Linux NewsQualcomm Posts Patches For New DSP Accelerator Linux Driver
The newest driver proposed for the Linux kernel's accelerator "accel" subsystem is named QDA and is a Qualcomm DSP Accelerator driver...
US State Colorado Wants Operating Systems to Tell Every App How Old You Are
A bill with a goal and vague language on how to achieve it.
Firefox 148 Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Mozilla Firefox 148 introduces a new AI Controls panel in Settings, letting users manage AI features directly.
Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026 With Improved NPU Handling, Expanded LLM Support
Intel's open-source OpenVINO AI toolkit is out with its first major release of 2026. With today's OpenVINO 2026.0 release there is expanded large language model (LLM) support, improved Intel NPU support for Core Ultra systems, and a variety of other enhancements for benefiting Intel's CPU / NPU / GPU range of products for AI...
Ladybird Starts Rewriting Its Browser Engine in Rust with Help from AI
The Ladybird browser project introduces Rust alongside C++, porting its JavaScript engine with identical output and zero regressions.
Why you should try these 9 "strange" Linux distros (even if you never switch)
Venture into the edges of Linux, where strange questions are asked and operating systems are redesigned from the ground up.
0 A.D. Open-Source RTS Game Drops Alpha Label After 16 Years
After 16 years of alpha releases, the open-source real-time strategy game 0 A.D. ships release 28, Boiorix, as its first non-alpha version.
Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches
Firefox 148 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement on Tuesday. Most notable is the new AI controls found with Firefox 148 for those wishing to disable Firefox's growing AI capabilities...
Linux 7.0 Features Include More Preparations For AMD Zen 6 & Intel Nova Lake
While the version bump to 7.0 is driven solely by Linus Torvalds' versioning preferences, with Linux 7.0 there are many great changes to be found in this upcoming stable kernel version to power the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Here is a recap of all the interesting changes with Linux 7.0.
FreeBSD's Rust Kernel Support Could Be Stable Enough To Try This Year
The FreeBSD Project has published their Q4'2025 status report to outline progress made on their software, infrastructure, and other initiatives over the past quarter. Meanwhile among the work to look forward to this year in FreeBSD is getting their Rust kernel driver support up to scratch...
Modern AMD Graphics Driver Surpasses Six Million Lines Of Code In Linux 7.0
It was less than four years ago that the modern AMDGPU/AMDKFD open-source driver stack was at four million lines of C code and header files. Now with the Linux 7.0 kernel it has surpassed six million lines. Or put another way, by the same calculations Linux 7.0-rc1 is at 39.2 million with the modern AMD kernel graphics driver now making up 15% of the kernel's entire codebase as the single largest driver...
Intel ANV Driver Sees Several Vulkan Video H.265 Encode Fixes
For those interested in Vulkan Video on the Intel "ANV" open-source Linux driver, merged last week to Mesa 26.1-devel were some H.265 encode fixes...
Ardour 9.1 DAW Released With Editor Fixes and MIDI Improvements
Ardour 9.1 addresses critical issues from version 9.0, restores correct bottom pane behavior in the Editor, and adds MIDI note chasing and duplication.
Join Us for Fedora Hatch at SCaLE 23x!
Fedora is heading back to sunny Southern California! As we gear up for SCaLE 23x, we are thrilled to announce a special edition of Fedora Hatch. This is taking place on Friday, March 6 as an embedded track at SCALE. Whether you’re a long-time contributor, a curious user, or someone looking to make your very […]
RBOS 2026-02-22 As Latest Linux Live ISO To Showcase Wayland
While these days nearly every major desktop Linux distribution is using Wayland or at least making it available, a decade ago before reaching that maturity one of the options for showing off the potential of Wayland was the oddly-named RebeccaBlack OS. With "RBOS" it shipped the very latest Wayland components and different desktop and toolkit options to easily try out Wayland-based environments from a live Linux environment. Released overnight was a surprise update to RBOS...