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Cloudflare today announced the open-sourcing of Cloudflare OS as an "open platform for agents, apps, and work." Cloudflare OS is an AI "operating system" but not in the traditional OS sense...

The British Linux distro Peppermint OS, based on either Debian or Devuan, offers much to users of all stripes, yet presents itself as an empty vessel for the individual user to fill with their particular needs and wants. Which, in their opinion, is as it should be.

C-Kermit, the long-running communications utility born at Columbia in 1981, is back with its first major new release in 15 years.

I rarely accept requests to write about paid, partially open source (hybrid model) software or tools. I only accept the ones that I believe can genuinely improve the Linux user experience, especially tools that make the migration from Windows to GNU/Linux easier. Today’s software is one of those cases: Migrate PC, a tool that automates the migration from Windows to Linux.

Mozilla released Firefox 153.0.3 today as the second update in the latest Firefox 153 ESR release of this popular open-source web browser to fix more issues and also add some improvements.

Bottles 65 improves Windows app and game management on Linux with Steam integration, backups, file associations, and numerous fixes.

AMD has posted patches proposing a new Linux subsystem for the Enhanced Serial Peripheral Interface (eSPI) standard that was in turn originally developed by Intel. With AMD now making use of eSPI, they are proposing a new subsystem for it within the Linux kernel, which includes a new driver for their hardware...

Uptime Kuma 2.5 introduces an NTP monitor, a rootless Docker image, unlimited check intervals, new notification providers, and multiple bug fixes.

Decimen is an open-source web app that moves files between devices through an animated QR stream, requiring no direct network connection, pairing, account, or native app.

For those with a MSI Claw A8 BZ2EM handheld gaming system, the model powered by the latest AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme SoC, an important addition is coming to the Linux 7.3 kernel so that the M-Center keys will be properly supported...

Fwupd maintainer and Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) creator Richard Hughes announced that NVIDIA has also agreed to become a premier sponsor for the Linux Vendor Firmware Service.

Banana Pi has announced public availability of its BPI-AI2N embedded vision platform, following the hardware introduction covered last year. The platform combines a system-on-module based on the Renesas RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU with a separate carrier board designed for smart cameras, industrial vision, robotics, and other edge AI applications. As previously covered in June 2025, […]

FFmpeg 9.0 has been released today as a major update to this open-source multimedia framework that introduces numerous features, including new decoders, as well as various improvements.

KDE Plasma 6.7.4 arrives with fixes for KWin, Discover, Spectacle, printing, grouped tasks, display handling, and the new Plasma Login Manager.

While Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman does use AI / LLMs himself to success in the Linux kernel, given the "onslaught" of kernel patches produced by large language models and the intent on the Linux kernel's staging area being an area for newcomers to get involved, moving forward he's now rejecting AI/LLM-generated staging patches. But there is one exception and that is for genuinely valid security fixes...

Queued into net-next ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window is adding support for the Realtek RTL8261C and RTL8261D 10 Gigabit PHYs that launched last year...

Google has started offering native ARM64 Linux builds of Chrome for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and openSUSE through its official download page.

Within the Linux networking subsystem's "net-next" Git branch there is now queued up support for MCTP-over-USB v1.1. This is the newest version of the standard for sending Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) packets over USB for tasks loike crash dumps, logging, and firmware updates...

In addition to the AMDGPU feature pull request to DRM-Next last week that landed DRM format modifiers for old AMD GPUs and a variety of other improvements, a secondary set of AMDGPU feature work followed that last week in preparation for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window...

GNOME Boxes as a front-end to libvirt and QEMU is preparing to deliver a much improved virtualization experience for those wanting to enjoy desktop VMs from the GNOME desktop...