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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7 Best Free & Open-Source Vercel Alternatives (2025): Self-Hosted PaaS for Developers
If you're building modern web apps, React, Next.js, Vue, Svelte, or even static sites, you need Vercel and Netlify in your toolkit....Read more
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OpenIndiana 2025.10 ISOs Available For Download
OpenIndiana 2025.10 ISOs were published on Sunday as the newest half-year update to this Illumos (OpenSolaris) derived platform...Read more
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This email app should’ve shipped with Windows instead of Outlook
The new Outlook Windows app is not the Email app you should actually use.Read more -
Sequoia unveils $950M in new early-stage funds as it strives to be ‘only as good as our next investment’
The legendary firm launched a $750 million early-stage fund targeting Series A startups and a $200 million seed fund.Read more
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TechCrunch Disrupt 2025: Day 1
Today is the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt 2025! 10,000 founders, investors, and builders are flooding Moscone West for a nonstop run...Read more
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Ubuntu Unity Project Faces Uncertain Future
Ubuntu Unity faces manpower shortages as lead dev Rudra has no time to maintain it, sparking a public call for help.Read more -
Love in the Time of Hegemonic Suicide
Trump's attempts to extend his power by force -- to replace American hegemony with personalized coercion -- are and will continue to...Read more -
Rust Coreutils 0.3.0 released
Version 0.3.0 of Rust Coreutils, part of the uutils project, has been released. This release adds safe directory traversal for several utilities,...Read more
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Israeli intelligence vets raise $20M to track developer buying signals
Onfire, a vertical AI platform for IT revenue teams, is coming out of stealth with $20 million in funding, including a $14...Read more
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Linux Kernel 6.18 RC3 Released With SMB, XFS And Btrfs Fixes
Linus Torvalds announced the release of third release candidate (RC3) for the upcoming Linux Kernel version 6.18. Here's what's new. The post...Read more
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Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (intel-microcode, openjdk-11, openjdk-17, openjdk-21, python-pip, request-tracker4, thunderbird, and tika), Fedora (cef, chromium, complyctl, cri-o1.31, cri-o1.32,...Read more
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I built a custom homepage for Chrome that shows weather, RSS, and my tasks
Why settle for Chrome’s plain new tab page when you can build your own dashboard?Read more -
Bibman – BIBliography MANager
Bibman (BIBliography MANager) is a small console tool for managing BibTeX files. It's written in Perl . The post Bibman – BIBliography...Read more
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AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 Linux Performance For Single & Dual GPU Benchmarks
Today the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 is officially shipping as the company's new RDNA4-based offering designed for AI workloads and priced...Read more
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodhunt to fully shut down in April 2026
Time to say goodbye completely to another game, as Sharkmob AB have announced the full shutdown is coming for Vampire: The Masquerade...Read more -
The huge TimeSplitters Rewind fan project launches in November
TimeSplitters Rewind is a massive upcoming fan project that pretty much remakes the original trilogy of TimeSplitters games and it finally has...Read more -
Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 43 (Oct 20 – 26, 2025)
Catch up on the latest Linux news: KDE Plasma 6.5, VirtualBox 7.2.4, Jellyfin 10.11, Uptime Kuma 2.0, Valkey 9.0, Canonical Academy, new...Read more
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Valgrind 3.26.0 released
Version 3.26.0 of the Valgrind memory-profiling and debugging framework has been released. Notable changes include updated support for the Linux Test Project...Read more
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Join the LibreOffice Team as a Paid Developer focusing on scripting support, preferably full-time, remote (m/f/d)
Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind...Read more -
MISERY is a new rogue-lite Stalker-like co-op survival game
A rogue-lite Stalker-like to play with friends designed to look like a game from retro consoles? You can sign me up for...Read more