Open Source

Limine 9.0 Bootloader Drops EXT4 File-System Support
Limine 9.0 is out today as the newest major release for this open-source modern multi-protocol bootloader and boot manager. Limine also boasts its own Limine Boot Protocol in addition to the native Linux support and chainloading/multiboot capabilities...
2025-02-17 06:06
Wayland Protocols 1.41 Released With Color Management Support
Wayland Protocols 1.41 is shipping today with the color management protocol added for enabling high dynamic range (HDR) support on the Wayland-powered Linux desktop...
2025-02-17 05:54
How to Disable (or Change) Login Sound in Ubuntu 24.10
When you log in to Ubuntu 24.10 an audio clip plays to greet you — a lengthy audio clip that slowly builds to a plinky-plonky crescendo that you—or those around you—may tire of having to sit through! But you can turn Ubuntu’s startup sound off,...
2025-02-16 20:21
Linux 6.14-rc3 Released With Faux Bus & Various Fixes
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.14-rc3 as the newest weekly release candidate for Linux 6.14 that will debuting as stable before the end of March...
2025-02-16 17:32
New "Faux Bus" API Merged For Linux 6.14 - Including Both Rust & C Bindings
A few weeks back the Linux kernel "Faux Bus" was proposed by Greg Kroah-Hartman as a "fake" bus solution for simple devices. Today ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc3 tagging, the faux bus code was merged and comes at the same time both with C and Rust languag...
2025-02-16 16:10
GNOME 48 Beta Is Now Available for Public Testing with Adwaita Fonts, More
GNOME 48 Beta is now available for public testing with a new GNOME Display Control utility, support for configuring HDR via the DisplayConfig D-Bus API, and more. Here’s what's new! The post GNOME 48 Beta Is Now Available for Public Testing with Adwa...
2025-02-16 12:19
GNOME 47.4 Released with Performance Improvements for Nautilus, Bug Fixes
GNOME 47.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update to the latest GNOME 47 desktop environment series with more bug fixes, improvements, and updated translations. The post GNOME 47.4 Released with Performance Improvements for Nautilus, Bug Fix...
2025-02-16 12:00
Firefox User Manages Experimental Browser Port To GTK4 Toolkit
For four years there has been an open bug report for Mozilla Firefox requesting the browser's GTK widget support be updated for GTK4. An independent user/developer has taken it into his own hands and has managed to get Firefox using the GTK4 toolkit up...
2025-02-16 10:00
GNOME 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, gdctl, Adwaita Fonts Default & More
The GNOME 48 Beta release was officially announced this morning as the latest stepping stone toward the official GNOME 48 desktop release due out in mid-March...
2025-02-16 07:07
Intel Killer E5000 Ethernet Support For Linux 6.15
The upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle will be adding support for Intel Killer E5000 Ethernet...
2025-02-16 06:45
Btrfs-Progs 6.13 Released With "mkfs.btrfs --compress" Support
Btrfs-Progs 6.13 was released this weekend as the newest routine update to the user-space utilities for the Btrfs file-system...
2025-02-16 06:38
134k Lines Of Code Posted As Latest Effort For COBOL Support Within GCC
While it's an old language, in recent months there's been a renewed effort over a COBOL language front-end for the GCC compiler. There's been out-of-tree COBOL support for GCC that is working to get into the mainline GNU Compiler Collection codebase. T...
2025-02-16 06:19
FreeBSD 13.5 Overcomes UFS Y2038 Problem To Push It Out To Year 2106
Following last week's FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 1 release to kick off this next FreeBSD 13 point release that will also end the series, FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 2 is out this weekend for testing...
2025-02-15 20:30
openSUSE Replaces AppArmor with SELinux on New Tumbleweed Installations
openSUSE Linux announced earlier this week that they are adopting SELinux as the default mandatory access control (MAC) system for new openSUSE Tumbleweed installations. Until … The post openSUSE Replaces AppArmor with SELinux on New Tumbleweed Insta...
2025-02-15 19:39
Contribute at the Fedora Test Day for WSL
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) folks are working on the final integration of Fedora images for users in WSL. As a result, we have organized test day on Monday,February 17, 2025 . The wiki page in this article contains links to the test images yo...
2025-02-15 18:49
Tiling Shell GNOME Extension Expands Window Suggestions
A new version of Tiling Shell, the flexible window snapping assistant for GNOME Shell, is available. Tiling Shell v16.2 now surfaces nifty ‘Window Suggestions’, a feature introduced in last month’s v16.0 release, when using edge tiling. Edge Tili...
2025-02-15 15:46
NTSYNC Driver Fix Being Worked On For Proper User Permissions
One of the great new features of Linux 6.14 is the NTSYNC driver being completed for better emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives so that software like Wine and Proton (Steam Play) can provide for better performance when running...
2025-02-15 11:05
Karol Herbst Steps Down As Nouveau Maintainer Due To Linux Kernel's Toxic Environment
Karol Herbst has been a Nouveau driver developer for over a decade working on this open-source, reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. He went on to become employed by Red Hat. While he's known more these days for his work on Mesa and the Rus...
2025-02-15 06:40
KDE Developers Addressing Early Bugs From Plasma 6.3
KDE Plasma 6.3 released this week as the newest step forward for the KDE desktop. While it was smooth on the whole, there were some early bugs that KDE developers were dealing with this week. KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly devel...
2025-02-15 06:27
Report: WordPress in 2025
This year is set to be transformative for WordPress, yet many decision-makers risk overlooking the immense opportunities ahead. Our new “WordPress in 2025” report highlights why WordPress should be a cornerstone of your long-term strategy. Stay a...
2025-02-15 03:19