Open-source News

Microsoft called Linux a cancer, now ships its own free distro that's nothing like Ubuntu or Fedora  Windows Latest

Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 4.4 Released with Niri DankMaterialShell Profile  9to5Linux

As expected, Linux 7.2-rc1 was released a brief time ago to cap off the Linux 7.2 merge window. Now it's off for eight weeks or so of testing before Linux 7.2 stable is released that will in turn go on to power the likes of Fedora 45 and Ubuntu 26.10...

Linux 7.2-rc1 Released: "Things Look Reasonably Normal" While Landing AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, AMD ISP4 & CAS  Phoronix

Setting up a Hytale Dedicated Server on Linux  Adafruit

Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 7.2 Release Candidate  9to5Linux

This Linux storage feature feels like cheating once you understand it  How-To Geek

With Q2'2026 working toward a close, here is a look back at the most popular Intel Linux and open-source news for the quarter...

Drauger OS Reworks Ubuntu LTS with KDE Plasma for Linux Gaming  Linuxiac

I finally understand why Arch Linux isn't for me—and probably isn't for you either  How-To Geek

CachyOS is out today with a new feature release for this Arch Linux powered distribution that delivers stellar out-of-the-box performance...

CachyOS June 2026 OS Released With More Performance Optimizations  Phoronix

CachyOS Releases June 2026 Snapshot with Hyprland Noctalia Desktop Option  9to5Linux

While the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window is only ending later today to cap off the feature work on this next version of the Linux kernel, already for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle later in the year there is one notable feature on the way: the DRM color format property is being introduced and being first supported by the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver...

Linux 7.3 To Introduce DRM "Color Format" Property With AMD GPU Driver Support  Phoronix

With Q2'2026 quickly coming to an end, here's a recap of the most popular Linux kernel news over the past three months on Phoronix...

Today marks the last day of the Linux 7.2 merge window with Linux 7.2-rc1 due out later today. With the many new features and improvements merged over the past week since the Linux 7.1 stable debut, the Linux kernel source tree now exceeds 43 million lines...

Linux 7.2 Surpasses More Than 43 Million Lines In The Kernel Tree  Phoronix

Ubuntu tries to improve GNOME. Fedora convinced me it didn't need fixing  How-To Geek

For those using Vim with its GTK3 toolkit interface on Wayland, it soon should be delivering much better performance with pending patches...