Ubuntu is planning a new linux-firmware-hwe package, in an effort to reduce the risk of firmware updates for newer kernels causing problems for users running older ones. On Ubuntu long-term support (LTS) releases, you can stick with the standard (GA) kernel it was released with for the duration of its support period, or you can install the HWE update, which brings newer Linux kernel versions to…

An initiative led by CodeWeavers this year has come to fruition for improving OpenGL support with WoW64 for bettering Windows 32-bit application/game support while using 64-bit system libraries…

Peter Robinson has written a blog post about the current state of Fedora support for Raspberry Pi 5 devices. According to Robinson, the upcoming Fedora 45 release will work—with caveats—on all variants of the Raspberry Pi Model 5B; the Compute Module 5 and Pi 500+ are still works in progress. For Fedora 44 release you need to have a temporary…

Fedora Linux 45 faces another delay due to unresolved blocker bugs, pushing its target release date to November 3, 2026.

The Espressif ESP-Mosaico is an expandable smart-interaction development kit based on the ESP32-S31 microcontroller. The compact device integrates a 2.16-inch square touch display, audio hardware, motion and magnetic sensors, NAND storage, haptic feedback and dual expansion interfaces for HMI, edge voice and multimedia applications. The ESP32-S31NRV16 at the center of the board provides two…

LXer's forums, story submissions and private mail now use Markdown, the plain-text way of formatting made popular by GitHub and others, complete with tables, footnotes and LaTeX math. Here is how it works on LXer, and how sixty years of text formatters, from RUNOFF to BBCode, led to it.

Firefox 159 fixes Wayland tab detachment and AMD GPU memory issues on Linux while adding tab search shortcuts and new web platform features.

Tired of the rising licensing cost of VMWare, Tesco seems to be looking to switch to Proxmox.

An interesting new open-source project born out of university research is Beeper to provide application-layer parsing within the in-kernel eBPF. With an HTTP parser implemented by Beeper in eBPF and providing an in-kernel HTTP cache, the throughput for web servers could be improved by 3x at high rates…

RefreshOS 3.1 updates its Debian base to 13.7, introduces a dedicated APT repository, enables 32-bit support, and improves system maintenance.

The kernel is the core of the system that bridges the hardware and software layers and smoothly creates interaction between them to transport data.

After five years of development, Stalwart reaches version 1.0 with performance optimizations, database stability, and email collaboration capabilities.

Today, Mozilla promoted the next major release of its open-source web browser, Firefox 160, to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.