19+ hour, 9+ min ago   (1143+ words) Every Linux distro ships with a default desktop environment, but that default is rarely the best fit for the person actually using the computer. Some people want a taskbar and start menu that feels like Windows. Some want as little…...

9+ hour, 42+ min ago   (365+ words) The KaOS Linux team has officially released KaOS Linux 2026.09 today as the first ISO snapshot of this independent distribution using Dinit as the default init system instead of systemd. As previously reported, the KaOS Linux devs have decided to move…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago   (303+ words) Coming almost three months after Agama 22, the Agama 24 release introduces a “Browse with details…” option in the web UI to open a sortable table listing for each network device along with its type, IP addresses, and connection state, allowing you…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (254+ words) The 32-year-old GNU Automake tool to help with the drudgery of endless strings of./configure, make, make install hell, yesterday announced its first new release in 15 months. The announcement came as an email from the project’s co-maintainer Kamila Szewczyk to…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1709+ words) systemd runs the show on most Linux distributions you’ll bump into today. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, and Arch all default to it. Depending on who you ask, that’s either systemd solving real problems that the old init systems never fixed,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (371+ words) Proving there are some aspects of Free Software that not only last forever, but are constantly being made new again, GNU Emacs is out with version 31.1. This is the first new release in about a year for Emacs, which is,…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (329+ words) The August 2026 release of DietPi v10.6 expands hardware support with new images for the Orange Pi 4 Pro, Orange Pi Zero 3W, and several Odroid boards. The update also improves DietPi-Banner functionality, adds RISC-V support for the Kubo IPFS Node package, and addresses…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (975+ words) After years of technical research and foundational work, the Fedora Badges application service has been rebuilt from the ground up, and it is heading to production. Whether you have been collecting badges for years or you are brand new to…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (837+ words) Linus Torvalds spent the better part of a day chasing a bug that had been sitting in the Linux kernel for two years. The actual fix came down to one line of logic. Finding it took eighteen kernel boots, twenty…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (423+ words) Orion is yet another new browser on its way to Linux. The browser is from Kagi, whose search engine doesn’t accept advertising or collect user data, so it’s big on protecting user privacy and is unlikely to ever cut a…...