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Terasic has introduced the DE23-Lite, a compact development board powered by the Altera Agilex 3 FPGA and positioned as a cost-effective platform for education and prototyping. Compared to the earlier DE10-Lite, it brings upgraded I/O flexibility, integrated peripherals, and modern FPGA capabilities for digital logic, robotics, embedded vision, and classroom instruction. The DE23-Lite is built […]

David Rosca who started out as a contractor for AMD working on their open-source video encode/decode capabilities for Linux formally joined the company earlier this summer. He's continued to be quite busy plumbing numerous enhancements into their accelerated video support on Linux, which includes RADV with Vulkan Video...

The FRDM-MCXW23 is a development board based on the MCX W23 Bluetooth Low Energy 5.3 wireless MCU. It provides a compact platform for evaluating low-power wireless designs, targeting applications such as portable medical devices, smart appliances, automation systems, and asset tracking. The MCX W23 itself is a highly integrated device that combines an Arm Cortex-M33 […]

Earlier this month we looked at the Linux laptop performance of AMD's Krackan Point using the Ryzen AI 5 340 within a HP OmniBook 5 that can be found for as low as ~$450 during sales. For six Zen 5 cores and RDNA 3.5 graphics, Krackan Point worked well as a budget Linux laptop option. For those wondering how the Linux vs. Windows 11 performance compares for the budget HP OmniBook, here are some benchmarks.

Update boosts Microsoft file imports, adds new spreadsheet functions, and drops older Windows LibreOffice 25.8 arrives with a tagline of "smarter, faster and more reliable." That all sounds good. So what's new?…

In addition to this week seeing Apple SoC DT updates prepped for Linux 6.18 and Apple laptop lid events and power button driver patches posted for review for the mainline Linux kernel, published today on the Linux kernel mailing list are the request for comments (RFC) on patches for enabling USB3 support with Apple Silicon M1 / M2 SoCs...

Old-school DNA, modern-day muscle. PCLinuxOS keeps rolling forward—faster, friendlier, and ready for anything you throw at it.

Want to SSH into a VirtualBox Linux guest OS? Here’s how to set it up using bridged networking or NAT with port forwarding.

The open-source Panthor Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver providing the modern kernel graphics driver support for recent Arm Mali GPUs will be supporting a number of additional GPU models with the Linux 6.18 kernel later this year...

Learn how dnf5 can automatically install missing commands and rerun them instantly. Works on latest Fedora and any Linux distro using dnf5.

The MS-C927 is an upcoming compact fanless box PC built on Intel’s Meteor Lake-U and Arrow Lake-U processors. It targets low-power, silent operation in industrial and embedded environments such as automation, transportation, and edge computing, and comes in a 130 × 155 × 40 mm form factor with wall and DIN-rail mounting options. Processor choices […]

Tails 6.19, a privacy-focused Linux distro, is out with updated Tor Browser 14.5.6, Tor client 0.4.8.17, Thunderbird 128.13, plus a Tor Connection fix.

This is your friendly reminder that, as of today, the Linux 6.15 kernel series has reached the end of its supported life, which means that you should consider upgrading to Linux kernel 6.16 as soon as possible.

From cat lasers to AI-powered pacifiers, consumer IoT promises genius but mostly delivers nonsense. Here’s why the so-called “smart” tech trend is spectacularly off the rails.

Performance-tuned and optimized spin seems to be winning fans CachyOS bills itself as a Blazingly Fast & Customizable Linux distribution and that seems to be winning it friends. In the last month, it's the number one distro on the popularity chart on the widely-used DistroWatch comparison site.…

Systemd 258 is nearing release with many big changes to this init system / service manager. Systemd 258-rc3 was released today with some last minute fixes while also now adding that the next release, systemd 259, will face increased Linux system requirements...

Forlinx Embedded, an NXP gold partner, has officially launched its FET-MX9596-C SoM and the companion OK-MX9596-C development board. Built around NXP’s i.MX 95 processor family, the platform targets industrial automation, medical systems, and edge AI applications. The SoM integrates up to six Arm Cortex-A55 cores, an Arm Cortex-M7 real-time processor running at 800 MHz, and […]

Google plays an active role (if not deliberately then through utter neglect and carelessness) in plagiarism

Groklaw’s storied domain has fallen into unexpected hands. What’s behind the sudden flood of crypto content—and is the site lost for good?