Ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window opening, several early pull requests were already sent out this week in advance of Linux 6.15 expected for release later today. Among those early feature pulls was Btrfs maintainer David Sterba sending out updates to this advanced copy-on-write file-system…

The Dell Latitude 7455 (X1E-80-100) is the latest laptop powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC seeing patches for enabling Linux support…

With Linux 6.15 there are many exciting new features for this kernel version expected to debut as stable later today. Following the Linux 6.15 stable release, the Linux 6.16 merge window will then open. Here is an early look at a portion of the changes anticipated to be submitted and more than likely merged for this next kernel version…

Ahead of the Linux 6.15 kernel stable release expected later today, more input driver updates have been merged for this new kernel version that include introducing compatibility with some newer gaming controllers…

Firefox’s address bar just got an upgrade, and it’s all about putting you in control. It’s faster, easier to use and built to support how you search and browse — while staying true to what makes Firefox, Firefox: real user choice, strong privacy and transparency. Built to help you search faster and get things done […]The post A smarter, simpler Firefox address bar  appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

This article will help you solve a common issue with the update-grub command not found in Arch Linux or other Linux distros with a quick solution.

As time goes by, operating systems like EndeavorOS (an Arch Linux derivative) will store various temporary files, old package caches, system logs, and packages that are no longer needed. If left alone, these files can take up quite a lot of disk space.For Linux users like me who use SSDs with small storage capacity (120GB), you need to pay attention to storage that is getting thinner over time. If not monitored and cleaned regularly, it will take up even more storage, apart from files that can be seen.

In this article, we’ll explore how to integrate SELinux into Debian, one of the most widely used and respected GNU/Linux distributions. We’ll break down its architecture, setup procedures, policy management, and troubleshooting techniques. Whether you’re running a mission-critical server or seeking to harden your desktop environment, this guide will show you how SELinux can elevate your system security to enterprise-grade standards.

With Ubuntu 25.10 planning to ship the Rust-based Coreutils “uutils” by default, it’s a big year ahead for this alternative to GNU Coreutils. In furthering along the project’s goals, today marks the Rust Coreutils v0.1 release…

NixOS 25.05 lands with Plasma 6.3.5, GNOME 48, Linux kernel 6.12/14, 7840 new packages, and early COSMIC desktop support.

Roblox is one of the most popular games besides Minecraft. At first glance, this game is similar to Minecraft when viewed from the character shape. But currently Roblox has various character shapes. Minecraft with its typical voxel, and Roblox with characters that are diverse.

The GNOME Web “Epiphany” web browser is making it easier to toggle WebKit web engine features at run-time…

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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While there was the big 62k lines of code patch from Microsoft merged yesterday to Mesa, separately there was also some code cleaning to remove some previously-deprecated code from the codebase…

While the open-source, Rust-based Cloud Hypervisor project was started by Intel as a modern VMM for cloud workloads and focused on security, some Intel CPU features are now bit-rotting. In turn the new Cloud Hypervisor 46 release has deprecated support for Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) while even their modern Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) feature is in jeopardy but now with Google engineers set to takeover that code…

KDE developers have been busy addressing bugs within the Plasma 6.4 desktop ahead of its stable release in June. But there has been some last minute feature work to arrive, including support for time-of-day wallpapers with Plasma 6.4…

Merged on Friday for the GCC 16 compiler is better handling of the “-march=” compiler option on RISC-V systems when seeing multiple -march= hits and wanting to specify the RISC-V CPU name for targeting…

The developers of the independent distro NixOS, whose set of packages can be used on other GNU/Linux distributions, released NixOS 25.05 today, a major update that introduces support for recent technologies and other changes.

This week Intel released the Compute Runtime 25.18.33578.6 release for Windows and Linux. This updated open-source GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero brings the latest work on Ultra Low Latency Scheduling (ULLS) for Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics and other ongoing Xe2 improvements along with further preparations for next-gen Xe3 hardware. This new Intel Compute Runtime release is clocking in around 76x lower OpenCL kernel latency and other nice wins for those with current-generation Intel Lunar Lake hardware.

Rhino Linux debuts its first official UBXI KDE 6 Desktop port and starts testing RPK2, a complete rewrite of its package manager.