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Linus Torvalds has come out strong against proposed support for RISC-V big endian capabilities within the Linux kernel...

Due to rising demand around system memory being pushed up in large part by HBM for AI applications, Raspberry Pi announced price increases on select products to help offset the rising LPDDR costs...

In an unexpected move, the UBports Foundation released today the first update to their Ubuntu Touch mobile OS based on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series.

F-Droid says Google's developer registration rule could end its open-source app store and strand users. Google defends verification as a security step.

Learn how to use Stonkfetch Python CLI tool to fetch and track real-time stock information with ASCII art logos in your Terminal.

Merged as part of the kernel hardening updates for Linux 6.18 is not a direct hardening improvement but rather a long overdue enhancement to the kernel configuration "Kconfig" system. The introduction of this new "transitional" keyword for Kconfig options can ease the process of renaming Kconfig options across kernel versions with less breakage/headaches for those maintaining their own kernel configurations/builds...

A year after OSI debuted OSAID 1.0, critics Amanda Brock and Bruce Perens still aren’t sold — and they say the debate points to bigger questions for tech, as well as open source.

The XFS file-system updates have been merged for the Linux 6.18 merge window...

MuseScore Studio 4.6 open-source notation app adds new guitar, piano, and voice features along with big workflow improvements.

After originally hoping to publish the open-source code last year, today AMD published the initial openSIL code for enabling Phoenix SoCs to make use of this in-development CPU silicon initialization alternative to AGESA...

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the October 2025 issue.

NVIDIA released today the NVIDIA 580.95.05 graphics drivers for NVIDIA GPUs on Linux, BSD, and Solaris systems as the second update to the latest NVIDIA 580 series.

The GNU Linux-libre project announced today the release and general availability of the GNU Linux-libre 6.17 kernel for those who seek 100% freedom for their GNU/Linux computers and software freedom lovers.

Debuting today is the newest NVIDIA 580 Linux driver series release...

UBports releases Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 with new features, fresh logos, and support for additional mobile devices.

Impact? Nope, don't worry, be happy, says Linux veteran Opinion There has been considerable worry about the impact of the European Union's Cyber Resilience Act on open source programmers. Linux stable kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman says, however, that there won't be much of an impact at all.…

While IEEE-1394 Firewire hardware in the wild is increasingly rare, modern Linux IEEE-1394 subsystem maintainer Takashi Sakamoto has committed to maintaining Firewire support until 2029. With the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel there are more incremental improvements to this code...

Open source database adds multi-tenant clustering, safer shutdowns, and eyes life beyond caching Open source key-value database Valkey is set for its ninth iteration next month, promising improved resource optimization and availability.…

Following AMD announcing the end of the AMDVLK Vulkan driver development in favor of focusing on the Mesa RADV driver for Linux systems, Red Hat engineer David Airlie who was one of the co-lead developers of the RADV driver shared some interesting insight on NVK as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver being developed within Mesa...

Promises to get it right this coming weekend VMware has bungled a portal upgrade project that aims to give its customers a superior experience when managing their clouds.…