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SiFive recently sent over their new HiFive Premier P550 developer board and as part of that fresh RISC-V CPU testing I've also been re-testing the prior SiFive HiFive Unmatched developer board from 2020~2021 for reference.

Want to install Linux? Follow our step-by-step guide to quickly create a bootable Linux USB flash drive on Windows using Rufus.

Valve is set to unleash the full, fat version of SteamOS to the masses in just a few months. After a couple of years in the incubator through the Steam Deck, SteamOS has gone from Steam’s Big Picture mode with a Linux distro taped on the back to a compelling destination for PC gamers across both handhelds and desktops. But Valve’s work isn’t done.

I mean, it makes sense to me that those responsible for new code to use programming languages that more or less remove the most common class of vulnerabilities. With memory-safe languages like Rust having been around for quite a while now, it’s almost wilful negligence to write new code where security is a priority in anything but such memory-safe languages.

Delivering a feature-rich KDE Plasma desktop, this specialized version of ArcoLinux lets you install and customize it every which way.

Object–relational mapping (ORM) is a programming technique for converting data between incompatible type systems using object-oriented programming languages.

It's not only AMD that is working on Vulkan/SPIR-V support for machine learning / AI software but NVIDIA has been working on improvements too for enhancing Vulkan-powered machine learning software. The outlook for using Vulkan within machine learning software is quite positive and even able to offer similar performance to NVIDIA's prized CUDA.

Firefox 136 open-source browser boosts performance with hardware-accelerated HEVC playback on macOS and AMD GPU decoding on Linux.

The future of secure cloud storage is beginning to change rapidly as developments in quantum computing increase; these powerful computers will have the power to break the current encryption technologies your current cloud providers are using.

Anyone who has stepped into the world of Linux knows it's not a singular operating system like Windows or Mac. There are literally hundreds of Linux distributions (distros), from Ubuntu to Void Linux. So, what's the reason behind this overwhelming variety?

When the Orion O6 mini-ITX motherboard with a CIX P1 12-core Armv9 SoC was announced in December 2024, we were told binary releases would start on January 15, 2025, and the source code would be released later in Q1 2025. Tom Cubie further explained that upstreaming of the CIX kernel would start in Q2 of 2025, and Linux 6.1 with Device Tree plus Linux 6.6 with ACPI would be supported in the meantime.

The UBports Foundation announced today the release and general availability of Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 as the eighth stable update to the Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa).

Mozilla Firefox 136.0 release binaries are now available online ahead of tomorrow's official release announcement. Particularly on the Linux side, Firefox 136 is one of the more exciting updates in recent times...

ADLINK Technology and LIPS have introduced a perception solution for autonomous mobile robots. The LIPSAMR Perception DevKit integrates ADLINK’s DLAP-411-Orin platform with LIPSedge AE Active Stereo 3D cameras, providing enhanced 3D vision with a wider field of view and higher resolution than LiDAR.

For GnuCash users who prefer the native .deb package format, here I made a new unofficial PPA for all current Ubuntu releases.

Bjarne Stroustrup says standards committee needs to show it can respond to memory safety push. Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++, has issued a call for the C++ community to defend the programming language, which has been shunned by cybersecurity agencies and technical experts in recent years for its memory safety shortcomings.

Pinokio describes itself as a browser that lets you install, run, and manage any server application, on your local machine. These applications are AI software.

The 229th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on March 2nd, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

What do you do when you need to choose an OS at boot but aren’t physically near your machine? [Dakhnod]’s inventive solution is a mix of GRUB, Wake-on-LAN (WOL), and a lightweight ESP8266 running a simple HTTP server. In the past, [dakhnod] already enlightened us with another smart ESP hack.

This article focuses on selecting the best open source Linux software which enables a library to catalogue, track circulation and inventory their assets using an integrated system.