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Building off this past weekend's Debian 13.3 release is now Debian Libre Live 13.3 images for this derivative that ships the install/live media without any of the non-free firmware assets to remain a free software blessed image...
Canonical expands Ubuntu Pro to minimal cloud images available on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
FFmpeg developer Lynne has landed a number of Vulkan-related imporvements to this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Over the past year FFmpeg saw Vulkan shader-based decoding for more video formats, AV1 and VP9 extension work, performance improvements, and other work around Vulkan Video. It will be very exciting to see how FFmpeg delivers in 2026 with Vulkan Video and how the software ecosystem as a whole begins taking up this cross-platform, open industry standard for video encode/decode...
Kent Overstreet has shipped the latest version of bcachefs-tools, the user-space code complementing the Bcachefs file-system kernel driver. There are a number of improvements present in this latest version with Overstreet remaining committed to advancing Bcachefs even with its current out-of-tree kernel status...
LLVM/Clang 22 feature development ended overnight with the code now being branched and working toward a stable release likely by the end of February...
Announced today on the Wayland mailing list is wl-proxy as a Rust crate for proxying Wayland connections and intercepting/manipulating Wayland messages...
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project just published a new status report to detail how they ended out the year...
MX Linux 25.1 is now available for public beta testing based on the Debian 13.3 release and powered by Linux kernel 6.12.63 LTS.
Zorin OS 18 has surpassed 2 million downloads in under three months, with more than three-quarters coming from former Windows users.
After 8 years, Microsoft's tool for designing Windows apps is now open source.
New release gives Linux laptop users more control over CPU performance while fixing battery detection issues.
GCC 16 as this year's major feature release of the GNU Compiler Collection should be out in the typical March~April timeframe if all goes well. Today the GCC 16 compiler transitioned to its final stage "stage 4" of development with a focus exclusively on documentation and regression fixing...
In open-source circles there are many situations, such as bug reports, demos, and tutorials, when one might want to provide a play-by-play of a session in one's terminal. The asciinema project provides a set of tools to do just that. Its tools let users record, edit, and share terminal sessions in a text-based format that has quite a few advantages compared to making and sharing videos of terminal sessions. For example, it is easy to use, offers the ability to search text from recorded sessions, and allows users to copy and paste directly from the recording.
Another great update for the Ubuntu Linux spinoff.
The Rust-based ALPM project is looking suspiciously like Pacman's replacement.
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