Linux NewsWe Have Another New Linux Phone Before 2025 Ends...And It's Not For You (or For Me)
FuriLabs launches enterprise-only VX1 with MDM capabilities for companies.
Want real privacy? ditch big-tech OSes and go Linux
Are you tired of big tech watching your every move? There's a solution...
[$] What's new in systemd v259
The systemd v259 release was announced on December 17, just three months after v258. It is a more modest release but still includes a number of important changes such as a new option for the run0 command (an alternative to sudo), ability to mount user home directories from the host in virtual machines, as well as under-the-hood changes with dlopen() for library linking, the ability to compile systemd with musl libc, and more.
QEMU 10.2 Released With IO_uring Support For Helping Allow For Greater Performance
As a wonderful gift to open-source Linux virtualization users this Christmas Eve is the release of the QEMU 10.2 emulator...
Security updates for Wednesday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (container-tools:rhel8, grafana, opentelemetry-collector, and thunderbird), Red Hat (kernel), and SUSE (cheat, libsoup, mariadb, mozjs52, python310, python315, qemu, rsync, and zk).
OpenMediaVault 8 NAS Launches With Debian 13 Upgrade
OpenMediaVault 8.0 is now available, upgrading the NAS platform to Debian 13 and officially dropping support for legacy CPU architectures.
A beginner's guide on expanding Bash arrays and word splitting
Discover these 4 key principles that demystify one of Bash's most misunderstood concepts.
Pinta 3.1 Image Editor Brings New Grid, Selection Tools, and More
Pinta 3.1, an open-source image-drawing/editing app, is out with improvements to canvas performance, reduced memory usage, and smoother zooming for large images.
Linux Tools Pipe Behavior: Is It a Bug or Feature?
Context-aware commands show how default behavior can be enhanced.
My Holiday Hopes for Linux and Open Source
As the old year is replaced by the new, here’s Jack Wallen’s wish list for Linux and open source in 2026 -- from the desktop to the developers who keep it alive. The post My Holiday Hopes for Linux and Open Source appeared first on FOSS Force.
Snadragon X Elite Laptop Performance On Linux Ends 2025 Disappointing
As part of my various end-of-year benchmarking comparison articles for looking at the performance evolution of Linux is a fresh look at the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop experience when using Ubuntu 25.10 with the latest X1E Concept packages, which includes taking the X1 Elite optimized kernel to the latest Linux 6.18 stable series. Unfortunately, there are significant performance regressions observed compared to a few months ago that just make AMD Ryzen AI and Intel Core Ultra laptops a better choice for Linux laptop users.
Parrot OS 7.0 Released With KDE Plasma 6, Wayland, and Debian 13 Base
Parrot OS 7.0 is now available, introducing KDE Plasma 6, Wayland by default, a Debian 13 base, and a fully rewritten system architecture.
Wayback 0.3 Released For Advancing This X11 Compatibility Layer
One of the interesting open-source projects to come about this year was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer using Wayland. Wayback could be used by default on Alpine Linux next year among other distributions. For ending out 2025 development, Wayback 0.3 is now available...
Parrot 7.0 Ethical Hacking Distro Released with KDE Plasma, RISC-V Support
Parrot 7.0 ethical hacking and penetration testing distribution is now available for download with KDE Plasma desktop and Debian 13 base. Here’s what's new!
A Recap Of The Top AMD Linux News Of 2025: Strix Halo, AI, Kernel Improvements
As part of our various "year end" articles, here is a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news and hardware reviews of 2025...