Wayback is a new experimental minimal Wayland compositor that supports Xwayland, letting X apps function without a full X server.

Last night, on our computers at least, Google’s new open source Gemini CLI started acting as if it were on mind altering drugs. Here’s our morning after report.

Fedora has withdrawn its proposal to remove 32-bit support, a move that sparked widespread concern for Steam and Wine users.

Ubuntu 25.10, affectionately codenamed Questing Quokka, represents more than just the latest iteration of Canonical’s flagship Linux distribution. It marks a decisive step towards modernizing the foundation of Ubuntu by integrating Rust, a systems programming language renowned for its safety, performance, and modern design. This bold move signals Canonical’s commitment to security, reliability, and future-proofing its desktop and server operating systems.

KDE developers this week have been busy with a mix of polishing the recent Plasma 6.4 release as well as taking on more feature development work for Plasma 6.5 coming later in the year...

Cloud and AI demand propel rapid buildout as on-prem share drops to 22%Hyperscale operators are expected to account for 61 percent of all datacenter capacity by 2030, thanks in part to the growth of cloud services and rising demand for compute to feed AI.…

The past number of months has seen work by AMD Linux driver engineers in enabling cleaner shader functionality for various generations of GPUs to help ensure user/application isolation. Being merged overnight as part of the AMDGPU "fixes" for Linux 6.16 is cleaner shader support for more AMD GFX9 / CDNA hardware, notably to benefit various Instinct accelerators with this security feature...

OBS Studio 31.0.4 video production suite fixes crashes related to media sources with no video size and improves stability for macOS 13 and Linux users.

While a number of Linux desktop users have expressed disappointment over Intel and AMD not providing any GUI for their GPU driver settings and similar functionality like they do under Windows, there are a number of third-party open-source GUI programs for managing graphics driver settings. One of the most capable solutions is LACT for GPU configuration and monitoring. Out today is LACT 0.8 with more features now in place...

As of now just straight forward following directions provided by https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/hyprland-starter?tab=readme-ov-file didn't bring me to success . An exact sequence of steps which allowed me to get the work done follows below. I understand that Hyprland Starter would be built for Fedora 42 with no issues by Stephan Raabe some time later. Posting this approach I consider it only as a workaround at the moment , which may be reproduced and verified.

Disagreements over late-stage fixes and developer conduct led Linus Torvalds to drop Bcachefs from the upcoming Linux kernel 6.17 release.

Insist that X users are "rude" and "unruly", based on the least polite ones

Wine 10.11 brings fixes and early NTSync groundwork, improving Windows app compatibility on Linux with 25 bug fixes and WIDL enhancements.

One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine. To not much surprise given the lack of activity in recent years, last week they finally and formally discontinued the open-source project...

Libre Computer has released new firmware updates for its low-cost single-board computers, the AML-A311D-CC Alta and the AML-S905D3-CC Solitude. These SBCs are designed with Raspberry Pi-compatible form factors and target applications such as embedded Linux development and low-power computing. The Alta board, launched in 2023, is based on the Amlogic A311D SoC, which combines four […]

Coccinelle is a tool for automatic program matching and transformation that was originally developed for making large-scale changes to the Linux kernel source code (i.e., C code). Matches and transformations are driven by user-specific transformation rules in the form of abstracted patches, referred to as semantic patches. As the Linux kernel—and systems software more generally—is starting to adopt Rust, Coccinelle for Rust aims to make the power of Coccinelle available to Rust codebases.

The NOVA-Core driver as the basis for a modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA GPU driver for the upstream Linux kernel and eventual successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau DRM driver has a new co-maintainer...

Learn how to install Grafana using Docker to easily monitor system metrics with real-time dashboards and support for multiple data sources.

Following this week's release of Firefox 140, Firefox 141 was promoted to beta. Most exciting for Linux users with next month's Firefox 141 release is finally lowering system RAM use! I've been running some benchmarks looking at the impact.

True digital sovereignty begins at the desktopOpinion Microsoft, tactically admitting it has failed at talking all the Windows 10 PC users into moving to Windows 11 after all, is – sort of, kind of – extending Windows 10 support for another year.…