The env command is an advanced version of printenv with a few more features to tweak your environment variables, like setting new environment variables, printing all environment variables, or executing a command in a modified environment.

GIMP 3.2.2 image editor delivers bug fixes for layer rendering, PSD import, and SVG scaling, improving stability after the 3.2 release.

Ubuntu 26.04 is the latest LTS release of Ubuntu, codenamed Resolute Raccoon. In this article, you’ll learn what the new features are, what the changes are, basic info like release date, and more.

It was just two weeks ago that GIMP 3.2 released, one year after the big GIMP 3.0 debut. Out today is GIMP 3.2.2 with various bug fixes, plug-in / file format handling updates, and some minor UI/UX work…

AMD’s GAIA AI agent framework (that previously stood for “Generative AI Is Awesome” albeit they seemed to have dropped promoting it as that name) for Ryzen AI hardware is out with a new version. AMD GAIA 0.17 introduces Agent UI as a new privacy-first web application for local AI agents…

Tails 7.6 adds built-in Tor bridge support for restricted networks and switches to GNOME Secrets as the default password manager.

The Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due for release tomorrow has a lot of audio fixes/quirks to correct a wide variety of different hardware issues, mostly different problematic laptops for their speakers and/or microphone behavior under Linux…

Calibre developer Kovid Goyal released Calibre 9.6 today as a hefty update of this open-source, free, and cross-platform e-book management software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Last year LLVM began landing their Distributed ThinLTO “DTLTO” support as an enhancement to their ThinLTO approach for link-time optimizations. An improvement merged this week to LLVM addresses a performance bottleneck discovered when adding files to the link…

Following the release of GNOME 50, Gedit 50 was released on Friday as the newest version of this graphical text editor aligned with the GNOME desktop. Moving forward the Gedit developers are banning AI / large language model (LLM) driven developments and aim to ship more releases faster…

Fish 4.6 released today as the newest version of this Rust-based interactive shell for Linux and other platforms…

It’s been another busy week in the KDE space as Plasma developers continue working on new feature activity for the big Plasma 6.7 release…

Canonical continues to expand Rust adoption in Ubuntu by targeting time synchronization with ntpd-rs, aiming to improve security in core services.

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Learn how to disable the automatic update (basically “unattended-upgrades”) feature on Ubuntu 25.04, 24.04, and other versions.

Right on schedule the beta for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is now available for testing. This is a great opportunity to help test this release ahead of the official Long Term Support release due out on 23 April…

Hyprland 0.54.3 delivers fixes for crashes in compositor, layout handling, and XWayland, improving overall stability in this patch release.

Mixxx 2.5.6 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, cross-platform, and free DJ software for performing live mixes with digital music files.

Developers behind the Distributed Replicated Block Device “DRBD” for mirroring block devices between multiple host systems are working to resync the upstream Linux kernel DRBD support with the out-of-tree DRBD code they have been maintaining for the past ~15 years out-of-sync. It’s a big undertaking but they have begun staging patches for review and testing to get this massive set of changes up to par for mainline…

The modern internet is built on open systems. From the Linux kernel powering servers worldwide to the protocols that govern data exchange, much of today’s digital infrastructure is rooted in transparency, collaboration, and decentralization. These same principles are now influencing a new frontier: financial systems built on blockchain technology.