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Join us to test the 6.16 kernel for Fedora Linux 43 during August 10 – 16! What is a test week? Test weeks are organised by the Fedora QA team per release cycle and are a great way to get involved in developing the upcoming Fedora Linux release. Instructions and test cases are provided for […]

A Microsoft Exit strategy isn’t just a good idea, it’s vital. It must go a long way beyond a farewell to Redmond

The Rust-written open-source Redox OS operating system saw a roughly 500% to 700% performance improvement for basic file copy operations since the end of last year, among other ongoing performance optimizations. Plus various other Redox OS features continue to be addressed too as noted in their newest monthly status report...

Luckfox has just launched a new development board with a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi Zero, but based on the Rockchip RK3506B system-on-chip. The Lyra Zero W is designed to offer a low-cost, compact solution for embedded Linux development, priced at $16.99. The Lyra Zero W uses the Rockchip RK3506B processor, which integrates […]

Rust 1.89 is out today as the newest update to this popular programming language implementation prided by its memory safety features and more...

After spending nearly a week with this distro, our Larry Cafiero tells us that RefreshOS “would be flawless if it wasn’t for the long boot time.”

MariaDB today announced the general availability "GA" release of the MariaDB Community Server 12.0 release. This first MariaDB 12 release brings many exciting enhancements over MariaDB 11 for this open-source database originally derived from MySQL...

Nextcloud’s Digital Sovereignty Index ranks countries by self-hosted tech use, with Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands leading the way in digital independence.

GStreamer 1.26.5 multimedia framework is out now with key bug fixes, improved WebRTC support, and Vulkan tweaks.

Seeed Studio has introduced the XIAO nRF54L15 and XIAO nRF54L15 Sense, two compact boards based on Nordic’s nRF54L15 SoC. They support BLE 6.0, Matter, Thread, and other 2.4?GHz protocols, with potential use in wearables, sensors, and prototypes. Both boards feature a 128?MHz Arm Cortex-M33 core paired with a RISC-V coprocessor, along with 1.5?MB of non-volatile […]

All you need is 24GB of RAM, and unless you have a GPU with its own VRAM quite a lot of patience Hands On Earlier this week, OpenAI released two popular open-weight models, both named gpt-oss. Because you can download them, you can run them locally.…

Learn how to use the timeout command in Bash scripts to prevent infinite loops when waiting for a service to come online.

We now see more rumours or comments about Red Hat layoffs this coming Monday (August 11th, 2025), allegedly directed by IBM

Canonical released today Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS as the third point release to the long-term supported Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series.

Bold, clean, much less legacy tech – and a bit less like old SUSE A release candidate of openSUSE Leap 16.0 is here. It boldly strips out more established legacy tech than almost any other Linux we've seen.…

Mesa 25.2, an open-source OpenGL/Vulkan graphics API implementation, is out with Vulkan 1.4, new panvk features, and bug fixes for games like Ghost of Tsushima and DOTA 2.

Waveshare has introduced the ESP32-P4-WIFI6-DEV-KIT, a new variant of its ESP32-P4 development platform featuring a more compact and integrated layout compared to the earlier ESP32-P4-WIFI6 board. Both models are based on the ESP32-P4 dual-core RISC-V MCU and incorporate the ESP32-C6 to enable Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 (BLE) connectivity via an SDIO 3.0 interface. The […]

NetworkManager 1.54 has been released as the latest stable version of this popular open-source software for managing network connections inside a Linux-based operating system, and also the default network management tool for most GNU/Linux distributions.

PyTorch 2.8 released today as the newest feature update to this widely-used machine learning library that has become a crucial piece for deep learning and other AI usage. There are a few interesting changes worth highlighting with the new PyTorch 2.8 release...

Security hardening and DevOps activities the tipping point It might not be the year of the Linux desktop just yet, but ongoing cyberattacks and a general desire for a more secure posture are driving some businesses to the way of the penguin, according to asset manager Lansweeper.…