Adding to the unfortunate engineering setbacks at Intel this year as part of cost-cutting measures, the Intel IWD software development has been on a hiatus for the past three months. Going from previously seeing monthly releases and almost constant activity to now development ceasing up with no activity in the past three months…

Adding to the early headaches of Linux 6.19 with some regressions in performance and functionality were ARM64 hosts crashing on this in-development kernel version for those platforms using EFI. But a fix is now merged ahead of Linux 6.19-rc3 due out tomorrow…

The GStreamer project released GStreamer 1.26.10 as the tenth maintenance update to the latest GStreamer 1.26 series of this popular and powerful open-source, free, and cross-platform multimedia framework.

Inkscape 1.4.3 has been released today as the second maintenance update to the Inkscape 1.4 series of this open-source, cross-platform, and free SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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Postgresus has been renamed to Databasus as the project evolves into a full backup management system with multi-database support.

Announced earlier in December but flying under the radar until now is the initial reoease of a QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop. This is a developer environment for the QNX real-time operating system primarily used on embedded systems. With now having this developer desktop option, the hassle of cross-compilation to target QNX can be avoided…

Phoenix is a new X server written from scratch in Zig, aiming to modernize X11 without relying on Xorg code.

Wine 11.0-rc4 is out today as the latest weekly release candidate in working toward the stable Wine 11.0 release in January…

As part of the various end-of-year benchmarking comparisons on Phoronix and with Linux 6.19 switching older AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics cards to the AMDGPU driver by default, I planned for a very large AMD Radeon graphics card comparison on the latest open-source Linux driver for ending out 2025. In the end though I was thwarted by newer AMD RDNA3 / RDNA4 graphics cards regressing hard on Linux 6.19 that led to ending this testing prematurely due to a show-stopping bug. In any case in this article offers a fresh look at older GCN and RDNA graphics cards on Linux 6.19 + Mesa 26.0-devel.

Coreboot 25.12 is out today as the latest quarterly feature update to this open-source BIOS/firmware solution…

Graphite is an effort to unify
illustration, raster editing, desktop publishing, and animation in one
browser-based application. The project has been in development since
2020 and announced its first alpha release in 2022. According to creator Keavon Chambers, the project’s mission is to become
“the 2D counterpart to Blender“, by bringing a node-based,
non-destructive workflow to 2D graphics. The project, currently still in
alpha, is a long way from complete; but it is worth testing for anyone
involved with open-source-graphics production. Current
builds, from September 2025, include vector-illustration tools, a
node-based compositor, and early brush tooling, with broader pixel-based-
and photo-editing work still in progress.

n this video, I’m sharing a super simple KDE Plasma customization focused on a clean and minimal look. No overcomplicated tweaks, no heavy ricing , just a simple, clean KDE Plasma setup that looks good and stays practical for daily use

Crowd Supply recently featured LeafKVM, a compact wireless KVM-over-IP device that provides remote access to computers, servers, and HDMI video sources without requiring software on the target system. It captures HDMI video and audio, emulates USB keyboard, mouse, and storage devices, and streams output directly to a web browser. The hardware platform is based on […]

It was a very interesting year for Ubuntu Linux. Ahead of the important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release due out this coming April, Ubuntu Linux this year was expeditiously migrating to new Rust-based system tools like sudo-rs and Rust Coreutils, new performance optimizations continued to be explored for bettering the out-of-the-box Ubuntu performance, better ARM64 support with its desktop ISO, and enhancing the Snapdragon X Elite laptop support were among the Ubuntu highlights in 2025…

An exciting post-Christmas patch series out on the Linux kernel mailing list this morning is proposing a new runtime standby ABI that is similar in nature to the “Modern Standby” functionality found with Microsoft Windows…

This year there was a lot of going on in the NVIDIA Linux world from their official driver stack seeing better Wayland support to a lot on the open-source scene from NVIDIA engineers contributing a lot directly to the Rust-based Nova open-source driver that continues taking shape, the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver becoming more performant and capable, and a lot of other happenings. Here is a look back at the most popular NVIDIA content of 2025 on Phoronix…

For those using Microsoft’s exFAT file-system under Linux for the likes of flash drives and SD cards, a new patch series posted today aims to enhance the read performance. The new patches are shown to improve performance by about 10% while also having lower overhead…

The NeoEyes NE301 by CamThink is described as a low-power edge AI camera built around STMicroelectronics’ STM32N6 microcontroller. The camera combines on-device neural network inference, a built-in web interface, and modular hardware design aimed at battery-powered and outdoor deployments. The camera is based on the STM32N6570 MCU, which integrates an Arm Cortex-M55 core with Helium […]

Arch-based CachyOS is working on a new Server Edition aimed at NAS, workstations, and hosting providers, featuring hardened defaults and optimized packages.