End 2025 on a winning note by grabbing some fun games for your Linux gaming rig!
Meet PkgForge: A Distro-Independent Portable Apps 'Foundry' for Linux Users
Bringing system resources and internal details together in one place, jdSystemMonitor is a solid and lightweight option for desktop Linux users.
Previously proprietary PostgreSQL extension is now freely available on GitHub.
The open source YouTube alternative offers some welcome updates for content creators.
Previously enterprise-only hardened images go open source under Apache License 2.0.
PhotoPrism offers one path toward that goal of data ownership. With PhotoPrism, your vacation photos don’t become training data for someone else’s business model. They remain what they actually are, your memories, under your control.
The new addition brings custom AI security and safety tooling to Red Hat.
Greg Kroah-Hartman announced this alongside 150+ C code vulnerabilities that were addressed.
Official Armbian utility supports over 300 boards with smart image filtering and verified writes.
Linux desktop is often described as fragmented, but with the right perspective, it becomes clear that this description only makes sense if you see Linux as a single, unified product, and expect it act like one. It isn't, and so it doesn't.
The move is part of a government-wide effort to reduce dependency on Microsoft software. The traffic department's move is just the beginning.
There is a new editor which is easier than Nano as well.
Rust-based editor combines fast performance with GUI-style shortcuts that just work.
Rust-based editor combines fast performance with GUI-style shortcuts that just work.
Here are the operating system choices when you want to use Raspberry Pi in a desktop setup.
Proposed legislation would make it illegal to use VPNs for accessing geo-blocked content.
Classic Linux tools are always there, but eBPF is the natural upgrade as it looks directly in the kernel. Once you start using these tools, it’s hard to imagine managing Linux systems without them.
Snapscope makes it easy to scan any Snap package for security issues.
Over the span of the past 15 years, Ubuntu started several projects. Not all of them are active today. And yet, they live in our memory.
New policy targets low-quality AI-generated code while still allowing AI as a learning tool.
If you recognized yourself in a few of these points, that doesn’t mean Linux isn’t for you. In fact, you can count it as an invitation. It just means you’ve spent a long time in an ecosystem that treats you more like a product than a participant.
A moderation system that leans on automation just knocked legitimate tech tutorials and even entire channels offline. The appeals felt automated, too. Creators are powerless against opaque enforcement and the incentives that should favor craft and trust are tilting toward noise.
NTFSPlus is a fresh implementation of the classic in-kernel ntfs driver. Can it end the current NTFS woes for Linux users?
After years of development, System76's Rust-based desktop delivers.
The update also introduces notification badges and theme categorization.
Insights from an Interview with Hirdaypal Singh Lamba, Salesforce Consultant.
Insights from an Interview with Hirdaypal Singh Lamba, Salesforce Consultant.
Arti, the Rust rewrite of Tor, brings circuit isolation and onion service improvements in its 1.8.0 release.
Gearing up for Tuxmas season 🎅
Building a NAS in your homelab? Here are the choices of operating systems you can use.
The Divine D. is set to come with LoRa networking, hardware privacy switches, and local AI processing.
Canonical teams up with AMD to package ROCm directly in Ubuntu.
Anthropic's MCP, Block's goose, and OpenAI's AGENTS.md form the foundation of this new initiative.
An in-depth look at 'another new Chromium-based web browser" that is "different from the other Chromium-based web browsers".
Swiss startup offers remote access to living neural networks for research.
You can ask questions about any book in your library and run AI models locally via LM Studio.
You probably do not even realize how much you have improved since your first day with Linux. Let me remind you of that.
RAM and SSD prices are skyrocketing as manufacturers prioritize AI servers over consumer PCs.
Emerging from the ashes of Nokia and MeeGo in 2011, Jolla is a Finnish company founded by former Nokia engineers. They continued developing Linux-powered mobile operating systems and devices when MeeGo was abandoned.Their first product, the Jolla Phone, launched in November 2013 after a successful crowdfunding campaign. It ran Sailfish OS, a gesture-based Linux system that Jolla continues developing to this day.Now, they have launched the new Jolla Phone as part of a crowdfunding campaign that h...
European governments are pushing back against Big Tech's grip on public infrastructure. Denmark announced earlier this year that its Ministry of Digital Affairs was switching from Microsoft to LibreOffice. In more recent news, Switzerland's data protection authorities declared international cloud services unsuitable for handling personal data.One German state has been leading this charge for quite some time. Schleswig-Holstein started its open source journey early, becoming something o...
Let's be honest. Installing packages from their GitHub repositories can be a pain, especially if you use different Linux distros, BSD and macOS. You have to go to the release pages of the tool's GitHub repo, look for the appropriate binary file for your distribution, your system architecture (x86/ARM), get it, extract it and run it to install it.If that feels like a lot to you, you can use eget.Provided the repository, Eget searches through the project to find the latest binaries and d...
