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For those not liking the direction of the Linux desktop with its Wayland-first focus, the Rust-written Redox OS has begun rolling out X11 support within its Orbital display server...

Encourages move to Linux but, for goodness sake, RTFM first Linux desktop darling KDE is weighing in on the controversy around the impending demise of Windows 10 support with a lurid "KDE for Windows 10 Exiles" campaign.…

Murena is out with a new major release of its deGoogled and improved version of Android — /e/OS 3.O

Open-source software is built on contributions from both volunteers and corporations, but an emerging body of research and commentary suggests that unpaid or underpaid contributors are often exploited to sustain enterprise-backed projects. Companies frequently benefit from community labor under the pretexts of "learning opportunities," "future job prospects," "developer prestige," or doing "service" for the community. Below, we examine evidence of this dynamic across major projects and foundations, and how ideological frameworks like meritocracy help justify the extraction of free labor.

Greg Kroah-Hartman today released Linux 6.15.1 as the first stable point release to the Linux 6.15 kernel that first shipped a week and a half ago. Linux 6.15.1 brings an initial batch of fixes, which are particularly noteworthy if trying to use a Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 laptop on Linux...

Learn how to install WordPress on Debian 13 using our step-by-step guide or have one of our Linux system admins install it for you.

Fwupd 2.0.11 is out today as the eleventh maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility with support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes.

The numerous hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged to Linux 6.16 on Tuesday for further enhancing the desktop hardware reporting capabilities and more with this next kernel release...

Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.4, an easy-to-use SD card preparation tool by Raspberry Pi, lands as the first official 1.9.x release, bringing a refined UI, more translations, bug fixes, and updated dependencies across platforms.

SquashFS-Tools 4.7 is out today as a big feature update to the user-space utilities for creating/modifying/extracting SquashFS read-only file-system images. SquashFS 4.7 delivers some big performance improvements and other nice enhancements...

VirtualBox 7.1.10 lands with key bug fixes for Windows and Linux hosts, plus support for kernel 6.15 and 6.16-RC0 on Linux guests.

While Intel opted against implementing Hyper Threading for their latest Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors, Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) still proves very effective on the AMD side. Even though the top-end AMD Ryzen AI MAX "Strix Halo" SoCs provide 16 Zen 5 cores, the presence of SMT for 32 threads still proves worthwhile from both a performance and power efficiency perspective. Here is an on/off comparison for SMT with the flagship AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 within the HP ZBook Ultra G1a.

The UBports Foundation released Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 today as the ninth stable update to their Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) for supported Linux devices.

The wide assortment of x86 platform driver updates have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel due out as stable in July. As is usually the case, there are a number of Intel and AMD platform updates along with a wide assortment of driver improvements primarily for laptops from the major OEMs/ODMs...

The Web is drowning in LLM slop and Google isn't keeping up or is simply participating in that.

RawTherapee 5.12 raw image processing program introduces powerful new color tools, tone mappers, and better support for Canon, Sony, and Fujifilm RAW formats.

Everybody knows that Alpine Linux is a great base OS for containers and IoT devices, and works great for running servers in data centers. We decided to see how well it performs on a desktop…

FriendlyElec has introduced the NanoPi M5, a compact single-board computer based on the Rockchip RK3576 processor. It features a 6 TOPS INT8 NPU, supports LPDDR4X or LPDDR5 memory, and offers UFS 2.0 storage along with dual Gigabit Ethernet and MIPI-CSI/DSI interfaces. Compared to recently launched boards such as the NanoPi Zero2 (RK3528A), NanoPi M6 (RK3588S), […]

Learn how to check disk health in Linux using smartctl, badblocks, and fsck utilities. Identify failing HDDs/SSDs early and prevent data loss.

In April we looked at the Framework 13 updated for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series and its great out-of-the-box performance and nice power efficiency of Strix Point. Via ACPI platform profiles the power/performance mode can be tuned if desiring a longer battery life or preferring even greater performance. Today's article is looking at that power/performance impact of the different ACPI platform profiles available on the Framework 13 motherboard with the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370.