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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 […]

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 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...

GNU Coreutils 9.8 released with SHA3, Base58, nproc cgroup v2 support, and bug fixes across key utilities.

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...

Kali Linux 2025.3 adds Nexmon Wi-Fi injection, refreshed Vagrant builds, and 10 new security tools for penetration testers.

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.…

XTX Markets open-sources TernFS, an exabyte-scale cloud-native distributed filesystem built to handle trillions of files and millions of clients.

Offensive Security announced today the release and general availability of Kali Linux 2025.3 as the third update to this Debian-based distribution for ethical hacking and penetration testing in 2025.

You can check user groups in Linux with commands like groups, id, getent, and /etc/group to manage permissions easily.

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...

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.…

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.

The MX Linux team announced today the general availability of the beta version of the upcoming MX Linux 25 distribution based on the recently released Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series.

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 has been released today for this powerful, open-source, cross-platform, and free software for video recording and live streaming on Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

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...

Ubuntu-based elementary OS 8.0.2 arrives with Linux kernel 6.14, improved accessibility, Music app upgrades, and better hardware support.

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.

Certifications from Red Hat, Oracle and SUSE are tailored to environments where those Linux distributions are prevalent. Vendor-neutral certifications emphasize core Linux principles applicable across distributions, making them versatile for beginners or those in multi-vendor settings.