Kagi has announced it is ending development of its Orion web browser for Linux to focus on the macOS and iOS versions. A native GTK Linux port of Orion was announced in 2025 and a public beta launched earlier this year. The goal had been to offer feature parity with the macOS version. While recent updates have edged closer, it seems that’s where it’ll remain – for now. Kagi will make Orion for Linux – and the WIP Orion for Windows port – open-source so that the wider FOSS community to step up to “carry them forward”. “Orion is built […]
Parrot OS 7.4 security-oriented distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 7.1, updated tools, optimized builds, updated Raspberry Pi and ARM images, and other changes.
Over the past year Timur KristĂłf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux gaming and other tasks. This week in Toronto, KristĂłf presented on this AMDGPU work that he initially began as a kernel driver development exercise after initially spending years in user-space focused on the Mesa 3D driver code...
Linaro engineer Vincent Guittot sent out a set of patches on Friday working on scheduling latency improvements, especially when multiple short slice tasks are running concurrently on the same system...
Obscura VPN splits your identity from your browsing across two independent companies so neither can see both. Founder Carl Dong on trust, QUIC, reproducible builds, and why the no-logs promise stopped being enough.
Version 0.17 of the Zig programming language has been released. This release features 5 months of work: changes from 206 different contributors, spread among 925 commits. Originally predicted to be shorter, this release cycle ended up [being] substantial, with the Build System reworked, including the introduction of the Build Server Protocol, and the ELF Linker enhanced to the point where we expect Incremental Compilation to work for everyone on x86_64-linux. LWN last covered Zig in December 2025.
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.9, 6.18.55, 6.12.112, 6.6.158, 6.1.189, 5.15.222, and 5.10.271 stable kernels. Each contains a large number of important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to upgrade.
Beyond the various local AI agent/chat options not catering to a specific desktop environment, the GNOME desktop has seen Newelle as an AI app catering to GNOME/GTK4. There's now another local AI option for the GNOME desktop with Moose...
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