Debian-based Sparky semi-rolling 2025.03 update is out now featuring Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, Xfce 4.20, LXQt 2.1, and more.

Microsoft is out today with their newest monthly update to their in-house Linux distribution, Azure Linux, with all available package and security updates through this month’s Patch Tuesday…

RMBG-2-Studio is an enhanced background remove and replace app built around BRIA-RMBG-2.0.

When the 6.14 kernel is released later this month, it will include the
usual set of internal changes that users should never notice, with the
possible exception of changes that bring performance improvements. One of
those changes is frozen pages, a
memory-management optimization that should fly mostly under the radar.
When Hannes Reinecke reported a
crash in 6.14, though, frozen pages suddenly came into view. There is a
workaround for this problem, but it seems there is a fair
amount of work to be done that nobody had counted on to solve the problem
properly.

Dock to panel, the popular GNOME extension that merge the top-bar and bottom dock (aka the dash) into single classic Windows style panel, got big updates a few days ago.

AMD today released AMDVLK 2025.Q1.3 as their official open-source Vulkan API driver for Linux systems. With this update is support for the Navi48 GPU with the recently-launched Radeon RX 9070 RDNA4 graphics cards…

Amazon recently announced their new GameLift Streams service, allowing game developers to spin up their own game streaming solutions. Their announcement also specifically noted how it supports “Windows, Linux, and Proton runtimes”.

Here’s something I never quite expected to write. But recently, I’ve been playing and playing with some old games, most notably the wonderful Caesar III and Pharaoh, and I decided to expand my adventure. And I thought, well, Max Payne, a lovely title of yore.

March’s Steam Client update brings remote demo management, improved game notes, bug fixes, enhanced Steam Input support, and more.

Yesterday marked the milestone of KWin’s kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland code being split up. The Wayland and X11 code for the KWin compositor is now separate from each other but can be co-installable for systems wanting to support both X11 and Wayland environments.

Texas Instruments has introduced the MSPM0C1104, which it describes as the world’s smallest microcontroller, expanding its MSPM0 MCU portfolio. Measuring only 1.38mm², this wafer chip-scale package MCU is 38% smaller than existing alternatives. It is designed for applications where board space is limited, such as medical wearables and personal electronics, while maintaining functionality.

There is a Linux client for Discord but it’s proprietary software. For open source enthusiasts there are viable alternatives which we explore.

The GStreamer project released GStreamer 1.26 today as the latest stable version for this open-source multimedia framework that introduces numerous new features and enhancements.

Don’t, don’t, DON’T believe the hype. The developer of Free95 says it will be a free Windows 95-compatible OS, but we suspect an elaborate prank. At best, maybe an unknowing one.

I’ve just reviewed the SunFounder 10.1-inch touchscreen display with Raspberry Pi 5 running Raspberry Pi OS, and the experience was not quite as smooth as I had expected, so I’ll report some tips to save people time.

Kitty 0.40 GPU-accelerated terminal emulator brings font size flexibility, better underline rendering, and more.

The GNOME Dash To Panel extension that allows moving the dash into the GNOME main panel has proven popular with GNOME desktop users for an integrated icon taskbar and status panel on GNOME Shell. Unfortunately though one of the main developers to Charles Gagnon is “passing on” development of the extension moving forward.

Cyber threats and Linux vulnerabilities are advancing and evolving at an unprecedented pace, becoming increasingly difficult to detect and mitigate. This worrisome trend makes it imperative for organizations to adopt robust and adaptive security measures to counter these growing risks.

It’s been a while since a new Stratis feature release for this Red Hat led effort to enhance local storage management on Linux systems. Stratis was born out of a desire to provide Btrfs/ZFS-style features atop the mature XFS file-system and the Device Mapper (DM) subsystem and they have continued pushing that goal for RHEL and other Linux environments…

This article examines Linux’s role in enhancing AI hardware acceleration, focusing on recent advancements in the kernel, driver integration, and memory management.