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Yesterday marked the milestone of KWin's kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland code being split up. The Wayland and X11 code for the KWin compositor is now separate from each other but can be co-installable for systems wanting to support both X11 and Wayland environments.

Texas Instruments has introduced the MSPM0C1104, which it describes as the world’s smallest microcontroller, expanding its MSPM0 MCU portfolio. Measuring only 1.38mm², this wafer chip-scale package MCU is 38% smaller than existing alternatives. It is designed for applications where board space is limited, such as medical wearables and personal electronics, while maintaining functionality.

Don't, don't, DON'T believe the hype. The developer of Free95 says it will be a free Windows 95-compatible OS, but we suspect an elaborate prank. At best, maybe an unknowing one.

I’ve just reviewed the SunFounder 10.1-inch touchscreen display with Raspberry Pi 5 running Raspberry Pi OS, and the experience was not quite as smooth as I had expected, so I’ll report some tips to save people time.

The GNOME Dash To Panel extension that allows moving the dash into the GNOME main panel has proven popular with GNOME desktop users for an integrated icon taskbar and status panel on GNOME Shell. Unfortunately though one of the main developers to Charles Gagnon is "passing on" development of the extension moving forward.

Cyber threats and Linux vulnerabilities are advancing and evolving at an unprecedented pace, becoming increasingly difficult to detect and mitigate. This worrisome trend makes it imperative for organizations to adopt robust and adaptive security measures to counter these growing risks.

This article examines Linux's role in enhancing AI hardware acceleration, focusing on recent advancements in the kernel, driver integration, and memory management.

SUSE kicked off its SUSECON 2025 conference this week in Orlando with a keynote introduced by Dominic Laurie in his role as comms director… who handed immediately over to SUSE CEO Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen.

The Radxa CM3J is an industrial-grade compute module built around the Rockchip RK3568J SoC. This compact module integrates a CPU, PMU, LPDDR4X, eMMC, and wireless connectivity options such as Wi-Fi 5 and Bluetooth 5.0 in a 55mm x 40mm form factor.

Garuda Linux has introduced the first ISO builds of its COSMIC offering. Users can test out what it has to offer.

A big albeit late feature landed today for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler... The COBOL programming language front-end has been merged!

First new version in about five years, but it's who did it that matters more. The WINE project has put out its first release of Mono, the original FOSS .NET runtime, since it took the project over from Microsoft six months ago.

In hopefully helping Asahi Linux reduce their downstream patch burden and helping to enhance the overall flow of new Apple Silicon related code into the mainline Linux kernel, another developer has agreed to serve as an official code reviewer over the ARM Apple bits within the Linux kernel.

Last week the Department of Justice and some state attorneys general filed revised proposed remedies in the U.S. v. Google LLC search case. If the proposed remedies barring all search payments to browser developers are adopted by the court, these misguided plans would be a direct hit to small and independent browsers—the very forces that keep the web open, innovative and free.

MediaTek continues to strengthen upstream support for its Genio IoT platforms through its collaboration with Collabora. Following the initial efforts to integrate Genio EVKs into the open-source ecosystem, recent updates bring improvements to the Linux kernel, Debian-based images, and automated testing frameworks.

I used CasaOS for self-hosting popular open source services on a Raspberry Pi. Here's my experience.

Chinese startup DeepSeek proves that efficiency and strategic optimization can rival massive capital investments, challenging big tech's dominance in AI development.

For quite a while Red Hat engineers have been developing the open-source, Rust-written NOVA driver to in effect serve as the successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau driver that isn't too actively developed in more recent times. But unlike Nouveau's extensive range of NVIDIA GPU support, the NOVA driver is intentionally limited to the RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs and newer where there is the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) with the firmware support to leverage for an easier driver-writing experience.

Dolphin Emulator, the free open-source GameCude and Wii emulator, released new 2503 release on Monday.

Ubuntu is based on Debian, but they're not the same. To help you choose which to install, we compare support, pre-installed software, release cycle, user-friendliness, and more.