Call for Evidence casts FOSS as a way to break US dependenceThe European Commission has launched a fresh consultation into open source, setting out its ambitions for Europe’s developer communities to go beyond propping up US tech giants’ platforms.…

Ahead of the imminent Linux 6.19-rc5 release, the char/misc pull request was merged earlier today with a notable fix to the Rust Binder driver as well as adding the Intel Nova Lake Point S device ID to the MEI driver…

Big changes are coming to the Budgie desktop in 2026 as Budgie 11 introduces a Qt6-based, modular architecture and a Wayland-first design.

ASUS has announced the UGen300 USB AI Accelerator, a compact external device designed to add hardware-accelerated machine learning and generative inference capabilities to existing systems over a USB connection. The UGen300 is built around the Hailo Hailo-10H processor, which ASUS rates at up to 40 TOPS (INT4) of inference performance. The accelerator integrates 8 GB […]

Debian 13 “Trixie” receives its third refresh (13.3), featuring 108 bug fixes and 37 security updates. Here’s more on that.

Increasingly complex RISC-V cores aren’t magically immune to the speculative execution / side-channel vulnerabilities that have rattled the x86_64 and ARM64 landscape for years. Following recent work on Spectre V1 handling for RISC-V in the Linux kernel, merged this weekend for Linux 6.19-rc5 is another RISC-V attack vector safeguard…

A new project trying to get off the ground and currently in an “exploratory phase” is GYESME that describes itself as a “design-led” downstream of GNOME with plans ot only fork when needed that is “minimal by default.”..

A late‑breaking minute order from Judge Sandy Leal has delayed Software Freedom Conservancy’s Vizio GPL trial, leaving only a January 26 pretrial hearing firmly set.

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In addition to Linus Torvalds’ recent comments around AI tooling documentation, it turns out in fact that Linus Torvalds has been using vibe coding himself. Over the holidays Linus Torvalds has been working on a new open-source project called AudioNoise that was started with the help of AI vibe coding…

KDE Project’s upcoming KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment series is expected on February 17th, 2026, and it’s packed with many new features and improvements, so let’s take a look at the biggest changes so far.

The Orion Browser team has confirmed its first Linux version, now rolling out in early alpha for this WebKit-based browser.

THIRDREALITY’s Linux Box Dev Edition is a compact smart home gateway aimed at developers, educators, and system integrators working with open-source automation platforms and standard smart home protocols. THIRDREALITY lists a quad-core processor, 2 GB of RAM, and 8 GB of onboard storage, along with integrated wireless connectivity including dual-band Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz and 5 […]

After many months of hard work, the upcoming Mageia 10 Linux distribution now has its first alpha release available for public testing if you want to help the devs fix bugs before the final release hits the streets.

Today, the Debian Project announced the release and general availability of Debian 13.3 as the third update to the latest Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” operating system series.

The Budgie desktop developers announced today the release and general availability of the Budgie 10.10 desktop environment, which is the last update in the Budgie 10 series and the first to go Wayland-only.

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The Budgie 10.10 desktop has been officially released in marking the open-source project’s transition from X11 to Wayland…

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The first alpha release of Mageia 10 is now available for this Linux distribution who’s lineage traces back to Mandriva and before that the legendary Mandrake Linux…

Debian 13.3 is out today as the newest stable point release for Debian Trixie…