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IONOS has been picked as a contractor, and the service would run inside data centers in Germany.

Berlin, 3 November 2026 – The Document Foundation today announced the release of LibreOffice 26.2.7, the seventh maintenance update to the LibreOffice 26.2 branch. Building on the major feature release published on 4 February 2026, this update delivers targeted bug fixes and stability improvements contributed by a global community of

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora Linux 45! Whether you use Fedora on your desktop, server, edge device, or cloud instance, Fedora Linux 45 brings polished desktop upgrades, powerful new installer features, and updated toolchains. Every Fedora release is a major community effort – thank you to everyone in our…

EN / CA / CZ / ES / JA / EL / NL / SV / ZH-TW Members of the openSUSE Project are excited to announce the release of openSUSE Leap 16.1. This is the first minor release in the Leap 16 series and with this release, openSUSE’s immutable server…

Last week, Google and industry partners dismantled the XCPE backdoor which enrolled more than 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet. We assess with high confidence that the backdoor and botnet were intentionally developed, deployed, and operated for financial gain by...

AerynOS 2026.11 was released today along with a lengthy blog post highlighting the recent development work on this original Linux distribution…

Fedora Linux 45 is now available for download as the latest stable version of this RPM-based, Red Hat-sponsored modern GNU/Linux distribution for the masses.

Learn a step-by-step guide to installing and using the Dolphin emulator on Ubuntu 25.04 to play your favorite GameCube and Wii console games.

GIMP 3.2.8 is now available for download as the fourth maintenance update to the latest GIMP 3.2 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform image editing software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Linux Mint is bringing back a feature most Linux distributions quietly gave up on years ago: hibernation.

Raspberry Pi raises the price of its 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 by $80 to $385, citing rising memory costs and supply constraints.

Fixes for the CVE-2026-98432 Linux kernel vulnerability are available for Ubuntu.

GIMP 3.2.8 delivers a faster Preferences dialog, improved RTL text editing, restored Offset filtering, and multiple bug fixes.

Intel today posted a set of patches for bringing SoundWire support in the upstream Intel AVS driver for Raptor Lake. While Intel SoundWire activities are not new, I was curious to see them focusing on Raptor Lake improvements in 2026 for what will then go into a 2027 Linux kernel version…

Linux Mint’s next release will offer a hibernation mode, so you can close your laptop mid-session and not worry about returning to a drained battery. A new Sleep Modes page in the System Administration tool will make it easy to enable hibernation, and ensure it get setup the way you need. Over a few days, a laptop may sleep for a few days, but continues to use some power. If the battery runs out…

The aerynOS project has informed 9to5linux.com today about the release and general availability of aerynOS 2026.11 as the latest ISO snapshot of this independent Linux distro previously known as Serpent OS.

aerynOS 2026.11 ISO adds Budgie Desktop, an experimental installer with Btrfs support, and a redesigned Moss package manager CLI.

The “Lunduke Computer Operating System” from the Linux Tycoon is systemd-free, but wears a MAGA hat.

Cutefish returns with a rebuilt desktop environment, early macOS application compatibility, and nightly ISOs for AMD64 and ARM64.

'Modern tooling is already changing our daily workflows' says CEO at open source biz

After booting via USB pen on target box, right after you see the first screen for selection of desired OS, you are supposed to press CTRL+ALT+F3 without any other input into the first page of Agama Web UI. You would see in terminal IP-TARGET of target host and root password. From another box ( in my case no https://IP:443 ) launch your browser to https://IP-TARGET.
This step will bring you to Agama WEB UI and prompt for root "password". After entering Agama WEB UI environment select OS (Tumbleweed for instance) manage as usual until creating root account . . . . .

Flash the cash, flush the cache

In this article, you will learn how to use the Linux dd command with options and arguments and use it to create backups, clone hard drives, make bootable USB flash drives, and more.

CentOS Linux is gone, but CentOS Stream and Ubuntu Server are still here. See how they compare on support, security, packages and cost before you deploy.

Wants more local AI, without Big Tech getting open access to everything

Orange Pi has published hardware details for the OrangePi O1, a 90 × 70mm SBC based on the Sophgo BM1688 processor. It pairs eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores with a RISC-V C906 coprocessor and a 16-TOPS INT8 TPU, along with up to 16GB of LPDDR4/LPDDR4X memory. The BM1688 integrates eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores operating at up…

France's National Assembly has voted in favour of a new "internet tax" that would charge companies for every gigabyte of data they send to users in France. It may get messier than GDPR.

We often talk on this blog about large-scale migrations to LibreOffice, such as in the Austrian Military. But many small businesses are switching away from Microsoft, Google and other tech giants too. Today we’re talking to Mišo Oroz from Zerolock, a company in Italy that helps small businesses to switch

Rising component costs drive price increases for 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 and Compute Module 5, but not Raspberry Pi 500+.

Valve just published their Steam Survey results for October and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use on a relative basis…