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Windows, macOS, Cinnamon, even iPadOS – all just a layout switch away
Although Zorin doesn't aim to closely track its Ubuntu upstream, version 18 of its eponymous OS has been a long time coming.…
FFmpeg Introduces MPEG-H 3D Audio Decoding Support
The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged support for MPEG-H 3D Audio decoding...
DE25-Nano with 138K-LE Agilex 5 FPGA and Dual-Cluster ARM HPS
The DE25-Nano is a compact development and education platform based on Intel’s Agilex 5 SoC FPGA. It follows the format of the earlier DE10-Nano board but introduces a new architecture with expanded logic resources, upgraded memory, and updated processor support. The board integrates an Agilex 5 FPGA fabric with 138K logic elements together with a […]
From Zero to Web Server: Building with Image mode for Fedora Linux & Caddy
Image mode for Fedora Linux leverages bootable containers. This technology enables OCI containers to serve as a transport and delivery mechanism for operating system content. This article will guide you through how to use that technology to quickly create a Web Server using Caddy Introduction Bootable containers leverage existing OCI container tools (like Podman and […]
SquashFS Optimization Achieves 15,277x Performance In Developer Benchmark
SquashFS developer Phillip Lougher posted a patch today just over one hundred lines of code yielding an outright massive performance gain for some operations with this compressed. read-only file-system...
New Patches Optimize EXT4 Online Defragmentation For Better Performance
A set of 13 patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for optimizing the online defragmentation handling by the EXT4 kernel driver. The online defragmentation improvements for EXT4 can net a nice performance win with a very significant improvement in a variety of scenarios...
OpenSSF warns that open source infrastructure doesn't run on thoughts and prayers
Foundations say billions of downloads rely on registries running on fumes – and someone's gotta pay the bills
The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has had enough of being the unpaid janitor of the world's software supply chain.…
Bytedance Proposes "Parker" For Linux: Multiple Kernels Running Simultaneously
It was just a few days ago that a multi-kernel architecture was proposed for the Linux kernel. Separate from that proposal from Multikernel Technologies, it turns out Bytedance has been working on their own similar solution called Parker. Today Bytedance lifted the lid on Parker as their solution for running multiple kernels simultaneously on the same hardware/system...
GitHub moves to tighten npm security amid phishing, malware plague
Hundreds of compromised packages pulled as registry shifts to 2FA and trusted publishing
GitHub, which owns the npm registry for JavaScript packages, says it is tightening security in response to recent attacks.…
Running The Bcachefs DKMS Modules On Ubuntu Linux
With DKMS packages now being available for Ubuntu and Debian Linux distributions for running the latest out-of-tree Bcachefs file-system driver support with ease and reproducibility, I decided to try out the updated Bcachefs driver on Ubuntu Linux to see how the performance is relative to the upstream Linux 6.17 kernel with its now-frozen Bcachefs support.
RubyGems maintainer quits after Ruby Central takes control of project
Long-time contributor Ellen Davis steps down after GitHub access shake-up and governance dispute
A decade-long RubyGems maintainer, Ellen Davis (also known as duckinator), has resigned from Ruby Central following what she described as a "hostile takeover" of the open source project.…
OBS Studio 32.0 Released With Plugin Manager, NVIDIA RTX Improvements
OBS Studio 32.0 stable is now available for this popular cross-platform desktop recording and screencasting software popular with game streamers and for a variety of other recording/casting purposes...
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Performance With ROCm 7.0
With last week's official release of ROCm 7.0 failing to mention the AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" SoCs on the supported GPU list, a number of Phoronix readers and from elsewhere were inquiring whether or not Strix Halo works with the new ROCm release. Various AMD folks have mentioned Strix Halo with ROCm, so I decided to run some benchmarks for myself of ROCm 7.0 on Ubuntu Linux with the AMD Ryzen AI Max 395 with Radeon 8060S Graphics on the Framework Desktop.
Olimex RP2350-PICO2-BB48 Open Source Development Board
Olimex has announced the RP2350-PICO2-BB48, an enhanced Raspberry Pi Pico 2 with open hardware design. It exposes all 48x GPIOs in a 0.6-inch dual-inline layout for breadboard use and integrates improvements that expand flexibility for prototyping and development. The hardware configuration is based on the RP2350B processor, which integrates dual Cortex-M33 or dual RISC-V cores […]
You can now test drive Fedora 43 and Ubuntu 25.10
Spooky season is nearly here. Want to be scared? There are fresh betas to try
Two of the biggest names in fixed-release distros are nearly finished and ready to drop. You can taste them now, but they're not fully baked yet.…
GNU Coreutils 9.8 Released With New Features
While the Rust Coreutils project has been generating a lot of interest recently from the uutils initiative, the upstream GNU Coreutils project isn't slowing down and today is out with GNU Coreutils 9.8 for shipping the newest features...
A Major Trading Firm Has Open-Sourced The Latest Linux File-System: TernFS
XTX Markets as one of the largest algorithmic trading firms that handles $250 billion in daily traded volume and relies on around 650+ petabytes of storage for its price forecasts and other algorithmic trading data has open-sourced its Linux file-system. XTX developed TernFS for distributed storage after they outgrew their original NFS usage and other file-system alternatives...
FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 3 Brings WiFi Driver Updates
The third weekly alpha release of the upcoming FreeBSD 15 operating system is now available for testing...
Raspberry Pi Releases M.2 HAT+ Compact For $15
Raspberry Pi today announced the M.2 HAT+ Compact as a new smaller version of their M.2 HAT+ for these single board computers...
How to rebase to Fedora Silverblue 43 Beta
Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. This article provides the steps to rebase to the newly released Fedora Linux 43 Beta, and how to revert if anything unforeseen […]