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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.

Great news for KDE fans! Fedora KDE is no longer a spin! The Fedora KDE Desktop Spin has been officially promoted to Edition status.

Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 is now available, adding Android HAL support, expanding device compatibility, and including stability enhancements.

To us, the Linux Foundation is just a massive scam. It calls itself "Linux", but only about 2% of its budget is devoted to Linux.

Does anyone want to tell Linus Torvalds? No? I didn't think so. I must be a glutton for punishment. Not only was my first programming language IBM 360 Assembler, my second language was C. Programming anything in them wasn't easy. Programming safely in either is much harder.

GNOME 47 ‘Denver’ proved a decent update to the GNOME desktop, delivering a hearty dose of new features, UI refinements, and app improvements.

Intel's Linux kernel test robot has reported a 3888.9% performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel as of this past week.

The Workstation team is working on the final integration of Anaconda Web UI Installer for Fedora Linux Workstation. As a result, the Fedora Workstation Working Group and QA teams have organized a test week from Monday, Nov 11, 2024 to Monday, Nov 18, 2024.

Calibre 7.21 ebook manager introduces an audio overlay for EPUB, enabling immersive reading with sentence tracking & custom voices.