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Linux hardware vendor System76 released today COSMIC Alpha 7 as the latest development version for this up-and-coming desktop environment written in Rust for GNU/Linux distributions and the company’s in-house Pop!_OS Linux distro.

This article will guide you to enforcing DoT (DNS over TLS) on your running system and at boot time. Support is avaliable in Fedora 42. It will also guide you to set up encrypted DNS for system installation, if you want to try it with current Fedora Rawhide (Fedora 43). Background Traditionally, DNS queries are […]

Zalmotek offers a range of Feather SoMs built around Renesas microcontrollers, targeting energy-efficient and compact embedded applications. These modules follow the Adafruit Feather form factor and include essential interfaces for rapid prototyping and deployment in IoT and low-power scenarios. The RA0E1 Feather SoM is designed for ultra-low-power use cases. It features an Arm Cortex-M23 CPU […]

Here’s some preliminary information about AlmaLinux OS Foundation’s upcoming board election. We’ll keep you up-to-date as we learn more.

Today, the GStreamer project released GStreamer 1.26.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest GStreamer 1.26 series of this popular open-source and cross-platform multimedia framework.

Debugging and profiling are critical skills in a developer's toolbox, especially when working with low-level system applications. Whether you're tracking down a segmentation fault in a C program or understanding why a daemon fails silently, mastering tools like GDB (GNU Debugger) and strace can dramatically improve your efficiency and understanding of program behavior.

Mesa has supported on-disk shader cache for years to help speed-up game load times and overall system efficiencies. They had shifted from a multi-file cache layout to a single file cache for greater space savings. Steam also added support for the single-file cache. But now upstream Mesa is shifting back from the single-file cache default to the multi-file cache over performance issues...

Windows users can now install AlmaLinux directly from the command line with WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) CLI.

The latest bit of hardware enablement coming out of Asahi Linux and queued for introduction in the mainline kernel the next cycle is PCI Express (PCIe) support for the Apple M2 Pro SoC...

Package management is at the heart of every Linux system. It’s what makes installing, updating, and managing software on Linux-based distributions not just possible but streamlined and elegant. For users of Debian and its popular derivative Ubuntu, two powerful tools often stand at the center of debate: apt-get and aptitude. Though both are capable of managing packages effectively, they have unique characteristics that make them better suited to different use cases.

At the end of last year the upstreaming efforts began for a Raspberry Pi HEVC decoder driver for getting H.265/HEVC accelerated decode working on the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers with the mainline kernel. Nearly a half-year later that effort is still ongoing but yesterday brought the third iteration of this driver...

AMD has published as open-source their "GPU-IOV Module" used for virtualization with Instinct accelerators. It's also reported on their roadmap for bringing virtualization support to their client (Radeon) discrete GPUs...

Immich 1.132 self-hosted photo and video backup solution replaces TypeORM with Kysely, introduces SQLite support, and enhances sync performance.

Watch your partitions – GPT and dual-boot don't always mix. While The Reg FOSS desk was on spring break, both the latest interim Ubuntu and latest Fedora debuted.…

This detailed tutorial explains what Ubuntu Pro is, why I think it’s worth considering, and how you can get started with Ubuntu pro.

We’re keeping our fingers crossed that Fedora’s upcoming election will take place without all of the controversies that surrounded Open Source Initiative’s recent board election.

A new Steam client update improves game syncing and overlay scaling and fixes UI glitches that affect notes and screenshots.

When you think of architecture, you might be picturing buildings and blueprints. But when it comes to website architecture, there’s no need for scaffolding, materials, or engineering. This refers to how your website is organized and how users can navigate its different pages.

Managing storage in Proxmox VE can be challenging, especially when disk space usage doesn’t match expectations. This guide provides practical commands to analyze Proxmox storage from the Linux command line, identify space usage by virtual machines and containers, detect unaccounted storage space, and troubleshoot common storage issues to help optimize your Proxmox environment.

Self-hosted budgeting applications provide complete control over your financial data while offering powerful tools to manage your personal finances. Firefly III is one of the best open-source options available, featuring comprehensive expense tracking, budgeting capabilities, and insightful reporting. This tutorial will guide you through setting up Firefly III using Docker on Debian or Ubuntu systems.