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We have known for a while that the Linux 6.19 development cycle has been a bit disruptive with Christmas and New Year disrupting the early stages of development. Now, with the sixth release candidate just arriving, Linus Torvalds has more or less confirmed that an eighth release candidate, which is not the norm, looks very likely.

A big breakthrough for Adobe Creative Cloud on Linux.

VoidLink includes an unusually broad and advanced array of capabilities.

Wine 11.0 arrives with a year of development work, more than six thousand changes, and broad improvements across graphics, WoW64 compatibility, gaming, and system performance. From Vulkan and Direct3D tweaks to new Wayland desktop features and better device support, this release marks a confident leap forward for Windows application support on Linux.

It has been a while since they started the fundraising, but it’s heartwarming to see it reaching such a level by the end of the year!

…with varying definitions of “usable,” anyway.

A heart-warming story for cold, stony sysadmin hearts.

An attempt to provide vendor-neutral oversight as the agent train barrels on

After bearing with a very slow laptop, I tried out Fedora Xfce and the results were staggeringly good.

Linux Torvalds has released the last kernel update for the year. The merge window for Linux 6.19 is now open, but it’s expecting some delays.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will feature a revamped set of default applications. Canonical has confirmed that both the Totem video player and GNOME System Monitor

Firefox 145 has arrived with new features, enhanced privacy protection, and the end of support for 32-bit Linux systems.

But author warns that Direct3D 7 “is a land of highly cursed API inter-operability.”

The Linux Mint team just shared a new report on what they worked on in October, and it highlights updates to Cinnamon, better troubleshooting tools, and a few other tweaks.

Ubuntu Unity, the community-driven flavor reviving the classic Unity desktop, is struggling, and a moderator is calling for help to keep it alive.

RFC proposes power-button interrupt – and highlights wider problems with sleep states

Linus Torvalds has grown frustrated enough with seeing "Link: " tags within Git commits/patches that often times they are of no value and he's had enough of it. For Linux kernel activity moving forward he's going to be more strict over "useless" link tags in Git commit messages.

Mozilla announced today that they will be ending 32-bit Linux support for the Firefox web browser in 2026.

After bringing full GPU support to Asahi Linux on Apple Silicon, Alyssa Rosenzweig steps back from the project.

From its roots of being 'just a hobby, [which] won’t be big and professional like GNU' it has come a long way.

Another specialized Linux distro has announced its shutdown, joining the growing graveyard of discontinued distributions.

Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel. The RISC-V updates won't land this cycle and will need to try again for v6.18 later in the year. Linus refers to at least some of the proposed RISC-V code as garbage along with being submitted rather late during the merge window.

The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weakness

It's not a typo. Linux's desktop share is growing, according to the US government's records.

GParted Live 1.7.0 ends support for 32-bit systems, upgrades its Linux base, and improves boot device handling.

Let the best agent-to-agent protocol win.

Overtime defenses for Spectre-based attacks have taken their toll.

Community vetoes plans to axe i686 compatibility and switch X11 forks

Two information disclosure flaws have been identified in apport and systemd-coredump, the core dump handlers in Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora, according to the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU).

Linus Torvalds announces the release and general availability of Linux 6.15. It is the latest stable kernel version with several new features and improvements, better hardware support, and more.

Following recent discussions by Linux kernel developers around integrating swap cache and swap maps functionality with the swap allocator, Swap Table was born. With Swap Tables the hope is for lower memory use, higher performance, dynamic swap allocation and growth, greater extensibility, and other improvements over the existing swap code within the Linux kernel.

​Offensive Security warned Kali Linux users to manually install a new Kali repository signing key to avoid experiencing update failures.

Most Linux users assume their security tools will catch bad actors before damage is done -- but sadly, new research suggests that confidence may be misplaced. You see, ARMO, the company behind Kubescape, has uncovered what could be one of the biggest blind spots in Linux security today. The company has released a working rootkit called “Curing” that uses io_uring, a feature built into the Linux kernel, to stealthily perform malicious activities without being caught by many of the detection solutions currently on the market.

Canonical today released Ubuntu 25.04 "Plucky Puffin," bringing significant upgrades to the non-LTS distribution including Linux kernel 6.14, GNOME 48 with triple buffering, and expanded hardware support.

The effort to ensure that open-source software is reproducible has been gathering steam over the years, and gaining traction with major Linux distributions. Debian, for example, has been working toward reproducible builds for more than a decade; it can now produce official live CDs of the current stable release that are reproducible. Fedora started on the path much later, but it has progressed far enough that the project is now considering a change proposal for the Fedora 43 development cycle, expected to be released in October, with a goal of making 99% of Fedora's package builds reproducible. So far, reaction to the proposal seems favorable and focused primarily on how to achieve the goal—with minimal pain for packagers—rather than whether to attempt it.

And it's all down to an improved NTsync driver.

‘This thing needs to die’ he says, advising testing code be removed from normal builds.

The Noble Numbat has been besieged with delays

Hector Martin cites burnout, and Rust for Linux oppostion, in resigning.

Donor’s shift away from bare-metal servers leaves groups looking for new homes.

Milestone passed with the debut of Linux 6.14 rc1.

Wine compatibility layer is the heart of many Windows app translation projects.

As anticipated the Linux 6.13 kernel was promoted to stable today with an on-time release and in turn also marking the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window. Linux 6.13 stable has plenty of fine features for this first major kernel release of 2025.

That’s before the Legion Go S arrives.

Early enablement is underway.

Linux Mint has reclaimed its position as the top-ranked Linux distribution on DistroWatch, dethroning MX Linux. The latest page hit rankings, which reflect the popularity of distributions among DistroWatch users, place Linux Mint in first place with 2,412 hits per day. MX Linux, previously the reigning champ, now sits in second with 2,280 hits.

Linux Foundation has launched its India entity to boost open-source contributions from the South Asian nation, the second largest developer base after the U.S.

Leading Linux desktops boldly address the "not enough distros" non-problem

“Bootkitty” is likely a proof-of-concept, but may portend working UEFI malware for Linux.

High-capacity and high-speed SD and microSD cards will receive improved Linux support on the latest 6.11 kernel update.

Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities have been discovered in the needrestart utility used by Ubuntu Linux, which was introduced over 10 years ago in version 21.04.

Linux kernel 6.12 is one of the most significant releases of the year, delivering a feature nearly 20 years in the making: true real-time computing.