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Game Bub, an open-source FPGA handheld designed for retro gaming, has just launched on Crowd Supply. Built to natively support Game Boy and Game Boy Advance cartridges, it also features link cable compatibility for multiplayer gaming with other Game Bub units or original Nintendo handhelds. Game Bub is built around an AMD Artix-7 XC7A100T FPGA, […]

FFmpeg 8.0 has been released today as a major update to this open-source multimedia framework that introduces numerous features, including new decoders, as well as various improvements.

openSUSE introduces a phased plan to replace its legacy Qt5-based welcome window with a new launcher managing desktop-specific greeters.

After a two-week break since Calibre 8.8, Calibre developer Kovid Goyal released Calibre 8.9 today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform e-book management software.

FreeRDP as one of the leading open-source / free software implementations of Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is out with a new release. While FreeRDP 3.17 is primarily focused on shipping bug fixes, there is one noteworthy addition: fullchain support...

The update from the Arch Linux project says that details of the attack will not be made available as long as it's still ongoing.

After being in beta phase during the past month, the Firefox 142 open-source web browser is now available for download ahead of its official unveiling on August 19th, 2025.

In this video, I’m testing CapCut Desktop on Linux using Wine to see if it can run properly. CapCut does not officially support Linux, so this is purely a personal experiment.

I’ll show:

How I installed CapCut via Wine

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Terasic has introduced the DE23-Lite, a compact development board powered by the Altera Agilex 3 FPGA and positioned as a cost-effective platform for education and prototyping. Compared to the earlier DE10-Lite, it brings upgraded I/O flexibility, integrated peripherals, and modern FPGA capabilities for digital logic, robotics, embedded vision, and classroom instruction. The DE23-Lite is built […]

David Rosca who started out as a contractor for AMD working on their open-source video encode/decode capabilities for Linux formally joined the company earlier this summer. He's continued to be quite busy plumbing numerous enhancements into their accelerated video support on Linux, which includes RADV with Vulkan Video...

The FRDM-MCXW23 is a development board based on the MCX W23 Bluetooth Low Energy 5.3 wireless MCU. It provides a compact platform for evaluating low-power wireless designs, targeting applications such as portable medical devices, smart appliances, automation systems, and asset tracking. The MCX W23 itself is a highly integrated device that combines an Arm Cortex-M33 […]

Earlier this month we looked at the Linux laptop performance of AMD's Krackan Point using the Ryzen AI 5 340 within a HP OmniBook 5 that can be found for as low as ~$450 during sales. For six Zen 5 cores and RDNA 3.5 graphics, Krackan Point worked well as a budget Linux laptop option. For those wondering how the Linux vs. Windows 11 performance compares for the budget HP OmniBook, here are some benchmarks.

Update boosts Microsoft file imports, adds new spreadsheet functions, and drops older Windows LibreOffice 25.8 arrives with a tagline of "smarter, faster and more reliable." That all sounds good. So what's new?…

In addition to this week seeing Apple SoC DT updates prepped for Linux 6.18 and Apple laptop lid events and power button driver patches posted for review for the mainline Linux kernel, published today on the Linux kernel mailing list are the request for comments (RFC) on patches for enabling USB3 support with Apple Silicon M1 / M2 SoCs...

Old-school DNA, modern-day muscle. PCLinuxOS keeps rolling forward—faster, friendlier, and ready for anything you throw at it.

Want to SSH into a VirtualBox Linux guest OS? Here’s how to set it up using bridged networking or NAT with port forwarding.

The open-source Panthor Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver providing the modern kernel graphics driver support for recent Arm Mali GPUs will be supporting a number of additional GPU models with the Linux 6.18 kernel later this year...

Learn how dnf5 can automatically install missing commands and rerun them instantly. Works on latest Fedora and any Linux distro using dnf5.

The MS-C927 is an upcoming compact fanless box PC built on Intel’s Meteor Lake-U and Arrow Lake-U processors. It targets low-power, silent operation in industrial and embedded environments such as automation, transportation, and edge computing, and comes in a 130 × 155 × 40 mm form factor with wall and DIN-rail mounting options. Processor choices […]