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Transmission 4.1 BitTorrent client is out with faster downloads, lower CPU usage, improved IPv6 support, and hundreds of fixes.

Valve released today an updated Proton 10 version, Proton 10.0-4, as the latest stable release of this open-source compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components for playing Windows games on Linux.

Being worked on since last year by Google engineer Roman Gushchin was the latest attempt for the Linux kernel to support managing the out-of-memory "OOM" behavior using BPF programs. It's been a while since there has been anything new to report on that front but published overnight is the latest iteration of those patches...

Solus has added Solseek to its stable repositories, bringing a fast, keyboard-driven TUI package manager to users.

Conclave doc outlines path to eternal releases The Linux kernel project has finally answered one of the biggest questions gripping the community: what happens if Linus Torvalds is no longer able to lead it?…

Godot 4.6, a free and open-source game engine, is out with improvements to the editor, performance optimizations, and usability enhancements across everyday game development tasks.

ASRock Rack's PAUL is a low-profile PCIe IPMI card built around the widely-used ASPEED AST2500 controller for providing IPMI/BMC capabilities for any platform. New patches provide mainline Linux kernel support for ASRock Rack PAUL with the necessary Device Tree bits...

Baochip has previewed the Baochip-1x, a mostly open RTL, RISC-V–based microcontroller fabricated on TSMC’s 22 nm process. Designed with openness and verifiability in mind, the MCU integrates a VexRiscv application core running at up to 350 MHz, alongside a quad-core I/O accelerator cluster clocked at 700 MHz. The Baochip-1x uses a VexRiscv RV32IMAC processor with […]

Privacy tools are a start, but real freedom lives in the digital outskirts of the web Opinion The Net is born free, but everywhere is in chains. This is a parody of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's 1762 book The Social Contract where he said the same about humans, but it's nonetheless true. The Net is built out of open, free protocols and open, free code. Yet it and we are bound by the rulemakers who build the services and set the laws of the places we go and the things that we do, not to our advantage.…

Nearly seven years after Richard Stallman left MIT under pressure and resigned the presidency of the Free Software Foundation he founded, he’s back on a U.S. campus giving a talk that is pure RMS — and fundraising for FSF in the process.

GParted 1.8 partition editor is out with multiple crash fixes, improved FAT handling, and safer file system copying.

Robin Rowe talks about coding, programming education, and China in the age of AI feature TrapC, a memory-safe version of the C programming language, is almost ready for testing.…

AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for next quarter's Mesa 26.1 release is introducing a new low-latency video decode mode. This lower-latency video decoding comes with a trade-off of increased GPU power consumption...

Learn how docker commit captures changes in a running container, make it persistent and create new images without altering the original Docker image.

The Challenger+ T3217 is a compact development board based on Microchip’s ATtiny3217, combining the tinyAVR 1-series platform with a small, battery-ready form factor for low-power embedded applications. The board is based on the ATtiny3217, an 8-bit AVR microcontroller running at up to 20 MHz from its internal oscillator. It integrates 32 KB of Flash, 2 […]

Bad luck, BSDs – although alternatives still work KDE Plasma 6.6 is approaching, and one of its more controversial changes is a new login screen that depends on systemd – meaning that it won't work on the non-Linux operating systems KDE still nominally supports.…

Ahead of tomorrow's official availability of new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptops, the review embargo lifted on Panther Lake and its much anticipated Arc B390 graphics. There have been several Windows 11 reviews of Panther Lake out today, but what about Linux?..

GParted 1.8 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source partition editor software, which addresses several bugs to improve support for various filesystems.

Back at the start of the Linux 6.19 kernel cycle I ran benchmarks showing some scheduler performance regressions with the new kernel. Fortunately, two weeks out from the Linux 6.19 stable release, merged this weekend was disabling the scheduler's NEXT_BUDDY feature due to performance regressions. Here are some fresh benchmarks looking at the latest Linux 6.19 Git state with/without NEXT_BUDDY and comparing it to Linux 6.18 stable for reference.

DietPi 10.0 is now available, requiring Debian 12 and introducing software updates, platform removals, and system migration changes.