System76 COSMIC Alpha 7 is out with new accessibility features, global shortcuts and more

System76 continue building up their desktop environment COSMIC, with a 7th Alpha release now available for testing built on top of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS alpha.

Mesa NVK (NVIDIA Vulkan driver) now Vulkan 1.4 conformant on Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs

Collabora developer Faith Ekstrand has announced a nice big milestone for the open source Mesa driver NVK, the NVIDIA Vulkan driver, as it has expanded Vulkan 1.4 conformance to now include Maxwell+ (Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs).

Exploring Pages, Links, Tags, and Block References in Logseq

Understand the basic building blocks of Logseq note management.

Wine 10.6 released with improvements to Bcrypt, Command Processor and WindowsCodecs

The Wine 10.6 development release is now available with the usual assortment of new features and bug fixes, to get more games and applications developed for Windows to work on Linux.

Online Docs... but Sovereign: This is Europe’s Open Source Answer to Big Tech

Docs is an open source, self-hosted document editor that allows real-time collaboration and gives users control over their data.

Develop for Nextcloud: App development tutorials

These app development tutorials will help you easily write new Nextcloud applications, extend existing features or integrate other software.

Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop

This is a bit of a major woopsie. The upgrade path for the latest Ubuntu 25.04 release has been pulled offline, as it has resulted in Kubuntu users seeing a broken desktop.

Ubuntu 25.04 'Plucky Puffin' is out now

Canonical has today released Ubuntu 25.04, codenamed "Plucky Puffin", their latest feature upgrade release to one of the most popular Linux distributions. This also includes updates for all the other editions like Kubuntu.

Ubisoft Surprises with Its Open Source Move

Ubuntu has open sourced one of its internal projects.

Mesa 25.0.4 bug-fix release out, plus the Mesa 25.1 feature update has a first release candidate

Developer Eric Engestrom announced the release of the latest Mesa 25.0.4 stable bug-fix release, and we're also closing in on the next feature release with Mesa 25.1 seeing a first release candidate for testing.

A public alpha of the 'semi-immutable' Manjaro Summit Linux is now available

The future of Linux distributions in many ways seems like immutable may be a good path, and now the Manjaro team want you to test out their own version of it with Manjaro Summit.

Ubisoft open sourced Chroma, their colourblind simulation tool

Wonderful to see! Ubisoft announced yesterday that they've open sourced their colourblind simulation tool Chroma (UbiChroma as it's called on GitHub), after several years of internal use and development.

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Cinnamon desktop from Linux Mint gets easier for other distros to package

The March 2025 development round-up blog post from Linux Mint covers some interesting changes coming to the popular Linux distribution, like making packaging the Cinnamon desktop easier for other distributions.

Mesa 25.1 will make Indiana Jones: The Great Circle playable on older AMD GPUs

Since Ray Tracing is a requirement to run Indiana Jones: The Great Circle, a change has been merged into RADV (AMD Vulkan driver) for Mesa to get it working on older AMD GPUs.

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The Nextcloud App Store - Upload your apps and install new apps onto your Nextcloud

Cooling device app CoolerControl v2.1 brings Zero RPM support, improved AMD RDNA 3/4 support and more

A rather big release for CoolerControl is now available with version 2.1 bringing numerous major feature enhancements to the popular open source app. Control all your cooling devices on Linux across CPUs, GPUs, RGB lighting and more.

DIY Neuroscience: Meet the Open Source PiEEG Kit for Brain and Body Signals

The PiEEG kit is an open source, portable biosignal tool designed for research, measuring EEG, EMG, EKG, and EOG signals. Want to crowdfund the project?

305: Thunderbird to compete with Gmail, GoboLinux is back, Firefox 137 gets good, & more Linux news - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital

This week in Linux, we have a lot of great news to talk about. First, Thunderbird is launching their own email service. KDE is working on making their own Pl...

DXVK 2.6.1 brings numerous needed fixes for playing Windows games on Linux and Steam Deck

DXVK is a Vulkan-based implementation of Direct3D 8, 9, 10 and 11. It's part of what Proton uses to make Windows games run so well on Linux platforms including the SteamOS based Steam Deck. DXVK 2.6.1 is now available fixing up some big issues.

Nexus Mods improve the new open source app with UI upgrades, Cyberpunk 2077 fixes and more

I continue to be very excited about improvements to the cross-platform open source Nexus Mods app, to finally firmly plug the modding hole on Linux platforms including the Steam Deck.

Linux GPU Control Application (LACT) v0.7.3 brings configurable charts, improvements for AMD RDNA3

Linux GPU Control Application (LACT) continues being one of the best ways to control your AMD, NVIDIA or Intel GPU on a Linux system with version 0.7.3 out now with new features and improvements.

NVIDIA open sourced PhysX and Flow GPU code

In a nice win for open source, NVIDIA have now provided the PhysX and Flow GPU source code to expand what developers can do with it.

Wine 10.5 released with pairing support in the Bluetooth driver and ARM64 improvements

Wine 10.5 is out now as the latest development release of the Windows compatibility layer that will eventually release as Wine 11 next year.

Mesa 25.0.3 graphics drivers released with numerous bug fixes

Mesa 25.0.3 has arrived as the latest bug-fix release for open source Linux graphics drivers, bringing a bunch of fixes across different drivers and some game fixes are included too.

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Command & Conquer - Combined Arms gets a major update with new missions, AI improvements and more

Command & Conquer - Combined Arms is a huge free RTS game based on OpenRA that includes Command & Conquer and Red Alert action combined in one game with plenty of extras and enhancements.

Ente wants to take on Google Photos with its privacy-first photo storage service | TechCrunch

Despite Google's intentions for its default image viewing and editing app for Android, the Photos app has, over the years, become one of the most popular

Ditch Proprietary Reminder Apps, Try Tasks.org Instead

Stay organized with Tasks.org, an open source to-do and reminders app that doesn't sell your data.

ProtonUp-Qt v2.12 brings a new Steam Deck theme and support for Proton-CachyOS

ProtonUp-Qt is a tool to add extra compatibility tools on Linux / Steam Deck like GE-Proton. A new release out now with version 2.12.

KDE Plasma 6.3.4 fixes 'the most common Plasma crash', now down to zero very high priority bugs

Work on the KDE Plasma desktop sounds like it continues to go very well, with some really important bug fixes arriving to make the experience a lot nicer. My favourite Linux desktop environment and what powers the Desktop Mode on Steam Deck.

Linux support for Command & Conquer Generals Zero Hour is coming along now it's open source

Now that the code for Command & Conquer Generals (along with other classic RTS games from EA) is open source, the community is working on getting it working natively on Linux without the need of Wine / Proton.

304: Linux 6.14 is here, HP considers SteamOS, plus new Zorin OS & EndeavourOS and more Linux news! - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital

This week in Linux, we have a brand new version of the Linux kernel, including a boost for gaming performance and GPU workload protection in the Linux 6.14 r...

Fixing a Steam Deck OLED bug for the Linux kernel 6.14 release was a major challenge

With the Linux kernel 6.14 out now, I noted in my quick-look overview about a bug that was fixed for the Steam Deck OLED model. Collabora have given a little more info on their work for this issue and how it was a challenge.

Flowblade 2.20 Releases With Sync Editing Upgrades

This update brings improved sync editing, new Sequence Link Container Clips, and keyframe animation presets for faster, smoother workflows.