The Mobian team releases Trixie, a Debian-based mobile OS update featuring PipeWire, Linux kernel 6.12, and new signing keys.

Downstream Linux projects line up behind the latest release A month after Debian 13.1's release, some of the more visible downstream forks, including Raspberry Pi OS, have decided it's time to incorporate the latest version of the main OS into their builds.…

Tuning Virt-manager you are supposed enable 3D-acceleration and OpenGL to avoid crashing instance setup and successfully install Fedora 43 Cosmic Spin in VENV. The interesting thing is that F43 Cosmic Spin behaves the same way on bare metal and as KVM Guest. No issues for switching between different folders contain wallpapers for Cosmic DE happens in VENV.

With Linux 6.18 now past the merge window and many new features and changes introduced (https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-618-features), I have begun testing out this kernel on various servers, desktops, and laptops at Phoronix. Linux 6.18 is quite important with expected to become this year's LTS kernel version upon its stable debut in December. Up today is a first look at Linux 6.17 vs. 6.18-rc1 performance using Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids server performance.

New clusters to feature 800,000 Nvidia Blackwell and 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450X GPUs Oracle on Tuesday revealed it would field more than 18 zettaFLOPS worth of AI infrastructure from Nvidia and AMD by the second half of next year.…

David Rosca at AMD continues leading the efforts for improving the open-source Radeon video acceleration support under Linux with the Mesa Gallium3D code. This is especially important now that AMD is encouraging customers to no longer use the AMD Multimedia Framework (AMF) on Linux but resort to using VA-API and the Mesa multimedia capabilities instead...

The new TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 (Intel) Linux laptop pairs Core Ultra 7 power with a 99 Wh battery and full Linux support.

Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers unveiled today the Intel variant of their InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 premium business Linux ultrabook.

If you come across the IMG file format in Linux, don't panic. Here is how you can easily convert an IMG file to ISO format in Linux.

The Free Software Foundation reveals its technical plans for Librephone, focusing on free firmware and open hardware research.

Back during the Intel Tech Tour in Arizona, Intel teased a new inference-optimized enterprise GPU would be announced soon. This new product would feature enhanced memory, bandwidth, and enterprise-level AI inference capabilities. Today the embargo expires on talking about this new GPU offering.

Tails 7.1 has been released today as the first minor update in the Tails 7.x series of this portable Linux OS based on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that protects users against surveillance and censorship.

Spotify taking too much disk space? Here's how to fix Spotify cache bloat using tmpfs (RAM) on Debian and Ubuntu Linux.

Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licenses Schleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany, has finally concluded one element of a long-running project to eject Microsoft from its infrastructure by giving Exchange Server the boot.…

There's been work to get the Nix functional package manager available on Fedora Linux for those wanting to leverage its available packages or features like supporting side-by-side packages of different versions, atomic upgrades/rollbacks, non-root user for installing software, and other features. One of the hurdles though is that the Nix package manager relies by default on the /nix directory, which goes against Fedora's default directory requirements. Now though the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has granted permission for using the /nix directory hierarchy...

The Zorin OS team announced the general availability of the Zorin OS 18 release, a major update to this Ubuntu-based distribution for Linux newcomers, specifically tailored for Windows 10 expats.

Firefox 144.0 is now available but it's not a particularly exciting browser release. But with Firefox 144 stable now comes Firefox 145 beta and that is a bit more noteworthy as it ditches 32-bit Linux support...

Docker runs apps in fast containers while virtual machine provide complete OS isolation. Learn which solution suits your project best.

The new Zorin OS 18 builds on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with Linux kernel 6.14, bringing a cleaner UI, better performance, and modern desktop polish.

The Mozilla Thunderbird 144 open-source email, news, chat, and calendar client has been released today as part of the Mozilla Firefox 144 web browser release, bringing various changes and plenty of bug fixes.

Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 is officially out today as the latest version of this Linux Mint distribution based on upstream Debian rather than Ubuntu...

The GStreamer project released GStreamer 1.26.7 today as the seventh maintenance update to the latest GStreamer 1.26 series of this popular and powerful open-source, free, and cross-platform multimedia framework.

The Free Software Foundation today announced the LibrePhone project with a goal of creating a fully free software OS for mobile devices and to reverse-engineer obstacles where necessary...

A big patch series was posted today for the Linux kernel that would allow enabling/disabling CPU security mitigations at run-time rather than the current handling that can only be managed at boot-time via various Linux kernel command-line arguments. Thus due to changing security needs, differing workloads mandating different CPU security concerns and the like, this proposed feature would allow Spectre, Meltdown, and other CPU security mitigations to all be toggled at run-time...

The Nvidia CUDA toolkit is an extension of the GPU parallel computing platform and programming model. The Nvidia CUDA installation consists of inclusion of the official Nvidia CUDA repository followed by the installation of relevant meta package and configuring path the the executable CUDA binaries. In this tutorial, you will see how to install CUDA on Ubuntu Linux. This will get your video graphics running with the latest drivers and software available.

The Dash to Panel GNOME extension v72 fixes fullscreen, opacity, and gradient bugs on GNOME 49.

Blender 5.0 has entered public beta testing today for this free and open source 3D creation suite designed for modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, and video editing.

Firefox 144 introduces AES-256 encryption for passwords, new web APIs, and smoother transitions with improved WebGPU performance.

PyTorch is an open-source machine learning framework that enables developers to build and train neural networks for AI applications. When combined with NVIDIA CUDA, PyTorch can leverage GPU acceleration to perform computations up to and even over 100 times faster than CPU-only processing. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install PyTorch with CUDA support on Ubuntu Linux, enabling you to harness the full power of your NVIDIA GPU for machine learning and deep learning tasks.

GNOME Flatpak Runtime has dropped its 32-bit compatibility extension, focusing future builds entirely on 64-bit and ARM architectures.