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WCH’s new CH32H417 microcontroller introduces a dual-core RISC-V architecture designed for embedded applications requiring high-speed connectivity and peripheral integration. It is built on the Qingke V5F core running at 400 MHz and the V3F core at 144 MHz. The microcontroller supports USB 3.2 Gen 1 with a 5Gbps PHY and dual-role host/device functionality, along with […]

The GNOME 49 Alpha release isn't expected until the end of June but for facilitating additional testing and a number of prominent changes this cycle, a number of GNOME packages have begun releasing "GNOME 49 Alpha 0" tags as part of plans to issue multiple alpha releases this cycle. Notable for GNOME 49 are plans moving forward for disabling X11 session support by default with that code then likely to be removed entirely with GNOME 50 for a Wayland-only desktop...

The EdgeLogix-1145 is a rugged industrial controller that integrates edge computing, PLC functionality, and IIoT gateway capabilities. Designed around the Raspberry Pi CM5, it offers a compact, fanless platform designed for automation tasks in harsh environments such as factories, energy systems, and smart infrastructure. The system is built on the Broadcom BCM2712 SoC, a quad-core […]

AMD in cooperation with ASUS and Microsoft used the Xbox Games Showcase for announcing their new Ryzen AI Z2 series processors for gaming handhelds. The new Ryzen AI Z2 series is launching with the new ASUS ROG Xbox Ally / ROG Xbox Ally X handhelds running Microsoft Windows...

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Rocky 9.6, VirtualBox 7.1.10, KDE Gear 25.04.2, Linux Mint 20.x reaches EOL, without Hyprland in Debian 13, Xlibre - an attempt to save X11, and more.

The upcoming Linux Mint 22.2 (Zara) operating system will feature a brand-new app called Fingwit, providing users with fingerprint authentication capabilities.

Linux 6.16-rc1 was just released by Linus Torvalds. This first release candidate of Linux 6.16 marks the close of the two-week merge window where many new features and other changes were introduced...

Today, Linus Torvalds announced the general availability of the first Release Candidate development milestone of the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel series for public testing.

Hyprland and related packages won't be part of Debian 13 "Trixie" after coordinated bug reports prompted their scheduled removal before the final release.

Many WordPress plugin developers take a tricky approach: they release a limited core version for free under the GPL but lock key features behind a paywall or make them proprietary—turning the plugin into a commercial product. In this post, I’m sharing the five best free and open source WordPress plugins I personally use on this website.

Just a few days after the FEX 2506 release for that open-source emulator enabling x86_64 binaries to run on ARM64 (AArch64) hosts, Box64 is out with its newest feature update for this open-source project with similar goals...

"KDE for Windows 10 Exiles" is a new KDE initiative inviting Windows 10 users to switch to Linux and the Plasma desktop.

The perpetrators of harassment love painting themselves as the victims. Nothing could be more offensive than such gross inversions and reversals.

Linux Mint 20.x has reached end-of-life and is now officially unsupported. Fingwit, a smarter fingerprint login, arrives in Mint 22.2.

Banned and erased from freedesktop.org, Enrico Weigelt unveils Xlibre—a fork of Xorg aimed at revitalizing X11 outside corporate influence.

Vulkan 1.4.317 was made public on Friday with a number of exciting new extensions, including VP9 video decoding for Vulkan Video, 8-bit floating-point data type support, and other additions...

NVIDIA 575 has been released today as the latest production-ready branch of NVIDIA’s graphics driver for NVIDIA GPUs on Linux, BSD, and Solaris systems.

QV is a new very experimental Linux distribution, under development and still evolving.

Luckfox has released the Pico 2 Micro Development Board, a compact module designed around Raspberry Pi’s RP2350A microcontroller. It targets embedded development and experimentation with both ARM and RISC-V instruction sets, offering dual-core support in a low-cost form factor. The RP2350A microcontroller from Raspberry Pi features a dual-core, dual-architecture design, offering both ARM Cortex-M33 and […]

Discover a step-by-step guide to install the Epic Games Store on Ubuntu via the heroic game launcher, lutris, and bottles with practical examples.