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Stop bookmarking IP:ports. Tailscale Services gives every Docker container in your homelab its own HTTPS name on your tailnet, without a reverse proxy or a sidecar per container.
Bazzite 45 arrives with Fedora 45, KDE Plasma 6.8, updated graphics drivers, improved handheld support, and a new anti-cheat compatibility checker.
Kitty 0.50 introduces automatic session restoration, dockable terminal windows, improved tab management, and Wayland enhancements.
Rsync 3.5.2 addresses CVE-2026-119741, fixes interrupted file transfers, and introduces new options for process priorities and symlink handling.
From earlier in the year you may recall a new experimental open-source Linux driver for modern DisplayLink hardware. That "Vino" driver for DisplayLink driver was a clean-room reverse-engineered DisplayLink driver that was developed in part by AI and written in Rust. Unfortunately, that open-source driver has disappeared following legal threats by Synaptics...
In addition to organizations like Alibaba, SpaceXSI, DigitalOcean, Meta SuperIntelligence Labs, and others contributing millions of dollars toward the development of the Omarchy Linux distribution, it turns out AMD also has a thing for this Linux distribution built around the Hyprland compositor...
Last month I wrote about Intel working on adding proper XeSS support to Steam Play (Proton). While those efforts haven't yet been completed for benefiting Linux gamers running Intel Arc Graphics, in the meantime an independent open-source developer has managed to get XMX-accelerated XeSS working under Proton...
Last month Intel and AMD jointly announced they would be collaborating on software optimizations with PyTorch/oneDNN. That already led to the UXL Foundation's release of oneDNN 3.14 with initial AMD Zen optimizations. It looks though like for now at least AMD will also continue to concurrently push new work into their ZenDNN library and not exclusively tied to oneDNN. Out today is ZenDNN 6.1...
Building a Bluetooth tracker from a $3 board taught me why AirTags work.
At nearly 42 million lines, Linux 7.4 is the largest merge in the history of the kernel.
Using Linux daily isn’t the same as being fluent, but a 30-day workout can close the gap
Is Ubuntu 26.04 feeling sluggish on your old PC? Try these five tweaks to reduce memory usage, cut background activity, and simplify your desktop.
Domicile is a new Wayland compositor that leverages Chromium for allowing custom Linux desktops to be built using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript/TypeScript...
While the release missed its initial October 20 release target, it comes packed with Linux 7.2, GNOME 51, and Plasma 6.7.
Chimera Linux refreshes its installation images with Linux kernel 7.3, GNOME 51, KDE Plasma 6.8, and NetworkManager replacing iwd.
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