All of the multimedia subsystem feature updates have been merged for the Linux 6.18 merge window…

A new Free Software Foundation president has been elected…

Fedora’s beta releases offer one of the earliest glimpses into the next major version of the distribution — letting users and developers poke, test, and report issues before the final version ships… This beta is largely feature-complete: developers hope it will closely match what the final release looks like (barring last-minute fixes). The goal is to surface regression bugs, UX issues, and compatibility problems before Fedora 43 is broadly adopted.

The Free Software Foundation has announced
the selection of Ian Kelling as the organization’s president.

Kelling, age forty-three, has held the role of a board member and a
voting member since March 2021. The board said of Kelling’s
confirmation: “His hands-on technical experience resulting from his
position as the organization’s senior systems administrator proved
invaluable for his work on the board of directors. The board is
confident Kelling is the right person to help the organization
achieve its long-term goals. His commitment to free software comes
from a life of exploring ways to exert user control. He has the
technical knowledge to speak with authority on most free software
issues, and he has a strong connection with the community as an
active speaker and blogger.”

As the first update to the Intel Thermal Daemon since February when v2.5.9 brought Panther Lake support, Intel Thermal Daemon 2.5.10 was tagged on Thursday…

Learn how to achieve perfect scores for website security, performance and SEO using AWS S3 and CloudFront, plus some of the gotchas. This article shows real-world examples achieving A+ SSL Labs, 100% PageSpeed and 120/100 Mozilla Observatory scores.

Polybar is a powerful, customizable status bar that lets you transform your Linux desktop with tailored modules, themes, and interactive controls.

In this video, I’ll show you a simple way to hide the spacer in the KDE Plasma Colorizer panel. By removing the spacer’s visibility, you can achieve a cleaner and more minimalist desktop appearance without much effort.

The Slab pull request was merged this evening for the ongoing Linux 6.18 merge window. Most notable with the Slab updates is the introduction of Sheaves…

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Rayhunter on a Verizon Orbic Speed RC400L mobile hotspot using Kali GNU/Linux on a x86_64 architecture computer. This article will also detail accessing the Rayhunter web interface, maintaining your Rayhunter, and [optionally] reporting Cell Site Simulator (also known as IMSI-catcher or “Stingray”) detection data to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for further analyzation. Rayhunter setup is cheap (~$20) and user-friendly – a project for technical and less-technical users alike!

Linux Mint’s next Cinnamon release brings a redesigned menu, better keyboard layouts, and improved input method support.

For those wanting to run virtual machines with more than 255 vCPUs on modern AMD EPYC servers, an important code refactoring was merged for Linux 6.18 to ensure the proper topology information is exposed to KVM guest VMs…

After Linus Torvalds yesterday shot down RISC-V big endian prospects for the Linux kernel, today he has used his authority to wage a war on “crazy” Rust code formatting as well as to critique poor text formatting…

A tried-and-true step-by-step guide for a hassle-free upgrade to openSUSE Leap 16 from Leap 15.6.

Although downloading the distro might feel like a confrontation with an overzealous panhandler, once installed, elementaryOS rewards users with a robust Linux experience.

The post ElementaryOS 8.0.2: Not a Grand Slam, but a Solid Base Hit appeared first on FOSS Force.

Simulating physics is central to robotics: before a robot ever moves in the real world, much of its learning, testing, and control happens in a virtual environment. But traditional simulators often struggle to match real-world physical complexity, especially where contact, friction, deformable materials, and unpredictable surfaces are involved. That discrepancy is known as the sim-to-real gap, and it’s one of the biggest hurdles in robotics and embodied AI… the Linux Foundation announced that it is contributing Newton, a next-generation, GPU-accelerated physics engine, as a fully open, community-governed project. This move aims to accelerate robotics research, reduce barriers to entry, and ensure long-term sustainability under neutral governance.

The many SoC and platform/machine DeviceTree additions have been merged for the Linux 6.18 kernel! This includes finally having mainline support for the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board and its EIC7700 SoC, Apple M2 Pro / Max / Ultra DeviceTrees added and associated Apple Mac system support, various new Snapdragon X1 laptops now being supported by the mainline kernel and much more…

The GNU Tools Cauldron is almost entirely focused on user-space tools, but
kernel developers need a solid toolchain too. In what appears to be a
developing tradition (started in 2024),
some kernel developers attended the 2025 Cauldron for the
second year in a row to discuss their needs with the assembled toolchain
developers. Topics covered in this year’s gathering include Rust, better
BPF type
format (BTF) support, SFrame, and more.

The openSUSE project announced today the release of openSUSE Leap 16 as a major update to this long-term supported, traditional, and full-featured openSUSE version derived from the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 16 operating system series.

The Kbuild changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel…