Following discussions from the 2025 Linux Maintainer Summit, merged overnight for the Linux 6.19 kernel is documentation concerning the Linux kernel project's continuity in the event that Linus Torvalds' official Git repository were to disappear or otherwise…

Recently I covered the draft code to add a full VR mode into the KDE Plasma desktop, and it has only continued to get more advanced with recent updates.

GParted 1.8 partition editor is out with multiple crash fixes, improved FAT handling, and safer file system copying.

Tired of fighting with Wine dependencies? A new unofficial AppImage provides a streamlined, self-contained way to get the Affinity suite running on Ubuntu.

Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 5 1.05 introduces accessibility improvements, Debian 12.13 base, and enhanced support for visually impaired users and refurbished PCs.

Ahead of tomorrow's official availability of new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 'Panther Lake' laptops, the review embargo lifted on Panther Lake and its much anticipated Arc B390 graphics

Xfce developers are using their donations from the community to fund a longtime core developer to create Xfwl4, an entirely new Wayland compositor for Xfce.

Brax open_slate is a privacy-focused tablet with Ubuntu and de-Googled Android support (crowdfunding)

OpenSSL 3.6.1 is out with fixes for multiple high-severity vulnerabilities affecting TLS, PKCS12, CMS, and certificate handling.

Following the release of zlib-rs 0.6 last week, the developers behind this Rust-based Zlib implementation have declared their API stable and complete.

Frosted blur effect is coming to System76's COSMIC desktop, giving apps and desktop elements a modern feel. These images shared by the team show how it looks.

Systemd founder and lead developer Lennart Poettering announced the creation of a new company called Amutable

Transmission 4.1 BitTorrent client is out with faster downloads, lower CPU usage, improved IPv6 support, and hundreds of fixes.

Krita 5.2.15, a free and open-source digital painting app, is out with crash fixes, improved tablet handling, and stability improvements for everyday creative work.

While the Asahi Linux project has made good progress on bringing Linux to Apple Silicon hardware, much of the success and in turn upstreaming to the Linux kernel has been around the aging M1 and M2 Macs

Aruma Studios have announced that their supernatural comedy point and click adventure Shadows of the Afterland is set for launch now on February 10th.

A critical-severity vulnerability in the vm2 Node.js sandbox library, tracked as CVE-2026-22709, allows escaping the sandbox and executing arbitrary code on the underlying host system.

Raspberry Pi is gearing up to launch another new product: a Raspberry Pi Smart Display Module.

VirtualBox 7.2.6 improves reliability on Windows 11, AMD systems, and Linux hosts, with fixes across VMM, GUI, and Guest Additions.

In light of Plasma 6.8 looking to go Wayland-exclusive and retire their X11 session support, SonicDE (formerly 'KDE-Lite') is getting off the ground as a fork of the relevant X11 support within the KDE desktop.

An exciting new announcement is the formation of the Open Gaming Collective, a collaborative organisation between many names in the Linux sphere.