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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.

Cosmic’s Rust-powered debut is here! Dive into the revamped Pop!_OS 24.04 beta and get your first look at the modern desktop that’s rewriting Linux history.

PostgreSQL 18 open-source RDBMS brings 3× faster I/O, easier upgrades, OAuth 2.0 authentication, and new developer tools.

It’s been three weeks since the last Calibre release, and now Calibre 8.11 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform e-book management software.

You'll see the results next year, but it's not the end of Googly lappies Video Google has confirmed it will merge its ChromeOS and Android operating systems, and that the mobile OS will emerge triumphant.…

Raspberry Pi 500+ is the newest all-in-one personal computer in the Raspberry Pi family. It combines the Raspberry Pi 5 platform with a mechanical keyboard, upgraded memory, and integrated storage. The design builds on the earlier Raspberry Pi 400 and 500 models while adding higher specifications and new input features. The Raspberry Pi 500+ is […]

The Servo open-source browser engine project has published their monthly status update that covers all the improvements they made over the course of August. There's been a lot of progress on this Rust-based browser engine that has a lot of potential particularly for embedded/CEF-like use-cases...

Voyager 13.1 Debian wraps robust stability in unexpected elegance -- here we explore how a little French savoir-faire takes Linux somewhere new.

Slopwatch will be relatively long for the simple reason that we found a lot of new LLM slop about "Linux".