At the Vulkanised 2025 conference a few weeks back in Cambridge (UK) there were a few presentations concerning Vulkan Video for this cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode/decode interface.

I've always been a big fan of open source software because it's free (as in freedom) and has plenty of potential to grow in ways that proprietary software could never. Having said that, I was surprised to find out that 2025's Oscar-winning animated short movie “Flow” (directed by Gints Zilbalodis) was made using Blender, a popular open source 3D software.

Garuda Linux “Broadwing” is out today as the latest snapshot of this Arch Linux-based distro that promises to deliver a powerful, beautiful, and user-centric Linux desktop experience.

XenServer (previously Citrix Hypervisor) is a hypervisor optimized for the Citrix platform. XenServer is proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

Kagi, the company behind a paid, private search engine1 of the same name, has announced it’s bringing its Webkit-based Orion web browser to Linux.

Wine 10.3 is out with Wayland clipboard support, Vulkan video decoding in WineD3D, Bluetooth driver improvements, and more bug fixes.

Well known AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák has been at it again working on some further performance optimizations to the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code.

When using Docker to create portable and easy reproducible development environments, we need to found a way to make changes to our codebase, immediately effective inside containers, without the need to re-build them each time. A possible solution consists into mounting host directories directly inside containers; this, however, requires breaking containers isolation and portability, since they become dependant on the host directory structure. To solve this problem, we can use docker-compose watch.

For decades, Linux and BSD have stood as two dominant yet fundamentally different branches of the Unix-like operating system world. While Linux distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora, have grown to dominate the open-source ecosystem, BSD-based systems like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD have remained the preferred choice for those seeking security, performance, and licensing flexibility.

The GNOME Project announced today the Release Candidate (RC) development milestone of the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop environment series ahead of the final release on March 19th, 2025.

Mozilla sells ads, Google limits blocking them – it's time for stricter measures. A new, lightweight version of Pi-Hole is here. Just how easy is it to block advertising on your home network?

wallust is a command-line program that generates a color palette from the dominant colors in an image. This palette can then be applied system-wide and on the fly in various programs.

Intel engineers today sent out their final drm-xe-next feature pull request to DRM-Next of the remaining features they are ready to land for the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle. It's a big one.

OrangePi has launched another RISC-V development board following the release of the Orange Pi RV in 2024. This new SBC, OrangePi RV2, is powered by the Ky X1 octa-core RISC-V AI CPU, delivering 2TOPS of AI computing power for applications in machine learning, robotics, and embedded systems.

One of the many reasons I like open-source software is that, unlike new Windows releases, it keeps getting better with every update and new version without compromising existing features that already work well. This is exactly the case with the new ONLYOFFICE 8.3 release, which brings this open-source office suite even closer to becoming the best complete alternative to Microsoft Office for most users, including myself.

KDE Gear 24.12.3 apps collection is now available for download with fixes for file handling, UI crashes, and more.

If you prefer the KDE interface and like living on the cutting edge for updates then give Tumbleweed a try.

Linux is a powerful and flexible operating system, widely used in servers, embedded systems, and even personal computers. However, even the best-configured systems can face performance bottlenecks over time. Performance tuning is essential for ensuring that a Linux system runs efficiently, utilizing available resources optimally while avoiding unnecessary slowdowns.

Canonical engineer Matthieu Clemenceau has posted a status update on the behalf of the Ubuntu Foundations engineers now half-way through the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle. A number of notable package updates have landed as well as continued work on better ARM64 support and coming to a decision over "-O3" optimized packages.

Ready to run your own Wikipedia-style knowledge repository on Fedora, Centos or RHEL? Hold on tight! We are about to walk you through the steps for installing MediaWiki on the most innovative Linux distro out there. Whether you are a Linux geek or a Linux noob looking to get started with MediaWiki, this step-by-step guide will take you from start to finish, pronto!