Zorin OS 18 Beta debuts with a refreshed design, advanced window tiling, web apps, and OneDrive support.

KDE Plasma 6 Customization Inspired by UbuntuA clean and elegant KDE Plasma 6 setup inspired by the Ubuntu layout. It uses the Utterly Sweet global theme, Tela Circle icons with purple folders, Noto Sans for the digital clock, and a custom wallpaper all styled with Panel Colorizer to give the panel a dock-like appearance.

AAEON has introduced the Intelli i14 Edge, a compact AI vision system powered by Intel’s 14th Gen Core i9-14900T and NVIDIA RTX MXM modules. Designed to deliver workstation-level performance in a small, rugged form factor, the system targets robotics, autonomous platforms, and embedded workstations. According to AAEON, the Intelli i14 Edge is equipped with a […]

Today, the Zorin OS team announced the general availability for public testing of the beta version of the upcoming Zorin OS 18 release, which promises new and exciting features, a fresh new look, and more.

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 197 has been released today as a new stable update to this open-source hardened Linux firewall distribution that brings various improvements, updated components, and other changes.

This guide provides a step-by-step walk-through for integrating a uTrust FIDO2 security key (Identiv uTrust) with Fedora 42 to secure: Audience for this article The guide is intended for instructional cybersecurity labs and intermediate Fedora users. It prioritizes PIN + Touch verification for strong security. NOTE: Since misconfiguration can result in system lockout, readers should […]

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the PCLinuxOS Recipe Corner Special Edition, Volume 2 of the PCLinuxOS Magazine.

The Linux kernel generally wants to be in charge of the system as a whole;
it runs on all of the available CPUs and controls access to them globally.
Cong Wang has just come forward with a different
approach: allowing each CPU to run its own kernel. The patch set is in
an early form, but it gives a hint for what might be possible.

Ubuntu Studio 25.10 “Questing Quokka” Beta has officially launched, bringing significant improvements to creative professionals and multimedia enthusiasts. This latest Ubuntu Studio 25.10 release introduces major desktop environment upgrades, enhanced audio production capabilities, and substantial updates to creative applications that position it as a leading choice for content creators.

Canonical released today the beta version of the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) release for public beta testing, so it’s time to take a look at what to expect from the final release.

EasyOS version 7.0 reviewed on Distrowatch. The previous review on Distrowatch was version 4.2, three years ago. The review identifies major improvements, in particular for the container technology.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.16.8, 6.12.48, 6.6.107, and 6.1.153 stable kernels; each
contains an important set of fixes.

So a Microsoft employee now boasts that they’re making Git – not GitHub – dependent on Rust, which Microsoft controls in GitHub. We already saw the trouble this causes in Linux and very much foresaw it (LibreOffice is also targeted).

Blender 4.5 LTS was released
on July 15, 2025, and will be supported through 2027. This is the last
feature release of the 3D graphics-creation suite’s 4.x series; it
includes quality-of-life improvements, including work to bring the Vulkan backend up to
par with the default OpenGL backend. With 4.5 released, Blender
developers are turning their attention toward Blender 5.0, planned for
release later this year. It will introduce substantial changes,
particularly in the Geometry
Nodes system, a central feature of Blender’s procedural
workflows.

Linux 6.17 is an interesting time to carry out fresh file-system benchmarks given that EXT4 has seen some scalability improvements while Bcachefs in the mainline kernel is now in a frozen state. Linux 6.17 is also what’s powering Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10 out-of-the-box to make such a comparison even more interesting. Today’s article is looking at the out-of-the-box performance of EXT4, Btrfs, F2FS, XFS, Bcachefs and then OpenZFS too.

Announced last month was the Ubuntu “Dangerous” Desktop Images as a new form of the Ubuntu Linux desktop images that would ship with leading-edge Snaps atop the latest Ubuntu development images… Basically, pulling in the very latest Snaps to go along with the latest Ubuntu development Debian packages…

In addition to working on optimizing the performance of Zink for workstation graphics, Mike Blumenkrantz has also been tackling support for OpenGL mesh shaders with this generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan open-source driver…

In addition to AMD posting patches this week working on ACPI C4 power savings support available in some newer AMD systems, patches were separately posted this week for enabling S0ix sleep support within the AMDKFD compute kernel driver…

The beta release of KDE’s Plasma 6.5 desktop took place on Thursday as they work toward the stable release expected on 21 October…

In the summer of 2025, Denmark’s government put forward a major policy change in its digital infrastructure: moving away from using Microsoft Office 365, and in part, open-source its operations with LibreOffice. Below is an original account of what this entails, why it matters, how it’s being done, and what the risks and opportunities are.