Linux distros might be extremely popular in the server community, but they’re still a niche in the general computing sector, which the Windows lineup continues to dominate. Ever since I began my home lab obsession, I’ve spent more time with Linux than Windows – and let me tell you, Linux distributions have some game-changing features that are severely lacking in their modern Windows counterparts.

A few weeks back the Linux kernel "Faux Bus" was proposed by Greg Kroah-Hartman as a "fake" bus solution for simple devices. Today ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc3 tagging, the faux bus code was merged and comes at the same time both with C and Rust language bindings.

Just a few days ago, they revealed that Tumbleweed would be switching to SELinux, ditching AppArmor as the default MAC system, and now it looks like we may have yet another major move from them in the opening quarter of 2025.

It’s been two years since the release of ArcaOS 5.1, which was a hugely important release because it brought UEFI support to this continuation of IBM’s OS/2, ensuring longevity for the project for years to come.

HandBrake video transcoder released new 1.9.1 version a few days ago. Here are the changes and native .deb packages for Ubuntu users.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Plasma 6.3, Endeavour OS Mercury, GNOME's new website, Tumbleweed's move to SELinux, Serpent OS's change to AerynOS, and more.

ADLINK Technology Inc. has introduced the OSM-MTK510, a compact and rugged computer-on-module based on the MediaTek Genio 510 platform. Designed for efficiency, the OSM-MTK510 supports AI workloads while maintaining power efficiency and long-term availability for industrial and embedded applications.

Wayland Protocols 1.41 is shipping today with the color management protocol added for enabling high dynamic range (HDR) support on the Wayland-powered Linux desktop.

Can this even be called "revisionism"? This is pure fabrication - in fact fabrication that can ruin the reputation of Linux.

The 227th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on February 16th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Penguin Emperor's weekly State Of The Kernel Post went astray. Next time autocomplete takes over and you accidentally send an email to the wrong person or group, perhaps it will be a little solace to know that one of the world’s most accomplished technologists – Linux kernel boss Linus Torvalds – just made that same mistake.

Arch Linux developers will remove old, deprecated repositories by March 1, 2025, to simplify the repository structure and avoid confusion. It's time to update your Pacman configuration file.

The OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY is a router board based on the MediaTek MT7981B (Filogic 820) SoC, combined with the MediaTek MT7976C dual-band Wi-Fi 6 chipset. Developed in collaboration with Banana Pi, the OpenWrt One is the first official hardware platform supported by the OpenWrt open-source community, designed for OpenWrt learning, IoT applications, and general networking use cases such as routing, NAS, and wireless communication.

Decibels is designed to be a simple program that lets you play audio files. Decibels is explicitly designed for playing single files.

Regarding the DDoS attacks, that's an open secret

Last month when the state of the open-source RADV Vulkan driver for RDNA4 GPUs was outlined, it was noted that cooperative matrix support was missing along with DCC support and Vulkan Video for these upcoming Radeon RX 90x0 GPUs. Vulkan cooperative matrix support ended up being merged earlier this month while hitting Mesa Git today is the DCC support that is important for RDNA4 performance...

Complementing the recent Linux GPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 looking at both the Linux / Steam Play gaming performance as well as GPU compute and other areas, in today[he]#039[/he]s testing is a wide multi-generation look seeing how the NVIDIA GeForce performance has evolved going back to the GeForce GTX 980 Maxwell GPUs up through the newest GeForce RTX 5080/5090 graphics cards.

Learn how to move a VirtualBox VM to another instance, ensuring a smooth migration without data loss (GUI & CLI approach).

The GNOME 48 Beta release was officially announced this morning as the latest stepping stone toward the official GNOME 48 desktop release due out in mid-March.

Today, the GNOME Project announced the general availability of the beta version of the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop environment series for public testing, bringing more new features and improvements.