The new Zorin OS 18 builds on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with Linux kernel 6.14, bringing a cleaner UI, better performance, and modern desktop polish.

The GStreamer project released GStreamer 1.26.7 today as the seventh maintenance update to the latest GStreamer 1.26 series of this popular and powerful open-source, free, and cross-platform multimedia framework.

Autumn Ashton of Valve’s Linux graphics driver team and responsible for many great Mesa and DXVK/VKD3D-Proton improvements over the years has managed an exciting new feat: getting NVIDIA DLSS upscaling working atop Mesa’s NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver. The code isn’t ready to be merged yet but is an exciting early milestone…

The Free Software Foundation today announced the LibrePhone project with a goal of creating a fully free software OS for mobile devices and to reverse-engineer obstacles where necessary…

The Free Software Foundation has announced the launch
of the Librephone project, which is aimed at the creation of a fully-free
operating system for mobile devices.

Practically, Librephone aims to close the last gaps between
existing distributions of the Android operating system and software
freedom. The FSF has hired experienced developer Rob Savoye
(DejaGNU, Gnash, OpenStreetMap, and more) to lead the technical
project. He is currently investigating the state of device firmware
and binary blobs in other mobile phone freedom projects,
prioritizing the free software work done by the not entirely free
software mobile phone operating system LineageOS.

There’s been work to get the Nix functional package manager available on Fedora Linux for those wanting to leverage its available packages or features like supporting side-by-side packages of different versions, atomic upgrades/rollbacks, non-root user for installing software, and other features. One of the hurdles though is that the Nix package manager relies by default on the /nix directory, which goes against Fedora’s default directory requirements. Now though the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has granted permission for using the /nix directory hierarchy…

The 6.18 merge window has come to an end, bringing with it a total of 11,974
non-merge commits, 3,499 of which came in after LWN’s
first-half summary.
The total is a little higher than the 6.17 merge window, which saw 11,404
non-merge commits. There are once again
a good number of changes and new features included in this release.

Back during the Intel Tech Tour in Arizona, Intel teased a new inference-optimized enterprise GPU would be announced soon. This new product would feature enhanced memory, bandwidth, and enterprise-level AI inference capabilities. Today the embargo expires on talking about this new GPU offering.

Intel Linux engineers have begun posting patches for enabling the Xe3P architecture. While Xe3P is also expected to be found with next-generation Intel discrete GPUs, the initial focus is on enabling support for Nova Lake…

Adding to the unfortunately long list of unfortunate Intel Linux/open-source setbacks over the past year, yet another Intel Linux software engineer that was an upstream Linux kernel driver maintainer has departed Intel…

Version
1.12 of Julia has been released. Highlights of the release include
new
multi-threading features, new
tracing flags and macros, and an experimental
--trim feature. See the release
notes for a full list of new features, changes, and
improvements. LWN last covered Julia in
January.

Firefox 144.0 is now available but it’s not a particularly exciting browser release. But with Firefox 144 stable now comes Firefox 145 beta and that is a bit more noteworthy as it ditches 32-bit Linux support…

A low-level Linux kernel improvement being worked on by engineers at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is for introducing a PCI Configuration Space Cache “PCSC” to help with dense SR-IOV deployments that can end up hitting significant overhead with the current Linux kernel…

The Free Software Foundation’s Licensing and Compliance Lab
concerns itself with many aspects of software licensing, Krzysztof Siewicz
said at the beginning of his 2025 GNU Tools
Cauldron session. These include supporting projects that are facing
licensing challenges, collecting copyright assignments, and addressing GPL
violations. In this session, though, there was really only one topic that
the audience wanted to know about: the interaction between free-software
licensing and large language models (LLMs).

Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 is officially out today as the latest version of this Linux Mint distribution based on upstream Debian rather than Ubuntu…

The Nvidia CUDA toolkit is an extension of the GPU parallel computing platform and programming model. The Nvidia CUDA installation consists of inclusion of the official Nvidia CUDA repository followed by the installation of relevant meta package and configuring path the the executable CUDA binaries. In this tutorial, you will see how to install CUDA on Ubuntu Linux. This will get your video graphics running with the latest drivers and software available.

Last month Arm announced the Lumex CSS platform with C1 CPUs and Mali G1 GPUs. One month later, Arm is already beginning to open-source graphics driver patches for enabling the new Mali-G1 graphics processor…

The BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system has published their September 2025 progress report to outline recent work on this open-source OS…

The Dash to Panel GNOME extension v72 fixes fullscreen, opacity, and gradient bugs on GNOME 49.