Rocky Linux 9.6 is out now, featuring new toolchains, performance tools, and WSL-compatible containers for seamless Windows integration.

Packet is a new Linux app supporting Android's Quick Share feature, letting you wirelessly transfer files between devices. More details, and how to install.

Give Vim and IDE touch by using tabs to open multiple files. Yes, the same tab experience you have in a web browser or a regular text editor.

Ubuntu developers discuss whether to split the large linux-firmware package into smaller, vendor-specific packages to reduce its size.

A modern, tileable, terminal-based file manager built with Python and Textual. - BranBushes/veld-fm

Banned and erased from freedesktop.org, Enrico Weigelt unveils Xlibre—a fork of Xorg aimed at revitalizing X11 outside corporate influence.

Linux Mint 20.x has reached end-of-life and is now officially unsupported. Fingwit, a smarter fingerprint login, arrives in Mint 22.2.

Linux shell for iOS. Contribute to ish-app/ish development by creating an account on GitHub.

Linux Mint 22.2 operating system will feature fingerprint authentication capabilities with a brand-new app called Fingwit.

A new way to fix locked firmware issues with used hardware, perhaps.

Gradia is a new screenshot annotation tool for Linux that you can use to create engaging visuals for app stores, blogs, and social media - is it any good?

Sway 1.11 Wayland tiling window manager is out, bringing wlroots 0.19 support, better screen capture, improved output handling, and more.

The developers of Rhino Linux are in the process of adding a Plasma-based desktop environment for the distribution, and, if they play their cards right, it could be something special.

PowerTOP is yet another powerful free Linux tool added to my arsenal.

Orbit, Mozilla's AI assistant add-on for its Firefox web browser, is being discontinued as most of its features are now available natively.

: Chocolate Factory fixes issue, pays only $5K

Ubuntu 24.10 Oracular Oriole reaches end of life July 10, 2025. All users will need to upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin to continue receiving security updates.

On the GNOME Foundation blog today is an interesting post how Amazon Web Services (AWS) has ended up sponsoring and powering all of the GNOME web infrastructure.

Install applications that are not available via the standard package manager

More casualties in the wake of Mozilla wanting to redirect development efforts on the Firefox browser itself.