Linux kernel 7.2 is now available for download, as announced today by Linus Torvalds himself, featuring enhanced hardware support, filesystem and networking improvements, security enhancements, and many other changes.

Founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock, Debian celebrates 33 years as one of the most influential projects in the Linux ecosystem.

The first public beta of the redesigned TUXEDO OS is now available, marking the distro’s move away from Ubuntu to Debian Testing.

EDATEC’s ED-CLAWBOX is a compact edge AI system based on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. The aluminum desktop system is designed for local OpenClaw deployment and provides Gigabit Ethernet, dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, dual HDMI outputs, USB 3.0 connectivity, mSATA expansion, integrated audio, and a preinstalled JishuShell management environment. For context, the Raspberry Pi CM5 […]

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.2 as stable! After a very busy kernel cycle due to the increased patch and reporting churn due to AI/LLM ages, Linux 7.2 managed to make it out today on-schedule for this feature-packed kernel. Linux 7.2 is going on to power Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming Linux distribution releases...

Today is Debian Day, and the day when the Debian GNU/Linux universal operating system and the community-supported Debian Project, founded by Ian Murdock, turn 33 years old.

Seeed Studio’s reComputer Classic J5011 and J5012 are a pair of AI development systems based on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin modules. The reComputer Classic J5011 uses the 32GB AGX Orin module, while the J5012 steps up to the 64GB version. Both systems are intended as direct replacements for NVIDIA’s Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit while […]

GIMP developers preview major 3.4 features, including a new project format, improved PSD compatibility, and expanded non-destructive editing.

The Luckfox Lyra PLC is a compact Linux-based programmable logic controller built around the Rockchip RK3506B processor. The DIN-rail system provides dual 100Mbps Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2, industrial serial interfaces, CAN, relay outputs, and a 1.9-inch touchscreen. The RK3506B integrates three Arm Cortex-A7 cores operating at up to 1.2GHz. The controller includes 512MB of […]

Today marks thirty three years since the Debian Linux distribution was started by the late Ian Murdock...

When I ran Android apps on Linux using Waydroid, my system SSD filled up faster than expected. I quickly realized that simply moving the data folder to another drive didn't work and broke app functionality due to Android's strict file permission requirements.

In this guide, I share my step-by-step process of successfully moving the entire Waydroid storage directory to a secondary Ext4 drive using symbolic links (symlink). By following the correct permissions and mount flags, this method allows you to free up root storage space while keeping your Android apps and data working smoothly.

Omarchy 4.0 “Quattro” arrives with a completely rewritten Quickshell-based desktop shell, faster installs, dual-boot support, and usability improvements.

Debian developers have been considering a general resolution over LLM usage within the project. After collecting a variety of proposals, voting has now commenced for Debian developers to decide how comfortable they are with AI / Large Language Model contributions in the project or not...

nnn 5.3 “Mai Tai” introduces a native preview pane, improved fuzzy filtering, lazy-loaded plugins, new plugins, and numerous usability fixes.

The GNOME Project released the beta version of the upcoming GNOME 51 desktop environment series for public testing, with more new features and improvements across various core apps and components.

The beta release of GNOME 51 is now available for testing. This cycle for the beta milestone is mostly a wide collection of minor improvements throughout the vast package set...

The Apache-licensed project seeks to elevate independent sources, demote SEO spam, and ultimately loosen Big Tech’s grip on web search.

AMD has a tendency to send out large feature patch series for their open-source Linux drivers on Friday afternoons/evenings. Today we were greeted by a set of 109 patches working on RAS support for the upcoming AMD GFX12.1 target...

With Linux 7.2 expected for its stable release this weekend, today's testing has some additional testing of the Linux 7.2 Git kernel as well as Linux 7.1 stable compared to Linux 7.0 as used by default on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Phoronix testing previously conducted of Linux 7.2 have shown benefits for Intel Arc B390 Xe3 in some configurations, faster poll performance on AMD Ryzen Threadripper and other hardware, and some nice I/O performance gains on AMD EPYC Turin. Today's kernel benchmarks are with the Intel Xeon 678X Granite Rapids WS currently in the lab as part of the HP Z4 G6i workstation testing.

KDE Frameworks 6.29 arrives with ZIP64 archive writing, broader HEIF image support, KIO improvements, and numerous fixes across KDE’s core libraries.

Canonical announced that it has partnered with Advantech to enable Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the Advantech AOM-2721 ultra-compact, industrial-grade Computer-on-Module (CoM) designed for edge Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) applications.

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.11 adds stronger drive locking, multi-frame Zstandard image support, improved customization handling, and numerous fixes.

By placing its qualifying patents in OIN 2.0’s cross-license community, ByteDance strengthens a defensive resource for open source while distancing itself from the political baggage surrounding TikTok.

The latest WireGuard Easy release adds external OAuth authentication, improves security, and speeds up client status handling.

With Linux 7.2 expected to see its stable debut Sunday, here is a look at what I have been monitoring as changes expected to be submitted during the Linux 7.3 merge window that will open on Monday...

Norwegian-based Tenko has released an open-hardware development board based on STMicroelectronics’ STM32C5 microcontroller family. The compact board follows the familiar Blue Pill form factor while adding USB-C power, onboard USB-to-UART connectivity, and an alternative firmware environment based on Oberon-2. The board uses the recently introduced STM32C551CE, a 32-bit Arm Cortex-M33 microcontroller operating at up to […]

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.11 has been released today as the latest stable release of this user-friendly tool for creating bootable media for Raspberry Pi devices.

The holy grail of desktop engineering is a true immutable sandbox: the ability to boot into a historical snapshot, run risky updates or delete critical system binaries, and have those changes vanish into thin air upon a reboot. To solve this, SparkyLinux 8.4 was chosed (the leanest Debian testing base available) to build a 100% contained RAM sandbox from scratch. This post is an immediate follow up for https://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/366777/index.html .

Fedora 45 has several system-level changes that need testing on real hardware. The first test day up is GNOME 51, starting on 17 August, with more events planned for RPM 6.1, installation media and others. You can participate with a VM for most tests; some hardware-specific testing is more useful on a real machine. Details […]

Modular releases Mojo 1.0, delivering a stable foundation, Python-style lambdas, improved LSP support, and stronger memory-safety diagnostics.