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PHP may drop its legacy license in favor of BSD 3-Clause in version 9.0, thereby enhancing compatibility and simplifying distribution rights.

Simular is starting with industries like insurance and healthcare with tons of forms to fill When Ang Li, co-founder of agent software biz Simular, started working at Google DeepMind in 2017, software engineers at the search giant were skeptical about the usefulness of machine learning, or artificial intelligence (AI) as it has come to be called.…

Blender 4.5 LTS open-source 3D creation suite delivers major updates in animation, geometry nodes, Grease Pencil, Vulkan rendering, and improved UI.

Merged yesterday to the latest development code for the LibreOffice open-source office suite is now recognizing Bitcoin "BTC" as a supported currency for use within the Calc spreadsheet program and elsewhere within this cross-platform free software office suite...

Today, Brave browser is taking a huge chunk of Firefox’s market share, and few seem to care or notice.

KDE Plasma 6.4.3 introduces important fixes for KWin, Discover, and Spectacle, along with translation updates and enhanced accessibility.

The Mustang Mach-E recall isn’t just a glitch—it’s a sign that sometimes, the best solutions are the ones we’ve left behind.

The LTTng tracing toolkit is twenty years old this year and it's seen significant adoption by different hyperscalers and other notable organizations like IBM and Sony and Siemens beyond basic end-users and administrators for system tracing/debugging. While having many successes over the past two decades, the kernel modules remain outside of the kernel tree. Even with around four different upstreaming attempts to get the LTTng code into the mainline kernel, it still has not happened. A fifth attempt began today but still looks like it could be an uphill battle...

With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is enabling Panther Lake graphics out-of-the-box. Now going along with that Linux 6.17+ support out-of-the-box, the Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan user-space drivers are also ready to declare their Xe3 Panther Lake graphics support by default...

IceWM 3.8 window manager for the X Window System brings memory usage optimizations, improved toolbar behavior, and more.

In addition to last minute feature work on the latest AMD RDNA4 graphics cards ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching, there's also some new fixes going into Mesa for the open-source Radeon driver code... Coming in this Monday morning by surprise are some fixes for the Radeon HD 2000/3000 series approaching two decades old as well as a fix for the Radeon HD 4000 graphics processors...

LMDE 7 is officially named “Gigi” and will feature OEM install support along with all the enhancements introduced in Linux Mint 22.2.

Latest release handles NBD and bcachefs, but you’ll need 64-bit hardware to boot it GParted Live is a tiny live CD image that can copy, move, and resize partitions. It can be a lifesaver – but not for i686 any more.…

Following the recent launch of the NanoPi R3S LTS, FriendlyELEC introduces the NanoPi R76S, a compact router board powered by the Rockchip RK3576. Designed for edge networking and IoT, it features dual 2.5Gbps Ethernet, HDMI, USB 3.2, and AI acceleration. While the R3S LTS (based on RK3566) targets lightweight routing tasks, the R76S steps up […]

Debian's annual Debian Conference "DebConf" started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France...

PINE64 has shared early details of the ALPHA-One, a compact generative AI agent powered by the RISC-V-based StarPro64 SBC. Priced at $329.99, the device is aimed at developers and testers, and comes preloaded with a 7 billion parameter LLM running in a Docker container. The ALPHA-One is built on the StarPro64 SBC, which features the […]

Catch up on the latest Linux news: CachyOS, Krita 5.2.10, OBS Studio 31.1, Plasma 6.3.6, KDE ISO Image Writer, Amarok 3.3, Thunderbird 140, Red Hat offers free RHEL access, and more.

This is not a new problem. Later on respected people (like Bruce Schneier, who follows Slashdot) would not only link to slop but also based articles on the slop they saw in Slashdot.

Last month when the Fairphone 6 smartphone was announced, same-day Linux support patches were posted for this modular and repair-friendly smartphone. That Linux support code with the Device Tree (DT) files have been under review and out today is the second iteration of those enablement patches...

In May, NordVPN got full scale on board with Linux when it released a Linux client. We just took it for a spin!