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The T2 Linux team released today T2 Linux 26.6 (codenamed “Mythos”) as a hefty update to this highly portable source-based Linux distribution, bringing some of the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies.

The Btrfs filesystem continues to receive significant performance tuning, and one of the latest areas of focus is snapshot deletion performance. While Btrfs snapshots have long been praised for their speed, flexibility, and efficient use of storage, deleting large numbers of snapshots has historically been one of the filesystem’s most resource-intensive operations.

Flock to Fedora is more than a conference – it’s where the Fedora community comes alive. As part of the In the CommitHistory campaign, we sat down with confirmed Flock 2026 speakers to hear their stories: what brought them to Fedora, what Flock means to them personally, and what they’re hoping for in Prague this […]

The LLM-8850 Kit is an M.2-based AI accelerator designed for edge AI, embedded inference, video analytics, and multimodal large-model workloads. It combines the LLM-8850 Card, a compact M.2 M-Key 2242 module based on the Axera AX8850 SoC, with a PiHat adapter board for the Raspberry Pi 5.   The AX8850 integrates eight Arm Cortex-A55 cores […]

Audacity 3.7.8 lands with Linux HiDPI UI improvements, multichannel FLAC import fixes, and several editing, scripting, and macro bug fixes.

PeppermintOS releases a new systemd-free build based on Devuan Excalibur, offering SysVinit, OpenRC, and runit as installer options.

Arch User Repository hit by a large-scale malware campaign, with maintainers racing to roll back malicious commits and lock out bad actors.

(Video) After more than 1 month using some flavor of Linux Linus, Luke and Elijah all sit down to discuss what they liked and didn't like about using it.

Taking on challenges helped me grow in Linux. After migrating to Arch and Hyprland, I built HyprLTM-Net and now introduce LTMNight SDDM Theme with GLSL shaders.

The Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these user-supplied packages being compromised...

Fedora is reviewing suspicious account activity after an alleged compromise led to AI-like bug actions and reverted Anaconda patches.

ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game Half-Life running on this open-source platform...

Cine is a new MPV-based video player for Linux, offering a clean GTK/libadwaita interface with subtitle, audio, and video controls.

With Collabora, Euro?Office, and EU?ready AI, Hub 26 Spring doubles down on documents, control, and sovereignty.

Juno Tab 4 LTE is a 10.5-inch Linux tablet with an Intel Celeron N300, LTE, 12 GB RAM, a 1 TB SSD, and Debian or Ubuntu options.

Back in March the GNOME Foundation announced a fellowship program. The GNOME fellowship program will help with the long-term sustainability of the GNOME desktop and looked to fund independent/community contributors over a twelve month period. Today the first recipients of the fellowship program have been announced...

Arch contributors are cleaning up a malware incident in the AUR after suspicious updates appeared across several user-maintained packages.

Open-source developer Jos Dehaes wrote in to Phoronix today in announcing a new X11 server he has been working on from scratch that has been quietly developed to this point but now ready to announce to the world... The YSERVER...

Git 2.55-rc0 is out today as the first tagged test version of the forthcoming Git 2.55 distributed version control system. Most notable with Git 2.55 is that Rust support is being enabled by default...

KDE Frameworks 6.27 arrives as the latest monthly update to KDE’s core libraries, improving file handling, UI components, and app support.