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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...
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...
Chrome closes another path for classic uBlock Origin as Chromium removes a leftover Manifest V2 flag from the browser codebase.
OpenZFS 2.4.3 is now available with storage fixes, improved Linux mount option handling, and compatibility with Linux kernels up to 7.0.
Yserver is a new X11 server written in Rust, with working support for MATE, Xfce, Cinnamon, and classic window managers.
A first look at Antergos NeXT, a modern revival of the Antergos Linux distribution based on Arch Linux and featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment.
The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware. Now in ending out the day they believe all affected commits have been addressed. But it ended up being more than 1,500 affected packages...
Framework’s next‑gen Linux‑friendly, repair‑it‑yourself laptop hits a speed bump, with shipping pushed from June to July over last‑minute touchpad and display fixes. The post Modular Framework 13 Pro Laptop Will Now Ship in July appeared first on FOSS Force.
OpenZFS 2.4.3 is out today as the newest stable point release to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation as well as point releases for the OpenZFS 2.3 and 2.2 series too...
Wine 11.11 replaces TomCrypt with bundled SymCrypt, adds layered windows in the Wayland driver, and fixes 25 bugs.
DavMail 6.8 improves Microsoft 365 access with active Graph support, better calendar handling, and several Linux packaging fixes.
In a shortened session in the filesystem track at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management, and BPF Summit, Amir Goldstein gave an update on the overlayfs union filesystem. There are some new features over the last few years that he wanted to mention, along with looking at the status of nesting overlayfs layers. The composefs use case that was discussed at the summit in 2023 has led to some interesting changes to overlayfs.
Comprehensive measures adopted by the European Commission aim to reduce dependency on non-EU countries.
Packet is an easier way to perform what may be KDE Connect's most important feature
Alexandre Julliard just released Wine 11.11 as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and allows for running Windows games and applications under Linux as well as other platforms...
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