Following IBM engineers doing a lot of open-source compiler work around a new "arch15" that we suspected to be IBM z17 with Telum II processors, this morning IBM officially announced their next-generation mainframe hardware...

Canonical announced today they have released Ubuntu developer images for the Orange Pi RV2, a new RISC-V single board computer that is low-cost with the SBC featuring 8GB of RAM costing just $64 USD...

OpenSSL 3.5 introduces major crypto updates, including PQC support, server-side QUIC, and new TLS defaults.

A novel way to encourage upgrades? Microsoft would never stoop so lowPatch Tuesday Patch Tuesday has arrived, and Microsoft has revealed one flaw in its products under active exploitation and 11 critical issues in its code to fix.…

UALink as the open standard alternative to NVIDIA NVLink that is backed by Intel, AMD, and other vendors has published the UALink 200G 1.0 specification...

Grafana Labs' Observability Survey finds 75% of organizations are using open source observability tools while battling complexity challenges.

Git, Linus Torvalds's brainchild that revolutionized software development, just turned 20. Here are some little-known facts about the tool that changed how developers collaborate worldwide.

With the recent release of Blender 4.4 it brought many improvements to its Vulkan back-end but is still being treated as experimental. But they hope to make their Vulkan renderer production-ready this year and in order to do that they need more help from the community in testing it...

Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone interested in managing MySQL databases with the minimum of fuss.

Cardo is a Linux podcast client for the desktop, seeking inspiration from Antennapod, a podcast aggregator for Android.

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system project has published its March 2025 status report that outlines exciting progress made over the past month...

Today we take a "Deep Dive" - to borrow the words used by the OSI to describe its Microsoft-sponsored lobbying for GPL violations.

The EM1103B is a compact single-board computer built around the Rockchip RV1103B SoC. Designed for vision-based AIoT tasks, it targets applications like smart cameras, doorbells, and battery-powered surveillance devices, combining processing, AI acceleration, and imaging features in a small footprint. As the name suggests, the board is powered by the Rockchip RV1103B, similar to the […]

For those looking toward a pleasant suspend and resume experience on Ubuntu with the default GNOME desktop, the Ubuntu 25.04 cycle is poised to allow for addressing a five-year-old Ubuntu bug report around the experience. However, for the near-term this is only expected to be in good shape for those using the GNOME X11 session with the GNOME Wayland session requiring further work to the Mutter compositor...

Learn how to install Docker on Void Linux and get this containerization platform up and running smoothly on your Void system in minutes.

At the end of March with the Ubuntu 25.04 beta release I began running Ubuntu 25.04 benchmarks on desktop hardware and finding some nice performance improvements thanks to the fresh Linux 6.14 kernel and other new software updates found in this next Ubuntu release. While those numbers were positive, the Ubuntu 25.04 beta performance I am seeing on AMD EPYC 5th Gen "Turin" servers is even more exhilarating. As the first of a lot more Ubuntu 25.04 server benchmarks to come, today is a first look at the Ubuntu 25.04 beta performance on AMD EPYC 9005 compared to Ubuntu 24.10 and the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS releases.

DXVK 2.6.1, an open-source translation layer that converts Direct3D 8/9/10/11 calls to Vulkan, brings bug fixes and performance tweaks, improving stability for AMD, Nvidia, and Intel GPUs across various games and setups.

DXVK 2.6.1 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with improvements for several games and various bug fixes.

fum is a TUI-based MPRIS music client designed to provide a simple and efficient way to display and control your music.

Tails will take you through a den of identity thieves, who will never learn your name. It’s sorta the opposite of Cheers.