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It was a busy week in the GNOME space with many packages checking in their "48.alpha" releases for the GNOME 48 Alpha milestone. Plus there has been some additional exciting GNOME developments for the week...

Technical BSD conferences aren't quite as common as the many Linux conferences these days. For the BSD conferences that do happen they tend to be more general in nature than carrying a desktop focus. But being announced this week was GhostBSDCon 2025 as a forthcoming developer conference largely focused on desktop use of this FreeBSD-derived distribution...

Following the recent KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta, there's been a lot of bug fixing happening ahead of the stable release due out next month for this open-source desktop...

Wine 10.0 is working its way to a stable release within the next week or two while for today there is the sixth weekly release candidate...

Kali Linux: The ultimate cybersecurity tool for beginners and pros alike  GeekSided

7 Docker containers that make Linux the perfect OS for a home lab  XDA Developers

How to use the dstat command  Network World

Linux Apps for Chromebooks in 2025: Our Top Picks and Why You Need Them  Lifewire

Linux Mint 22.1 Is Now Available  Yahoo! Voices

Linux Mint 22.1 Is Now Available  How-To Geek

Flathub Makes It Easy to Find Mobile Apps with New 'On the Go' Section  It's FOSS News

GNU Coreutils 9.6 released today as the updated version of these core utilities common to Linux systems and elsewhere...

Linux 6.13 is bringing many exciting features for its stable debut expected this Sunday. But following that it's onward to the Linux 6.14 kernel merge window for which it will be yet another very exciting round from completing the NTSYNC driver to adding new hardware support and much more. Here is a preview of some of the changes expected to be submitted for the Linux 6.14 cycle...

Vulkan 1.4.305 has been published as the newest version of the Vulkan API specification for high performance graphics and compute...

The upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel is poised to introduce initial support for SpacemiT platforms, the Chinese computing chip company developing "next-generation RISC-V high-performance CPUs." For this next Linux kernel release the SpaceMiT Key Stone K1 octa-core RISC-V AI CPU with SpacemiT X60 cores will see support...

Linux 6.14 To Add Support For SpacemiT's "Energy Efficient AI" RISC-V CPUs  Phoronix

5 lightweight Linux distributions that will bring your old PC back to life  ZDNet

deepin Linux 25 Preview challenges Windows 11 with stunning design and security from China  BetaNews

LibreOffice 25.2 RC2 is out today with the official release of this updated open-source office suite coming in just about two weeks...

Linux kernel graphics drivers have been growing too much in size that they are taking too long to load at boot time for quickly lighting up the display to present the nice Plymouth boot splash experience. This has led to situations of the Plymouth boot splash screen falling back to its simple text-based interface after timing out. As a workaround, Fedora 42 is looking to use the generic "SimpleDRM" driver during this initial boot splash screen experience to initially avoid the bulky DRM drivers...