Latest Linux and open source news from around the web
As Europe flirts with “reliable proprietary technologies” and India rolls out open source healthcare AI, Amanda Brock is drawing a sharp line between genuine openness, marketing spin, and outright control. The post From Brussels to Bengaluru: Amanda Brock on AI Openness and Digital Sovereignty appeared first on FOSS Force.
Last year Red Hat acquired Neural Magic as part of their AI acquisitions and to bolster the open-source AI ecosystem. Today they announced another AI acquisition...
Rhino Linux 2025.4 introduces new Lomiri packages, improved PINE64 support, and multiple kernel updates across supported devices.
The ZLUDA open-source project that has been through several incarnations but ultimately about getting CUDA software up and running on non-NVIDIA GPUs now supports the AMD ROCm 7 series...
Servo 0.0.3 is out today as the newest update to this Rust-based, open-source web layout engine. Servo 0.0.3 incorporates many enhancements made over the past month from better performance to enhancing its embedding API and other improvements like context menus for more web content...
While FreeBSD 15 stable was officially released earlier this month, MidnightBSD continues plotting its own course atop its FreeBSD 13 base. Out today is MidnightBSD 4.0 as the latest iteration of this desktop-minded BSD operating system...
OpenShot 3.4 is now available as the latest feature update to this open-source video editor app. OpenShot 3.4 happens to be "one of our largest updates we've ever done" with a variety of improvements in tow...
Microsoft on Monday released Azure Linux 3.0.20251206 as the newest monthly update to its in-house Linux distribution used within the Azure cloud and elsewhere at the Windows company...
A second GIMP 3.2 release candidate (RC) is now available for testing, should you fancy sampling the various changes on course for the upcoming stable release. GIMP 3.2 iterates on the huge GIMP 3.0 release that landed earlier this year, which took more than 7 years to get in to shape. No lengthy gap for GIMP 3.2 or successors as the team switches to an accelerated development cycle. Below I run through what’s changed since GIMP 3.2 RC1. That build, along with the GIMP 3.1.2 & 3.1.4 dev releases, added lots of new features. There are no new features here, as the point […]
Snapscope makes it easy to scan any Snap package for security issues.
Emmabuntüs DE 6 launches with a Debian 13.2 base with accessibility improvements, new speech tools, and enhanced support for visually impaired users.
One of the lesser known Fedora spins under the "Fedora Labs" initiative is the Fedora Games Lab that showcases some open-source games and can serve as an easy demonstrator for Linux gaming. Looking forward to 2026 with Fedora 44, there is a proposal to revitalize Fedora Games Lab to become a better showcase for the modern potential of Linux gaming...
Over the span of the past 15 years, Ubuntu started several projects. Not all of them are active today. And yet, they live in our memory.
DietPi 9.20 is out with RustDesk Server support, USB improvements for Orange Pi boards, kernel updates, and multiple stability and bug fixes.
Version 8.16.0 of the calibre ebook-management software, released on December 4, includes a "Discuss with AI" feature that can be used to query various AI/LLM services or local models about books, and ask for recommendations on what to read next. The feature has sparked discussion among human users of calibre as well, and more than a few are upset about the intrusion of AI into the software. After much pushback, it looks as though users will get the ability to hide the feature from calibre's user interface, but LLM-driven features are here to stay and more will likely be added over time.
Linux News