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The crew working on enhancing the FreeBSD laptop support is hoping to have an install option within the installer of FreeBSD 15 that will easily provide a KDE Plasma based desktop environment...

These interactive Linux-based games teach everything from basic commands to advanced shell skills, all while keeping you engaged.

Microsoft 'kill switch' installed by Matthew J. Garrett - in the face of resistance from Linus Torvalds (whom Garrett would later defame a lot)

The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optical media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Intel-based Macs as release-blocking...

Fans say low usage no surprise when obscure but beloved feature disabled by default GitHub has "paused" the removal of the command palette, which enables keyboard control of the GitHub web application, following developer protests.…

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 196 has been released today as a new stable update to this open-source hardened Linux firewall distribution introducing various improvements, updated components, and other changes.

Google launches the OSS Rebuild project to verify open source packages and combat supply chain attacks through reproducible builds.

The Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit is an upcoming high-performance platform built for next-generation humanoid robotics, real-time sensor fusion, and generative AI at the edge. It delivers up to 2070 FP4 TFLOPS of AI performance, includes 128 GB of LPDDR5X memory, and supports high-throughput, low-latency connectivity for deploying large transformer and vision-language models in real-time […]

The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weakness If you installed the Firefox, LibreWolf, or Zen web browsers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) in the last few days, delete them immediately and install fresh copies.…

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week voted to approve a number of new features/changes for the upcoming Fedora 43 release...

The fwupd 2.0.13 update speeds up startup by 60%, lowers memory use, and adds support for new MediaTek, HP, and Logitech devices.

Learn how to install and customize the Starship shell prompt on Linux. Make your terminal faster, cleaner, and more useful in just minutes.

Last week NVIDIA open-sourced 12k lines of C header files for Blackwell GPUs to help in the open-source driver efforts, namely for Nouveau / NVK and the in-development NOVA Rust driver. On Friday they made public some additional header files for helping in the Blackwell and Hopper open-source driver enablement...

You only live once, but regret is forever Cursor's AI coding agent will run automatically, in YOLO mode, if you let it. According to Backslash Security, you might want to think twice about doing so.…

The Mozilla Firefox 141.0 release binaries are out today for this monthly update to this cross-platform, open-source web browser...

Chipmaker halts updates and support, urges users to migrate immediately Intel has abruptly killed off Clear Linux OS, ending Chipzilla's decade-long adventure in this part of the Linux world.…

While we await AMD to officially release ROCm 7.0 as the next major release of their open-source GPU compute stack, out this afternoon is ROCm 6.4.2 as the newest stable point release. ROCm 6.4.2 expands the officially supported Radeon consumer GPUs as well as bringing various fixes and enhancements to the various libraries and components making up this AMD GPU compute ecosystem stack...

The biggest question our man in Italy has about Linux distros and other open source software projects taking political stances is: do they do more harm than good?

Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.6, an easy-to-use SD card preparation tool by Raspberry Pi, updates multiple languages and refines SSH and WiFi.

Breaking on Friday afternoon was word that Intel is shutting down its Clear Linux project effective immediately after ten years of maintaining this high performance Linux distribution that relentlessly optimized for the best Linux x86_64 performance -- even when it benefited AMD x86_64 processors too. Here is a look back at the most popular of our Clear Linux testing over its decade in existence as a high performance Intel Linux OS...