Sure you can search in the Linux terminal. And sure, you don't have to do that if you don't want too. Use a graphical interface for your comfort.
Searching on Linux used to be a chore, unless you knew how to work your way around the CLI with find, locate, and grep — fun times!, but today, times have genuinely changed. And I am not talking about fuzzy search options in the terminal. In this article, we'll look at some of the best GUI tools available for searching your files on Linux - no terminal required.1. FSearchFSearch keeps it uncomplicated but effective💡Note: We've covered FSearch in a full review, if you'd like to lea...
Proton has been on a roll lately. The Swiss company keeps expanding its privacy-focused ecosystem with tools that actually work for regular people. Take Lumo AI, for instance, their privacy-respecting AI assistant that doesn't feed your prompts into some data-hungry training pipeline.And now, they are taking a big swing at Big Tech's productivity services dominance by launching Proton Sheets, an encrypted spreadsheet tool that isn't interested in mining your data.📋The article cont...
The company has quietly funded FEX-Emu since 2018 as an open source project.
Valve has been quietly funding an Arm emulation project for seven years now. Pierre-Loup Griffais, who helped build SteamOS and the Steam Deck, told The Verge (paywalled) about it recently.While most of us already knew of their work on Proton, the popular compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux, their behind-the-scenes support for FEX-Emu, an x86-to-ARM64 emulator, has come as a surprise.Valve's Approach to Open SourceThe company began recruiting developers for Arm compatibil...
Short-form content has ruined attention spans for many people, including myself. Those little dopamine hits feel good in the moment. But over time, they make you impulsive, easily irritated, and exhausted.Let it control you long enough, and it becomes like any other addiction. Your brain gets used to constant stimulation. Normal activities feel boring. You need more just to feel okay.Your ability to focus on anything substantial crumbles. Work becomes harder. Relationships suffer, and if you are...
Embedded Linux devices power everything from network routers to industrial controllers. Their broad appeal comes from running a full operating system while maintaining low-power consumption and real-time capabilities.A group of engineers who met in a Reddit comment section have now created an open source Linux handheld that aims to be a versatile development tool.Linux Platform Kit: A Foundational GadgetSource: The Linux Platform Kit TeamThe Linux Platform Kit is a modular handheld built around ...
Fedora is known for pushing boundaries when it comes to adopting new tech, almost always staying near the bleeding edge of what's currently available. The project doesn't really wait around for things to become "accepted" before jumping in.That approach now continues as the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) just gave the green light to replace a very old system component with something more modern.What's Happening?Fedora 44 is ditching fbcon, the kernel framebuffer con...
Session is an open source encrypted messaging app that requires no phone number or email address to sign up. Instead of routing messages through centralized servers, Session uses a decentralized network of over 2,000 nodes running the onion routing protocol, similar to Tor, ensuring that no single server knows both the message origin and destination.The Session Technology Foundation took over stewardship of Session back in October 2024, succeeding the Australia-based Oxen Privacy Tech Foundation...
Ubuntu's community wikis have long been an essential resource for people looking to troubleshoot issues, find guides, and learn more about the popular Linux-powered operating system.For over two decades, these wikis have served countless users and developers globally.Canonical has announced that it is working on building a new Ubuntu wiki from the ground up. This is being done to address the many issues plaguing the existing wikis that have gone unaddressed for years.The current wikis at wi...
And we enter the Christmas month.
Recently, Linus Torvalds and Linus Sebastian come together for a YouTube video collaboration. There, Torvalds said that the infamous blue screen of death in Windows is not a software issue in most cases. Hard to disagree with him.Linus Torvalds Defends Windows’ Blue Screen of DeathAnd he is not wrong actually.It's FOSSAbhishek PrakashAlso, if you like It's FOSS and rely on Google search, please add us as your preferred source in Google. This way, you get reliable and more accurate info...
Raspberry Pi just launched the 1GB version of the Pi 5 for $45. At the same time, they've increased prices across the Pi 4 and Pi 5 lineups to offset rising memory costs. The hikes are significant. The 8GB Pi 5 now costs $95, up from $80. The 16GB variant jumped from $120 to $145. Even the 4GB Pi 4 sees a $5 increase to $60.According to Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton, the LPDDR4 memory shortage driven by AI infrastructure demand is the culprit. He calls it "painful but ultimately temporary" an...
Lack of end-to-end encryption makes international cloud services unsuitable, privatim says.
The cloud computing space is dominated by a handful of Big Tech players. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud together control a large portion of the global cloud market.These hyperscalers have built their empires on data. The more information flows through their systems, the more valuable their platforms become. This business model creates an exploitative relationship where people's privacy is traded for cheap prices.Switzerland's data protection authorities have now...
