Open-source News

Linux Kernel Leaders Draft Linus Succession Plan  findarticles.com

The upcoming release of GNOME 50 to be found in the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 will feature improved discrete GPU detection within the GNOME Shell. This effort has been two years coming and finally merged this week...

Linux after Linus? The kernel community finally drafts a plan for replacing Torvalds  ZDNET

Windows 11 haters get excited as GOG says 'Linux is the next major frontier' for Galaxy client  TweakTown

The live Linux distro for editing disks just got a big update  How-To Geek

VirtualBox 7.2.6 Released with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 6.19  9to5Linux

CISA adds critical Microsoft Office, Linux Kernel, and SmarterMail vulnerabilities to KEV catalog  SC Media

Following last week's code branching / feature freeze and first release candidate of Mesa 26.0, Mesa 26.0-rc2 is now available with an initial batch of bug fixes for this quarter's feature update to these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...

COSMIC Desktop ‘Frosted Glass’ UI Effect Previewed  OMG! Ubuntu

Hooray! Linux is GOG's 'next major frontier'. Oh no! It wants to 'Actively use and promote AI-assisted development tools'  PC Gamer

NVIDIA security bulletin for January 2026 reveals new GPU driver security issues  GamingOnLinux

VirtualBox 7.2.6 Released With Stability Fixes Across Windows, Linux, and macOS  Linuxiac

4 reasons I prefer screen over tmux on Linux  XDA

Handmade by human hands using machines  Digg

KDE Plasma 6.6 is almost here, and this Linux distro gave me an early look - here's how  ZDNET

The widely-used FreeType library used for rendering text onto bitmaps has landed a significant optimization for its LCD filtering code path for Microsoft ClearType-like rendering. Thanks to the improvement, the rendering can be around 40% faster...

Linux kernel community drafts contingency "plan for a plan" to replace Linus Torvalds  PC Guide

GParted Live 1.8 Released With Linux Kernel 6.18  Linuxiac

GPU Robotics Simulators  Trend Hunter

I found the perfect "portable" OS for remote work, and it’s not Windows  How-To Geek