Building off yesterday’s release of Wine 10.17 is now wine-Staging 10.17 that is carrying 295 extra patches atop the upstream Wine codebase for testing at the leading edge of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux…

LACT 0.8.2 is out this weekend as the newest feature release to this Linux GPU control application. This Rust-based software provides a GUI for controlling AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel GPUs under Linux with various monitoring metrics, information reporting, power configuration, thermals configuration, and overclocking with supported hardware…

With plans to release next Tuesday (21 October), KDE developers this week have been putting the finishing touches on this next open-source desktop update. Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham says he thinks it’s going to be “a pretty darn good release” when it officially debuts…

With Fedora 43 releasing in the coming weeks, Fedora stakeholders are beginning to plot their feature ideas for next year’s Fedora 44 release. One of the early F44 feature submissions pending approval is switching /boot on Fedora Cloud images to being a Btrfs file-system subvolume…

Over 100K users downloaded Zorin OS 18 in 48 hours, and more than 70% came from Windows, possibly driven by the end of Windows 10 support.

Vibe coding may have played a role in what took researchers months to fixDevelopers of VS Code extensions are leaking sensitive secrets left, right and center, according to researchers who worked with Microsoft to combat an issue that could have led to some nasty supply chain attacks.…

Following the release of Wine 10.16 with initial NTSYNC support from two weeks ago, Wine 10.17 is now available as the latest development release in working toward Wine 11.0 stable in early 2026…

PipeWire 1.6 has entered development for this open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux, promising major new features and enhancements.

Joins its command-line client from a couple of years agoNordVPN has open sourced another of its Linux VPN client apps under the GPLv3. This time, it’s the graphical user interface (GUI) version.…

Upbeat Technology has announced the UP201 and UP301 family of RISC-V microcontrollers developed in collaboration with SiFive. The devices are intended for applications such as always-on IoT, wearables, drones, and sensor-based systems. The UP201 and UP301 integrate two SiFive Essential IP cores and two neural accelerators designed by Upbeat Technology. They implement Upbeat’s Error Detection […]

For those interested in scanning files for malware and other threat detection under Linux and using the GNOME desktop, Lenspect is a new GNOME-aligned application that is a GUI powered by VirusTotal for being a Linux-native security threat scanner…

With small steps and steady progress, Gimp’s latest release tightens performance and makes theme support more consistent.

The post GIMP 3.0.6: What’s New, What’s Not — With Screenshots appeared first on FOSS Force.

Microsoft’s quality control department caught napping againMicrosoft’s October Windows 11 update has managed the impressive feat of breaking localhost, leaving developers unable to access web applications running on their own machines.…

An interesting technical collaboration between AMD and Intel as well as other industry players like Google, Bytedance, Microsoft, MiTAC, HPE, and others is openSFI. The new openSFI “Open Silicon Firmware Interface” project is aiming to work toward vendor-neutral low-level firmware interfaces for more interoperable firmware solutions across vendors…

ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.1 delivers 4× faster spreadsheet formulas and advanced tools for PDF redaction and editing.

Setup below in general follows guide lines proposed in https://www.dwarmstrong.org/install-lmde-with-custom-lvm-luks/. However, we intend to remove swap LV and increase sizes of root and home LVs . Then reboot system and activate zram instead of keeping unreasonably large LV swap on /dev/vda .

Due to Intel CPU microcode sizes continuing to get larger and late-loading new CPU microcode onto a running system can lead to (brief) disruptions/downtime while the update is applied, future Intel CPUs are introducing a microcode “staging” feature to reduce that microcode updating downtime. The Linux 6.19 kernel in the new year is set to support the Intel microcode staging feature with capable processors…

In such a world privacy abuses would be a lot rarer. Because if someone added some “telemetry” to the program, then someone else would remove that from the program, then redistribute the same. Guess which one users would rather download…

The Ruby community has experienced some turbulence
of late after Ruby Central took
control of the GitHub repositories for a number of projects
including RubyGems
and Bundler. Those projects have historically been developed
separately from Ruby itself. They are now being put under the
control of Ruby’s core team, according to Ruby creator Yukihiro
Matsumoto (a.k.a. “Matz”):

To provide the community with long-term stability and continuity,
the Ruby core team, led by Matz, has decided to assume stewardship of
these projects from Ruby Central. We will continue their development
in close collaboration with Ruby Central and the broader
community.

Ruby Central has also issued a statement.

With the recent release of Ubuntu 25.10 we have seen some nice performance improvements on the likes of AMD Zen 5 and Intel Lunar Lake compared to prior Ubuntu releases. But what about ARM? In this article is a look at the Ampere Altra performance between Ubuntu 25.04 and Ubuntu 25.10 using the popular System76 Thelio Astra workstation.