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The 24.10 release offers fun and freshness, but not immutability. The first interim release of Ubuntu since the somewhat troubled Noble Numbat is a smooth upgrade - but not all of the new hotness is here yet.

Thundercomm has recently introduced the Rubik Pi AI SBC built around the Qualcomm QCS6490 SoC with a 12.5 TOPS AI accelerator. The SBC comes in a “PI-CO ITX” form factor that combines the Pico-ITX standard and the 40-pin GPIO header found on Raspberry Pi SBCs.

At the X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC 2024) happening this week in Montreal, NVIDIA shared a road-map around their Wayland plans as well as encouraging Wayland compositors to target the Vulkan API.

Apple's latest OS release is the newest member of the Open Group list of officially verified UNIX variants – by quite some margin.

Want to save loads of time? Try executing multiple commands at once in your Linux terminal. This allows you to run simple sequential commands, execute commands in the background, and even handle conditional commands together.

GNOME Shell shows now playing info in the notification shade, out of view but there when you want to check in. Most users like this approach, but perhaps you don’t?

Last month Intel introduced their Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" processors with up to 128 P cores, MRDIMM support, and other improvements as a big step-up in performance and power efficiency for their server processors.

File compression is a crucial technique in managing data, particularly in systems administration and software development. It helps reduce file size, making storage and transmission more efficient. Linux, known for its robust command-line utilities, offers powerful tools for this purpose, with tar and gzip being among the most frequently used.

Chinese web giant Tencent has revealed it created a NoSQL database that it believes can handle multiple data models more elegantly than other attempts to do so, and has used it to consolidate its database fleet and improve resource utilization.

AMD today quietly posted a new open-source Linux kernel driver for review... the AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver. This AMD 3D V-Cache Performance Optimizer Driver for Linux is intended to help optimize performance on systems sporting 3D V-Cache such as the AMD Ryzen "X3D" parts and the EPYC "X" processors.

KDE neon users can now upgrade to rebase their systems on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. For those unfamiliar with it, KDE neon is an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution that is something of a reference platform for KDE Plasma. It’s available in User, Testing, Unstable, and Developer editions.

The default font size in the Linux terminal can seem small. If you have eye problems like me, you need to focus hard to read the text. Worry not because there are some tricks that let you zoom the Linux terminal so that you can see and read everything without any hardship.

One of the most exciting things you can do with a Raspberry Pi project is to incorporate a compatible camera and the camera software stack. The most recent versions of the Raspberry Pi OS include the rpicam-apps package by default, with five essential apps for capturing images and video.

KDE neon, an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution spun by the KDE project to include the latest KDE software has been rebased on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. While Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will be supported until 2027 by Canonical, it has older software and KDE thinks it's time to rebase KDE neon.

The Dark Angels ransomware group is known for its “sophisticated” and “stealthy” attack strategies that primarily target large corporations for significant ransom payments. This group has gained fame for executing highly targeted attacks, including a record-breaking “ransom of $75 million” paid by a ‘Fortune 50 company’ in early 2024.

The Open 3D Engine as the open-source game engine developed under the Linux Foundation umbrella and began as an advanced version of the Amazon Lumberyard engine is out with a new feature release.

Let's take a sneak peek at this interesting operating system — Redox OS.

Better support for gaming on Fedora Asahi Remix has been a long standing user request. Today at XDC 2024, we announced the preliminary availability of our game playing toolkit, integrating x86 emulation with MS Windows compatibility.

Raspberry Pi owners have always been prone to coming up with elaborate, technically interesting but practically questionable projects, and Pi enthusiast Jeff Geerling has an exciting new submission to that canon: connecting an old AMD Radeon RX 460 GPU to the Raspberry Pi 5's PCI Express bus and managing to play demanding titles like Doom 3 (2004) and Tux Racer at a crisp 4K resolution.

The ESP32-P4 Function EV Board, powered by the ESP32-P4 chip, is designed for developing cost-effective, networked audio and video applications that demand low power and high performance, including smart displays, network cameras, and digital signage.