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Remember when Napster meant free music and trouble with the labels? Now it means glossy AI therapists, fake experts, and generative “content” on tap. If… The post The Wild‑West Napster Is Gone. What’s Left Is an AI Mall appeared first on FOSS Force.
VLC 3.0.23, GIMP 3.0.8 and VirtualBox 7.2.6 were among January’s Linux app releases, slipping alongside an open-source video editor, versatile command-line file manager and image flashing tool. I covered a number of software updates already, but below are software updates from January 2026 that didn’t get the full-blown article treatment. VLC 3.0.23 After a bit of “is it actually out” limbo, VLC 3.0.23 rolled out across all supported OSes in mid-January. Key highlight is dark mode support on Linux and Windows, with the UI adopting light or dark theme automatically when system dark mode preference is changed. Beyond that, the […]
The 6.19-rc8 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "So things all look good, and unless something odd happens we'll have a final 6.19 next weekend."
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Linux Lite 7.8, DietPi 10, VirtualBox 7.2.6, COSMIC Desktop 1.0.4, Plasma 6.6 Beta 2, Transmission 4.1, Xfce begins work on a Wayland compositor, what happens if Linus Torvalds steps away, and more.
Samsung Smart TV owners can now use Jellyfin natively, as the open-source media server is now available on the Tizen platform.
There's a reason why Linux keeps getting more popular!
While typically the stable Linux kernel would come after the -rc7 release a week prior, for Linux 6.19 the release is being dragged out by an extra week not due to any scary bugs but rather due to the holiday downtime at the end of the year. As such Linux 6.19-rc8 is out today with the stable v6.19 release expected next Sunday...
Resources 1.10 adds AMD NPU reporting to help Linux users track Ryzen AI performance alongside CPU and GPU usage.
You shouldn't try this at home, but I did. I set up a "honeypot" to see exactly who was knocking on my digital door.
Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman has received the top prize at the 2026 European Open Source Awards in Brussels.
I learned the hard way that your main computer shouldn't be a lab—here is why boring is better for your daily driver.
Freedom isn't free.
Linux distros that remember laptops exist and they have batteries, small screens, and trackpads.
Samuel Thibault offered up a status update on the current state of GNU/Hurd from a presentation in Brussels at FOSDEM 2026. Thibault has previously shared updates on GNU Hurd from the annual FOSDEM event while this year's was a bit more optimistic thanks to recent driver progress and more software now successfully building for Hurd...
The upcoming KDE Plasma 6.7 release will add a global keyboard shortcut to quickly clear users' notification history.
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