AMD today released AMDVLK 2025.Q1.3 as their official open-source Vulkan API driver for Linux systems. With this update is support for the Navi48 GPU with the recently-launched Radeon RX 9070 RDNA4 graphics cards.

The eight-inch Piccolo N150 is tiny, but its surprisingly good display and solid frame prove it's not a toy.

After a brief drama, the developer of Dash to Panel is stepping down, raising concerns about the future of this widely used GNOME extension.

Keeping your laptop always plugged-in speeds up the deterioration of its battery life. But if you are using a docking station, you don't have the option to unplug the power cord.

New feature on Google Pixel phones hints at a ChromeOS-like VM. The March "feature drop" for Android 15 on Google Pixel devices includes an optional Linux session.

You can argue if bash is a good programming language or not, but you can’t argue that it is a programming language. However, there are a few oddities about it that make it different from most other languages you probably know.

The Zed Editor as a modern IDE-focused text editor for programmers and developed by some of the Atom editor creators continues on quite a roll. Over the past year Zed has rolled out native Linux builds, added various AI features and also began open-sourcing its own edit prediction model.

DXVK 2.6 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download as a significant update that improves support for multiple games.

Slack is a cloud-based team communication platform designed to be businesses-to-business service, offering a central hub for messaging, tools, and files, enabling teams to collaborate and communicate. While Slack is available for Linux, it’s proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

In this tutorial, we will learn how to manage functions in Bash using declare command effectively in Linux.

Root cert expiry may bring breakage or worse for add-ons, media playback, and more. If you're running an outdated version of Firefox, update by Friday or risk broken add-ons, failing DRM-protected media playback, and other errors, due to an expiring root certificate.

Ubuntu embraces a Rust-based approach, introducing oxidizer for safe experimentation with new system utilities in 25.10.

With today's Mesa 25.1-devel Git code, the "Clover" OpenCL Gallium3D state tracker is officially deprecated. Clover will be eventually removed with the Rust-written Rusticl OpenCL driver being modern, much more actively maintained, and all-around a better option than the aging Clover code.

This post explains CPU load, how it affects your Linux server, and how to deal with it in critical moments. We think about high CPU usage and CPU load when discussing essential moments. These are two different things, even though they sound similar. Besides this, we will explain the CPU as the most critical part of a server.

We’ve talked about Chimera Linux a few times now on OSNews, so I won’t be repeating what makes it unique once more. The project announced today that it will be shuttering its RISC-V architecture support, and considering RISC-V has been supported by Chimera Linux pretty much since the beginning, this is a big step.

Steering Committee decides against merge of over-complex and largely unloved ALGOL-68 'at this point'. Version 15 of the GNU Compiler Collection is getting close to release, and as it does, some changes are not going to make it.

IMDT has introduced its latest System-on-Module and Single-Board Computer, both powered by the Renesas RZ/V2N processor. These new platforms are designed to deliver cost-effective, high-performance AI computing at the edge, supporting applications in robotics, smart cities, industrial automation, IoT, and smart retail.

This roundup highlights the finest IPTV streaming applications for Linux. The tools support live TV, movies, and series.

It's been a while since a new Stratis feature release for this Red Hat led effort to enhance local storage management on Linux systems. Stratis was born out of a desire to provide Btrfs/ZFS-style features atop the mature XFS file-system and the Device Mapper (DM) subsystem and they have continued pushing that goal for RHEL and other Linux environments.

LXQt 2.2 desktop environment is coming with better Wayland support, improved QTerminal, and fixes across the board.

GE-Proton 9-26 is out now bringing with it a bunch of fixes for various games on Linux / Steam Deck so here's what's new.

Linux is one of the most flexible operating systems that you can use today. From how it looks to its internal functions, you can customize just about anything on a Linux PC. Here are some simple, yet powerful programs that you can use to improve your Linux experience.

Mozilla, which in 2023 received about 75 percent of its revenue from royalties paid by Google and other search providers for search engine usage in Firefox, worries that the US Justice Department's proposed ban on the very same Google Search payments would be rather harmful.

The developers of the lightweight LXQt desktop environment have showcased some of the major changes coming to the LXQt 2.2 release, which is due in mid-April.

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project is out with a new monthly progress report to highlight its latest development accomplishments.

GStreamer 1.26 multimedia framework is a major update featuring H.266 support, enhanced closed captions, new analytics tools, improved Vulkan integration, and more.

Back in 2010, Rackspace and NASA launched a project called OpenStack, which was meant to become an open-source option for running an AWS-style cloud inside of private data centers. The two companies then moved OpenStack to the OpenStack Foundation, which has steadfastly shepherded the project through its many ups and downs.

SUSE is double-downing on its Rancher/StackState cloud native technologies in its drive to become a cloud native corporate power.

When interacting with windows displayed on your monitor, you're using a Windows Manager (WM). All major operating systems have one, whether it's macOS or Windows. Many Linux distros will ship with a WM, depending on the Desktop Environment (DE). It's easier than you think to move between WMs on Linux, but that's the beauty of this open-source platform.

To strengthen the open-source community, the Linux Foundation and the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra) have announced plans for OpenInfra to join the Linux Foundation as a member foundation.