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At 2025’s Southern California Linux Fest, there will be at least eight colocated open-source-focused events in addition to the main attraction.

While the Mesa 3D graphics drivers saw many new features and improvements land in 2024, on a Git commit basis it's actually at a several year low in terms of new commits. Here are the numbers as well as a look at the most active contributors to Mesa, including a Valve open-source graphics driver developer now taking the top spot...

The Debian Project released today the first alpha version of the installer for the upcoming Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” operating system series, due for release next year.

November and December 2024 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

If you're looking for a Linux distribution with a user-friendly desktop that's also very highly customizable, MX Linux presents the Xfce desktop in a way that anyone can use and grow with over time.

Debian 13 "Trixie" Installer Alpha lands featuring riscv64 support, 78 languages, updated user screens, and a sleek new Ceratopsian theme.

In working toward the Debian 13 "Trixie" stable release in 2025, as a lovely New Year's Eve surprise today is the first alpha release of the Debian Installer for Trixie...

This month, Sipeed unveiled the NanoKVM-USB, described as a compact and low-cost device designed to simplify the operation and management of multiple systems.

This year NVIDIA's official Linux graphics driver enjoyed much more robust Wayland support, their open-source kernel modules have matured greatly and are now being used by default, and their proprietary Vulkan and OpenGL drivers remain in good standing for performant Linux gaming and workstation graphics.

Removing backgrounds from video in Kdenlive, the free, open-source video editor for Linux, macOS and Windows, is about to get a whole lot easier.

Luckfox has launched the Pico WebBee, a Linux-based micro development board powered by the Rockchip RV1103 Cortex-A7 SoC with 64MB of on-chip RAM. Externally, the Pico WebBee resembles a USB dongle enclosed in an ABS case with a USB Type-A port and a 100Mbps Ethernet RJ45 port.

Arduino IDE is free open-source AVR development board IDE from Arduino CC. It’s available in Debian and Ubuntu repositories, but stuck at version 1.8.19, probably because the 2.x versions require internet connection.

OpenMandriva is a sensible operating system that's not based on the top four most popular Linux distros, but just as easy to use.

GNOME's new image viewer is getting useful upgrades. Check them out here.

The Fedora Linux distribution had another great year with the successful releases of Fedora 40 and Fedora 41 that were both rather polished and largely on-time -- something that couldn't be said frequently of Fedora releases long ago. Fedora Linux has continued pushing leading edge innovations into their distribution thanks to the sponsorship and upstream contributions of Red Hat engineers.

The Radxa Orion O6 is a Mini ITX motherboard designed for AI computing and multimedia applications. Powered by the Cix CD8180 System-on-Chip, it combines powerful performance with a compact form factor for a variety of demanding use cases.

Orbit by Mozilla is a new AI-powered assistant for the Firefox web browser that makes summarizing web content while you browse as easy as clicking a button.

The world of Linux is constantly evolving for the better. In 2024, you could log into a Linux desktop to get a unique and modern PC experience, or you could get back to the basics by taking hold of the terminal.

We’ve talked about Chimera Linux before – it’s a unique Linux distribution that combines a BSD userland with the LLVM/Clang toolchain, and musl. Its init system is dinit, and it uses apk-tools from Alpine as its package manager.

By now, you've probably heard that Google plans to migrate Chromebooks to Android, but I believe there's a much better option that's already proven itself.