Following a "community preview" soft launch, the Arduino Nano Matter — targeting Matter-compliant smart home projects — is now available.

KDE and GNOME are gearing up to build their own Linux distributions. What does this mean? Let's find out!

The Linux 6.8 kernel merged the Imagination PowerVR driver as a new open-source driver for supporting the PowerVR 'Rogue' graphics architecture and being developed in tandem by Imagination Tech with their upstream Mesa Vulkan driver

NVIDIA 565 graphics driver for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris is now available for download with various improvements and bug fixes.

System76 today released the newest development/testing version of their Rust-based desktop environment designed for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution.

A third-party Kubuntu remix with a severe identity crisis

With the new Linux kernel patches posted yesterday for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernels on x86_64 CPUs as part of that patch series was introducing new Kconfig build options around the x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels

Linux kernel 6.12 is now officially marked as LTS (Long-Term Support) on the kernel.org website and it will be supported until December 2026.

Over the past two years, developer Bananymous has been slowly putting together a UNIX-like OS that is written almost entirely in C++. The OS even supports x86_64 and i686 architectures.

The immutable openSUSE Leap Micro 6.1 is out, featuring soft-reboot, TOTP for PAM, enhanced tools for container hosting, and more.

The SDL2 library is widely used by cross-platform games and other software

While its hand may have been forced, Arduino promises big things from the move to Zephyr — including compilation time reductions.

Fwupd 2.0.3 improves firmware updates with faster Dell dock writes, power quirks for Framework systems, and support for the Primax Ryder Mouse.

Dauntless from Phoenix Labs has finally launched on Steam, it's also free to play so you can go and check out this monster-hunting game without spending a penny.

Box64 v0.3.2 is out today as the newest feature release to this Linux user-space emulator for allowing x86_64 binaries to run on ARM64 (AArch64) Linux devices

Linux 6.12 brings real-time support, a new extensible scheduler, and QR error codes.

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