Chat app blocks Windows' screenshot-happy feature from peeking at private convos Chat app biz Signal is unhappy with the current version of Microsoft Recall and has invoked some Digital Rights Management (DRM) functionality in Windows to stop the tool from snapshotting private conversations.…

After a long break, the Terminator 2.1.5 Linux terminal app brings new features like split-session SSH cloning, reverse search, and UI fixes.

The open source ISA RISC-V has long been making inroads into Linux distributions, but this week Enterprise Linux distros got on board en masse.

The PipeWire project released PipeWire 1.4.3 today as yet another minor update to the latest PipeWire 1.4 series for this popular open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux systems.

The FreeBSD project today published their status report outlining their development happenings during Q1'2025. There's been a lot going on in the FreeBSD world, especially for improving laptop support and other modern hardware coverage for this BSD operating system...

And other ways to get that Amiga feeling on a budget The FOSS recreation of AmigaOS is making progress. A new edition runs entirely from a USB key, so you can temporarily turn your PC into an Amiga – without any tricky installation process.…

Learn a step-by-step guide to installing and using the Dolphin emulator on Ubuntu 25.04 to play your favorite GameCube and Wii console games.

Discover an amazing free and open-source cross-platform GUI front-end of FFmpeg for basic editing tasks on your laptop or desktop with fewer system resources.

KDE Plasma 6.4 has entered its beta testing phase. The beta version ships with a lot of new features and improvements. This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to install KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta on Fedora 42.

The upcoming Rocky Linux 10 is on track to officially support RISC-V, with builds for VisionFive 2, QEMU, and HiFive P550.

Prime OS can be installed side by side with the Linux system. In the previous post on this blog, I discussed how to install Prime OS. At that time I tried it on Ubuntu, and the results were smooth. But in the comments column of my YouTube channel, there were some who complained about booting

Radxa has introduced a single-board computer with a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi 3, powered by the octa-core Rockchip RK3576 system-on-chip. Key features of the new ROCK 4D include PCIe Gen2 expansion, Gigabit Ethernet with PoE support, and broad I/O compatibility. The board is built around the Rockchip RK3576 SoC, which integrates four […]

When Rocky Linux 10 is released, it will join a growing number of Linux distros that support the open source RISC-V instruction set.

Fwupd 2.0.10 is out today as the tenth maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility with support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes.

AMI has announced that its Aptio V UEFI Firmware will power the Radxa Orion O6 demo platform at COMPUTEX Taipei 2025. Described as the “World’s First Open Source Armv9 Motherboard,” the compact Orion O6 Mini ITX board is designed for AI, edge computing, and multimedia-intensive workloads. The board uses the CiX P1 CD8180 SoC, which […]

Merged yesterday to the GNOME Display Manager "GDM" codebase is disabling of the X11/X.Org session by default as the first step toward deprecating GNOME's X11 session support...

Fedora 43 moves to a Wayland-only GNOME experience, officially removing support for the X11 session due to a lack of upstream maintenance.

The AlmaLinux Foundation rolls out AlmaLinux 9.6 on the same day that Red Hat officially releases RHEL 10.

Containers have revolutionized how we develop, test, and deploy applications. While Docker is the most well-known containerization technology, Podman offers a compelling alternative that doesn’t require a daemon running in the background. Podman is a free and open-source container engine that’s compatible with Docker while providing additional security benefits through its daemonless and rootless design. This tutorial will walk you through setting up Podman on Ubuntu and getting started with basic container operations.

First step would be to enable required repos, so run as root following script and reboot instance . Versions of some packages have been installed were verified via commands $ sudo zypper search -s plasma*desktop* ; $ sudo zypper search -s plasma*workspace*

In addition to rolling out Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat used their annual developer summit today for introducing llm-d as their newest open-source project...

SiFive has announced a new collaboration with Red Hat to deliver a developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 for the RISC-V architecture. The initial support is available on the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 development platform, giving developers a path to build and test enterprise and cloud workloads on RISC-V hardware. The HiFive Premier […]

Open-source philosophy, system-level optimizations prevent nightmare GenAI deployments, says CentML CTO Partner content “The magic isn’t just in the model, it’s in how you run it,” says Shang Wang, CTO of CentML.…

AlmaLinux 9.6 (Sage Margay) is out now with updated toolchains, enhanced virtualization, and images for x86_64, ARM64, PowerPC, and IBM Z architectures.

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) today signed off on the planned change for Fedora 43 that the GNOME desktop will be Wayland-only: the GNOME X11 packages will be removed in this next Fedora Linux release...

Valve released a new stable Steam Client update today that brings a few improvements for Linux gamers, as well as various other enhancements and bug fixes.

ASUS IoT has announced the RUC-1000 series at Computex 2025, introducing what it describes as the world’s first 2U 19-inch rugged edge AI GPU computer with PCIe 5.0 support for up to 600W GPUs. Designed for edge AI deployments in industrial environments, the new series includes the RUC-1000G and RUC-1000D models, offering performance scalability and […]

Although we attended the event virtually, FOSS Force was able to get Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks to weigh-in on the open source AI controversy.

Learn how to install the Yarn package manager on Ubuntu using NPM, Corepack, and the APT repository with practical examples.

Ubuntu systems rely on APT (Advanced Package Tool) for package management. While APT is powerful, its output can be overwhelming and difficult to parse at a glance. Enter Nala, a frontend for the APT package manager that offers a more user-friendly experience with cleaner output, parallel downloads, and useful quality-of-life features. If you’ve ever been frustrated by APT’s verbose and sometimes confusing output, Nala might be the tool you’ve been looking for in Ubuntu 24.04 and newer versions.