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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I replaced Chrome’s new tab page with this dashboard and I’m never going back
What used to be empty space is now the most useful screen I own.Read more -
GitHub Takes Down Rockchip MPP Repository After FFmpeg Copyright Claim
GitHub disabled the Rockchip Linux MPP repository after a DMCA notice from an FFmpeg developer alleging violations of the LGPL license.Read more -
Dangerous Linux Commands Beginners Must Avoid (Top 10)
This guide explains top 10 dangerous Linux commands in simple terms. Learn why they are risky and how beginners should think about...Read more
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Every sci-fi fan needs to know about this upcoming Ryan Gosling movie
Project Hail Mary is going to be one of the biggest sci-fi movies of 2026, and maybe one of the biggest movies...Read more -
This $6 gadget fixed the one thing I hated about wearing glasses on Zoom
It's cheap, quick and easy to do, and can make things look quite niceRead more -
Linux Kernel Highlights For 2025: Schedulers, Rust & Torvalds' Commentary
With the end of the year quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most-viewed Linux kernel news...Read more
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New Linux Patches Improve exFAT Read Performance Via Multi-Cluster Mapping
For those using Microsoft's exFAT file-system under Linux for the likes of flash drives and SD cards, a new patch series posted...Read more
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Intel Open-Source Software Setback: IWD Development Hiatus
Adding to the unfortunate engineering setbacks at Intel this year as part of cost-cutting measures, the Intel IWD software development has been...Read more
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After Vizio Ruling, SFC Pushes Back And Torvalds Weighs In
The court ruled, SFC fired back, and Linus couldn’t resist weighing in. Here’s what actually happened. The post After Vizio Ruling, SFC...Read more
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I changed these 5 settings and my Android phone feels brand new
Simple settings that can make a big difference.Read more -
Linux 6.19 Lands Fix For ARM64 EFI Systems Crashing On Boot
Adding to the early headaches of Linux 6.19 with some regressions in performance and functionality were ARM64 hosts crashing on this in-development...Read more
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flir – parse and rewrite R code
flir is an R package to detect and rewrite code patterns. It was originally created to be an R linter and an...Read more
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QNX Introduces a Self-Hosted Developer Desktop
QNX has released a self-hosted Developer Desktop for QNX 8.0, featuring an XFCE desktop on Wayland with native compilation support.Read more -
DWARF Explorer – GUI utility for navigating the DWARF debug information
DWARF Explorer is a cross-platform GUI utility for visualizing the DWARF debugging information in executable files The post DWARF Explorer – GUI...Read more
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LibreOffice Viewer now available on Meta Quest VR headsets
For years we’ve maintained LibreOffice Viewer for Android, which lets you access files in these formats on mobile devices: Open Document Format...Read more
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b4n – TUI for the Kubernetes API
b4n is a terminal user interface (TUI) for the Kubernetes API, created mainly for learning the Rust programming language. The post b4n...Read more
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AMD RDNA3/RDNA4 Go Down Hard On Linux 6.19, But Here's How The Older AMD GPUs End Out 2025
As part of the various end-of-year benchmarking comparisons on Phoronix and with Linux 6.19 switching older AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics cards to...Read more
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Edlin on FreeDOS: When a simple line editor is all you need
In the very early days of DOS, the standard editor was a no-frills line editor called Edlin. Tim Paterson wrote the original...Read more
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ibtop – real-time terminal monitor
ibtop is a real-time terminal monitor for InfiniBand networks - htop for high-speed interconnects. The post ibtop – real-time terminal monitor appeared...Read more
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FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending December 26, 2025
Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read article on FOSS Force for the week that just...Read more