We all have seen countless memes and jokes about Microsoft Windows' blue of screen death popularly known as BSOD.A popular but fake image poking fun at Windows blue screen of deathMicrosoft did make changes to handle the criticism and jokes. They changed the blue color to black 😆 So, it is still BSOD, blue or black, doesn't matter. The black screen surely mixes with Linux's very own kernel panic screen. Microsoft is taking notes from Linux, it seems.The reason I am talking about B...
Back on November 13, Google launched Code Wiki in public preview. The platform automatically generates and maintains documentation for code repositories using Gemini.The tool addresses what Google calls software development's biggest, most expensive bottleneck, "reading existing code". In simple terms, Code Wiki keeps documentation constantly updated as the codebase develops.Instead of static content that becomes outdated, it serves as a living wiki that evolves with every code change. Here...
Chrome is undoubtedly the most popular browser on the market. Backed by Google and coming in default for most Android devices, which have the largest smartphone market share, Chrome checks a lot of boxes and makes it immensely easy to sync your browsing data across devices. There are, however, some caveats. Even though it is based on open source Chromium project, Chrome has been under fire again and again over the years because of privacy concerns.The biggest alternative available to us is Firef...
ONLYOFFICE continues to offer a compelling alternative to proprietary suites like Microsoft Office, with strong document format compatibility and a privacy-respecting approach.The open source suite has successfully built a reputation for combining professional features with user data protection. Now, the developers have released ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.2, building on the work of the earlier release.Let's dig in! 🤓🆕 ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.2: What's New?It is now possible to customize keyboard shor...
More than two months since the last version, a new Linux release has been introduced, offering, as usual, better hardware support and many new additions covering a broad range of subsystems.As with every development cycle, work from thousands of contributors has brought incremental improvements across CPUs, GPUs, storage, networking, and security.Linus Torvalds had this to say about the release:So I'll have to admit that I'd have been happier with slightly less bugfixing noise in this ...
More than two months since the last version, a new Linux release has been introduced, offering, as usual, better hardware support and many new additions covering a broad range of subsystems.As with every development cycle, work from thousands of contributors has brought incremental improvements across CPUs, GPUs, storage, networking, and security.Linus Torvalds had this to say about the release:So I'll have to admit that I'd have been happier with slightly less bugfixing noise in this ...
More than two months since the last version, a new Linux release has been introduced, offering, as usual, better hardware support and many new additions covering a broad range of subsystems.As with every development cycle, work from thousands of contributors has brought incremental improvements across CPUs, GPUs, storage, networking, and security.Linus Torvalds had this to say about the release:So I'll have to admit that I'd have been happier with slightly less bugfixing noise in this ...
The Linux Foundation has been a major driving force in the Linux and open source space. Beyond their work on the Linux kernel and hosting critical projects like Kubernetes, they run one of the most comprehensive technology training and certification programs around.Their courses cover Linux system administration, cloud native development, and cybersecurity. If you have been eyeing their certifications, then their annual sales are the best time to grab them.And, as it happens, the Linux Foundatio...
Most new Linux distributions tend to follow a familiar formula: take a well-known base, add a desktop environment, sprinkle in some theming, and call it a day. Sometimes it works; sometimes the distro disappears in six months. What you don’t often see, however, is a distro trying to rethink how updates, rollbacks, and system integrity fundamentally work.ObsidianOS is one of those unusual projects that immediately caught my attention for exactly that reason. It’s Arch-based, yes, but the defining...
The development for Ubuntu 26.04 codenamed 'Resolute Raccoon' has already begun. It is a long-term support (LTS) release and a particularly important one as we venture more into the Wayland-only era of Linux.Let's have a look at the release schedule of Ubuntu 26.04 and its planned features.📋Since the development is in progress and the final version comes in April'26, I'll be updating this article from time to time when there are new developments.Ubuntu 26.04 Release Sche...
The GNOME app ecosystem is on fire these days. Whatever your needs, there's probably an app for that. Or two. Or three (no kidding)! Two of the sleekest apps for monitoring your system (aptly called, "system monitors", of course) are Mission Center, and Resources.Both use libadwaita to provide slick visuals, responsive GUIs, and familiar functionality for the GNOME desktop environment. But, which one is right for you? I'll attempt to help you answer that question in this article. Quick...
Pebble, the e-paper smartwatch that first launched on Kickstarter in 2012, gained a cult-like following for its innovative approach to wearable tech. Sadly, Fitbit acquired and shut it down in 2016, taking with it the intellectual property (IP) of the brand.The IP eventually landed with Google after their Fitbit acquisition in 2021.Earlier this year, the original creator, Eric Migicovsky, relaunched Pebble through Core Devices LLC, a self-funded company operating via the rePebble consumer brand....
