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Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.21, Wine-Staging 9.21 is available as this experimental blend of Wine that carries extra patches for testing/evaluation to enhance the ability for Windows games and apps to run on Linux.

Got a modern Nvidia or AMD graphics card? Custom Llamas are only a few commands and a little data prep away. Large language models (LLMs) are remarkably effective at generating text and regurgitating information, but they're ultimately limited by the corpus of data they were trained on.

Freedom is not something you can legally pursue or accomplish when it is "too late", i.e. when everything is already proprietary or when you live under a dictatorship

The Raspberry Pi community has launched two new accessories to enhance their single-board computers: the $12 USB 3 Hub, providing four-way USB 3.0 connectivity, and the $60 Touch Display 2, offering a higher-resolution, slimmer touch interface for interactive use.

Team Firestorm sent word that their recently released Victorian London murder mystery game Blood On The Thames is now supported on Linux. Looks really unique with the visual style!

Hyprland 0.45, a tiling Wayland compositor, has been released with smoother edges, bug fixes, and breaking changes to optimize your experience.

If you've ever tried running Windows software on Linux, you know it can be a mixed bag, and every option has quirks. Should you go with Wine or set up a full virtual machine? Let's explore both options and see which one will give you the best experience for your needs.

Longtime NVIDIA Linux engineer Aaron Plattner shared a status update on Friday around the current feature parity difference between the NVIDIA driver stack on X11 and under (X)Wayland.

The Debian Project announced today the release and general availability of Debian 12.8 as the seventh ISO update to the latest Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” operating system series.

Only Linux is supported, and the company says its module targets the automotive, industrial, and commercial IoT markets.

Sparky 2024.11 brings the latest Debian testing packages, Linux kernel 6.11, Midori 11.4, Thunderbird 128.4.0esr, and more.

Espressif Systems announced the ESP32-P4 over a year ago. While the chip is not yet available for retail, a prototype development board featuring the chip was recently showcased by Olimex. This board includes multiple interfaces, such as an Ethernet connector and a camera connector, demonstrating its versatile capabilities.

The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 6.8 as a new monthly update to this collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt providing commonly needed functionality for KDE applications and the KDE Plasma desktop.

Earlier this year was a Fedora change proposal seeking to make KDE Plasma the default over GNOME for Fedora 42. A compromise of sorts has now been settled on with the Fedora Desktop Spin being promoted to an "Edition" status that will put it on the same level as the GNOME-based Fedora Workstation Edition.

Testing network speed is a critical part of diagnosing network issues or optimizing performance. On Linux, the command-line tool iperf3 is a robust and reliable solution for measuring bandwidth, latency, and packet loss.

Searching for an uptime monitor? Follow our Uptime Kuma Docker installation and configuration guide to ensure your services stay live 24/7.

First DE supposed to be installed is KDE Plasma 6.2.3, installation follows instructions proposed in thread https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/issues/2764 due to known issue with pipewire-pulse.service in arch ISO version as of 11/01/2024

SolidRun has launched a single-board computer tailored for Industrial Internet of Things and Human-Machine Interface applications, built around the i.MX8M Plus System-on-Module from NXP. Its carrier board includes features like RS232, RS485, dual CAN-FD, and dual 1Gb Ethernet and more.

Controlling services in Linux doesn't have to be a confounding experience. Here's how the process works and why it is often seen as an overly complicated task.

Last week Google announced the general availability of their C4A instances powered by their in-house Axion processors. I delivered launch-day benchmarks looking at the Google Axion CPU performance with the C4A instances compared to other Google Cloud instance types powered by Ampere Altra and Intel Xeon.