Ventoy 1.1.10 open-source bootable USB solution has been released today as a maintenance and feature update that supports new distro releases and improves support for existing distributions.

The 2025 election for members of the Linux Foundation Technical Advisory
Board has
concluded; the winners are Greg Kroah-Hartman, Steven Rostedt, Julia
Lawall, David Hildenbrand, and Ted Ts’o.

Since Linux 6.16 the Intel APX support has been ready for the kernel infrastructure and goes along with the compiler toolchain support for Advanced Performance Extensions with the likes of GCC and LLVM/Clang. The latest element being worked on for APX enablement in the open-source/Linux world is for allowing KVM guest virtual machines (VMs) to make use of APX…

Most notable with the input subsystem updates sent out today ahead of the Linux 6.19-rc2 release is some new hardware support. New this week is adding support for CRKD Guitars for those into musical gaming/apps…

Open-source developer Armin Wolf has been working most recently on marshalling support for the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) platform code within the Linux kernel. This WMI marshalling support is to better match the behavior of Microsoft Windows’ WMI ACPI driver and ultimately to allow for better compatibility with some ACPI firmware and enhancing some WMI drivers…

It’s not often getting to talk about hard drives on Phoronix these days, but there’s an important fix merged to the Linux 6.19 kernel today ahead of Linux 6.19-rc2. If you happen to be using a Seagate ST2000DM008 Barracuda 2TB HDD, an important fix was merged to avoid it taking down the systems’ SATA bus and/or potentially other issues…

Firefox’s market share has cratered while Mozilla’s dependence on Google and executive pay have soared. We look at what John Solomon is really walking into.

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Darktable 5.4 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source RAW photography software. Besides improving camera support, UI enhancements, and more the Wayland support has been improved with Darktable. With today’s Darktable 5.4 release, the Wayland support should be on par with the X11 support…

The Steam client is now 64-bit on Windows 10 and 11, while 32-bit Windows systems will continue receiving updates until 2026.

Immich 2.4, a self-hosted photo and video management platform, introduces a new command palette, refined UI animations, shared album improvements, and more.

According to the Open Source Initiative, MIT and Apache 2.0 remain the most widely used open source licenses in 2025.

The Swedish VPN service Mullvad announced this week GotaTun, an open-source Rust-based WireGuard implementation that is forked from Cloudflare’s BoringTun…

In addition to this week’s drm-intel-next pull request to DRM-Next adding Nova Lake display support, a drm-xe-next pull request was also sent out on Friday that prepares a new multi-queue feature for Xe3P_XPC — initially just the “Crescent Island” AI inference accelerator card. Plus other new features too for this Xe kernel driver in the upcoming Linux 7.0~6.20 kernel version…

In this article, you will learn how to use the who command to find all the logged-in user information (with practical examples).

With the Arch Linux packages for the NVIDIA official graphics driver moving to the now-stable NVIDIA 590 driver series that drops the GeForce GTX 900 and GTX 1000 series GPU support, Arch Linux users with those old Maxwell and Pascal graphics cards will need to transition to using the NVIDIA legacy driver packages from the Arch Linux AUR. Meanwhile for those on Turing and newer with the NVIDIA 590 driver will enjoy the open-source kernel modules by default being used…

Incus 6.20 delivers new clustering, storage, and VM enhancements, including reliable snapshots on clustered LVM and improved administration tools.

The GNU Debugger “GDB” 17.1 is out today with a number of new features for enhancing the open-source debugging experience…

The beta release of Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” is now available for testing ahead of the holidays for this latest incremental update to this desktop OS built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base…

Debian introduces Debusine repositories, allowing developers to publish PPA-like add-on packages with integrated builds, testing, signing, and snapshots.

A few weeks ago it was mentioned by a Canonical engineer how trying to use AI to modernize the Ubuntu Error Tracker yielded some code that was “plain wrong” and other issues raised by that Microsoft GitHub Copilot code. The same Ubuntu developer shifted to trying Gemini AI to generate a helper script to assist in Ubuntu’s monthly ISO snapshot releases. Google’s Gemini AI also generated some sloppy code for a Python script to assist in those Ubuntu releases…