Open-source News

3 Neat Linux Apps to Try This Weekend (September 26 - 28)  How-To Geek

After Windows, I want Raycast to come to Linux next  XDA

The Servo open-source browser engine project has published their monthly status update that covers all the improvements they made over the course of August. There's been a lot of progress on this Rust-based browser engine that has a lot of potential particularly for embedded/CEF-like use-cases...

Qt 6.10 Release Candidate Boosts Multimedia with PipeWire and Wayland  WebProNews

This “Windows-friendly” distro isn't what you think, and you should avoid it  MakeUseOf

Linux EXT4 Patches Promise 30% Faster Online Defrag Without Downtime  WebProNews

Bcachefs DKMS Packages for Debian and Ubuntu: Overcoming Kernel Hurdles with Mixed Benchmarks  WebProNews

MALIBAL Pivots to U.S.-Based Laptop Manufacturing for Security Boost  WebProNews

Linux Kernel 6.18 Debuts Initial Haptic Touchpad Support  WebProNews

I used Microsoft Office, Photoshop, and more on Linux with WinApps — here's how it went  XDA

Building off the work in months prior around Device Mapper atomic write support and related infrastructure, the md-linear target for linear software RAID support will enable atomic write support with the upcoming Linux 6.18 merge window...

Kali Linux 2025.3 drops ARMel support and gets refreshed Nexmon firmware  Notebookcheck

SUSE Partners with Nvidia to Integrate CUDA Toolkit in Linux Distros  WebProNews

Linux dances the samba… but hits a race condition. A critical flaw threatens the kernel.  Red Hot Cyber

Raspberry Pi 500+ announced as their premium desktop keyboard PC  GamingOnLinux

I replaced all my bash scripts with Python, and here’s what happened  XDA

PostgreSQL 18.0 is out today as the annual major feature release for this widely-used SQL database server. PostgreSQL 18 is a big one with many exciting performance optimizations and other new features...

Beckhoff launches TwinCAT for Linux with virtualized PLC capabilities  Design World

Queued this week into the BPF subsystem's "bpf-next" Git branch ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window are some exciting feature additions...

Deutsche Bundesbank is latest central bank to join LF Decentralized Trust  ledgerinsights.com