LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 is now available for testing in working toward the stable release in February for this cross-platform, open-source office suite solution…

Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS debuts the first stable version of the new COSMIC 1.0 desktop environment with faster apps, powerful tiling, and deep customization.

Microsoft today released WSL 2.7.0, the newest version of their Windows Subsystem for Linux code that enables running Linux binaries atop Windows 11 hosts…

TheRock is an interesting open-source build platform for ROCm and HIP that has taken shape over the past year. It’s become an official ROCm effort albeit still in early stages and relying on community contributions for enhancements for different consumer GPU targets and more. To date its users have largely relied on running the latest TheRock Git while today TheRock v7.10 was tagged…

Muzi Works, in collaboration with Elecrow, has announced the Meshtastic BASE board system, a modular platform designed for off-grid mesh communication. The lineup includes the Base Uno, Base Duo, and an optional Super IO expansion module, forming a standardized and power-efficient foundation for custom LoRa radios and portable communication devices. The Base Uno and Base […]

NVIDIA releases Linux driver 580.119 with fixes for display corruption, mode handling, and DPI reporting on popular monitors.

Krita 5.2.14, a free and open-source digital painting app, delivers the final 5.2 bugfix update with a new circular color picker preview, enhanced touch gestures, and more.

An acquisition announcement that flew under the radar yesterday but then I only noticed today with a GCC MAINTAINERS file update, “with the acquisition of Ventana Microsystems by Qualcomm…” Qualcomm has acquired Ventana as a RISC-V high performance CPU start-up…

Renesas has introduced the RA6W1 and RA6W2 microcontrollers, bringing Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth LE options to its IoT portfolio. The RA6W1 offers dual-band Wi-Fi 6, while the RA6W2 adds integrated Bluetooth LE, both targeting low-power connected devices with features such as Target Wake Time to extend battery life. The MCUs are based on an Arm […]

Version 24.04 LTS of the Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS distribution has
been released with the COSMIC Desktop Environment:

Today is special not only in that it’s the culmination of over
three years of work, but even more so in that System76 has built a
complete desktop environment for the open source community. We’re
proud of this contribution to the open source ecosystem. COSMIC is
built on the ethos that the best open source projects enable people to
not only use them, but to build with them. COSMIC is modular and
composable. It’s the flagship experience for Pop!_OS in its own way,
and can be adapted by anyone that wants to build their own unique user
experience for Linux.

In addition to the COSMIC desktop environment, Pop!_OS is now
available for Arm computers with the 24.04 LTS release, and the
distribution has added hybrid graphics support for better battery
life. LWN covered an
alpha version of COSMIC in August 2024.

Discover a modern Spotify client app that is free, open-source, and available for all major platforms, including Linux.

Our Larry Cafiero takes a look at Solus and its homegrown desktop Budgie, and discovers why it’s one of the most popular scratch-built distros.

The post Solus 4.8 ‘Opportunity’: An Independent Distro Struts Its Stuff appeared first on FOSS Force.

Version
1.92.0 of Rust has been released. This release includes a number
of stabilized APIs, emits unwind tables by default on Linux, validates
input to #[macro_export], and much more. See the separate
release notes for Rust,
Cargo,
and Clippy.

Back in October System76 announced a planned release date for Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and the COSMIC Desktop… And they’ve made it! The new Pop!_OS 24.04 is now available for download as the long-awaited update atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base while using their Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment…

The first topic of discussion at the 2025 Maintainers Summit has been in
the air for a while: what role — if any — should machine-learning-based
tools have in the kernel development process? While there has been a fair
amount of controversy around these tools, and concerns remain, it seems
that the kernel community, or at least its high-level maintainership, is
comfortable with these tools becoming a significant part of the development
process.

The D7VK project recently started as the Direct3D 7 API implemented atop the Vulkan API akin to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton with newer versions of Microsoft Direct3D. Today marks the D7VK 1.0 release for this project in now declaring itself “production ready” for Linux gamers…

With the NVIDIA 590 Linux driver series removing GeForce 900 series “Maxwell” and GeForce 10 series “Pascal” as part of punting it off to the latest legacy driver branch, it’s time for a last look at how the mainline NVIDIA Linux driver is performing with these aging graphics cards relative to the current state of the upstream open-source NVIDIA Linux drivers. In this article is a look at how the open-source and upstream Nouveau kernel driver with Nouveau/NVK Mesa drivers are performing relative to the NVIDIA 580 series with its Maxwell and Pascal support. For further perspective is also tossing in newer graphics cards too for providing a end-of-year GeForce 980 / 1080 / 2080 / 3080 / 4080 / 5080 series comparison between these different Linux drivers.

Tails 7.3.1 has been released today as the third minor update in the Tails 7.x series of this portable Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and designed to protect you against surveillance and censorship.

Early this year AMD announced the open-source GAIA project for “Generative AI Is Awesome” as a showcase of AI support atop their Ryzen AI NPUs and other hardware. That began as a Windows-only project but in September AMD added Linux support to GAIA but only using Vulkan acceleration for AI on Radeon GPUs. Now today GAIA 0.14 is available with “native” support for both macOS and Linux…

It was just at the end of month that Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 1 ISOs were published for the first “Resolute Raccoon” milestone. Out already is now Snapshot 2 with Canonical releasing these images ahead of their engineers having time off for end-of-year holidays…