Linux NewsopenSUSE Tumbleweed Lands GNOME 50, systemd-boot on New UEFI Installs
openSUSE Tumbleweed get the GNOME 50 desktop environment, systemd-boot as the default bootloader for new UEFI installs, and better Full Disk Encryption.
Nominate Your Fedora Heroes: Mentor and Contributor Recognition 2026
It’s time to show our appreciation of the amazing contributors who help shape the Feodra community. The Fedora Project thrives through the devotion, guidance, and tireless drive of the contributors who consistently perform. From developing testcases to onboarding contributors, from technical writing to coordinating events, it is these vital champions who ensure that the community […]
OpenSSL 4.0 Released With Encrypted Client Hello, RFC 8998 Support
OpenSSL 4.0 was just released as a big update for this widely-used SSL/TLS and crypto library...
Linux 7.1 Revamps T10 PI Data Integrity Handling For Better Read Performance
Merged yesterday for the Linux 7.1 kernel is overhauling the T10 PI code for generating and verifying data integrity information. In turn the new code is cleaner while also allowing for better read storage performance...
Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play
As a big helper for Valve's Steam Play with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged its initial support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap Vulkan extension...
KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years
A request made a KDE user all the way back in June 2005 on KDE 3.3.2 is finally resolved. After being sought after for 21 years, the latest KWin code now has support for per-screen virtual desktops...
AMD Ready With CPPC Performance Priority & Dynamic/Raw EPP In Linux 7.1
All of the power management subsystem feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel...
BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Gets ARM64 Port Booting
Over the course of March there was much progress made on the ARM64 port of Haiku OS, the open-source operating system serving as the spiritual successor to BeOS...
Linux 7.1 Lands ARM64 NEON-Accelerated CRC64-NVMe For ~6x Improvement
Merged yesterday were all the CRC code updates for the Linux 7.1 kernel. Most notable with that pull is an ARM64-optimized CRC64-NVMe implementation that can deliver multiple times faster performance...
Scribus 1.6.6 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released with Bug Fixes
Scribus 1.6.6 free and open-source desktop publishing software is now available for download with various bug fixes and improvements.
openSUSE Tumbleweed Switches Fresh Installs to systemd-boot
openSUSE Tumbleweed has replaced GRUB2-BLS with systemd-boot as the default bootloader for fresh installations.
jemalloc 5.3.1 Released With Many Improvements After Nearly Four Year Hiatus
Jemalloc 5.3.1 was released today with next month marking four years since the prior release, jemalloc 5.3.0. While the version bump may not seem like much, jemalloc 5.3.1 comes with many performance improvements, new features, and other enhancements...
An Open Source Dev Has Put Together a Fix for AMD GPU's VRAM Mismanagement on Linux
Six kernel patches and two utilities later, the VRAM situation for AMD GPUs is better now.
7 Linux features I miss every time I boot into Windows 11
I use Windows because I have to, and Linux because I want to.
AI Code Gets Approved in the Linux Kernel… But With Strings Attached
The kernel's stance on AI-assisted patches is now official.