Free Software Foundation project aims to reverse-engineer non-freedom respecting firmware To bridge the gap between Android distributions and true mobile phone freedom, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has launched an initiative called Librephone.…

With Fedora 43 releasing in the coming weeks, Fedora stakeholders are beginning to plot their feature ideas for next year's Fedora 44 release. One of the early F44 feature submissions pending approval is switching /boot on Fedora Cloud images to being a Btrfs file-system subvolume...

Over 100K users downloaded Zorin OS 18 in 48 hours, and more than 70% came from Windows, possibly driven by the end of Windows 10 support.

Last week Amazon/AWS announced the new EC2 M8a instances as their latest-generation, general-purpose compute instances now powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. Amazon announced the M8a as having up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price performance over M7a. With my testing of both at 32 vCPUs, the new AMD EPYC Turin instance provided 1.59x the performance over the prior-generation EPYC Genoa instance!

Vibe coding may have played a role in what took researchers months to fix Developers of VS Code extensions are leaking sensitive secrets left, right and center, according to researchers who worked with Microsoft to combat an issue that could have led to some nasty supply chain attacks.…

PipeWire 1.6 has entered development for this open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux, promising major new features and enhancements.

Joins its command-line client from a couple of years ago NordVPN has open sourced another of its Linux VPN client apps under the GPLv3. This time, it's the graphical user interface (GUI) version.…

Upbeat Technology has announced the UP201 and UP301 family of RISC-V microcontrollers developed in collaboration with SiFive. The devices are intended for applications such as always-on IoT, wearables, drones, and sensor-based systems. The UP201 and UP301 integrate two SiFive Essential IP cores and two neural accelerators designed by Upbeat Technology. They implement Upbeat’s Error Detection […]

Microsoft's quality control department caught napping again Microsoft's October Windows 11 update has managed the impressive feat of breaking localhost, leaving developers unable to access web applications running on their own machines.…

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Setup below in general follows guide lines proposed in https://www.dwarmstrong.org/install-lmde-with-custom-lvm-luk... However, we intend to remove swap LV and increase sizes of root and home LVs . Then reboot system and activate zram instead of keeping unreasonably large LV swap on /dev/vda .

In such a world privacy abuses would be a lot rarer. Because if someone added some "telemetry" to the program, then someone else would remove that from the program, then redistribute the same. Guess which one users would rather download...

The Linux Mint team has officially unveiled Linux Mint 22.2, codenamed “Zara”, on September 4, 2025. As a Long-Term Support (LTS) release, Zara will receive updates through 2029, promising users stability, incremental improvements, and a comfortable desktop experience.

Over the years we have seen various workarounds like disabling RDSEED for select AMD CPUs due to hardware bugs and early on in the Zen days were also some RdRand issues due to different problems. It turns out the newest AMD EPYC 5th Gen "Turin" processors have a new RDSEED issue...

The OK153-S SBC from Forlinx Embedded is a compact industrial platform based on the Allwinner T153 processor. It supports Linux 5.10 and offers up to 1 GB of DDR3 RAM and 8 GB of eMMC storage. Key interfaces include triple Gigabit Ethernet, dual CAN-FD, and a Local Bus for PSRAM or FPGA expansion. The Allwinner […]

Valve's Linux graphics driver team contributions aren't limited to just enhancing the rasterization and ray-tracing graphics performance of the open-source Linux GPU drivers for gaming. Beyond other interesting contributions from that talented group of open-source Linux graphics developers over the years and for other areas like enhancing old GPU hardware support, merged this week for the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver is a massive improvement to benefit the Llama.cpp AI performance...

Discover a step-by-step guide to install the latest version of Handbrake on Ubuntu and other Linux distros with practical examples.

The ollama 0.12.6-rc0 software released this evening and with it comes experimental Vulkan API support...

The Mobian team releases Trixie, a Debian-based mobile OS update featuring PipeWire, Linux kernel 6.12, and new signing keys.

Downstream Linux projects line up behind the latest release A month after Debian 13.1's release, some of the more visible downstream forks, including Raspberry Pi OS, have decided it's time to incorporate the latest version of the main OS into their builds.…

Tuning Virt-manager you are supposed enable 3D-acceleration and OpenGL to avoid crashing instance setup and successfully install Fedora 43 Cosmic Spin in VENV. The interesting thing is that F43 Cosmic Spin behaves the same way on bare metal and as KVM Guest. No issues for switching between different folders contain wallpapers for Cosmic DE happens in VENV.

With Linux 6.18 now past the merge window and many new features and changes introduced (https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-618-features), I have begun testing out this kernel on various servers, desktops, and laptops at Phoronix. Linux 6.18 is quite important with expected to become this year's LTS kernel version upon its stable debut in December. Up today is a first look at Linux 6.17 vs. 6.18-rc1 performance using Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids server performance.

New clusters to feature 800,000 Nvidia Blackwell and 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450X GPUs Oracle on Tuesday revealed it would field more than 18 zettaFLOPS worth of AI infrastructure from Nvidia and AMD by the second half of next year.…

David Rosca at AMD continues leading the efforts for improving the open-source Radeon video acceleration support under Linux with the Mesa Gallium3D code. This is especially important now that AMD is encouraging customers to no longer use the AMD Multimedia Framework (AMF) on Linux but resort to using VA-API and the Mesa multimedia capabilities instead...

The new TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 (Intel) Linux laptop pairs Core Ultra 7 power with a 99 Wh battery and full Linux support.

Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers unveiled today the Intel variant of their InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 premium business Linux ultrabook.

If you come across the IMG file format in Linux, don't panic. Here is how you can easily convert an IMG file to ISO format in Linux.

The Free Software Foundation reveals its technical plans for Librephone, focusing on free firmware and open hardware research.

Back during the Intel Tech Tour in Arizona, Intel teased a new inference-optimized enterprise GPU would be announced soon. This new product would feature enhanced memory, bandwidth, and enterprise-level AI inference capabilities. Today the embargo expires on talking about this new GPU offering.

Tails 7.1 has been released today as the first minor update in the Tails 7.x series of this portable Linux OS based on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that protects users against surveillance and censorship.