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While the upstream X.Org Server development remains slow with most of the large vendors treating it in maintenance mode and not investing in new features, open-source developer Enrico Weigelt has been one of the few still working to improve the X.Org Server.

Please consider helping them piece together the missing bits. Dozens of people spent a considerable amount of time preparing these talks and some traveled (physically) to Boston in order to present these talks.

Canonical has announced that it’s collaborating on a RISC-V laptop powered by Ubuntu. The 14-inch DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II is made by DeepComputing, a company formed by self-described “RISC-V pioneers” back in 2022, and based in Hong Kong. Their aim: develop and release all kinds of products to help drive development of the RISC-V ecosystem.

Learn how to resolve the "Wine: could not load kernel32.dll, status c0000135" error in Linux such as Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, Fedora, Arch, etc.

Thanks to the advent of AI-based solutions, managing data properly and securely for such implementations at scale has become a significant challenge. Many new career paths have opened up due to this, and even organizations that have been established for catering to such requirements.

The latest version of the systemd init system is out, with the openly confrontational tag line: "Available soon in your nearest distro, now with 42 percent less Unix philosophy." As Lennart Poettering's announcement points out, this is the first version of systemd whose version number is a nine-bit value.

The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 24.05.1 as the first point release to the latest KDE Gear 24.05 software suite for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and other platforms.

This tutorial explains how to use grep and ripgrep commands to find files containing specific strings of text within their contents in Linux.

The largest patent non-aggression community, Open Invention Network broadens its Linux System definition to cover additional open-source and cloud-networking programs.

ICOP Technology has revised its NX8MM-35 series, an industrial Single-Board Computer originally launched in April 2023. Following extensive customer feedback over the year, ICOP stated that they modified this NXP based SBC to better support LVDS displays for industrial applications.

Valve just released the latest stable update to Proton, the compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux desktop and Steam Deck with Proton 9.0-2 bringing some fun additions.

In this article, you'll learn how to use UFW on Ubuntu to create, delete, and manage firewall rules in user-friendly ways.

Today, I'll introduce you to a fantastic Linux GUI task manager that simplifies finding running processes, services, and other system resources, making Linux feel like home if you're coming from Windows.

VMware's quarterly revenue appears to have fallen by $600 million during its first full quarter of ownership by Broadcom, which revealed strong growth in forward bookings and huge cost cuts at the virtualization giant.

The FreeBSD Foundation has published the results of the FreeBSD Community Survey that reveal interesting insights about FreeBSD usage and its users.

The Carambola 3 is a compact System on Module powered by the Qualcomm QCA4531 chipset, designed for a broad range of embedded applications including IoT, industrial automation, and smart home devices. This Wi-Fi module, which also has a compatible DVK, now benefits from OpenWrt support, as announced by 8devices.

New fixes and controller support in Proton 9.0-2 boost performance for Alpha League, Black Desert Online, Fallout 4, and more.

Valve released today Proton 9.0-2 as the latest stable release of this open-source compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components for playing Windows games on Linux systems.

In aiming to make the Rust programming language more suitable for safety-critical software like within automobiles, aviation, and other industries, the Safety-Critical Rust Consortium was announced today.

Google's ChromeOS team has begun borrowing from Android's tech stack to innovate faster, to reduce the burden of maintaining multiple operating systems, and to enhance device interoperability in the face of vendor kernel variability, the company says.