Showing all newswire headlines

Microsoft is in a rather dire situation and the last thing it needs right now is legitimate critics

Let's talk about Tux babe, let's talk about you and me. Let's ponder all the good thing and the bad things in me Slimbook Executive laptop and its operating system, chosen to be Kubuntu 22.04 by its owner, ergo me.

Unlike when building a retro Windows computer which gives you certain milestone releases to target, the incremental nature of Linux leaves it more difficult to settle on which version you wish to run, even if you have decided on a distribution.

The drama surrounding Rust code within the Linux kernel continues... Christoph Hellwig is the maintainer of the DMA mapping helpers and several other areas of the kernel has been an outspoken critic of Rust code or secondary programming languages within the Linux kernel kernel. Hellwig has been critical of Rust code for the Linux kernel and its long-term maintainability.

Looking for system-related information on your Linux, especially Ubuntu? You've come to the right place. In this article, you'll learn the easiest way to find various system-related information like RAM size, GPU, CPU, storage, OS, and more about your Linux system.

Beagleboard has recently announced the PocketBeagle 2, a single board computer (SBC) built around TI’s AM6232 dual-core Cortex-A53 and Cortex-M7 SoC and an additional MSPM0L1105 Arm Cortex-M0+ microcontroller for ADC pins and board ID storage.

If you need to format a USB flash drive, here's how it's done on all three major operating systems.

Should you go with NVIDIA or AMD on Linux? Find the answer by understanding the pros and cons of each, and make an informed decision.

Lions juggling chainsaws are fun to watch, but you wouldn't want them trimming your trees. Nobody likes The Man. When a traffic cop tells you to straighten up and slow down or else, profound thanks are rarely the first words on your lips. Then you drive past a car embedded in a tree, surrounded by blue lights and cutting equipment. Perhaps Officer Dibble had a point.

If you’ve played any of the versions of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing over the years, you’ll know that eventually you get to the point where you’ve maxed out your virtual house and filled it with all the furniture you could possibly want — which is arguably as close to “winning” the game as you can get.

There is an openSUSE project called Reproducible-openSUSE "RBOS" working on a proof-of-concept for constructing openSUSE in a bit-identical manner as part of the broad Reproducible Builds effort to be able to reproduce builds bit-for-bit against what is being compiled by the distribution vendor or other software distribution. The openSUSE RBOS has achieved 100% bit-identical packages as a major milestone.

“Musk needs to be arrested with no bail until he accounts for the information that he has stolen and tells where it has been stored and located,” Perez said. “Unfortunately, that is very unlikely to happen.”

Today, the KDE Project announced the general availability of KDE Plasma 6.3.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series with an initial batch of bug fixes.

This week sees the (belated) release of Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, the first point release update in the noble series to bring an updated hardware enablement (HWE) stack with it.

Any article about Serpent OS or Solus OS (or now, AerynOS), is first and foremost an article about Ikey Doherty.

Plasma 6.3.1, the first bugfix update to KDE's latest 6.3 series, addresses crashes, UI glitches, and display issues for a polished experience.

That old legacy system is gone, never to be heard from again. Right? But what do you do on the fateful day that someone needs to access data that's trapped in an old legacy application? If modern applications can't read the data, you need to run the legacy system. And that's where system emulation comes in.

Limine 9.0 is out today as the newest major release for this open-source modern multi-protocol bootloader and boot manager. Limine also boasts its own Limine Boot Protocol in addition to the native Linux support and chainloading/multiboot capabilities.

Our first look at the default desktop for Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 'Plucky Puffin'. The next version of the default desktop for most of the big Linux distros is in beta. Here's what to expect next month, or soon thereafter.

A fresh start isn’t just for your home — your iPhone or iPad deserves a privacy detox too. With Firefox for iOS, you can block hidden trackers, stop fingerprinting, and keep your browsing history more private with Enhanced Tracking Protection.