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The Linux Mint developers have been hard at work continuing to develop new features following their recent Mint 22.3 release. There is continued enhancements around keyboard support, a new administration tool for users, and there are also considerations being made around moving to a longer development cycle between Linux Mint releases...
The x86/cpu changes have been merged for Linux 7.0 and include finally setting the default Intel TSX mode to "auto" rather than being off by default...
Go 1.26 now lets you use expression-based initialization with new(expr) and includes updates to the runtime and developer tools.
For those using the open-source OpenVPN for your virtual private networking (VPN) needs, OpenVPN 2.7 is out today with some notable improvements...
Intel today released a new version of their Compute Runtime stack and IGC graphics compiler for Level Zero and OpenCL usage with their integrated and discrete graphics. Separately they also upstreamed more SYCL code this week into mainline LLVM...
The core timer changes to the Linux 7.0 kernel score a rather nice performance improvement in a UDP receive network stress test from inlining a function that compilers haven't been able to tackle with their optimizations...
There were recently patches for getting the Adobe Photoshop 2025 installer to work on Linux under Wine. Those patches were picked up by Wine-Staging and now more traction is coming for getting those patches into the upstream Wine codebase, some of which have now been merged...
The locking code changes have been merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel and it introduces support for a new compiler-driven feature being introduced on the compiler side with the upcoming LLVM Clang 22...
LFS will no longer support SysVinit.
AppManager brings macOS-style drag-and-drop AppImage management to Linux.
Codeweavers has announced the release of CrossOver 26, the latest version of their paid-for software that lets you run Windows games and apps on Linux and macOS. CrossOver 26 ships with Wine 11.0, which debuted last month with over 6,000 changes, fixes and major new features like NTSync support to provide faster performance. D3DMetal 3.0 (macOS), DXMT v0.72, Wine Mono 10.4.1 and vkd3d 1.18 also feature. This update to CrossOver is largely focused on macOS, shipping with compatibility for a slew of new games, including HELLDIVERS 2, God of War Ragnarök, Final Fantasy V1II Rebirth, CloverPit and Cronos: The New […]
Back in 2022 Google deprecated and then removed JPEG-XL image support from the Chrome/Chromium browser codebase and now in 2026 it's back. Last month I wrote about JPEG-XL decoding merged back to Chromium/Chrome and that has rolled out today as part of today's Chrome 145 stable debut...
System76 has released COSMIC Desktop 1.0.6, which brings file manager fixes, better clipboard support, new terminal hotkeys, and more.
Mac owners, you can finally play Borderlands 4 and Expedition 33.
MOS is a new open-source server operating system designed for homelabs and self-hosting, combining storage, containers, and virtual machines.
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