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The September 20th release of DietPi v9.17 introduces smaller and more efficient system images, faster backups with reduced disk usage, and a new toggle for Roon Server’s early access builds. The update also addresses SPI bootloader flashing issues on Rockchip devices, improves Raspberry Pi sound card handling, and includes multiple bug fixes across tools and […]

Learn how to use Linux help commands like apropos, whatis, man, info, and --help to discover commands and learn their usage.

Linux engineer at Microsoft Christian Brauner sent out his set of 12 pull requests touching the VFS portion of the Linux kernel. These changes for the Linux 6.18 kernel include one pull request that touches the writeback code to address a situation of lockups being reported by users when systemd units read lots of files...

The OBS Studio 32.0.1 hotfix resolves scene switching bugs, audio duplication problems, and browser source resource spikes.

Among the early pull requests submitted already to Linus Torvalds in advance of the Linux 6.18 merge window opening soon is the Btrfs file-system updates. Btrfs for Linux 6.18 has a few items worth calling out but no major features this cycle...

Simply Green KDE Plasma 6 Customization This setup showcases KDE Plasma 6 with a simple lime green dark theme. It features the Dark Dream global theme, Dream Lime Green Dark Kvantum style, Gruvbox Plus icons, completed with the Solo Day widget.

With Linux 6.17 expected for release this weekend, the Linux 6.18 merge window will in turn kick-off for its usual two week dance. Here is a look at some of the features on our radar that are expected to be merged for Linux 6.18, which is also likely to be the 2025 LTS kernel version...

Overnight the Linux PC vendor System76 released their long-awaited Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta operating system along with the beta milestone of their COSMIC desktop environment...

Back in June it was announced by Canonical that for the Ubuntu 25.10 release they would be raising the RISC-V baseline to the RVA23 profile even with barely any available RISC-V platforms supporting that newer RISC-V profile. That change is still going ahead and leaves Ubuntu 25.10 on RISC-V currently only supporting the QEMU virtualized target...

The MSI EdgeXpert is a compact AI supercomputer based on the NVIDIA DGX Spark platform and Grace Blackwell architecture. It combines a 20-core Arm CPU with NVIDIA’s Blackwell GPU to deliver high compute density in a 1.19-liter form factor, targeting developers, researchers, and enterprises running local AI workloads, prototyping, and inference. The EdgeXpert achieves up […]

The UBports Foundation released Ubuntu Touch OTA-10 today as the tenth stable update to their Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) for supported Linux devices.

Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Beta arrives with the first COSMIC Desktop Beta, bringing new apps, customizations, and bug fixes ahead of the final release.

An open-source project called ESP32 Bus Pirate has been released, inspired by the classic Bus Pirate and adapted for modern ESP32-S3 hardware. Developed by Geo-tp, the firmware transforms low-cost ESP32 boards into versatile debugging devices that can probe, sniff, and interact with a wide range of digital and radio protocols. The firmware supports protocols such […]

The Linux 6.17 kernel is tracking well for its planned stable release on Sunday. Here is a look back at some of the most interesting changes to find with this next kernel version...

Calibre 8.11 e-book manager adds an optional “Ask AI” tab in the e-book viewer, plus bug fixes and improved news sources.

Home networks have grown considerably with smart TVs, IoT devices, phones, and tablets all connecting to our routers. This tutorial will guide you through building a lightweight Linux intrusion detection system using Bash script that monitors what devices are connecting to your network. Think of it as a basic network “doorbell” – it alerts you when someone new shows up.

It appears that the only way to create new python code file (or any other file ) for particular project requires one or another way of manual intervention. In particular, it may be done via dolphin file manager either via `touch -f NewPytonFile.py` in correspondent directory

The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced today the Raspberry Pi 500+ as the next generation of their all-in-one Raspberry Pi desktop computer, built on top of the Raspberry Pi single-board computer.

Companies must realize they can be more than pure consumers, and public sector ought to go beyond 'promotion' Feature It is 2025. Linux will turn 34 and the Free Software Foundation (FSF) 40. For the EU and Europe at large, which is famously experimental with government deployments of open source tech, behind initiatives to promote open licensing, and whose governments promote equal opportunity for FOSS vendors in public tendering, it's a crunch point.…

ByteDance engineers propose Parker, a partitioned kernel RFC that enables multiple Linux kernels to run on a single system without traditional virtualization.