The Real Time Clock (RTC) driver changes were merged today for Linux 6.19 ahead of the merge window wrapping up on Sunday…

Grml, a live bootable Linux distro based on Debian and designed for system administrators and users of text tools, has been updated today to version 2025.12, a release that introduces new and updated tools.

KDE Gear 25.12 apps collection improves Itinerary, Kate, Dolphin, Photos, and more, delivering a polished end-of-year update packed with functional enhancements.

The GNOME.org Extensions hosting for GNOME Shell extensions will no longer accept new contributions with AI-generated code. A new rule has been added to their review guidelines to forbid AI-generated code…

The LoongArch CPU architecture changes have been merged for the Linux 6.19 merge window. This domestic Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS and RISC-V began with 64-bit LoongArch64 but with Linux 6.19 the foundation is being laid for LoongArch32 as a 32-bit variant…

Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read article on FOSS Force for the week that just ended.

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In this article, you will learn how to broadcast a message to all logged-in users on your system either locally or via SSH using the wall command.

The monthly KDE Frameworks updates continue with KDE Frameworks 6.21, released today by the KDE Project as a companion to the KDE Plasma 6.5.4 desktop environment and KDE Gear 25.12 software suite.

Rust for Linux lead developer Miguel Ojeda posted the patch a short time ago to “conclude the Rust experiment”. The “experiment” of Rust programming language code in the Linux kernel is over as it’s now accepted to be a success and “Rust is here to stay” in the kernel…

NetworkManager 1.54.3 improves security by verifying user access to 802.1X certificates and keys used in private network connections.

It’s an exciting week in KDE Plasma development land ahead of the holidays. Plasma 6.6 continues tacking on more feature work for Wayland…

The ability to write kernel code in Rust was explicitly added as an
experiment — if things did not go well, Rust would be removed again. At
the 2025 Maintainers Summit, a session was held to evaluate the state of
that experiment, and to decide whether the time had come to declare the
result to be a success. The (arguably unsurprising) conclusion was that
the experiment is indeed a success, but there were some interesting points
made along the way.

The BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system has received a recent port of the Go programming language to the platform. Plus Haiku also saw app improvements and more over the month of November…

Linux hardware vendor System76 launched today the first stable release of the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment, along with the stable release of the Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Linux distribution.

Following last week’s Wine 11.0-rc1 release that marked the feature freeze as well in working toward Wine 11.0 in January, out today is Wine 11.0-rc2…

Kali Linux 2025.4 ships with GNOME 49, KDE Plasma 6.5, full Wayland support, updated tools, kernel 6.16, and desktop-wide refinements.

This article series takes a closer look at interesting projects that recently landed in Copr. Copr is a build-system for anyone in the Fedora community. It hosts thousands of projects with a wide variety of purposes, targeting diverse groups of users. Some of them should never be installed by anyone, some are already transitioning into the […]

System76 didn’t just ship a new Pop!_OS — it quietly flipped the switch on a brand‑new Rust desktop, Cosmic Epoch 1. We take a look at why this one matters far beyond Pop!’s existing fanbase.

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Merged a few days ago for the ongoing Linux 6.19 merge window were all of the “char/misc” updates. A lot of random changes throughout this time from the Industrial I/O “IIO” drivers to an interesting new feature for User-Space I/O “UIO” for PCI/PCIe devices…

One of the key components in the kernel’s development process is the
linux-next repository. Every day, a large number of branches, each
containing commits intended for the next kernel development cycle, is
pulled into linux-next and integrated. If there are conflicts between
branches, the linux-next process will reveal them. In theory, many other
types of problems can be found as well. Some developers feel that
linux-next does not work as well as it could, though. At the 2025
Maintainers Summit, Mark Brown, who helps to keep linux-next going, led a
session on how it could be made to work more effectively.