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 becoming popular among a certain kind of user, say the typical readership of ItsFoss.There is a simple explanation for this shift: people want their data, dollars, and destiny back. Centralized platforms optimized for engagement and extraction are colliding with real-world needs — privacy, compliance, predictability, and craft. Linux,...
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 has been the foundation of Linux graphical interfaces for over three decades now, but it carries significant technical debt and security limitations that Wayland aims to address.Projects like Fedora, GNOME, and KDE have been leading the charge on this by being among the first ones to adopt Wayland.Now, KDE has announced it is sunsetting...
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 has been the foundation of Linux graphical interfaces for over three decades now, but it carries significant technical debt and security limitations that Wayland aims to address.Projects like Fedora, GNOME, and KDE have been leading the charge on this by being among the first ones to adopt Wayland.Now, KDE has announced it is sunsetting...
If you spend a lot of time on a computer, then fonts matter more than you think. A good one reduces eye strain and makes reading the contents of the screen easier. The right one can drastically improve your entire desktop experience.In my case, I like to use Inter on my Fedora-powered daily driver, and I don't really mess around with it. But everyone's different. Some like rounded fonts. Others want sharp, clean lines. Having options matters. Your eyes, your choice after all.Anyhow, Go...
As Linux users, most of us prefer open-source software. But if you’ve been using Linux for a while, you know this truth too: in daily workflows, you may have to rely on proprietary software.And sometimes, you use software that feels like open source projects but they actually are not. I am going to list some of those applications that are popular among Linux users but often we don't realize that they are not open source. I'll also suggest their open source alternatives for you.Obsidian...
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃I’m incredibly thankful for this community. To our Plus members who support us financially, and to our free members who amplify our work by sharing it with the world — you all mean a lot to us. Your belief in what we do has kept us going for 13 amazing years.This Thanksgiving, let’s also extend our gratitude beyond our personal circles to the open-source contributors whose work silently powers our servers, desktops, and daily digital lives. From code to distributions to docum...
Collabora Productivity is well-known for two of its flagship offerings, Collabora Online, their web-based document editor that powers many organizations, and their LibreOffice-based enterprise suite. That second one just got a makeover and the existing offering was moved to a new name.They announced Collabora Office for desktop today. It brings their online editor's interface to local desktop apps for Linux, Windows, and macOS. The previous enterprise suite is now called Collabora Office Cl...
One of the greatest things about open-source software is that anyone can pick up where a project left off and bring it back to life, whether it's to continue a legacy, or a spiritual successor that builds on a new foundation.In this article, I'll share some of the popular Linux apps that got new lives as "New/Next Generation" (-ng) versions of their former selves.1. iotop-ciotop-c gives iotop a refreshed lookYou've heard of top and htop, but did you know there's also a tool s...
Thanksgiving is around the corner, and the market is flooded with Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals on everything from gadgets to software subscriptions.For Linux users and open source enthusiasts, finding deals that respect privacy can be tricky. We have handpicked offers on secure cloud storage, VPNs, learning platforms, and Linux-friendly hardware.My advice for picking the right dealsFor someone who often takes advantage of deals, here are a few things you should note for making an informed...
TUXEDO Computers specializes in Linux-first hardware, recently launching the InfinityBook Max 15 (Gen10) with AMD Ryzen AI 300 processors. The German manufacturer has built a reputation for well-built Linux systems that work reliably.However, 18 months of work on an ARM-powered notebook has come to an abrupt halt. The company announced that it is shelving its Snapdragon X Elite laptop project.A Tricky SoC ArchitectureJust a placeholder image of TUXEDO Computers' recent launch.The notebook w...
Flatpak has pretty much become the de-facto standard for universal packages on the Linux desktop, with an increasing number of distros supporting the format in their default installs. Yet, even with how easy it is to install and update Linux apps with Flatpak, moving them to a new system can be tricky, especially if you’ve installed dozens over time.Sure, you could list and reinstall everything manually, but that’s tedious work, and easily prone to human error. Fortunately, there’s a simple way ...
Dell has a solid track record with Linux-powered OSes, particularly Ubuntu. The company has been shipping developer-focused laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed for years.Many of their devices come with compatible drivers working out of the box. Audio, Wi-Fi, Thunderbolt ports, and even fingerprint readers mostly work without hassle. My daily workhorse is a Dell laptop that hasn't had a driver-related issue for quite some time now.And a recent launch just reinforces their Linux approach.Dell P...
Last month, Zorin OS 18 dropped just in time for the Windows 10 EOL, bringing about an assortment of improvements like Linux kernel 6.14, rounded corners for the desktop interface, and a new window tiling manager.So, it didn't come as a surprise to me when Zorin OS 18 hit the 1 million downloads milestone just over a month after its release. Alongside that announcement, the developers have made available an upgrade path from Zorin OS 17, which is intended for users of Core, Education, and P...
