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I love music! I have hundreds of CDs in my collection, a few of which have survived since from the late 1980s. I have an original copy of Nirvana’s Nevermind, Foo Fighters debut album, and many compilation CDs that cover generations of groups and artists.

Linux: From supercomputers to smartphones. Explore the open source OS powering innovation. Discover popular distros like Ubuntu and Fedora. Learn why Linux matters.

Fedora Linux has already supported making use of glibc HWCAPs for allowing libraries to be built for different x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels for performance-sensitive code where it can pay off when leveraging AVX/AVX2 or other newer Intel/AMD CPU instruction set extensions.

A sophisticated credit card skimmer malware had been found hitting WordPress checkout pages, silently injecting malicious JavaScript into database records to obtain sensitive payment details.

Virtium, in collaboration with Embedded Artists, has introduced the DEEPX iMX8M Mini AI Kit, integrating the DEEPX DX-M1 AI Booster with the NXP iMX8M Mini processor and a carrier board. The kit is designed for evaluating and deploying Edge AI technologies across various applications.

Here's an interesting little problem. A friend of mine gave me an older iPhone 11, so I could play with it, test its long-term abilities, do all sorts of everyday checks, and whatnot. I've already written some on this endeavor, including, for instance, how to use KDE Connect for music transfer.

Right as Uncle Sam pushes for Chrome sell-off, eh? While Google awaits a decision about whether it will be required to sell its Chrome browser as an antitrust remedy, the search giant has joined with the Linux Foundation to announce an initiative to support the open source Chromium project upon which the Chrome browser depends.

Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics driver team who is known for his work on the Zink generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation has made another mighty round of improvements for helping the gaming performance.

Joplin is a popular open-source note-taking app loved by privacy-minded folks and productivity gurus. It’s easy to sync your notes across devices, but if you want to keep your data totally safe and in your hands, you can set up your own Joplin server.

As companies race toward ever-thinner phones with massive displays, I'm thrilled for a chunky 16mm-thick pocket computer concept shown off at CES 2025 with a small 3.4-inch display. Let me show you why I want this DIY Linux handset as a phone.

The I-Pi SMARC Amston Lake is a prototyping kit built on Intel’s Amston Lake architecture, designed to accelerate embedded system development. Key features include dual 2.5GbE LAN ports with Time-Sensitive Networking support and CAN interfaces for industrial applications.

The Intel Haswell CPUs were originally introduced back in 2013 and great for the time. Under Microsoft Windows the driver support has long been obsolete but under Linux with Intel's open-source driver support there is still even the occasional fix all these years later.

The RISC-V development ecosystem is expanding with the introduction of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the HiFive Premier P550, a collaboration between SiFive, ESWIN Computing, and Canonical.

Scribus, the popular free open-source desktop publishing software, announced new 1.6.3 version on Wednesday! This is a maintenance release that contains primarily bug-fixes, though there are also a few new features included in the release.

The Servo open-source web browser layout engine project has published their newest monthly recap to highlight the progress they made during December 2024. They ended the year on a high note with getting dark mode support working and other features wired up -- including enough to now be able to read Discord messages but not yet enough to actually post messages on Discord.

AAEON has introduced its first advanced graphics card, the GAR-A750E, powered by Intel Arc A750E GPU architecture. Designed for applications requiring significant AI and graphics capabilities, the card is built in a compact form factor of 236mm x 109mm x 42mm.

On the Fritz: German router maker AVM declines to appeal in device rights case after coughing up source code. Sebastian Steck, a software developer based in Germany, has obtained the source code and library installation scripts for his AVM FRITZ!Box 4020 router, thanks to a lawsuit funded by the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC).

If you have an older MacOS device lying around, why not install Linux to give it a new life?

Ubuntu developers are looking at extending their policy of not releasing stable release updates (SRUs) around the weekend as well as not phasing them up to 100% during those weekend times either.

Palit Microsystems has introduced Pandora, a compact AI computer designed for high-performance edge AI applications. Powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX Super module, Pandora is available in 8GB and 16GB configurations, providing 117 TOPS and 157 TOPS, respectively, for demanding computational tasks.