While there is nice out-of-the-box support for the new Intel Arc “Battlemage” graphics cards on the new Ubuntu 25.04 release, if you prefer running the Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release there isn’t complete support until the next hardware enablement “HWE” update. But Intel in cooperation with Canonical has now published a new graphics driver preview stack for enabling better Intel Arc B-Series support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS users…

Microsoft on Tuesday released a new version of Azure Linux, their in-house Linux distribution that is used for a variety of purposes from the Azure cloud to powering other Microsoft services…

Hobbyists continue to tinker around with the Motorola 68000 “m68k” support within the Linux kernel and even landing a fix now in 2025 for the vintage Macintosh II…

Archinstall 3.0.7 is out today as the newest feature update to this text-based Arch Linux installer that makes it quick and easy to deploy a new Arch Linux installation…

Or, rediscovering the KISS principle, the long way roundComment Linux distro wars are nothing new. “Advocacy” (a euphemism for angry argument) about hardware, OSes, programming languages and editors goes back as long as different computers have existed. Computers appeal to geeky folks, and geeky folks readily get a little too attached to things — and then become possessive and defensive about them.…

KaOS Linux 2025.05 has been released today as the latest ISO snapshot for this independent Linux distribution built on top of the latest KDE software and featuring Arch Linux’s pacman package manager.

Thunderbird 139 is out now as the latest stable version of this popular, open-source, free, and cross-platform email, address book, chat, news, and calendar client for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

Learn what DNF5 is, how it differs from older DNF, and the significant improvements in the DNF5 package manager with this introductory guide.

Ted Ts’o sent out the EXT4 file-system changes today for the Linux 6.16 kernel. While EXT4 may not see as much code churn these days given its mature state compared to say Btrfs and Bcachefs, with Linux 6.16 are some tantalizing performance improvements…

Now that Firefox 139 has been promoted to the stable channel today, Mozilla has promoted the next major release, Firefox 140, to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to take a look at the changes.

Merged today for Xfce’s Xfwm4 window manager component is a built-in Wayland compositor using wlroots…

The goal of AlmaLinux OS is to support our community, and AlmaLinux
OS 10 is the best example of that yet. With an unwavering eye on
maintaining compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), we
have made small improvements to AlmaLinux OS 10 that target
specific sections of our userbase.

See the
release notes for details.

Learn how to install MariaDB on Debian 13 with our easy easy step-by-step guide, or get our Linux admins to install it for you.

Google engineer Eric Biggers took time away from all his impressive crypto performance optimizations to the Linux kernel for modern Intel and AMD CPUs to spend time getting support for hardware-wrapped inline encryption keys into the mainline kernel. Google’s Android kernel has been carrying this functionality for several years to help enhance security and will now be found in the mainline kernel too for capable platforms…

This article serves as your dive into the world of Linux-based DIY automation. Whether you’re looking to build a smart garden, a weather station, or simply learn how to use Bash scripts to control physical components, you’re in for a journey that fuses digital logic with real-world interaction.

Srinivas Narayana led a remote session about extending

Agni to prove the correctness of
the BPF verifier’s handling of different execution paths as part of the Linux Storage,
Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit. The problem of ensuring the
correctness of path exploration
is much more difficult than the problem of
ensuring the correctness of arithmetic operations
(which was

the subject of the previous session), however. Narayana’s plan to
tackle the problem makes use of a mixture of specialized techniques — and may
need some assistance from the BPF developers to make it feasible at all.

You don’t have to use Fedora to attend the Fedora 42 Release Party, but you will have to get up early if you live in the US. The party starts on Thursday at 9 am on the east coast, and at 6 am for those overlooking the Pacific.

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On Thursday, May 29 (yes, two days away!) we will host the F42 release party on Matrix. We would love for you to join us to celebrate all things F42 in a private event room from 1300 – 1600 UTC. You will hear from our new FPL Jef Spaleta, learn about the design process for […]

Merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel are all of the x86 core enhancements that provide a variety of benefits to Intel as well as AMD processors…

Building off the recent release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, AlmaLinux 10.0 stable is now available as this RHEL-derived popular community Linux OS alternative…