Prominent AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák this week landed a number of fixes for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code in working to enable medium precision “mediump” support for this open-source graphics driver…
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As RHEL clones hit version 10, Rocky and Alma chart diverging paths
We take a quick look at the headline features – and the growing differencesRocky Linux 10 has caught up to the other high-profile RHELatives, but gaps between them are widening, both in tech and other ways.…
Discover Linux Mint 22: How Cinnamon Became the Sleek, Speedy Desktop Champion of 2025
In this article, we’ll take a look into what makes Linux Mint 22 with Cinnamon a standout — from under-the-hood performance boosts to user-facing enhancements that elevate daily computing.
Lyra Zero W Packs RK3506B and Wi-Fi 6 into Raspberry Pi Zero-Sized Board
Luckfox has just launched a new development board with a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi Zero, but based on the Rockchip RK3506B system-on-chip. The Lyra Zero W is designed to offer a low-cost, compact solution for embedded Linux development, priced at $16.99. The Lyra Zero W uses the Rockchip RK3506B processor, which integrates […]
Nitrux Linux Drops Its KDE Plasma-Based NX Desktop for Hyprland
Nitrux developer Uri Herrera announced today that their NX Desktop graphical environment, based on the KDE Plasma desktop, will no longer be developed and replaced by Hyprland.
LibreOffice 25.8 Beta Released For Testing
LibreOffice 25.8 beta is now available for this popular open-source office suite. LibreOffice 25.8 has been baking many improvements for this popular Microsoft Office alternative and leading office suite option for the Linux desktop…
Rspamd 3.12: Faster, Smarter, and More Secure Spam Filtering
Rspamd 3.12 open-source spam filtering system lands with major security fixes, Ollama support, HEIC file recognition, and more.
The Top Five — For the Week Ending June 13, 2025
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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Linux 6.16 Lands Proper Power Management Fix For Code That Caused Power Regression
Linux 6.15 mistakenly shipped with a nasty power regression for some systems, such as those relying on the “nosmt” option to disable Simultaneous Multi-Threading / Hyper Threading. That idle power regression was fixed for Linux 6.15.2 and Linux 6.16 Git by reverting the troubled patch that introduced the regression. Now merged ahead of Linux 6.16-rc2 is a proper fix for that problematic patch so it could be re-merged without the power fallout…
Fwupd 2.0.11 Released with New SELinux Metadata Support
Fwupd 2.0.11, a Linux firmware updater tool, introduces a new reboot check command for scripting and adds SELinux state reporting, alongside numerous device compatibility and bug fixes.
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KDE Frameworks 6.15 Improves Accessibility in Plasma’s System Settings App
The KDE Project released KDE Frameworks 6.15 as the latest version of this collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt, providing commonly needed functionality to KDE apps and the KDE Plasma desktop.
Danish department determined to dump Microsoft
Jutes revolt against Redmond: Minister for Digital Affairs aims the longboats away from VinlandComment The boss of Denmark’s Ministry for Digitalization says her department will move away from Microsoft – starting with LibreOffice.…
Linux Kernel API Specification Framework Proposed To Help Stabilize User-Space Interfaces
Sasha Levin just sent out an initial “request for comments” patch series for the Linux kernel in aiming to establish a Kernel API Specification Framework…
Kali Linux 2025.2 Released with Revamped Kali Menu, 13 New Hacking Tools
Offensive Security announced today the release and general availability of Kali Linux 2025.2 as the second update to this Debian-based distribution for ethical hacking and penetration testing in 2025.
Kali Linux 2025.2 Released with Revamped Kali Menu, 13 New Hacking Tools
Offensive Security announced today the release and general availability of Kali Linux 2025.2 as the second update to this Debian-based distribution for ethical hacking and penetration testing in 2025.
SDL Merges Wayland Pointer Warp Support To Help Native Wayland Gaming
Introduced with this week’s Wayland Protocols 1.45 release is adding the Pointer Warp protocol to staging. The SDL hardware/software abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games was quick to merge support for using the native Pointer Warp protocol on Wayland…
SDL Merges Wayland Pointer Warp Support To Help Native Wayland Gaming
Introduced with this week’s Wayland Protocols 1.45 release is adding the Pointer Warp protocol to staging. The SDL hardware/software abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games was quick to merge support for using the native Pointer Warp protocol on Wayland…
GNOME’s Busy Week With Disabling X11 Session By Default, Greater systemd Dependence
This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue and there being a number of recent controversial changes to the desktop platform…
GNOME’s Busy Week With Disabling X11 Session By Default, Greater systemd Dependence
This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue and there being a number of recent controversial changes to the desktop platform…
Haiku OS Restores EXT4 Compatibility, RISC-V Once Again Booting
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS published their latest monthly report to outline progress made over the past month…