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AerynOS 2026.02 was released for closing out February as the newest alpha release for this Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS. In AerynOS 2026.02 are many package updates plus continued work on the tooling and other innovations around this Linux distribution...
More breathing room for distros and enterprise Linux users as LTS kernels get extended EOL dates.
More breathing room for distros and enterprise Linux users as LTS kernels get extended EOL dates.
Pangolin 1.16 tunneled reverse proxy adds SSH auth daemon, server-side pagination, and improved private resource visibility.
PorteuX 2.6 Linux distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.19, GNOME 49.4, KDE Plasma 6.5.5, Cinnamon 6.6, and more. Here’s what else is new!
Scripting and the command-line are closer than you think.
Incus 6.22 introduces vsock support for the Windows VM agent, direct backup streaming, disk-only snapshot restore, and expanded cluster and storage improvements.
A set of patches recently posted to the Linux kernel mailing list have now been queued up to a tip/tip.git branch for planned introduction in Linux 7.1. These patches are for enhancing the Linux perf subsystem support for AMD Instruction-Based Sampling (IBS) improvements with next-gen Zen 6 processors...
The first DRM-Misc-Next pull request was submitted this week to DRM-Next as new kernel graphics/display driver features to begin queuing for the Linux 7.1 kernel that will release mid-year. Among the early code for DRM-Next are two new drivers...
The Servo project has issued their January 2026 development report that highlights all the interesting changes they made to this open-source browser layout engine last month. With Servo 0.0.5 they have landed many improvements to this engine and also continuing to enhance its ability to embed Servo inside other applications...
Plasma 6.7 brings rounded highlight styling to Breeze apps and refines network settings with expanded OpenVPN options and merged Wi-Fi tabs.
Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read article on FOSS Force for the week that just ended. The post FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending February 27, 2026 appeared first on FOSS Force.
For those on the current FreeBSD 14 series with no immediate plans to move to FreeBSD 15 that debuted at the end of 2025, FreeBSD developers have been preparing for the release of FreeBSD 14.4. Released overnight was the first release candidate of FreeBSD 14.4...
KDE Plasma 6.7 development continues heating up following the Plasma 6.6 desktop release earlier this month...
BunsenLabs Carbon Linux distribution is now available for download with support for Wayland session, based on Debian GNU/Linux 13 "Trixie". Here's what's new!
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