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Like clockwork, the semi-annual Fedora Project release - this one Fedora 45 - pops up on our radar.This week you get a two-fer, in the form of road-testing both Workstation (a.k.a. Gnome 51) and the KDE Plasma version. As you might expect, both excelled but we picked one over the other..

Unattended openSUSE Tumbleweed deployments on bare metal are critical because they eliminate manual intervention, ensure configuration consistency, and drastically reduce provisioning time across physical infrastructure. While Tumbleweed is a rolling-release distribution - traditionally favored by developers and power users on personal machines - deploying it at scale on bare metal using unattended methods providing by Agama Installer serves several vital engineering and operational purposes:

This past month has brought several software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed ARM with less than a handful of snapshots reaching the ARM port. The second half of October brought a two-version jump of GRUB2 to 2.16 with serial console and NVMe boot features, a security-focused Linux kernel 7.2.11 and…

Nautilus might be getting a neater way to organise its file views, with section headers breaking up long lists of content into groups. GNOME’s Christian Hergertr recently added support for section headers to GTK’s gridView, the widget Nautilus (among other apps) use to display items, noting it is ‘useful for organising items’ being displayed. Nautilus developer Peter Eisenmann commented to say he…

Sheets, Whiteboards, and Data artifact types bring Claude closer to a productivity suite

Autark can act without constant prompting, but leaves users to enforce their own security boundaries

A new version of High Tide, an unofficial TIDAL music streaming app for Linux built with GTK4/libdwaita, is out. Hight Tide 1.6.0 plumbs in support more features found in the paid streaming service’s official clients, including the ability to block artists and tracks for appearing in playlists or auto-play queues, with a new preferences panel to see and manage your blocks. Play buttons are now…

Sharing Linux release announcements is apparently a cybersecurity threat. Fortunately, Facebook’s keeping an eye on me to make sure that doesn't happen again.

Backed by Samsung, Square Enix, and others, KORA Systems announced KORA OS today as a Linux distribution built for the age of "intelligent PCs"…

With openSUSE Leap making use of the modern Agama installer developed by SUSE engineers, the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed is now preparing to make the same transitioning in replacing the YaST Installer…

Blender 5.3 adds native Gaussian Splatting support, enables Vulkan by default on Linux, and improves rendering, animation, and video editing.

The KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.8.3 today as the third maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment series, with more bug fixes and various improvements.

With Fedora 45 having shipped last week, developers are turning more of their attention to Fedora 46 that will debut by the end of next April…

An early version has arrived with Firefox 160, letting you move a tab or a selected part of a page into its own mini window. Does that serve any purpose?

Samsung's Galaxy XR headset runs on Android XR by default with its own downstream kernel patches. A user leveraging AI with multiple LLMs has now drafted an initial set of patches getting the Galaxy XR headset working on the mainline kernel along with bringing up the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 "Halliday" SoC that powers this VR/XR headset…

It is a release that has taken a year to develop, with major changes like a Wayland session that is no longer experimental.

The Mesa 26.3 open-source graphics stack has been released today as the third major point update to the Mesa 26 series, introducing new features and improvements across most of the included graphics drivers.

The Firefox 160.0 release builds are now available as the latest bi-weekly stable update to Mozilla's web browser…

LibreOffice is free for business, but WPS Office's free edition has licensing limits. Compare the PDF, cloud, AI, and compatibility trade-offs.

Darling is the software project more than a decade in development that is designed to run macOS binaries on Linux. This macOS compatibility layer for Linux is now gaining more brisk developments as it turns to AI/LLMs to assist in this creation…

The openSUSE Project’s rolling release Tumbleweed will switch to the Agama installer before the end of the year, according to an announcement on the Factory mailing list. Agama-based images are expected to replace the legacy YaST installer as the main download on get.opensuse.org within the coming weeks. The project is…

Continuing its two-week release cycle, Mozilla published today the final builds of the Firefox 160 open-source web browser ahead of the official unveiling on November 10th, 2026.

A weather research station powered by the weather itself.

Merged for Linux 6.13 back in 2024 was multigrain timestamp support for being able to switch between coarse and fine-grained change/modification time reporting on a per-file basis. This is useful if caring about accuracy more than the once-per-jiffy timestamps on files and was originally devised as a way of addressing NFS caching issues. A limitation of multigrain timestamps though has been the…

GNU’s long-running typesetting system gains clearer warnings, new formatting controls, and bug fixes in its latest release.

Looking for the best SSH client on Linux? We compared OpenSSH, PuTTY, Termius, MobaXterm and more, with honest pros and cons for each one.

The November 13-14 event in Beijing will focus on SuperPoD OS, infrastructure for AI agents, and industry deployment experiences. All this under the theme "Building Agentic Infra from the OS Up."

Morse Micro’s “HaLowLink 2” gateway runs OpenWrt on a MediaTek MT7621 processor with an MM8108 Wi-Fi HaLow radio supporting ranges of up to 1km and PHY data rates of up to 43.3Mbps. Originally announced in September 2025, the gateway is now available through distributors including Seeed Studio, Mouser Electronics, and DigiKey. The gateway’s main wireless…

Tumbleweed updates continuously, manual interactive installations frequently break due to rapid package, installer (Agama), or kernel shifts. Unattended automation ensures predictable, reproducible, and verifiable states for disaster recovery and testing. Mitigating Rolling-Release Fluctuation: Tumbleweed moves extremely fast. An unattended deployment via structured templates (profile.json) ensures that the initial bootstrap bypasses manual package selection errors and unpredictable installer UI changes.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Fedora 45, openSUSE Leap 16.1, aerynOS 2026.11, Omarchy 4.5, Cinnamon 6.8, LXQt 2.5, systemd embraces Rust, and more.