You pay a premium for Photoshop, Windows, and macOS—but they wouldn't exist without free, open-source building blocks ...

VLC 3.0.23, GIMP 3.0.8 and VirtualBox 7.2.6 were among January's Linux app releases, slipping alongside an open-source video ...

Linux maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman won the prestigious Prize for Excellence in Open Source 2026 for his dedication to Linux kernel stability.

The Open Gaming Collective, among other projects, is building a single kernel optimized for gaming.

Bazzite, Asus Linux, ShadowBlip, PikaOS, and Fyra Labs will work with other partners to jointly accelerate Linux gaming.

LKRG (short for Linux Kernel Runtime Guard) is a loadable kernel module that continuously monitors the health and integrity ...

"In the absence of an agreed-upon process, the community would find itself playing Calvinball at an awkward time." ...

Linus Torvalds released the seventh release candidate (RC7) for the upcoming Linux Kernel version 6.19. Here's what's new in Linux 6.19-rc7.

Linus plans to live forever. But just in case he doesn't, there's now a succession plan (though no actual successor).

The main driving force behind this is Red Hat developer Jocelyn Falempe, who has been pushing for the switch to Kmscon for ...

KDE Plasma 6.6 is approaching, and one of its more controversial changes is a new login screen that depends on systemd – ...

A recent benchmark from PC Games Hardware suggests that, at least for some games, Proton has nearly eliminated the performance cost of running Windows code on ...