Following the development of its Wi-Fi 6 System-on-Modules, Mango and Cherry, 8DEVICES has introduced Kiwi, a Wi-Fi 7 SOM based on the Qualcomm IPQ-9570 network processor. The Kiwi SOM runs Linux OpenWRT, providing flexibility for various embedded networking applications.

lifecycler is an aquarium that runs direct in your terminal. It’s free and open source goodness written in Rust.

IBM completes its $6.4B acquisition of HashiCorp, strengthening Red Hat and integrating Terraform and Vault into its automation suite.

Here's another thing AI can do: Cause conflict around whether it's compatible with the very idea of open source. The Open Source Initiative's (OSI) 2025 Board of Directors election is again mired in controversy.

In a surprising announcement, Electronic Arts announced today that they have open-sourced Command and Conquer Red Alert under the GPL license along with Command and Conquer Tiberian Dawn and related titles.

VLC is the most recognizable and widely used open source project in the world. Developed by the VideoLAN non-profit organization, VLC has managed to be the go-to media player for almost all kinds of media playback.

Void is love, Void is life. It’s such an absurdly good distribution, and if it wasn’t for the fact that I prefer Fedora KDE by a hair, I’d be using Void on all of my machines.

NVIDIA releases Linux Display Driver 570.124 with bug fixes, VRR improvements, and Wayland optimizations.

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NComputing RX540 is a thin client powered by the Raspberry Pi CM5 that works with Citrix, Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Windows 365, Remote Desktop Services (RDS), and NComputing’s own vSpace Pro and VERDE VDI platforms. Omnissa Horizon integration is expected in March 2025.

Linux has long been the backbone of modern computing, serving as the foundation for servers, cloud infrastructures, embedded systems, and supercomputers. As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) continue to advance, Linux has established itself as the preferred environment for AI development.

The FreeBSD project this morning published their quarterly status report that outlines all of the interesting OS improvements and other changes made during Q4'2024.

The team behind Minigalaxy, a custom Good Old Games (GOG) client for Linux, has dropped a new update with a number of tweaks and an upgrade to the Windows game installation experience.

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 25.2.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series with various bug fixes.

It is a common problem: I have a USB device on a computer out in the shop, and I want to use it from the comfort of my office. What to do? Well, you could remote desktop into the distant machine. But, honestly, I always find any remote desktop more than ssh clunky and somewhat undesirable.

Bluetooth connectivity is a key feature in many embedded Linux systems. When it comes to implementing Bluetooth support, you can choose between using the open source BlueZ stack or a proprietary Bluetooth stack. If you are considering deploying BlueZ on your embedded Linux device, the benefits in terms of flexibility, community support, and long-term maintainability make it a worthwhile investment.

Mozilla introduced a Terms of Use and updated its Privacy Notice, ensuring that Firefox remains open source while offering more transparency regarding data collection and use.

Over the past few months there's been an in-progress patch series by Arnd Bergmann for cleaning up the x86 32-bit kernel support for running on x86_64 CPUs. After the third iteration of the patches were posted this week, these x86 32-bit CPU clean-ups were shuffled into the tip/tip.git "x86/cpu" Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window.

A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument that creates percussion sounds, drum beats, and patterns. We feature our recommended free and open source drum machines.

Defense of FOSS licensing rests on the shoulders of a guy in Virginia. At some point in the months ahead, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will consider an effort to reverse a California federal district court's decision in Neo4j v. PureThink.