New story! Richard Stallman and the Unix Philosophy

  • Techrights; By Roy Schestowitz (Posted by schestowitz on Apr 25, 2025 11:07 PM CST)
  • Groups: IBM, Red Hat
Maybe one day RMS will be more vocal in criticism or condemnation of systemd, nowadays exceedingly led by and hosted by Microsoft. Microsoft's vision of "Linux" is just something that it controls (i.e. it controls users) via Azure or similar spyware. It already integrates it with TPMs and other terrible things via systemd.

New story! Zalmotek RA6M1, RA8M1, and RZ/A3UL Feather SoMs Target High-Performance Embedded Applications

Zalmotek expands its Feather System on Module portfolio with high-performance options designed for advanced embedded systems. These modules are based on Renesas processors and follow the Feather form factor, enabling flexibility for robotics, industrial control, and edge computing applications. The RA6M1 Feather SoM features an Arm Cortex-M4 CPU operating at up to 120 MHz, paired […]

New story! DietPi 9.12 Launches with Fish Shell Support

DietPi 9.12, a Debian-based Linux distro for SBCs, adds support for Fish Shell, Amiberry v7, Amiberry-Lite, and more.

New story! Beetle RP2350 is a $4.90 Mini Development Board for Embedded Projects

The Beetle RP2350 is a coin-sized development board designed for space-constrained embedded projects. Despite its compact 25 × 20.5 mm footprint, it offers a wide range of hardware features and low power consumption, enabling its use in portable devices such as retro computers, game consoles, lighting controllers, and electronic badges. This board is built around […]

New story! COSMIC Alpha 7 Desktop Adds Pinned Workspaces, New Accessibility Features

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Apr 25, 2025 1:16 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Linux hardware vendor System76 released today COSMIC Alpha 7 as the latest development version for this up-and-coming desktop environment written in Rust for GNU/Linux distributions and the company’s in-house Pop!_OS Linux distro.

New story! Enabling system-wide DNS over TLS

  • Fedora Magazine (Posted by bob on Apr 25, 2025 11:45 AM CST)
  • Groups: Fedora; Story Type: News Story
This article will guide you to enforcing DoT (DNS over TLS) on your running system and at boot time. Support is avaliable in Fedora 42. It will also guide you to set up encrypted DNS for system installation, if you want to try it with current Fedora Rawhide (Fedora 43). Background Traditionally, DNS queries are […]

New story! Zalmotek RA0E1, RA2E1, and RA4M1 Feather SoMs for Energy-Efficient Embedded Development

Zalmotek offers a range of Feather SoMs built around Renesas microcontrollers, targeting energy-efficient and compact embedded applications. These modules follow the Adafruit Feather form factor and include essential interfaces for rapid prototyping and deployment in IoT and low-power scenarios. The RA0E1 Feather SoM is designed for ultra-low-power use cases. It features an Arm Cortex-M23 CPU […]

New story! After Three Years, AlmaLinux Is Having an Election

Here’s some preliminary information about AlmaLinux OS Foundation’s upcoming board election. We’ll keep you up-to-date as we learn more.

New story! GStreamer 1.26.1 Improves dav1d AV1 Decoder, Matroska v4 Support in Muxer

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Apr 25, 2025 7:10 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Today, the GStreamer project released GStreamer 1.26.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest GStreamer 1.26 series of this popular open-source and cross-platform multimedia framework.

New story! Debugging and Profiling Linux Applications with GDB and strace

Debugging and profiling are critical skills in a developer's toolbox, especially when working with low-level system applications. Whether you're tracking down a segmentation fault in a C program or understanding why a daemon fails silently, mastering tools like GDB (GNU Debugger) and strace can dramatically improve your efficiency and understanding of program behavior.

New story! Mesa Falling Back To Its Multi-File Cache Due To Performance Reasons

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Apr 25, 2025 4:07 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Steam
Mesa has supported on-disk shader cache for years to help speed-up game load times and overall system efficiencies. They had shifted from a multi-file cache layout to a single file cache for greater space savings. Steam also added support for the single-file cache. But now upstream Mesa is shifting back from the single-file cache default to the multi-file cache over performance issues...

New story! Installing AlmaLinux on Windows Just Got Easier

Windows users can now install AlmaLinux directly from the command line with WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) CLI.

New story! PCIe Controller Support For The Apple M2 Pro Coming To The Mainline Linux Kernel

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Apr 25, 2025 1:04 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Kernel, Linux
The latest bit of hardware enablement coming out of Asahi Linux and queued for introduction in the mainline kernel the next cycle is PCI Express (PCIe) support for the Apple M2 Pro SoC...

New story! Debian Package Management: Aptitude vs. Apt-Get in Ubuntu

Package management is at the heart of every Linux system. It’s what makes installing, updating, and managing software on Linux-based distributions not just possible but streamlined and elegant. For users of Debian and its popular derivative Ubuntu, two powerful tools often stand at the center of debate: apt-get and aptitude. Though both are capable of managing packages effectively, they have unique characteristics that make them better suited to different use cases.

New story! Raspberry Pi HEVC Decoder Linux Driver Updated For Mainline Kernel Attempt

At the end of last year the upstreaming efforts began for a Raspberry Pi HEVC decoder driver for getting H.265/HEVC accelerated decode working on the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers with the mainline kernel. Nearly a half-year later that effort is still ongoing but yesterday brought the third iteration of this driver...

