Canonical introduces an optional virtualization HWE stack for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, bringing newer QEMU, libvirt, EDK2, and SeaBIOS versions.

Since 2014 there has been a KDE bug report titled Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files)

They point to MCP, built by two engineers in London, that ended up under US-based governance.

Ubuntu's hardware enablement (HWE) effort has expanded to include backports of newer virtualisation tech to users of the current LTS release.

A few weeks ago there was excitement in the FreeBSD camp with FreeBSD 16 set to retire the last of its GPL code from the base system

Fooyin 0.12 introduces built-in audio conversion, PulseAudio output support, and new Spectrogram, Oscilloscope, and projectM visualizations.

There's yet another new open-source desktop option for Linux users in the era of new open-source projects largely written via AI/LLMs

Mosaic brings automatic tiling to GNOME Shell, but without asking you to use it permanently. Turn it on when you want windows to arrange themselves, turn

A few weeks ago there was excitement in the FreeBSD camp with FreeBSD 16 set to retire the last of its GPL code from the base system

System76 releases COSMIC Desktop 1.5 with fixes for Chromium app scaling, excessive panel CPU usage, GPU resets, and external displays.

A Huawei engineer posted to the Mesa mailing list today over potentially upstreaming a Vulkan driver they have developed for an in-house GPU

A fair amount of people don't quite understand how the Steam Machine reservation and waitlist works - so Valve reminded people no one is skipping the line.

Krita 5.3.3 and the experimental Qt 6-based Krita 6.0.3 arrive with crash fixes, animation improvements, and better font handling.

It's been about a decade since seeing any new games released on the visually-impressive, Linux-friendly Unigine Engine

AMD has started adding Ryzen Zen 6 "client" CPU support for its HSMP driver, spanning Olympic Ridge & Medusa Point families.

With the Razer Blade 18 as the first laptop Razer's certifying for (Ubuntu) Linux use while testing it out I was predominantly using the NVIDIA R610 official driver stack.