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For those with Acer laptops running Linux on GitHub there has been an out-of-tree driver providing an experimental "acer-wmi-battery" kernel module to allow controlling battery-related features. Now a cleaned-up version of that driver is working on getting into the mainline Linux kernel...
Back in October was an initial proposal for a DRM splash screen client for the Linux kernel that would be primarily useful for embedded systems for rendering a simple "splash screen" when updating the system firmware/software, early display activation at boot, during system recovery, or similar processes. Sent out today was a second revision to the DRM splash screen code...
If you use Flathub on Ubuntu you likely already use (or at least know of) Bazaar, a GTK4/libadwaita frontend that makes it trivial to search, manage and update Flatpak apps from this popular repo. Bazaar gets updated frequently (I’ve covered some updates in my monthly Linux App Release Roundup series). In the past few weeks the app has been update with further improvements, features and design tweaks. Chief among them, a new app icon. I know everyone cares about icons as much as I do, but a well designed icon with a clear metaphor (and, ideally, some colour to keep […]
I think we might see Konqi on more screens.
Debian faces a data protection shortfall after its entire Data Protection Team resigned, leaving responsibilities temporarily in the hands of the project leader.
For the teaser: Spacewalk 2026 will kick off ATO’s year with a slate of AI‑focused talks in Raleigh -- and organizers say open source will still be woven through the entire evening. The post There’ll Be More AI Than Open Source at Spacewalk 2026 — But Not by Much appeared first on FOSS Force.
The Linux kernel's "new mount API" that has been in the kernel since 2019 and recently made rounds for taking 6+ years to land the man page documentation on it will soon be the the only mount API internally within the kernel. Removing the "old" Linux kernel mount API internals is a candidate for the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle...
GitHub Desktop is not officially available for Linux. But there are alternative ways to install GitHub Desktop fork on Ubuntu.
GitHub Desktop is not officially available for Linux. But there are alternative ways to install GitHub Desktop fork on Ubuntu.
Jellyfin confirms the new desktop app is now available on Flathub and Arch AUR for Linux users, with Windows and macOS builds still pending.
Here’s our first look at the Devuan GNU+Linux 6 "Excalibur" operating system series on the Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer.
Plasma 6 is also getting better gamepad and OpenBSD support, plus overall more stability.
EasySpeak brings local voice control to Linux.
The Gentoo Linux project published their 2025 retrospective this week with their many accomplishments, including the recruitment of four more developers and now being up to 31,663 ebuilds and a total of 89GB worth of x86_64 binary packages on mirrors...
Proposals for both GNOME and Firefox would disable the feature by default, but the final decision is still pending.
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