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Samsung's Galaxy XR headset runs on Android XR by default with its own downstream kernel patches. A user leveraging AI with multiple LLMs has now drafted an initial set of patches getting the Galaxy XR headset working on the mainline kernel along with bringing up the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 "Halliday" SoC that powers this VR/XR headset…

It is a release that has taken a year to develop, with major changes like a Wayland session that is no longer experimental.

The Firefox 160.0 release builds are now available as the latest bi-weekly stable update to Mozilla's web browser…

LibreOffice is free for business, but WPS Office's free edition has licensing limits. Compare the PDF, cloud, AI, and compatibility trade-offs.

Darling is the software project more than a decade in development that is designed to run macOS binaries on Linux. This macOS compatibility layer for Linux is now gaining more brisk developments as it turns to AI/LLMs to assist in this creation…

The openSUSE Project’s rolling release Tumbleweed will switch to the Agama installer before the end of the year, according to an announcement on the Factory mailing list. Agama-based images are expected to replace the legacy YaST installer as the main download on get.opensuse.org within the coming weeks. The project is…

A weather research station powered by the weather itself.

Merged for Linux 6.13 back in 2024 was multigrain timestamp support for being able to switch between coarse and fine-grained change/modification time reporting on a per-file basis. This is useful if caring about accuracy more than the once-per-jiffy timestamps on files and was originally devised as a way of addressing NFS caching issues. A limitation of multigrain timestamps though has been the…

The November 13-14 event in Beijing will focus on SuperPoD OS, infrastructure for AI agents, and industry deployment experiences. All this under the theme "Building Agentic Infra from the OS Up."

Morse Micro’s “HaLowLink 2” gateway runs OpenWrt on a MediaTek MT7621 processor with an MM8108 Wi-Fi HaLow radio supporting ranges of up to 1km and PHY data rates of up to 43.3Mbps. Originally announced in September 2025, the gateway is now available through distributors including Seeed Studio, Mouser Electronics, and DigiKey. The gateway’s main wireless…

Every Asahi Linux repository is moving to GPL v2 or later, after bad actors lifted unreleased code and ran it through LLMs to hide where it came from.

Linus Torvalds just released the second weekly release candidate of Linux 7.4 with some notable bug fixes and other changes routed in past the merge window. It's another big one in the AI era…

A new version of Extension Manager, the desktop app that makes it easier to browse, install and manage GNOME Shell extension without a web browser, has been released. Extension Manager 0.7.0 includes a number of welcome improvements, new features and restores a few nifty bits that had stopped working in earlier versions. With the new update, you can now find and open installed extension…

Even before the Linux v7.4 merge window was over, there were already two pull requests of drm-misc-next material targeting for what will be Linux 7.5. This week already saw the third drm-misc-next pull request of more feature patches targeting this next kernel version…

Domicile lets you build your desktop in React and CSS, with Manganese being included as the ready-made tiling option.

Crowd Supply has launched a campaign for LocalDot, an open-hardware board developed by AAElectronics that converts third-generation Amazon Echo Dots into Home Assistant voice devices. The 83 × 37mm PCB uses an ESP32-S3 and ESP32-P4 for connectivity and audio processing while retaining the original microphones, speaker, buttons, and LEDs. The ESP32-S3 handles Wi-Fi connectivity and…

While FreeBSD has been working to improve its desktop and laptop experience, that work isn't yet shipping in released form for the OS installer and other ongoing efforts. Now there's a new desktop FreeBSD distribution on the scene with HyprBSD providing a Wayland-based desktop experience and with the Linux binary compatibility layer even an easy route to gaming with Steam…

Given the recent Linux 7.3 upstream kernel release, the Asahi Linux project published a new status report to outline recent code they have upstreamed to the mainline kernel as well as other efforts taking shape in their downstream codebase…

Lennart Poettering, Michael Vogt, and Joaquim Rocha have put together a detailed overview of what the Amutable Operating System (AOS) and associated infrastructure will look like. The image-based OS approach enables us to enforce some very strict but powerful security properties, which elevate the security posture of the system substantially above traditional Linux systems. Specifically, let's…

Crowd Supply has launched a campaign for LocalDot, an open-hardware board developed by AAElectronics that converts third-generation Amazon Echo Dots into Home Assistant voice devices. The 83 × 37mm PCB uses an ESP32-S3 and ESP32-P4 for connectivity and audio processing while retaining the original microphones, speaker, buttons, and LEDs. The ESP32-S3 handles Wi-Fi connectivity and…