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Redb is one of the open-source, embed-friendly key-value databases written in the Rust programming language. Redb is ACID-compliant while known for being high performance and with its new Redb 4.1 release is even faster thanks to some improvements authored by Claude (AI)...
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver and accelerator driver changes for Linux 7.1 were recently merged to Git. As usual, it's the Intel and AMD kernel graphics drivers seeing a bulk of the interesting open-source GPU driver activity. Plus ongoing work to make Rust-based GPU drivers more viable...
It's pretty rare nowadays seeing any real changes to the JFS file-system on Linux when there are multiple far superior solutions available. But in any event, the JFS file-system driver has seen a few fixes in Linux 7.1...
The LXQt 2.4 desktop released today for joining the modern open-source desktop party alongside the likes of the recently debuted GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, and others...
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for April 19th, 2026, brings news about KDE Gear 26.04, Archinstall 4.2, GNOME 50.1, Scribus 1.6.6, Zorin OS 18.1, GIMP 3.2.4, Solus 4.9, OpenSSL 4.0, Raspberry Pi OS 2026-04-13, Mir 2.26, COSMIC 1.0.10, new XOrg Server and Xwayland security releases, Proton 11 beta, Shelly 2.1, and more.
GIMP 3.2.4 open-source image editor is now available for download with improvements to Text and Crop tools, PDF export, PSD import, and more. Here's what's new!
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Solus 4.9, Zorin OS 18.1, COSMIC Desktop 1.0.10, Wine 11.7, Linux 7.1 merges new NTFS driver, Fedora 44 faces second release delay, and more.
Bcachefs 1.38 fixes mount stalls, improves discard handling, and speeds up snapshot-heavy systems with journal and allocator changes.
Gitea 1.26 fixes three security flaws and adds major Actions, admin, and performance improvements across the self-hosted Git platform.
The HID subsystem updates landed this week for the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel that includes new hardware support and other changes...
Following last month's GIMP 3.2 feature release that was followed by the GIMP 3.2.2 point release at the end of March, out now is GIMP 3.2.4 to ship more fixes to users of this open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop and other imaging applications...
This self-hostable enterprise AI client lets you bring your own models and keep your data off third-party servers.
Sruthi Chandran has been elected the new Debian Project Leader "DPL" after running unopposed in this year's elections...
There are fewer and fewer reasons for me to use Windows.
A fix today for GNOME Shell's screen casting/recording service was merged after it was reported that H.264 recordings using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) are around 18x larger than they should be like when using the VP8 software fallback...
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