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From hand‑me‑down laptops to brand‑new desktops, this Debian-based distro with Trinity or KDE Plasma keeps things fast and familiar. The post Q4OS 6 Andromeda: More Than Just Debian on a Diet for Old Machines appeared first on FOSS Force.
You can spin up any distro on your Linux computer and get near-native performance!
Tails 7.5 anonymous Linux OS is now available for download with Tor client 0.4.9.5, Tor Browser 15.0.7, and other changes. Here's what's new!
Microsoft has published a new version of its open-source DirectX Shader Compiler. Besides adding Shader Model 6.9 production support, making this DX Compiler update interesting to us are the SPIR-V back-end improvements and enhancing interoperability with Vulkan drivers...
The International Image Interoperability Framework, or IIIF ("triple-eye eff"), is a small set of standards that form a basis for serving, displaying, and reusing image data on the web. It consists of a number of API definitions that compose with each other to achieve a standard for providing, for example, presentations of high-resolution images at multiple zoom levels, as well as bundling multiple images together. Presentations may include metadata about details like authorship, dates, references to other representations of the same work, copyright information, bibliographic identifiers, etc. Presentations can be further grouped into collections, and metadata can be added in the form of transcriptions, annotations, or captions. IIIF is most popular with cultural-heritage organizations, such as libraries, universities, and archives.
ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.3 adds multipage document view, enhanced PDF signatures, and a new Solver tool for spreadsheets, alongside performance fixes and improvements.
The Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 26.2.1, delivering extensive bug fixes and stability improvements for the 26.2 productivity suite.
Fwupd 2.0.20 Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for the HP Engage One G2 Advanced Hub and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (freerdp), Debian (firefox-esr and libstb), Fedora (389-ds-base, chromium, firefox, munge, opentofu, python3-docs, python3.14, and vim), Oracle (buildah, containernetworking-plugins, gimp, grafana, grafana-pcp, kernel, podman, runc, and skopeo), Red Hat (go-toolset:rhel8, golang, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana, grafana-pcp, mariadb:10.11, podman, and skopeo), SUSE (cacti, docker-stable, expat, firefox-esr, freerdp, freerdp2, libjxl, libsoup-2_4-1, python-tornado, python-urllib3_1, python3, python311-Django4, python312, python313, python39, and redis), and Ubuntu (ceph, mongodb, protobuf, and rlottie).
Arch-based distros that are actually pushing Linux forward.
LibreOffice 26.2.1 is now available for download as the first point release to the LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with 65 bug fixes.
Fwupd 2.0.20 introduces AMD UMA carveout configuration, fixes fastboot and USB issues, and adds support for new HP, Framework, and Jabra hardware.
Tails 7.5, a privacy-focused Linux distro, upgrades Tor Browser to 15.0.7, updates the Tor client to 0.4.9.5, and improves Thunderbird security.
If you miss the legendary speed and simplicity of Windows XP and early KDE, Q4OS is calling your name.
For those curious how far Intel laptop CPU performance has evolved over the past nearly two decades, here are power and performance numbers when re-benchmarking all of the Intel-powered laptop CPUs I have on hand that are still operational from Penryn to Panther Lake. A ThinkPad from 2008 with the Core 2 Duo T9300 "Penryn" was still firing up and working with the latest upstream Intel open-source Linux driver support on Ubuntu 26.04 development. On a geo mean basis over the past 18 years from Penryn to Panther Lake, the performance was at 21.5x in over 150 benchmarks. At the most extreme was a 95x difference going from Intel's 45nm Penryn to the 18A Panther Lake.
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