New story! AMD Publishes Open-Source GIM Driver For GPU Virtualization, Radeon "In The Roadmap"

AMD has published as open-source their "GPU-IOV Module" used for virtualization with Instinct accelerators. It's also reported on their roadmap for bringing virtualization support to their client (Radeon) discrete GPUs...

New story! Immich 1.132 Brings Smoother Syncing, Mobile UI Enhancements

Immich 1.132 self-hosted photo and video backup solution replaces TypeORM with Kysely, introduces SQLite support, and enhances sync performance.

New story! Fedora 42 has the Answer, but Ubuntu's Plucky Puffin isn't far behind

Watch your partitions – GPT and dual-boot don't always mix. While The Reg FOSS desk was on spring break, both the latest interim Ubuntu and latest Fedora debuted.…

New story! How To Enable Ubuntu Pro For FREE To Get 10 Years Of Security Updates

This detailed tutorial explains what Ubuntu Pro is, why I think it’s worth considering, and how you can get started with Ubuntu pro.

New story! Nominations Are Open for Upcoming Fedora Election

We’re keeping our fingers crossed that Fedora’s upcoming election will take place without all of the controversies that surrounded Open Source Initiative’s recent board election.

New story! Steam Client Update Brings Game Launch Stability

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Apr 24, 2025 12:52 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Games
A new Steam client update improves game syncing and overlay scaling and fixes UI glitches that affect notes and screenshots.

New story! Understanding Website Architecture: 6 Steps for Better Site Structuring

  • Rose Hosting Blog; By rosehosting.com (Posted by RoseHosting on Apr 24, 2025 11:21 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
When you think of architecture, you might be picturing buildings and blueprints. But when it comes to website architecture, there’s no need for scaffolding, materials, or engineering. This refers to how your website is organized and how users can navigate its different pages.

New story! Reclaiming Proxmox Storage Disk Space via Linux CLI

  • linuxconfig.org; By Lubos Rendek (Posted by linuxer on Apr 24, 2025 9:49 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Managing storage in Proxmox VE can be challenging, especially when disk space usage doesn’t match expectations. This guide provides practical commands to analyze Proxmox storage from the Linux command line, identify space usage by virtual machines and containers, detect unaccounted storage space, and troubleshoot common storage issues to help optimize your Proxmox environment.

New story! Self-Hosted Finance Management: Setting Up Firefly III with Docker

  • linuxconfig.org; By Lubos Rendek (Posted by linuxer on Apr 24, 2025 8:18 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Self-hosted budgeting applications provide complete control over your financial data while offering powerful tools to manage your personal finances. Firefly III is one of the best open-source options available, featuring comprehensive expense tracking, budgeting capabilities, and insightful reporting. This tutorial will guide you through setting up Firefly III using Docker on Debian or Ubuntu systems.

New story! What Is My Server Address?

  • Rose Hosting Blog; By rosehosting.com (Posted by RoseHosting on Apr 24, 2025 6:46 AM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Have you ever asked yourself, ‘What is my server address?’ This post explains the ins and outs of server IP addresses, their importance, and usage on a Linux-based OS. Every server or computer connected to the Internet has an IP address. Even machines without Internet connections possess local IP addresses.

New story! Linkerd 2.18 advances open source cloud-native service mesh

  • NetworkWorld; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Apr 23, 2025 11:31 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Cloud
The term “service mesh” has been widely used over the last several years to refer to technology that helps to manage communications across microservices and applications. In the cloud-native world, arguably the first implementation of a service mesh came from Buoyant with the open-source Linkerd technology in 2015. Over the last 10 years, Linkerd has grown as a core project within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Today the project is out with Linkerd 2.18, continuing the technology’s decade-long evolution with improvements focused on operational simplicity and real-world production scenarios.

New story! Ubuntu 25.10 Moving Ahead With Plans For Migrating To Rust Coreutils

Back in March some ideas were talked about by Canonical engineers for Ubuntu Linux to move to Rust Coreutils and other Rust-written system components. Some of this is likely to materialize for the Ubuntu 25.10 release due out in October to allow for sufficient testing ahead of the all important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release next year. Today the more solidified plans have been laid out for moving to the Rust Coreutils as a replacement to GNU Coreutils with Ubuntu 25.10...

New story! Fedora 43 to Remove GNOME X11 Support

Fedora 43 may drop GNOME X11 under a new proposal that aligns with upstream efforts to focus entirely on Wayland from now on.

New story! What is a Subnet Mask?

  • RoseHosting Blog; By Jeff Wilson (Posted by RoseHosting on Apr 23, 2025 6:56 PM CST)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Whether you’ve heard it thrown around in a meeting, stumbled across it while setting up your Wi-Fi, or are just trying to figure out why your printer won’t connect to the network, subnet masks are all around you. We’re going to break this down together. By the end, you’ll know what a subnet mask is and why it matters to your everyday life—whether you’re a business owner or just someone who uses the Internet to work.

New story! AMD Posts Open-Source Linux Patches For Pensando RDMA Driver

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Apr 23, 2025 5:25 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
The newest open-source Linux driver being worked on by AMD engineers is a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) solution for their Pensando networking hardware...

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