Linux NewsVocalinux Is an Open-Source Voice Dictation App Built for Linux
The open-source Vocalinux app lets Linux users dictate text into almost any application while processing their speech locally.
"Half a Second" — a book on the XZ backdoor
Adrian Mastronardi has released a book called Half a Second; it is a detailed look into the XZ backdoor attempt of 2024. The book is freely available under a (non-free) noncommercial, no-derivatives CC license. Half a Second tells that story as one continuous narrative: the burned-out volunteer who maintained the code alone and was patiently, expertly manipulated into giving it up; the engineer whose half-second of curiosity caught the attack through a chain of luck and hard-won instinct; and the operator who built it, who has never been identified and, this book argues, may never be.
Kitty 0.48 Terminal Emulator Introduces Vertical Tabs
Kitty 0.48 introduces vertical tabs on the left or right side, plus Wayland fixes, macOS enhancements, and performance improvements.
Three stable kernel updates
The 7.1.4, 6.18.39, and 6.12.96 stable kernel updates have been released; each contains a fairly large set of important fixes.
NVK Vulkan Performance Improving With Mesa 26.2 Against NVIDIA Proprietary Driver
The performance of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver continues to improve each feature release in its quest toward better competing with NVIDIA's official Linux graphics driver with its proprietary Vulkan driver...
I tried every major file manager on Linux and only this one felt right
With Linux, you don't have to settle.
Microsoft Gives Visual Studio Code a Modern UI Preview
Microsoft releases Visual Studio Code 1.129 with an experimental modern UI that refreshes the editor’s overall look and feel.
FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending July 17, 2026
Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended. The post FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending July 17, 2026 appeared first on FOSS Force.
Become More Productive With These GNOME Extensions
Here's my recommended list of GNOME extensions that might help you focus more on work and be (more) productive.
AMD Linux Graphics Driver Preps Fix For Apple Studio Display
This week's batch of AMDGPU Display Core "DC" updates arrived heavy with 70 new patches for improving that open-source display support for Radeon graphics on the Linux desktop...
GNOME OS Safe Mode Improving The System Reliability
At GNOME's annual GUADEC conference happening this week in Spain, an update was shared on the current state of GNOME OS...
KDE Plasma 6.8 System Monitor Making It Easier Assigning Processes To CPU Cores
Nate Graham and John Veness are out with the latest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting developments taking place in the KDE Plasma desktop space...
UXL's oneDNN 3.13 Preps For Intel Nova Lake With AVX10.2, More Intel Optimizations
Following the release of AMD's ZenDNN 6.0 earlier this month, there is a new feature release of the oneDNN neural network library that used to be developed by Intel as part of oneAPI and is now under the UXL Foundation umbrella. Even so, oneDNN feature releases continue to be heavy on new Intel optimizations and future hardware support...
D7VK 2.0 Released With Some Nice Performance Improvements: Up To 2x Or More
In addition to Friday night's release of DXVK 3.0.2, debuting separately a short time later was D7VK 2.0 as the latest major feature release for this implementation of Direct3D 7 and earlier built off the Vulkan API...
Valve and Collabora Announce Official Arch Linux ARM64 Port for Steam Frame
Valve and Collabora announce Holo Core as the official Arch Linux ARM64 port for the Steam Frame gaming VR headset with an early preview for developers.