Linux NewsUbuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” Will Reach End of Life on July 9th, 2026
Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" will reach end of life on July 9th, 2026, and users should consider upgrading to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS "Resolute Raccoon".
First Look at Audacity 4: A Beautiful and Modern Revamp of the Audio Editor
A first look at the new features and improvements in the upcoming Audacity 4 open-source audio editor.
Wine-Staging 11.11 Released With 289 Patches Atop Upstream
Following Friday's exciting release of Wine 11.11 with Wayland driver improvements, Wine-Staging 11.11 is now available for this experimental/testing derivative that continues carrying nearly 300 patches atop the upstream codebase...
KDE Plasma 6.7 Nears Release with Final Bug-Fixing Push
KDE is preparing Plasma 6.7 for release next Tuesday, with fixes for crashes, broken animations, widget glitches, and several desktop regressions.
Shelly 2.3.3 Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves Flatpak/AppImage Support
Shelly 2.3.3 open-source graphical package manager for Arch Linux-based distributions is now available for download with better handling of Flatpak and AppImage bundles, and other changes.
Arch Says ‘All’s Clear’ After AUR Malware Incident Affects 1,500 Packages
Arch says it's scrubbed all known malicious commits, but the 1,500‑plus affected AUR packages are a fresh reminder to "trust but verify." The post Arch Says ‘All’s Clear’ After AUR Malware Incident Affects 1,500 Packages appeared first on FOSS Force.
4 awesome things you can do in Proxmox that you can't in regular server operating systems
Every serious homelabber needs to try these features at least once.
Intel Ending Development Of BigDL: An Open-Source AI/LLM Effort Getting Axed
Among Intel's ongoing reduction in open-source projects they maintain, their BigDL open-source project focused on running large language models across Intel XPUs from Core Ultra laptops to discrete GPUs to cloud / data center hardware all in a low-latency manner, is being ended...
FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending June 12, 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 June 12, 2026 appeared first on FOSS Force.
There is a New X11 Server, Written in Rust, With the Help of AI
Yserver is a vibe-coded project that ditches legacy code to work cleanly on modern Linux systems.
Fedora 45 Considering A Lightened GRUB Bootloader For Confidential Compute
Among the changes being considered for the in-development Fedora 45 is a lightened version of the GRUB UEFI bootloader that would focus on being a minimal implementation suitable for confidential computing...
Intel Thermald 2.5.12 Released... With Initial Support For ARM
Released on Friday was the newest version of Intel Thermald, the thermal daemon developed by Intel for their processors on Linux for monitoring and helping control temperatures across modern Intel-powered laptops and desktops. Catching me immediately by surprise was Intel Thermald 2.5.12 introducing support for ARM...
GCC 17 Merges Function Multi-Versioning For APX & AVX10.2
Earlier this month I wrote about Intel working on function multi-versioning support for APX and AVX10.2 with the GCC compiler. This allows developers to write optimized code paths specifically targeting Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) or Advanced Vector Extensions 10.2 capabilities of future processors while being able to otherwise fall-back to generic or other optimized code paths for other ISA target features. This work is now merged for GCC 17...
Haiku OS Now Enables AVX-512 Support, Other Hardware Improvements
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system now enables Advanced Vector Extensions 512 on capable Intel/AMD CPUs. A number of other hardware driver improvements were also merged for this interesting OS during the last month...
KDE Plasma 6.7 Sees Last Minute Fixes Ahead Of Next Week's Release
Ahead of the much anticipated Plasma 6.7 desktop release next week, KDE developers have been busy putting final touches on it, mostly in the form of bug/regression fixes...