The KDE-aligned digiKam photo management software is out today with its version 8.6 release. With digiKam 8.6 the open-source photo manager has been working on better enhancing its artificial intelligence (AI) integration…

Red Hat Thailand, the local operating unit of the global open source firm, expects artificial intelligence (AI) to be its new growth engine, enabling organisations to deploy generative AI on a cost-effective basis.

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekend update to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have been merged over the past week…

It’s well-known that the Android operating system is built on a specialized version of the open-source Linux kernel. While development of Android apps has evolved to use specific AOSP components, the Android Runtime still uses Linux. So, we wonder why users haven’t had access to the classic command-line interface that Linux distros on desktop are known for.

Today, the KDE Project released KDE Frameworks 6.12 as a new update to this collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt that provides commonly needed functionality to KDE apps and the KDE Plasma desktop.

KDE announces Frameworks 6.12 with enhancements to Baloo, Breeze Icons, KIO, and more, improving Qt-based development.

Vantron has introduced the VT-USB-AH-8108 Wi-Fi HaLow Dongle, a compact connectivity solution powered by Morse Micro’s MM8108 chipset. The device supports long-range, low-power wireless communication through a plug-and-play USB interface.

Each new Ubuntu release bears a bespoke desktop background and animal mascot, and the upcoming release of the Plucky Puffin proves no exception.

The eight-inch Piccolo N150 is tiny, but its surprisingly good display and solid frame prove it’s not a toy.

Intel engineers today released Compute Runtime 25.09.32961.5 as their newest update to this open-source compute stack for Windows and Linux systems providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero GPU compute support. Most notable in this release is rolling out initial “pre-release” support for next-gen Core Ultra “Panther Lake” SoCs with integrated Xe3 graphics…

After a brief drama, the developer of Dash to Panel is stepping down, raising concerns about the future of this widely used GNOME extension.

Keeping your laptop always plugged-in speeds up the deterioration of its battery life. But if you are using a docking station, you don’t have the option to unplug the power cord.

New feature on Google Pixel phones hints at a ChromeOS-like VM. The March “feature drop” for Android 15 on Google Pixel devices includes an optional Linux session.

Additional AMDGPU and AMDKFD kernel driver updates were sent out today for collecting ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window. As we are late in the cycle, most of the new AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver changes are fixes, but there are some minor feature changes particularly for the new RDNA4 GPUs…

You can argue if bash is a good programming language or not, but you can’t argue that it is a programming language. However, there are a few oddities about it that make it different from most other languages you probably know.

Version
2.49.0 of the Git source-code management system has been
released. This release comprises 460 non-merge commits since 2.48.0,
with contributions from 89 people, including 24 new
contributors. There is a long list of improvements and bug fixes; see
the highlights
blog from GitHub’s Taylor Blau for some of the more interesting
features.

Git 2.49 is out today as the latest feature update for this widely-used distributed version control system…

The Zed Editor as a modern IDE-focused text editor for programmers and developed by some of the Atom editor creators continues on quite a roll. Over the past year Zed has rolled out native Linux builds, added various AI features and also began open-sourcing its own edit prediction model.

DXVK 2.6 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download as a significant update that improves support for multiple games.

Slack is a cloud-based team communication platform designed to be businesses-to-business service, offering a central hub for messaging, tools, and files, enabling teams to collaborate and communicate. While Slack is available for Linux, it’s proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.