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The development cycle of the upcoming GNOME 51 “A Coruña” desktop environment kicks off with a draft release schedule suggesting the final release is expected later this year on September 16th, 2026.
Back in 2023 AMD posted hardware-accelerated virtualized IOMMU patches for the Linux kernel as a request for comments (RFC). In 2024 they then posted a second iteration of the AMD vIOMMU patches but then seemingly fell off the radar. This morning is now the first set of updated AMD vIOMMU patches sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list with the RFC tag now removed...
SolveSpace 3.2 was released this past week as the newest feature update to this open-source parametric 3D CAD tool for creating 2D/3D parts and other CAD diagrams...
The 7.0-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Anyway, exactly because it's just "more than usual" rather than feeling *worse* than usual, I don't currently feel this merits extending the release, and I still hope that next weekend will be the last rc. But it's just a bit unnerving how this release doesn't want to calm down, so no promises.
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for March 29th, 2026, brings news about Firefox 149, Krita 6.0, NVIDIA 595, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta, Agama 19, Thunderbird 149, Kali Linux 2026.1, FreeCAD 1.1, LibreOffice 26.2.2, Tails 7.6, Calibre 9.6, Mixxx 2.5.6, SystemRescue 13, GIMP 3.2.2, KaOS 2026.03, and more.
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Kali 2026.1, GIMP 3.2.2, Firefox 149, NVIDIA 595.58, Fish Shell 4.6, Krita 6.0, Canonical plans controversial GRUB changes, and more.
Linux 7.0-rc6 was just released in quickly working toward the stable Linux 7.0 release in mid-April. This was another busy week with lots of bug fixes...
Ubuntu MATE is looking for new a maintainer, as project lead Martin Wimpress says he no longer has the ‘passion’ for the project he once had (nor the time). Wimpress created Ubuntu MATE back in 2014, pairing Ubuntu with the traditional MATE desktop created as fork of the old GNOME 2 codebase (now very much its own thing). Ubuntu MATE was made an official Ubuntu flavour in 2015, and its first official long-term support (LTS) release arrived the following year – but there won’t be an Ubuntu MATE 26.04 LTS release as it did not apply for LTS qualification. A […]
Our Independence Drive is at 17% of its total goal. A final $34 this month will fully fund our mini-goal for March's coverage of Linux and open source. The post On Our Way to Independence: We’re $34 Away from Our March Goal appeared first on FOSS Force.
The new xdg-session-management protocol finally brings session saving and restoration to Wayland, eliminating a long-standing annoyance for Linux users and paving the way for a smoother desktop experience.
How do you turn an already great distro into something better? With extensions, of course.
We just don't see eye to eye anymore.
Incus 6.23 arrives as the final 6.x release before 7.0 LTS, bringing security fixes, new features, and improved VM and storage capabilities.
The cloud czars gorged on free software, starved the projects that sustain it, and are shocked the open source commons is starting to break. The post Cloud Czars Treat Open Source Like They Do California appeared first on FOSS Force.
It may seem like a throwaway task, but removing a file can be done in many different ways.
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