The Linux kernel’s port to the DEC Alpha processors remains alive over 30 years after these processors first appeared…

Sparky Linux 8.1 delivers updated kernels, refreshed desktops, and all Debian 13 “Trixie” stable patches as of November 2025.

Recently when Intel contributed Nova Lake support for LLVM/Clang and the GCC compiler support there was not any AVX10 or APX support contrary to rumors and expectations. Intel has now published a new programming reference manual where they now confirm Nova Lake will in fact support AVX10.2 and APX…

Canonical announced today the expansion of the legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro to provide total coverage of Ubuntu LTS releases up to 15 years…

Miracle-WM 0.8 was released on Wednesday as another step forward for this tiling Wayland compositor built atop Canonical’s Mir software. Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek continues driving new features into Miracle-WM as it works toward its v1.0 milestone…

Improves tracking prevention, profile management, PDF editing, and Perplexity creeps into your address barFirefox 145 is out, with more privacy, better profile handling, better image search for Google users… and, almost inevitably, more LLM bot integration.…

openSUSE Tumbleweed switches to GRUB2-BLS as the default, improving boot speed, compatibility, and systemd integration.

The groups command is used to list all the groups to which the specified user belongs. This will make it easier for you to manage users and groups in your system.

Valve today announced three new products, the highly anticipated and rumored Steam Machines powered by the Arch Linux-based SteamOS, the Steam Frame VR headset, and a new Steam Controller.

In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to install CloudPanel on Ubuntu 24.04 OS. CloudPanel is a free and open-source server control panel designed for servers and cloud environments.

Back in April PostgreSQL added AVX-512 support for CRC32 computations. At the time the gains for CRC32 computations with this popular open-source database server were reported to be 50% to 3x faster for x86_64 CPUs able to leverage AVX-512. That AVX-512 support is found with PostgreSQL 18.0 that released in September and now Intel is praising this addition to PostgreSQL for which their developers also had a part in along with AWS and others…

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: FUSE performance; Magic kfuncs; Tails Linux; Direct I/O and modifying buffers; Working with bootable containers.
• Briefs: Kernel LLM policy; Firefox 145; FHS; Homebrew 5.0.0; Mastodon 4.5; Public-inbox 2.0.0; Pytest 9.0.0; Quote; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

FTP’s simplicity came with security risks; SSH Pilot offers a familiar workflow for secure shell management and encrypted file transfers — without sacrificing security.

Docker Engine 29 sets containerd as the default image store and introduces experimental nftables support for modern Linux networking.

Eric Engestrom today released Mesa 25.2.7 as the newest bi-weekly point release for this stable set of open-source (predominantly) OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux systems…

Just hours ago Valve announced the new Steam Controller along with the Steam Frame VR headset and new Steam Machine. While these new Steam hardware products won’t be available until early 2026, Valve has just-now upstreamed support for the new Steam Controller to the SDL3 library…

The systemd-free Nitrux 5.0 debuts with Hyprland as the default desktop, APT-style NX AppHub, immutable root, and performance-tuned kernels.

Version
5.0.0 of the Homebrew package
manager for Linux and macOS has been released. Notable changes in this
release include download concurrency by default, official support for
64-bit Arm on Linux, and more.

Valve just sent over the press release announcing three new Steam Hardware devices…

With the upcoming release of Weston 15.0, this Wayland reference compositor will finally feature a Vulkan renderer. For those curious about its potential, a presentation recently outlined the current state of this Vulkan code path…