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Proposals for both GNOME and Firefox would disable the feature by default, but the final decision is still pending.

Actually, these are mostly based on my New Year resolutions, and not all of these will be applicable to you, but you will surely find one or two to add to your new year resolution as a desktop Linux user.

Previously proprietary, this game engine is now fully open source.

New crash recovery wrapper and welcome screen arrive, though windowrules require manual migration.

The v3 patch series brings improved performance and new features while dropping the "Plus" moniker.

Two-year journey from Debian Ports brings LoongArch to the officially supported architecture lineup.

But it's not entirely Arch Linux's fault. This stems from NVIDIA dropping Pascal support and Arch's decision to push legacy drivers to AUR.

And I understand why he got annoyed and angry.

The devs plan a hardened server image with optimized packages and pre-tuned settings.

No, this is not a list of all the new distros that came up in 2025. We are listing the ones we covered throughout this year.

FuriLabs launches enterprise-only VX1 with MDM capabilities for companies.

Based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with Secure Session as default and many other improvements.

End 2025 on a winning note by grabbing some fun games for your Linux gaming rig!

The open source YouTube alternative offers some welcome updates for content creators.

Previously enterprise-only hardened images go open source under Apache License 2.0.

The new addition brings custom AI security and safety tooling to Red Hat.

Greg Kroah-Hartman announced this alongside 150+ C code vulnerabilities that were addressed.

Official Armbian utility supports over 300 boards with smart image filtering and verified writes.

Proposed legislation would make it illegal to use VPNs for accessing geo-blocked content.