Forking Ahead: A Year of Valkey
In March of 2024, the open source community witnessed the birth of Valkey, a new BSD-licensed high-performance key-value datastore. Born as a fork in response to Redis OSS 7.2's license change, Valkey represented a commitment to maintaining truly open...
openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 Call for Speakers
We are pleased to announce that the Call for Speakers for the openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 is now open. The event will take place from August 29 to 31, 2025 in Faridabad, India. This summit is an excellent opportunity to share your expertise, ideas, and e...
Ghostty DEBs Now Available for Ubuntu 25.04
Ghostty terminal fans needn’t fear an upgrade to Ubuntu’s latest release, as a community packaging effort just added Ghostty DEB packages for Ubuntu 25.04. The Ghostty Ubuntu project was set up was the aim of providing “Ubuntu/Debian (.deb) packa...
Ghostty DEB Installers Now Available for Ubuntu 25.04
Ghostty terminal fans needn’t fear an upgrade to Ubuntu’s latest release, as a community packaging effort just added Ghostty DEB packages for Ubuntu 25.04. The Ghostty Ubuntu project was set up was the aim of providing “Ubuntu/Debian (.deb) packa...
The Fedora Project history and family tree
This article provides a short overview and history of the Fedora Project. Introduction The Fedora Project has become known for Linux innovation. Since its inception in 2003, Fedora has been a proving ground where new ideas in Linux are tested and refin...
Parallels Desktop 20.3 Brings Linux VM Fixes to Mac Users
The fourth major release in the Parallels Desktop 20 series has been released, bringing a stack of fixes for running Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines on macOS. Yes, I did say macOS. I know; at first blush it seems odd for an Ubuntu blog to cov...
11 Things to Do After Installing Ubuntu 25.04
The Ubuntu 25.04 release is packed full of fresh features, updated apps and other upgrades that deliver a practical, pleasing out-of-the-box experience. —Perhaps not a perfect one, though. I just installed Ubuntu 25.04 on my “couch potato” laptop...
Full Steam Ahead with RISC-V and Fedora Linux 42
The Fedora RISC-V SIG is excited to share that our RISC-V images for Fedora Linux 42 have landed on-time and without delay! If you’ve been watching our progress over the past few releases, you know that staying on schedule is a big deal, especially g...
How to Upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’
Do you currently run Ubuntu 24.10 on your computer but want to upgrade to the new Ubuntu 25.04 release to benefit from its (many) changes? As long as you’re full up-to-date and have a working internet connection, you can upgrade to Ubuntu 25.04 di...
Canonical Releases Ubuntu 25.04 Plucky Puffin
The latest interim release of Ubuntu introduces “devpacks” for popular frameworks like Spring, along with performance enhancements across a broad range of hardware. 17 April 2025 Today Canonical announced the release of Ubuntu 25.04, codenamed “P...
Ubuntu 25.04 Release Now Available for Download
Pull the party poppers and unpack the cake for today is Ubuntu release day — and Ubuntu 25.04 ‘Plucky Puffin’ is now available to download! Ubuntu 25.04 is arguably the most polished, performant release to date! As the latest short-term release o...
Linux Foundation Newsletter: April 2025
Welcome to the April 2025 edition of the LF Newsletter. We’ve got exciting LF announcements including new members and an intent to form, three new research reports + our webinar series, project milestones, and can't miss events! We are so glad you’...
No Hidden Software, No Surprises
The openSUSE News article Freedom Means Knowing What’s Installed highlights a critical benefit of using openSUSE and other Linux distributions; complete system transparency! This principle isn’t just a philosophical pillar of open-source software, ...
How to rebase to Fedora Linux 42 on Silverblue
Fedora Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. If y...
VirtualBox 7.1.8 Adds Support for Linux Kernel 6.14
Ubuntu 25.04 is out this week and many will be turning to virtual machine to test, trial or tie the release into their development workflows — perfect timing for a new version of VirtualBox, then! Oracle today (April 15) issued the fourth maintenance...
New in Fedora: Running x86 programs on ARM systems
The newly released Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 42 introduces out-of-box support for running x86 and x86-64 programs on ARM systems. This is accomplished by leveraging the emulation stack originally developed for Fedora Asahi Remix. This work is now integ...
What’s new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 42
Fedora 42 has been released! 🎉 So let’s see what arrives with the new releases for the Fedora Atomic Desktops variants (Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic and Budgie Atomic). New COSMIC Atomic variant The new COSMIC desktop has been packaged for Fed...
Fedora Asahi Remix 42 is now available
We are happy to announce the general availability of Fedora Asahi Remix 42. This release brings the newly released Fedora Linux 42 to Apple Silicon Macs, following our Beta release last month. Fedora Asahi Remix is developed in close collaboration wi...
What’s new in Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 42
Fedora Linux provides a wide variety of users with leading edge open source technology in a community developed and maintained operating system. Fedora KDE releases combine the reliable and trusted Fedora Linux base with the KDE Plasma desktop environm...
