Category Archives: Style

Wayland is rapidly shaping up to be the future of the Linux desktop, offering a more modern and secure alternative to the aging X11-based Xorg display server protocol. With its modular design, Wayland delivers smoother graphics, enhanced security, and better support for modern hardware. While many people still have reservations over its adoption, citing issues […]

MariaDB Foundation published its annual long-term support release of its highly popular open-source RDBMS, MariaDB 11.8 LTS. The main highlight is MariaDB Vector, a native implementation of vector similarity search – a key technique in machine learning and natural language processing. The release introduces a dedicated VECTOR data type, index structures optimized for nearest-neighbor queries, […]

Welcome to week twenty-three of Linuxiac’s 2025 Weekly Roundup—your trusted authority for all things Linux & Open Source. Here’s a summary of all the major Linux and FOSS highlights during the past week (Jun 2 – 8). Linux Distributions We cover two updates in the field of Linux distributions, both of which are on the […]

Langfuse, a monitoring and analytics platform for applications powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), recently announced that it is making all features from its “Pro” offering open source. The move is meant to provide developers and organizations with greater flexibility in how they track, troubleshoot, and optimize their AI-powered solutions. Let’s take a closer look […]

Fastfetch, the tool beloved by Linux enthusiasts for showcasing a sleek summary of system information right in the terminal, has just launched its latest update: version 2.45. For Android enthusiasts, Fastfetch now supports detecting marketing names for OnePlus devices. So, instead of generic hardware names, users can now enjoy seeing their familiar, consumer-friendly OnePlus branding […]

Today, less than a month after the 25.04.1 apps collection release, the KDE team has rolled out its second maintenance update to this series, KDE Gear 25.04.2. Among the notable fixes, the popular video editing tool Kdenlive addresses several critical issues. Users will be pleased that bin clip effects will no longer disappear after disabling […]

Despite repeated rounds of international diplomacy, sanctions, and shifting front lines, the most recent chapter of the Russo-Ukrainian War doesn’t seem to be closing out anytime soon as both sides remain firmly entrenched in a prolonged, bloody conflict. Amid this ongoing standoff, Ukraine recently launched a major drone operation deep inside Russian territory. And it […]

VirtualBox, a popular open-source virtualization software, has rolled out its latest maintenance release, version 7.1.10, focused on bug fixes and incremental improvements. With this release, Windows hosts receive several noteworthy corrections. Most significantly, the VBoxManage utility no longer crashes when invoking the guestcontrol run command, thereby streamlining automated workflows that rely on this functionality. Furthermore, […]

I’ve always had a soft spot for simple applications that stick to the classic UNIX philosophy: do one thing and do it well. That’s exactly why I think the app I’m about to introduce deserves a lot more attention and is worth checking out. Meet Grafito – a simple yet powerful systemd web-based UI log […]

Ubuntu has entered a phase of modernization, marked by a series of strategic changes Canonical has implemented over the past few months. Take, for example, the introduction of sudo-rs as a Rust-based alternative to sudo, the shift toward newer default applications, and the decision to include the latest Linux kernel in new releases. These are […]