Mesa 25.3 Open-Source Graphics Stack Improves Support for Many Video Games
Highlights of Mesa 25.3 include Vulkan 1.2 support for the PVR Vulkan driver for modern PowerVR graphics hardware, Blackwell support for NVK, support for new…
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Wine 10.19 Released With Reparse Point Support
Wine 10.19 introduces reparse point support, new JScript typed arrays, WinRT exception updates, and fixes for 34 bugs. The post Wine 10.19 Released With Reparse…
KDE Frameworks 6.20 Adds a Fancier Push/Pop Animation to System Settings Pages
KDE Frameworks 6.20 brings many goodies, including predictable/learnable KRunner search result ordering, a fancier push/pop animation for System Settings pages, and a reversed version of…
StarlingX Cranks Open-source Cloud Network Infrastructure to 11
The open-source StarlingX cloud infrastructure project is out with its second major update of 2025, bringing with it new edge security and usability improvements. StarlingX…
6 Useful Free and Open Source Wake-on-LAN Tools
Wake-on-LAN (WoL) is an ethernet networking standard that lets a computer to be turned on or awakened from a low-power state by a network message.…
KeePassXC Clarifies AI Policy: Used Only in Development, Never in the App
KeePassXC’s developers explain that AI helps with code reviews and small pull requests, but never appears in the KeePassXC codebase. The post KeePassXC Clarifies AI…
Docker Desktop 4.50 Launches with Free Debugger and Deep IDE Integration
Docker Desktop 4.50 introduces free Docker Debug, guided MCP onboarding, improved server discovery, and broader catalog support. The post Docker Desktop 4.50 Launches with Free…
Self-Hosting is Rising and Linux Users are Leading This Revolution
In a previous column, I argued that self-hosting is resistance in an age where ownership is increasingly illusory. There is increasing evidence that self-hosting is…
Proton 10 Released with Support for Far Horizon, The Riftbreaker, and Other Games
Proton 10 is a massive update that introduces support for new games, which are now playable on Linux. These include Mary Skelter: Nightmares, Fairy Fencer…
How to Handle .pacnew Files in Arch Linux
Understand how Arch Linux creates .pacnew files during updates and how to manage configuration changes without breaking your setup. The post How to Handle .pacnew…
Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 1 is Available to Download
Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 1 is now available to download, the first of 5 monthly development release planned between now and April 2026. Canonical began publishing…
KDE Plasma 6.8 to Drop X11 Support, Goes All-In on Wayland
A growing number of Linux desktop environments (DEs) are moving towards Wayland, the modern display protocol designed to replace the aging X11 window system. X11…
Canonical Expands Ubuntu Pro Coverage, Bringing LTS Support to 15 Years
Ubuntu Pro expands its Legacy add-on to deliver 15 years of security and compliance coverage for long-lived Ubuntu LTS deployments. The post Canonical Expands Ubuntu…
LibreOffice 25.8.3 Released with 70 Bug Fixes Across Writer, Calc, and Impress
The LibreOffice 25.8.3 update delivers 70 fixes improving stability, compatibility, and performance across all core applications. The post LibreOffice 25.8.3 Released with 70 Bug Fixes…
12 Best Free and Open Source WebDAV Servers
WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is a protocol that allows users to access and manage files stored on a remote server. The post 12…