13+ hour, 10+ min ago  (328+ words) Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1. 1 today as the latest stable version of this Rust-based desktop environment for Pop! _OS Linux and other GNU/Linux distributions. COSMIC 1. 1 introduces COSMIC Monitor as a drop-in replacement for GNOME System Monitor on Pop! _OS Linux, support…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago  (301+ words) Shelly developer Zoey Bauer released Shelly 2. 4 today as the latest version of this open-source and free Pacman alternative for Arch Linux, designed with the user in mind, especially newcomers. Shelly 2. 4 introduces a major revamp to the CLI version with Zsh…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago  (284+ words) Porteu X 2. 7 has been released today as the latest snapshot of this Slackware-based distribution inspired by Slax and Porteus and designed to be super fast, small, portable, modular, and immutable. Coming almost four months after Porteu X 2. 6, the Porteu X…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago  (355+ words) The Sparky Linux team announced today the release and general availability of Sparky Linux 2026. 06 as the June 2026 ISO snapshot of the Sparky Linux Rolling edition based on the Debian Testing repositories. Derived from the upcoming Debian 14 "Forky" software repositories (Debian…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago  (217+ words) They're going to use AI to get the bugs out at Free BSD. BSD is an open source operating system that predates Linux. As a direct descendant of AT&T Unix, it's considered to be a variant of Unix, the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (851+ words) AI coding agents such as Claude code or Codex get more capable every month. This is great for productivity, but approving all commands gets annoying really quickly. On the other hand, allowing agents to run any command on your work…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (335+ words) The Gnome Foundation has announced the first participants in the new Fellowship program it announced in March. Although Gnome continues to struggle with funding, it's been able to afford a new fellowship program to put money in the pockets of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (407+ words) Fwupd developer Richard Hughes released fwupd 2. 1. 5 today as a new stable update in the fwupd 2. 1 series of this open-source project for updating and managing the firmware of various hardware on your Linux distribution. Coming only two weeks after fwupd 2. 1. 4, the…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago  (328+ words) AOMedia formally announces AV2, following its first 1. 0 release, with better compression, multi-view video, and early ecosystem work. AOMedia has officially released AV2, its next-generation open video codec and successor to AV1. This follows the codec's 1. 0 milestone, confirming AV2 as the Alliance for Open Media's…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (351+ words) VLC Media Player maker Video LAN announced today the dav2d project as an open-source, cross-platform, and free AV2 decoder focused on speed and correctness, based on the popular dav1d decoder. The idea behind dav2d is to create the fastest AV2 decoder available on all platforms…...