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The widely-used Curl project has removed support for its Rust-written Hyper HTTP back-end that they were experimentally shipping for several years. The removal of this Rust back-end comes from having little end-user and developer interest in this portion of the code.

Raspberry Pi is about to wrap up its biggest, busiest year to date. The company launched a ton of new products, overhauled the Pi OS operating system, and went public on the London Stock Exchange. It's an exciting time to be a Pi fan.

DXVK 2.5.2 is out today as the second maintenance update to the DXVK 2.5 series for this Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine.

Darktable 5.0.0 is a new major feature release. It now shows a splash screen at startup, including app loading process bar, which is useful for the user who has a large library. For choice, it can be disabled in the Preferences dialog, under miscellaneous tab.

Void Linux users can now upgrade to the new, sleek, lightweight Xfce 4.20 desktop environment just days after its release.

With more and more Linux distributions – as well as the kernel itself – dropping support for more exotic, often dead architectures, it’s a blessing T2 Linux exists.

The openSUSE project announced today YQPkg as a new package management tool for openSUSE Linux distributions...

An IP address is like your physical mailing address. Once you connect a Linux distribution like Ubuntu to the Internet or a router, your system gets assigned two IP addresses. There's the private one, which is used to identify your device on an internal network, and the public IP address, which is what websites see when you connect.

Every so often, while reading a book, I come across unfamiliar words that I need to look up online to understand. Occasionally, I even forget the meanings of words I once knew.

It seems the stage has been set for more SteamOS Linux devices to join the Steam Deck, as Valve will be partnering up with Lenovo at CES 2025.

The tools featured in this roundup are targeted at a desktop user who wants to monitor resources being used on their machine.

Today, the development team behind the Arch Linux-based CachyOS distribution released a new ISO snapshot for December 2024 with various improvements, updated components, a new default kernel, and other changes.

The latest work that Raspberry Pi is working to upstream to the mainline Linux kernel is a HEVC/H.265 video decode driver that works on Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single board computers...

Linux is everywhere. It's on the majority of servers, powers the Steam Deck handheld gaming device, and is slowly creeping up the desktop OS charts (and no, 2025 won't be the year of Linux). It's a fantastic operating system that isn't an OS.

Darktable 5.0 open-source raw image editor has been released today as a major update introducing new features, improvements, and enhanced camera support.

Arch-based CachyOS's December '24 update brings optimized kernels with AutoFDO, RustiCL for Mesa, wireless-regdb by default, Bluetooth support, and key fixes.

WeAct RP2350A_V20 may be the world’s cheapest Raspberry Pi RP2350 board around with a design similar to the official Raspberry Pi Pico 2, but featuring a black PCB, a Reset button, a USB-C port and offered with either 4MB or 16MB flash.

Do you use Fedora Server? The Fedora Server Working Group would love to hear from you through our short 10 question survey. Your answers will help us focus our efforts to improve Fedora Server and provide better support for your use cases.

A Phoronix Premium subscriber a while back requested some fresh benchmarks of how the Liquorix downstream of the Linux kernel is comparing against the latest upstream kernel... Here are some benchmarks looking at the Liquorix flavor of the Linux kernel compared to upstream Linux 6.12.

Kdenlive 24.12 arrives stuffed like a seasonal bird with bug fixes, performance tweaks, and usability enhancements. Additionally, the editor’s developers have removed support for Qt5 so that, as of this release, it is entirely Qt6.