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Love trying new Linux distros? Small projects can be fun to explore—but they may come with hidden risks. Here's what most people don't talk about.

This concise guide covers how to effectively create, monitor, and manage Kubernetes pods.

Linux kernel 6.16 introduces comprehensive AMD SEV vTPM support. This marks a major step forward in confidential computing. Moreover, the kernel release enhances virtual machine security by enabling virtual trusted platform modules within AMD-based encrypted environments. Additionally, it provides hardware-backed attestation and secure boot verification for enterprise deployments.

Sasha Levin of NVIDIA proposed new guidelines (rules) for AI coding assistants like Claude and GitHub Copilot in Linux Kernel development.

Linux kernel 6.16 is out with USB audio offload, Intel APX and TDX support, zero-copy TCP from DMABUF, and big Ext4 and XFS updates.

In this comprehensive tutorial, we will discuss how to upgrade your Debian 12 Bookworm system to Debian 13 Trixie using the official upgrade procedure. This guide covers the complete upgrade process, including pre-upgrade preparation, system configuration changes, and post-upgrade verification steps to ensure a smooth transition to the latest stable Debian release.

To me, Stallman is a victim of his own success and influence, which they try to retroactively take away while burning down everything he created

As anticipated the Linux 6.16 kernel was promoted to stable. Linux 6.16 now greets the world with various performance improvements, NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell open-source GPU driver support in Nouveau, Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) preparations, and many other exciting enhancements...

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Firefox 141, Shotcut 25.07, OPNsense 25.7, Insights into Arch users’ preferences, Debian 13 to ship with Plasma 6.3.6, and more.

A few days back I wrote about Canonical releasing new Ubuntu 25.04 "Concept" ISOs for the Snapdragon X laptops with the new install images being re-based to the Linux 6.16 kernel and expanding the device support. But as I found out from my own testing, depending upon the laptop the support was still less than ideal. Since then there have been two more ISO releases and addressing one of my show-stopping problems albeit encountering another...

Shotcut 25.07 is out today as the newest feature release for this prominent open-source and cross-platform video editing solution...

Shotcut 25.07 was released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, cross-platform, and free video editing software for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems written in Qt and MLT.

In advance of the Linux 6.17 merge window expected to open soon following the Linux 6.16 release, all of the SoC updates have been submitted to Linus Torvalds for this next kernel version...

Need Google Chrome on your Enterprise Linux system? Here’s how to install it on Rocky Linux 10.

GNU Binutils 2.45 was released on Sunday morning as the newest version of this set of open-source binary tools...

Shotcut 25.07 video editor adds a new Speech to Text model downloader, brings new System and System Fusion UI themes, and more.

This post is an immediate follow up for "Attempt to workaround currently pending bug with Dotfiles Installer on openSUSE Tumbleweed" https://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/355903/index.html due to updates in openSUSE Tumbleweed packages dependencies which allow to avoid hacks during installation of Hypland with ML4W Dotfiles 2.9.9 on mentioned above popular Linux flavor . You may proceed as follows . . .

While there have been various elements of the Apple M1 and M2 SoC support in the mainline Linux kernel along with support for various Macs, different features have been missing from the upstream kernel such as the Apple GPU kernel graphics driver as one big example. On a more fundamental level, the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to cross off another low-level expectation for Apple Silicon Macs on the mainline kernel: the ability to reboot the system...

Oops! Yet another year that we forgot to write a SysAdmin Day article. Considering that we’ve been around for 15 years, that makes us 0 for 15.

This past week Qualcomm sent out a set of 17 patches for the MSM DRM kernel graphics driver for enabling support for the Inter Frame Power Collapse (IFPC) feature with the X1-85 GPU found in the current Snapdragon X laptops...