Open-source News

7 reasons I never distro-hop: I just stick with Debian  How-To Geek

Creating User-Friendly Installers Across Operating Systems  Hackaday

Cisco joins Linux Foundation's new Agentic AI Foundation  Fierce Network

It was just at the end of month that Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 1 ISOs were published for the first "Resolute Raccoon" milestone. Out already is now Snapshot 2 with Canonical releasing these images ahead of their engineers having time off for end-of-year holidays...

Stop opening your browser for these 8 tasks, the terminal does them better  How-To Geek

LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 is now available for testing in working toward the stable release in February for this cross-platform, open-source office suite solution...

KDE Gear 25.12 is out today as the collection of the latest KDE desktop/mobile applications for running nicely on the Plasma 6 desktop...

Tails 7.3.1 Anonymous Linux OS Released with Tor Browser 15.0.3 and Tor 0.4.8.21  9to5Linux

Earlier in the year Microsoft proposed the "Hornet" Linux security module to provide signature verification capabilities for eBPF programs to provide for better system security. It's been months since hearing anything more about it and not being merged, but yesterday they "reintroduced" it to the Linux kernel community...

Microsoft Is Back To Working On "Hornet" Security For eBPF Programs On Linux  Phoronix

Last month the Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing extension was merged after 5+ years in development. VK_EXT_present_timing ended up debuting at the end of November within the Vulkan 1.4.335 spec update to much excitement for providing functionality to obtain information on the presentation engine's display for accurate timing information and to assist in scheduling a present to happen no earlier than a desired time. This is a big win for helping avoid game stuttering and more while now the Mesa support for it is nearly complete and could be merged soon...

Linus Torvalds merged the Device Mapper "DM" changes overnight that include one stand-out change for Linux 6.19...

Retro gaming handheld with Android and Linux dual OS just got launched by Abxylute with an introductory offer  PC Guide

Following yesterday's release of a new llm-scaler-omni beta there is now a new beta feature release of llm-scaler-vllm that provides the Intel-optimized version of vLLM within a Docker container that is set and ready to go for AI on modern Arc Graphics hardware. With today's llm-scaler-vllm 1.2 beta release there is support for a variety of additional large language models (LLMs) and other improvements...

How Linux Foundation Unites Open Standards for Agentic AI  Technology Magazine

New Multi-Platform 01flip Ransomware Supports Multi-platform Architecture, Including Windows and Linux  CybersecurityNews

R36s  Hackaday

December 11, 2025  Hackaday

Building Rust Apps For Cheap Hackable Handheld Console  Hackaday

Linux Foundation Launches Agentic AI Group to Set Standards for Autonomous Systems  Hackernoon