The FOSS Force News Wire pulls mostly FOSS related news stories from a variety of sources and is updated every 30 minutes. The News Wire is also available as an RSS feed at http://fossforce.com/newswire. Time stamps are in UTC, so “4 hours ago” means it was published this hour EDT.
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How To Install OpenRGB on Fedora 42
RGB lighting has become a staple of modern gaming setups and enthusiast builds. However, controlling multiple RGB devices across different manufacturers often...Read more
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How To Install Postman on Debian 13
Postman has become an indispensable tool for developers working with APIs, offering comprehensive testing, documentation, and collaboration features. This powerful API development...Read more
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13 Amazingly Innovative 3D Printed Cases for Raspberry Pi I Came Across
So what if I don't have a 3D printer to print these cases. I can at least appreciate the creativity.Read more -
System76 Releases Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta Alongside COSMIC Desktop Beta
Overnight the Linux PC vendor System76 released their long-awaited Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta operating system along with the beta milestone of their...Read more
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Linux 6.18 Will Fix Lockups When Systemd Units Read Lots Of Files
Linux engineer at Microsoft Christian Brauner sent out his set of 12 pull requests touching the VFS portion of the Linux kernel....Read more
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Btrfs Brings BS Greater Than PS For Linux 6.18, Better Parallelism For Read-Heavy Workloads
Among the early pull requests submitted already to Linus Torvalds in advance of the Linux 6.18 merge window opening soon is the...Read more
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OBS Studio 32.0.1 Fixes Browser Source Breakage
The OBS Studio 32.0.1 hotfix resolves scene switching bugs, audio duplication problems, and browser source resource spikes.Read more -
Macaroni OS – Linux distribution
Macaroni OS is a Linux distribution born as an incubation project under the source-based Funtoo Linux umbrella. The post Macaroni OS –...Read more
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Linux 6.18 sched_ext Preps For Cgroup Sub-Scheduler Support
The sched_ext scheduler framework that allows creating kernel thread schedulers via BPF programs is ready with some updates for the Linux 6.18...Read more
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The best cheap tech gifts you can buy under $25
ZDNET found the best cheap tech gifts -- and deals -- under $25, so you can save on gift-giving for everyone on...Read more
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Get a free iPhone 17 Pro (and cheaper Powerbeats Pro 2 earbuds) at AT&T - here's how
Save up to $1,100 on the iPhone 17 Pro with trade-in and get $50 off a pair of the Powerbeats Pro 2...Read more
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Your TV's USB port has hidden superpowers: 5 clever ways I use mine
It's actually surprisingly useful.Read more
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KDE Plasma 6.5 Receives A Grayscale Mode, Early Feature Work Toward Plasma 6.6
Following last week's KDE Plasma 6.5 beta release, the focus has shifted to bug fixing ahead of the October release of Plasma...Read more
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Ubuntu 25.10's Only Supported RISC-V Platform: QEMU Virtualization
Back in June it was announced by Canonical that for the Ubuntu 25.10 release they would be raising the RISC-V baseline to...Read more
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Sandstorm – self-hostable web productivity suite
Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It's implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager. The post Sandstorm – self-hostable web...Read more
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Luxury retailer Harrods confirms customer information taken in cyber incident
Cyber security has been big news in the UK this year, with businesses from retail to automotive facing attempted breaches and service...Read more
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The best tech gifts you can buy under $100
You don't have to break the bank to gift tech. Check out these fun and affordable gadgets for $100 or less, plus...Read more
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Can't upgrade to Windows 11? These are my 4 most powerful troubleshooting secrets
If a Windows upgrade has ever gone sideways on you, you know how vague and unhelpful the error messages can be. Here...Read more
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Development Release: Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. System76, a US-based manufacturer of Linux desktops, laptops and servers, has...Read more
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[Testing Update] 2025-09-27 - Kernels, Plasma 6.4.5, GNOME 49.0, Cosmic 1.0b1
Hello community, here we have another set of package updates. Welcome to our new development cycle of Manjaro 25.1.0, code-named ‘Anh-Linh’. It...Read more