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Tindie recently featured a development kit designed to evaluate and leverage the capabilities of the low-cost CH32V003 microcontroller. Key features include multiple GPIOs, support for various communication protocols, a small OLED interactive display, and tutorials to help users learn to interface with the product.

For those interested in laptops powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite SoC, it's looking like the ASUS Vivobook S15 model could be one of the first devices with decent Linux support. There are patches undergoing review for upstreaming the ASUS Vivobook S 15 DeviceTree support so that much of the basic functionality is working under Linux but various features are known to be broken.

Choosing the right CMS for sharing ideas, showcasing expertise, and engaging with a global audience. If you’re looking to launch your blog, you’ve likely come across two prominent options: Webflow vs WordPress.

2002 is calling. STAR WARS: Bounty Hunter is making a return and coming to PC from Aspyr Media, with their remaster arriving on August 1st.

The fact that these three new members come loaded with old fashioned activist moxie might be just the thing to get FSF back on track. Since the silencing of Richard Stallman in 2019 and the sudden departure of longtime executive director John Sullivan in 2022, the once robust organization seems to have lost both its direction and clarity of purpose.

Project's creator talks to Ars about where FreeDOS has been, where it's going.

Raspberry Pi started the single board computer (SBC) revolution. It started as a tiny, low-end spec device for hobbyists but that was in the past. The success of Raspberry Pi birthed many similar devices. While the form factor remains tiny, the devices are getting powerful in terms of specification. Armsom Sige7 is one such tiny computer that has got some heavy hardware muscles on it.

The Synaptics Astra platform introduces the SL-Series of AI-native IoT processors, utilizing Arm Cortex A-series CPUs. These SoCs are tailored for the IoT commercial market, featuring hardware accelerators for edge inferencing and multimedia processing in audio, video, and speech.

The new openSUSE Agama 9 installer introduces a sleek web interface, improved AutoYaST support, enhanced networking, and more.

With the first half of the year drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most popular content on Phoronix so far in 2024. Year to date there has been 1,530 original news articles so far and 78 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles written by your's truly. There has been a lot happening in 2024 from Linux kernel improvements to exciting new hardware and other open-source advances.

Microsoft already has many problems. One day Microsoft won't exist anymore. But that does not guarantee users' freedom.

The FreeDOS project dates back to 1994, when Microsoft announced that its disk operating system (MS-DOS) would be phased out, as the company’s attention shifted to Windows. Jim Hall started working on FreeDOS as an open-source recreation and continuation of MS-DOS, with the goal of running all software compatible with MS-DOS. He still oversees the project to this day.

The Debian Project announced today the release and general availability of Debian 12.6 as the fifth ISO update to the latest Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” operating system series.

Microsoft’s stance for decades was that community creation and sharing of communal code (later to be known as free and open source software) represented a direct attack on their business. Their battle with Linux stretches back many years.

Canonical has announced plans to offer customized Docker container Long Term Support (LTS) Linux images via its Everything LTS service. These custom "distroless" Linux images are set to come with 12 years of security support for Linux, and any included open-source application or dependency within the container.

Even if you are a Windows 10 fan who doesn't want to upgrade to the latest and greatest Microsoft has to offer, you are, unfortunately, running out of time. Microsoft announced the end-of-support date for Windows 10 — October 14, 2025. With a little over a year left, it might be time to start considering an upgrade.

Rack and Slay is a dungeon crawler where you're a billiard ball, and you've got to shoot yourself across every dungeon level to pot all the other very angry balls. It's good fun and now it's even better.

Celluloid 0.27, a simple and powerful GTK+ frontend for the mpv video player, has been released as the first update for the year.

KDE developers have still been busy addressing early fallout from the Plasma 6.1 desktop that released earlier this month while also beginning more feature activity for Plasma 6.2.

If you’ve been experiencing issues getting some apps to run or work properly in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS it may be down to the distro using AppArmor to restrict the creation of user namespaces. This change (which I touched on in my article look at what’s new in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS) is there to bolster security. After all, no-one wants icky apps free to do icky things, unchecked.