Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA
The U.S. has been quietly building up a set of state-level laws that push operating system providers into the age verification plague. California’s AB 1043,…
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Debian-Based Elive Linux Distro Is Back with First Stable Release in Seven Years
It’s been more than six and a half years since the last stable Elive release (version 3.0.6), but the project wasn’t dead. During this time,…
Coreboot 26.03 Open-Source Firmware Adds Full Support for Intel PantherLake SoCs
Highlights of Coreboot 26.03 include full support for the recently released Intel PantherLake SoCs, increased SMMSTORE capacity, updated TPM and signed secure blob plumbing across…
4MLinux 51.0 Released with Improved Support for ZX Spectrum and Atari Music
Coming four months after 4MLinux 50.0, the 4MLinux 51.0 release improves support for ZX Spectrum and Atari music via the AY/YM emulation library, and adds…
Rspamd 4.0 Spam Filtering System Released With checkv3 Protocol
Rspamd 4.0 open-source spam filtering system introduces the new checkv3 protocol, built-in Fasttext, major backend changes, and more. The post Rspamd 4.0 Spam Filtering System…
Linux Mint Will Adopt a Longer Development Cycle Starting with Linux Mint 23
Linux Mint devs announced that they will adopt a longer development cycle starting with the upcoming Linux Mint 23 release, as well as other important…
Canonical Releases Mir 2.26 with Initial Rust Implementation of Wayland Frontend
Mir 2.26 compositor is now available for download with initial implementation of the Wayland frontend in the Rust, as well as many other Wayland improvements.…
KDE Gear 26.04 Software Suite Is Out with Many Improvements for KDE Apps
KDE Gear 26.04 open-source software suite is now available with improvements for many of your favorite KDE applications. Here’s what’s new! The post KDE Gear…
Archinstall 4.2 Arch Linux Installer Brings Granular KDE Plasma Configuration
Archinstall 4.2 text-based installer for Arch Linux is now available with granular KDE Plasma configuration, a new Pacman settings submenu with Color and Parallel Downloads,…
Zorin OS 18.1 released, new Lite edition available
The first point release to Zorin OS 18 is now available for download, arriving six months and some 3.3 million downloads after the original launch.…
Zorin OS 18.1 Boosts Windows App Support by 40%, Improves Window Tiling
Zorin OS 18.1 is now available for download based on Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS and powered by the Linux 6.17 HWE kernel. Here’s what’s new! The…
GNOME 50.1 Released with Basic Zoom Support for the Captive Portal
GNOME 50.1 is now available as the first point release to the GNOME 50 desktop environment series with various bug fixes and improvements across several…
SystemRescue 13 Released With Linux Kernel 6.18 and GParted 1.8.1
Arch-based SystemRescue 13 updates to Linux kernel 6.18, enhances HiDPI support, and upgrades core tools such as GParted and bcachefs. The post SystemRescue 13 Released…
A PHP Dev Just Solved a 20+ Year-Old KDE Plasma Problem No One Else Would
Back in 2005, a bug report was filed by Kjetil Kjernsmo, then running KDE 3.3.2 on Debian Stable. He wanted the ability to have each…
Fish Shell 4.6 Brings Better Emoji Handling, Bash Compatibility
Fish Shell 4.6 updates emoji width handling, enhances prompt customization, and improves compatibility with Bash-style piping. The post Fish Shell 4.6 Brings Better Emoji Handling,…