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The Raspberry Pi single-board computer debuted February 29, 2012. Since then, it’s become a worldwide phenomenon, powering a wide range of hobbyist projects and commercial products alike. Let’s take a look at what makes the Raspberry Pi series special—then and now.

ELDEN RING is the latest game developed by FromSoftware who are known for games including Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Dark Souls. It's out now, with a Steam Deck Verified rating - so it works on Linux with Steam Play Proton.

If you've ever done remote support professionally or out of familial obligation, then you've been on a call where solving problems are only secondary to the impossible task of visualizing what's actually on your user's screen. How many times have you described complex desktop tasks only to later realize that your user hasn't even turned their computer on yet?

MicroSys announced a “Miriac MPX-S32G399A” module featuring NXP’s new S32G3 in-vehicle and industrial networking CPU, which runs Linux on up to 8x Cortex-A53 cores with up to 4x lockstep Cortex-M7 cores and 20MB system RAM.

Microsoft's GitHub on Wednesday said customers using its Codespaces hosted development environments can now try out prebuilt systems in a public beta test.

eBPF for sandboxed programs running in the kernel have shown to be very useful beyond the original BPF origins in the networking subsystem to also be very practical for other security, tracing, and other general use-cases for an in-kernel JIT virtual machine. Red Hat has sent out initial patches extending eBPF for making use of it within the HID subsystem for input devices.

If you've used a computer for any length of time, you've almost certainly encountered the Blue Screen of Death, or kernel panic, in which the computer restarts unexpectedly, erasing all your work. What causes this, and what can you do to prevent it in the future? Let's take a look.

Linux kernel developer Matthew Wilcox has proposed removing the ReiserFS filesystem from the Linux kernel – a relatively rare step. This isn't due to a problem or bug in ReiserFS: it still works fine. The problem was that ReiserFS code in the kernel used some API calls that nothing else did, preventing them from being changed or enhanced. For now, one of the other ReiserFS developers has contributed a patch that removes the issue.

Although the world has mostly gone digital now, there are still times when you just have to print a form, sign it, and scan it back in. Sometimes, I find that a snapshot on my phone suffices, but some industries require a better copy than a hasty snapshot, and so a flatbed scanner is necessary. The KDE project provides an application called Skanlite that helps you import documents scanned on a flatbed, or even a tethered camera.

We all know Linux is written in C. What you may not know is that it's written in a long-outdated C dialect: The 1989 version of the C language standard, C89. This is also known as ANSI X3.159-1989, or ANSI C. Linus Torvalds has decided that enough is enough and will move Linux's official C to 2011's C11 standard.

Axiomtek’s 3.5-inch “CAPA55R” SBC runs Linux or Win 10 on an 11th Gen U-series CPU and provides triple display support, GbE, 2.5GbE, SATA, USB 3.2 Gen2, and 3x M.2 slots.

SaltStack is a free, open-source, and Python-based automation and configuration management software. In this article, I will show you how to install SaltStack Master and Minion on Debian 11.

DevOps transformation extends beyond development and operations teams. It's also relevant to other parts of the organization. These new collaborators can offer new insights to the development team seeking to maintain alignment with customer needs.

Intel announced a move on Wednesday that will inject fresh energy into a Linux kernel project that started close to two decades ago – and was lacking funding and contributors.

nmon consolidates real-time and historical performance data from different system resources, making it a fantastic tool to have in your sysadmin belt.

Apart from mass hype, what can we actually expect when the Steam Deck releases tomorrow? Here's what's going on. Starting at 10 AM PST / 6PM UTC, Valve will begin sending out emails to people in the first batch of reservations. So keep an eye on your emails and Steam app notifications. Once you get it, you have 72 hours to make the full purchase otherwise it goes to the next person in the queue.

It appears that the diminutive Linux distribution Slax is not dead. It's been a while, but version 11.2 has finally popped out. By "a while" we mean more than two years, according to the maintainer. However, it's a welcome update, even if some of its fans might have moved on to alternatives during its hiatus.

While most of our attention here at DistroWatch is focused on changes and releases in the Linux community we also enjoy talking about the various flavours of BSD. As it turns out, some of you are interested in the BSD projects too. This week, in our Questions and Answers column, we clear up some confusion about how projects like FreeBSD (and its cousins in the BSD world) operate.

Garuda Linux, an Arch-based distro, is the one to heed. From simplifying Arch's learning curve to providing a series of different desktop environments, Garuda Linux has it all. This aesthetically pleasing distro is every Linux user's delight, as it's relatively easy to install on your PC.

When you want to grant administrative access to some of your users while controlling and checking what they do on your systems, you use sudo. However, even with sudo, there are quite a few unseen issues—just think about giving out shell access. Recent sudo releases added features that let you see these issues and even control them. For example, you can turn on more detailed and easier-to-process log messages and log each command executed in a shell session.