Linux power management and ACPI subsystems maintainer Rafael Wysocki last week sent out the assortment of ACPI/PM material for the new Linux 6.15 kernel cycle. The AMD P-State driver continues to be heavy with its code churn and there have been various other optimizations and code clean-ups. The CPUIdle Menu governor also received some performance tuning worth mentioning...

arttime is a combination of art, clock, timer, and a time manager all from a single terminal-based application.

If you use a MySQL/MariaDB database, you know it can become slow or consume too many resources if not properly configured. To help with this, there’s a tool called MySQLTuner, which analyzes your database. It analyzes how MySQL/MariaDB is performing and provides tips to make it faster and more efficient.

KDE Plasma 6.3.4 delivers touch scroll fixes, scrollbar tweaks, better HDR support, and UI improvements to enhance desktop performance and usability.

The latest Scrcpy 3.2 is released with enhanced audio recording options, fixes for Android 15 and 16, and better compatibility with older operating systems.

This article is a tutorial on using UV to enhance or improve your Python work flow. If you work with Python you most likely have used one or all of the following tools: Why do you need another tool to manage your Python packaging or install your favorite Python tools? For me, using uv was […]

A subtitle editor is a type of computer software that lets users create and edit subtitles. We pick the finest open source options.

While the first quarter is coming to an end, there has already been immense progress this year to the Wayland protocols and compositors along with associated Linux desktop software for embracing this alternative to legacy X11/X.Org. From HDR color management seeing much adoption this quarter to Wine Wayland becoming more viable and the large number of Wayland compositors maturing, it was a pretty incredible quarter...

March 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

With Firefox 137 rolling out today to the stable channel, Mozilla promoted the next major release of their open-source, free, and cross-platform web browser, Firefox 138, to the beta channel for public testing.

AAEON’s UP brand has introduced the NV8600-Nano AI Developer Kit, combining an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano module with Super Mode support, an expanded I/O carrier board, and a preinstalled AI software package designed for embedded and computer vision developers. The kit features the 8GB Jetson Orin Nano module, delivering up to 67 TOPS of AI […]

Merged today for the Mesa 25.1-devel graphics driver code and also marked for back-porting to the Mesa 25.0 OpenGL/Vulkan drivers is another new Intel Battlemage device ID...

Thunderbirds are Pro: Open-source email client to get message hosting, appointment scheduling, moreThunderbird, Firefox maker Mozilla's open-source email client, is aiming to reinvent itself as a more comprehensive communications platform.…

Incus 6.11 container & virtual machine manager is out with initial Linstor support, improved VM and OCI container features, enhanced network options, and more.

As part of the various areas of the kernel overseen by Greg Kroah-Hartman, on Sunday he sent out the driver core updates for the Linux 6.15 kernel. The driver core changes this cycle aren't too notable except for revising the Rust bindings now that more developers are attempting to use them...

Ubuntu-based Linux Lite 7.4 launches with kernel 6.8 LTS, new app versions, and enhanced stability.

Today, the KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.3.4 as the fourth maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series with more bug and crash fixes, as well as some improvements.

Our man in Italy gazes into his crystal ball and sees that the internet without the US would be like… well, it would be exactly like the internet without the US.

For those interested in the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops, there's another option to consider for Linux use soon with pending patches: the ASUS Zenbook A14...

Ekapkgs is a poly-repo fork of Nixpkgs. Instead of keeping all packages in one big collection, Ekapkgs splits them into smaller, well-organized sections called repositories.