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GNU C Library 2.42 is out, bringing ISO C23, POSIX.1-2024, faster malloc tcache, and dozens of bug fixes and CVE patches.

Discover a step-by-step guide to remove (or hide) the home folder icon on Ubuntu Desktop, including an option to disable desktop icons.

Some users keen while others point out pile of unresolved bugs in core product The open source Blender 3D editing suite may be adapted to run on Apple's iPad and other tablets, despite concern from one contributor that the team is already stretched with "thousands of bugs languishing in the tracker."…

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the August 2025 issue.

Last week I ran the last planned benchmarks of Intel CPU performance on Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu with Intel having ceased development of Clear Linux following the restructuring at the company. In today's article is a final look at how the AMD EPYC performance compares on Clear Linux relative to Ubuntu Linux and AlmaLinux. An AMD EPYC 9965 "Turin" dual socket server was used for showing the strong out-of-the-box performance on Intel's Clear Linux even for this competing server processor.

GNU Binutils 2.45 adds SFrame V2 support for s390x and major enhancements for RISC-V, Armv9.6, LoongArch, and x86.

When one of open source’s favorite cloud hosts went dark, even LWN.net blinked. Here’s what happened—and why it matters.

Christian Schaller, a Fedora developer and Director of Software Engineering at Red Hat, recently began exploring the potential of AI usage more from the open-source/Linux perspective. He was left impressed from his ability to easily generate a Python application for internal Red Hat use to porting the venerable Xtraceroute program to GTK4 and Vulkan...

Banana Pi has introduced the BPI-F4, an industrial control board built around the Sunplus SP7350 System-on-Chip. The platform consists of a core board and a compatible carrier board that provides access to peripherals including a 1?GbE port, seven PCB terminal blocks, and a MIPI camera FFC connector. The board is powered by the Sunplus SP7350, […]

In this comprehensive tutorial, we will discuss how to print all arguments submitted from the command line in a Bash script on Linux. We’ll explore multiple methods for accessing and displaying command-line arguments, covering best practices for argument handling and practical use cases.

5 V-tolerant GPIO opens the way to some intriguing retro-nerdery The Raspberry Pi team has released an update to the RP2350 microcontroller with bug fixes, hardening, and a GPIO tweak that will delight retro hardware enthusiasts.…

The CRC32C cyclic redundancy check code path within the Linux kernel for error detection is much, much faster with the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel when running on modern Intel and AMD AVX-512 processors...

DietPi 9.15, a Debian-based Linux distro for SBCs, lands with Debian 13 upgrade support, Orange Pi 3 non-LTS images, and more.

For those shopping for a Linux friendly laptop powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" with Zen 5 cores and integrated Radeon graphics plus allowing up to 128GB of RAM, the 15.3-inch InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 was announced this morning...

OBS Studio 31.1.2 streaming and recording software patches a bug on Linux that caused Video Capture Devices to stop working unexpectedly.

Discover the multiple ways to execute JavaScript code or files with basic to advanced functionality in the Python program with practical examples.

Discover a step-by-step guide to check if your Linux system is running on Systemd or some other init system with practical examples.

While the Broadcom V3D driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the graphics found on recent Raspberry Pi boards, currently it doesn't support run-time power management. The lack of runtime PM has meant the GPU clock remains at full-speed even while idle...

Today, the GNU Linux-libre project announced the release and general availability of the GNU Linux-libre 6.16 kernel for those who seek 100% freedom for their GNU/Linux computers and software freedom lovers.

The Anaconda team have done some great changes over the last few Fedora Linux releasese. For Fedora Linux 43, they would like your help testing their latest changes – switching Anaconda installer to DNF5 and removing DNF modularity support from Anaconda. With the help of the Fedora QA team, a number of test matrices have […]