Linux NewsOmarchy Funding Climbs to $13M, With Over $4M a Year Set for Spending
With $13 million already committed, Omacom says it will spend aggressively over the next three years to support Linux Desktop development and its wider ecosystem.
NetBSD 9.5 Released To Cap Off The Series
NetBSD 9.5 released today as the final release of the NetBSD 9 stable branch...
This 25-year old patent just expired—and Linux video playback is one step closer to being perfect
Nothing quite says "modern computing" like waiting on paperwork from 2001.
Linux 7.3-rc2 Scheduler Fix For Cache Aware Load Scheduling Misfits On Hybrid CPUs
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc2 kernel being released later today, a set of scheduler fixes have been sent out for this week's kernel test release. Most notable with the scheduler fixes are dealing with possible misfits for Cache-Aware Load Scheduling on hybrid CPUs like Intel Core (Ultra) processors...
Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs - With Caveats
Asahi Linux developers announced today that they are now officially supporting the Linux distribution on Apple M3 powered Macs. With the exception of the Mac Studio M3 Ultra, other M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max devices should now work with the latest Asahi Linux builds but with some feature caveats...
LLVM Developers Discuss Enabling ClangIR Build By Default
ClangIR has been in development for a number of years now as a new intermediate representation for the Clang compiler. ClangIR makes use of MLIR and is higher-level than LLVM IR. With ClangIR able to preserve more C/C++ source semantics, its usage can lead to better diagnostics, code/static analysis, and more performance optimizations compared to everything lowered straight away from AST to LLVM IR. While not enabling its usage by default, LLVM stakeholders are discussing at least now building it by default...
Linux 7.3-rc2 Transitions More kmalloc Calls To The Superior kmalloc_obj
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc2 kernel release due out later today, a merge causing a lot of code churn was pulled in by Linus Torvalds. This tree-wide effort converts more of the kmalloc() function calls over to the newer and superior kmalloc_obj() family of functions...
Slackware 16 Alpha 1 Available Following GCC 16.2, Glibc 2.44 & Binutils 2.47 Upgrade
The timing on Saturday's Slackware-based Zenwalk ISO "current milestone" update is now more clear with upstream Slackware having prepared what is its first alpha release of the upcoming Slackware 16...
Slackware-Based Zenwalk Current Milestone 2026 Released with Linux 7.1
Zenwalk’s latest rolling snapshot brings Xfce 4.20, a BORE-patched Linux kernel 7.1, Flatpak integration, and a refreshed desktop experience.
Fish Shell 4.9 Released with Faster Tab Completion
Fish Shell 4.9 is out with a workaround for a Konsole keyboard issue, faster completions around slow symlinks, and several scripting fixes.
GNOME Sushi gets a GTK4 overhaul, new features
Sushi, the spacebar file previewer for the Nautilus file manager, has been ported to GTK4/libadwaita as part of the upcoming GNOME 51 release. For anyone unfamiliar with it, Sushi is like Quick Look on macOS: you select a file (images, music, video, documents, etc) in Nautilus, press the spacebar and an instant preview of its content is shown. Press the spacebar again to dismiss. Sushi v51 looks nicer – well, what little UI there is – on newer GNOME releases. There’s a flatter looking headerbar and new overlay controls for certain file types, which let content bleed through from underneath. […]
FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending September 4, 2026
Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended. The post FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending September 4, 2026 appeared first on FOSS Force.
You don’t need to code or spend money to improve KDE—here are 7 ways to help
You don’t have to donate money to make a difference; you can donate your work instead. And you don’t even have to know how to code!
GNOME Moves to Formalize Major Project Decisions with New RFC Process
GNOME has entered the final comment period for a proposed RFC process designed to document and coordinate major project-wide decisions.
Slackware-Based Zenwalk ISOs Updated With Linux 7.1, Flatpak Integrated + Xfce 4.20
It's been over four years since the original release of Zenwalk 15.0 while released today is a new Zenwalk Current Milestone snapshot. This Slackware-based Linux distribution with a long history has an exciting update out for testing this weekend...