. The Steam Machine works like a console, but is technically a compact PC running Linux-based SteamOS

BrianFagioli writes: Mozilla has released Firefox 145.0, and the standout change in this version is the official end of support for 32-bit Linux systems

Linux kernel developers are moving toward enabling Microsoft C Extensions (-fms-extensions) by default in Linux 6.19, with Linus Torvalds signaling no objection

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: For years now, Valve has been slowly improving the capabilities of the Proton compatibility layer that lets thousands of Windows games work seamlessly on the Linux-based SteamOS

Here come old FlatPak, it comes grooving up slowly... opinion The tendency of Linux developers to reinvent wheels is no secret

But author warns that Direct3D 7 "is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability."

Your APT will simply become more secure and reliable under the hood. It's FOSS argues that "If done right, this could significantly strengthen APT's security and code quality." And the blog Linuxiac also supports the move