Linux NewsGotaTun Open-Source Rust WireGuard Implementation Announced By Mullvad
The Swedish VPN service Mullvad announced this week GotaTun, an open-source Rust-based WireGuard implementation that is forked from Cloudflare's BoringTun...
Linux Mint 22.3 Beta Released, This is What’s New
A new look app menu, expanded search abilities in the file manager and a modern on-screen keyboard are among new features in Linux Mint 22.3, which just hit beta. Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” is the fourth and final update in the Linux Mint 22 branch, building on the many changes the Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara” delivered in early autumn. Linux Mint 22.3 is based on Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS, so inherits all of the foundational goodies from its upstream kin, including Linux 6.14 kernel (with access to the Ubuntu HWE updates – Linux kernel 6.17 and Mesa 25.2 are due in the coming weeks). […]
Immich 2.4 Released With Command Palette and UI Refinements
Immich 2.4, a self-hosted photo and video management platform, introduces a new command palette, refined UI animations, shared album improvements, and more.
Using Linux made me a better Windows user, here's how
Linux knowledge is more useful in Windows than you might expect.
Intel Readies Multi-Queue Support For Linux 7.0 As New Feature For Crescent Island
In addition to this week's drm-intel-next pull request to DRM-Next adding Nova Lake display support, a drm-xe-next pull request was also sent out on Friday that prepares a new multi-queue feature for Xe3P_XPC -- initially just the "Crescent Island" AI inference accelerator card. Plus other new features too for this Xe kernel driver in the upcoming Linux 7.0~6.20 kernel version...
Arch Linux's Main NVIDIA Driver Packages Now Using The Open Kernel Modules
With the Arch Linux packages for the NVIDIA official graphics driver moving to the now-stable NVIDIA 590 driver series that drops the GeForce GTX 900 and GTX 1000 series GPU support, Arch Linux users with those old Maxwell and Pascal graphics cards will need to transition to using the NVIDIA legacy driver packages from the Arch Linux AUR. Meanwhile for those on Turing and newer with the NVIDIA 590 driver will enjoy the open-source kernel modules by default being used...
The 10 best Ubuntu default wallpapers of all time, ranked
Ubuntu has given has some amazing animal wallpapers in the last few years. Here are my favorites ranked, and why.
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GNU Debugger 17.1 Released With CET Shadow Stack Support, New DAP Features
The GNU Debugger "GDB" 17.1 is out today with a number of new features for enhancing the open-source debugging experience...
Linux Mint 22.3 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.6 Desktop
The beta release of Linux Mint 22.3 "Zena" is now available for testing ahead of the holidays for this latest incremental update to this desktop OS built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base...
FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending December 19, 2025
Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read article on FOSS Force for the week that just ended. The post FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending December 19, 2025 appeared first on FOSS Force.
Gemini AI Yielding Sloppy Code For Ubuntu Development With New Helper Script
A few weeks ago it was mentioned by a Canonical engineer how trying to use AI to modernize the Ubuntu Error Tracker yielded some code that was "plain wrong" and other issues raised by that Microsoft GitHub Copilot code. The same Ubuntu developer shifted to trying Gemini AI to generate a helper script to assist in Ubuntu's monthly ISO snapshot releases. Google's Gemini AI also generated some sloppy code for a Python script to assist in those Ubuntu releases...
Incus 6.20 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released
Incus 6.20 delivers new clustering, storage, and VM enhancements, including reliable snapshots on clustered LVM and improved administration tools.
Watch Out Elasticsearch! Tiger Data's PostgreSQL BM25 Search Extension Goes Open Source
Previously proprietary PostgreSQL extension is now freely available on GitHub.