The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) is a Debian-based live DVD/USB with the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user. The product ships with several Internet applications, including web browser, IRC client, mail client and instant messenger, all pre-configured with security in mind and with all traffic anonymised. To achieve this, Incognito uses the Tor network to make Internet traffic very hard to trace.

The GNOME project today announced the release of GNOME 49 “Brescia”, a new version of the popular open-source desktop environment. GNOME 49 features new default apps, new lock screen features, smoother interface animations and a glut of usability and accessibility improvements. This update is notable for being the first version of the GNOME desktop to not support running on Xorg/X11 by default. Distro makers and packagers can choose to re-enable X11 support in GNOME 49 at build-time, but the ‘official’ release disables it. I published a comprehensive overview of GNOME 49’s key changes last week, so check out that article if […]

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GNOME 49 "Brescia" has been officially released today with improvements big and small across this popular Linux desktop environment.

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GNOME 49.0 is out today as the latest half-year feature release to the GNOME desktop that will go on to power the likes of Fedora Workstation 43 and Ubuntu 25.10...

Inspired by drawn-on-film animation of the 1930s, ZOE Begone! masterfully blends together a bullet hell with a run and gun shooter and you need to check it out.

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When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks I also ended up carrying out some Llama.cpp AI benchmarks as the first time exploring the AI inferencing performance between Windows and Linux for both CPU and GPU-accelerated deployments. Here are those results for exploring the Llama.cpp performance between Windows and Linux with different large language models.

Looking a lot like a classic Resident Evil game but switching things up to be turn-based, with duneon exploration - House of Necrosis looks genuinely very cool.

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Yesterday I was invited along with a small group of others to try out the AMD Instinct MI355X accelerator down in Austin, Texas. The AMD Instinct MI355X is fully supported with the newly-released AMD ROCm 7.0...

Flick Shot Rogues is a turn-based tactical roguelike about flicking your characters across the map, to bump into enemies. It's clever and a new favourite.

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Linux Mint is an Ubuntu-based distribution whose goal is to provide a classic desktop experience with many convenient, custom tools and optional out-of-the-box multimedia support. It also adds a custom desktop and menus, several unique configuration tools, and a web-based package installation interface. Linux Mint is compatible with Ubuntu software repositories. Besides its Ubuntu-based flavour, the project also produces a separate "Debian" edition (called LMDE), based on the latest stable Debian version.

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor 1.0 has now officially released, so you can deep dive into one of the best horde survival games around and dig for riches.

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Systemd 258 is out today as stable as the latest major feature release to this Linux init system and service manager...

Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20250910 as the newest version of this in-house Linux distribution used by Azure and other services. Azure Linux 3.0 has long been using the Linux 6.6 LTS kernel while now Linux 6.12 LTS is a new option focused on providing better hardware enablement support...

From Transhuman Design who made Soldat, King Arthur's Gold and Maniac is a fresh action game with Jackal and you can now try it early with the demo release.

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Neptune is a GNU/Linux distribution for desktops. It is based on Debian's Stable branch, except for a newer kernel, some drivers and newer versions of popular applications, such as LibreOffice. It also ships with the latest version of the KDE desktop. The distribution's main goals are to provide a good-looking general-purpose desktop with pre-configured multimedia playback and to offer an easy-to-use USB installer with a persistence option.

The 2.0 demo of the casual sweet farm-to-table cooking game Kokoro Kitchen is out now, and it really does look wonderful.

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You're supposed to only be able to use AMD FSR4 with the latest AMD GPUs, but thanks to a woops from AMD - even the Steam Deck can now use FSR4.

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A patch making it to a TIP Git branch this week adds Linux kernel support for detecting the FreeBSD Bhyve hypervisor, which will become important with today's growing server CPU counts...

Intel shipped the Compute Runtime 25.35.35096.9 as their newest monthly feature update to this open-source GPU compute stack for their integrated and discrete graphics wares for providing OpenCL and Level Zero support...

Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team is the one who has been driving the development forward on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver. While traditionally focused on getting OpenGL games running over Zink, recently he has taken to optimizing Zink for workstation graphics...

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project published a new blog post to outline some of their latest development activity. One of the areas they have been focusing on in the performance department has been for addressing much slower git status performance compared to Linux...

Kdenlive developers are working on keyframes dopesheet, UI changes, per‑project layouts and titler animations to improve this free video editor.

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The big set of Rust DRM kernel graphics/display driver updates were sent out to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel. Most notable with this pull request is merging the Tyr driver, the new open-source and Rust-based DRM driver for Arm Mali GPUs...

AMD engineers have begun ironing out ACPI C4 support for the Linux kernel in order to provide greater power savings on newer AMD Ryzen platforms that have begun to support this deeper sleep state...