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What exactly is Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu?  How-To Geek

Ahead of the January 2026 ISO refresh for Arch Linux, Archinstall 3.0.15 released today as the newest update to this convenient text-based OS installer...

Arch Linux Installer Adds CUPS, rEFInd Boot, IWD, COSMIC & Power Management Options  Phoronix

This fully atomic Linux distro is a challenge to install but a treat to use  ZDNET

Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 3.0.15 Adds Support for the rEFInd Boot Manager  9to5Linux

A New Year's Eve pull request is ready with several Intel/AMD laptop improvements for the ongoing Linux 6.19 kernel cycle. An x86 platform drivers pull request sent to Linus Torvalds today brings several notable driver enhancements with expanding the range of supported laptops...

Linux 6.19 Closing Out 2025 With Several Laptop Additions  Phoronix

It’s Time To Make A Major Change To D-Bus On Linux  Hackaday

It’s Time To Make A Major Change To D-Bus On Linux  Hackaday

Linux's contemporary filesystem mount API went without documentation for six years — latest man-page package finally adds content for 2019 code  Tom's Hardware

The GCC compiler and the GNU toolchain ecosystem at large had a great year. From new language front-ends for the likes of Algol 68 and COBOL to maturing support for GCC Rust, new performance optimizations from GCC to Glibc, initial AMD Zen 6 "znver6" support merged for GCC 16, and much more. It's pretty safe to say GCC and the broader GNU ecosystem enjoyed a very successful 2025...

While the Godot Engine receives a lot of attention as a prominent open-source game engine, it's far from the only one in this space. Another open-source game engine capping out 2025 with a new release is the Crown Engine...

Open-Source Crown Game Engine v0.60 Released  Phoronix

OpenCV 4.13 is out this New Year's Eve in providing the latest open-source computer vision (CV) capabilities. OpenCV 4.13 brings a wide variety of enhancements to this widely-used computer vision library...

The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere  theregister.com

These are the Linux Apps I Couldn't Live Without in 2025  It's FOSS

Hyprland Becomes More Attractive with Crash Recovery and Safe Mode Features  It's FOSS

December happens to be a busy month for video editor releases in the open-source world. This month there's been the release of Flowblade 2.24, OpenShot 3.4, Kdenlive 25.12, and now there is Shotcut 25.12 before closing out the month and year...

Intel Boosts Xe Driver with Multi-GPU SVM in Linux Kernel 7.0 for AI  WebProNews

Shotcut 25.12 Adds NVIDIA NVENC Encoder Support to Screen Recording on Linux/X11  9to5Linux