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Following the recent concerns over Bitwarden potentially moving further away from open-source given SDK changes that appeared, Bitwarden has now further addressed the situation to ease the community concerns.

Also there's a beta of 9.5 – which is more than there is of RHEL. The AlmaLinux team unveiled a new distribution, but don't get too excited. It's not meant to be a new flavor or intended for production use.

Orbbec unveiled the Orbbec Perceptor Developer Kit at ROSCon 2024 in Odense, Denmark, offering a comprehensive, out-of-the-box solution for autonomous mobile robot development. Developed in collaboration with NVIDIA, the OPDK is designed to streamline application development for dynamic environments, such as warehouses and factories.

Do you want to use open source Reddit alternative Lemmy on your Android? This app should help!

Earlier this month Intel announced the Core Ultra 200S "Arrow Lake" processors and today they go on sale. In turn, the review embargo also lifts for these new desktop processors. Up first today on Phoronix is the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Linux performance review for this flagship 24-core desktop processor.

Digital Ocean's popular 1-click feature deployments now support AI models as well. Interesting!

If you believe Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's AI large language model (LLM) Llama 3 is open source. It's not, despite what he says. The Open Source Initiative (OSI) spells it out in the Open Source Definition, and Llama 3's license – with clauses on litigation and branding – flunks it on several grounds.

Linux servers are known for their reliability and security, which has made them popular in both enterprise and individual deployments. However, no system is impervious to attacks. With cyber threats evolving constantly, server administrators must adopt proactive measures to secure their systems against vulnerabilities and attacks.

For the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle there is Xe2 Ultra Joiner and GPU temperature monitoring support along with initial Xe3 graphics support for integrated form with Panther Lake among the Intel graphics driver changes expected so far.

FlexiPi is a bendable Raspberry Pi RP2040 board made of flexible PCB with the same layout as the original Raspberry Pi Pico, but featuring a USB-C port instead of a micro USB port on the official board.

The issue of paying FOSS developers is neatly illustrated by Randall Munroe's classic xkcd 2347 comic titled Dependency that highlights how key software can often be maintained by a single individual – who is worthy of support, given the extent of reliance on their work.

Raspberry Pi now offers an AI HAT+ add-on with up to 26 TOPS of performance. It's an interesting addition to the Pi 5, particularly for developers who are interested in embedded computer vision applications.

Vivaldi's new redesign could be enticing for Linux users looking for an enhanced multitasking experience.

The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ is the newest addition to the Raspberry Pi AI lineup, offering up to 26 TOPS of compute power. It enhances AI processing with two models: a 13 TOPS version with the Hailo-8L accelerator and a 26 TOPS version featuring the Hailo-8 accelerator.

For the recently launched AMD EPYC 9005 series "Turin" processors there is good support out-of-the-box running on the likes of Linux 6.8 as found with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Jackbox are trying something a little different with their latest party game, that uses answers from everyone to make it constantly unique in the The Jackbox Survey Scramble. A collection of survey-based games that starts off with four game modes at launch, with plans to add more game in modes in free updates.

The UP Squared Pro 710H developer board is designed for AI and edge computing, featuring Intel Atom x7000RE, Intel Processor N Series, and Intel Core i3-N305 processors for flexible performance. It efficiently handles real-time, intensive tasks, addressing the demands of applications such as industrial IoT, smart cities, and autonomous systems.

One of the best things about the Raspberry Pi 5 (other than the performance boost over its predecessor) is how much simpler it is to add an SSD.

The Bitwarden online credentials storage service is changing its build requirements – which some commentators feel mean it's no longer FOSS. The question has been highlighted by a new issue on the project's GitHub page, with the strong title "Desktop version 2024.10.0 is no longer free software."

Paradox announced Victoria 3: Pivot of Empire, the next "Immersion Pack" coming for their 9th century grand strategy game in November along with a major free update. Victoria 3 has Native Linux support and is rated Steam Deck Playable.