Linux and Open Source news headlines
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Thu, 04/10/2025 - 22:20
Cisco Jabber is a communication tool that allows users to send instant messages, make phone calls, join meetings, and manage contacts. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:20
OpenSSH 10 is out now, featuring stronger cryptographic defaults, new post-quantum key exchange, and key security improvements across the board.
Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:20
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 193 has been released today for this powerful, open-source, and secure Linux-based firewall distribution designed to protect networks against evolving cyber threats introducing post-quantum cryptography.
Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:20
The Topaz Tz170 J484 Development Kit is a compact platform for evaluating and prototyping with the Efinix Tz170 FPGA. It integrates onboard memory, configurable I/O, and a preloaded reference design, providing a practical setup for testing and demonstration across a range of FPGA applications. The development kit is built around the Tz170 FPGA, which uses […]
Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:20
On March 28, 2025, we brought Fedora to Murang’a University of Technology in Kenya. The event introduced students to open source, Fedora Linux, and the many ways they can participate in the global Fedora community. This wasn’t just another tech talk. It was an open conversation about freedom, community, and innovation—core pillars of both Fedora […]
Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:20
FreeDOS 1.4 open-source MS DOS-compatible OS released with updated core utilities, better reliability, and improved package organization.
Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:20
The release of the GNU C Library 2.41 at the end of January ended up inadvertently breaking some Steam games, Discord, Julia, MATLAB, and other select user-space software. A workaround was merged today for Glibc to workaround the problem...
Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:20
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...
Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:20
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...
Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:20
OpenSSL 3.5 introduces major crypto updates, including PQC support, server-side QUIC, and new TLS defaults.
Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:20
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.…
Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:20
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...
Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:20
Grafana Labs' Observability Survey finds 75% of organizations are using open source observability tools while battling complexity challenges.
Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:20
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.
Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:20
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...
Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:20
Hopefully, there will be something of interest for anyone interested in managing MySQL databases with the minimum of fuss.
Wed, 04/09/2025 - 22:20
Cardo is a Linux podcast client for the desktop, seeking inspiration from Antennapod, a podcast aggregator for Android.
Tue, 04/08/2025 - 22:20
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...
Tue, 04/08/2025 - 22:20
Today we take a "Deep Dive" - to borrow the words used by the OSI to describe its Microsoft-sponsored lobbying for GPL violations.
Tue, 04/08/2025 - 22:20
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 […]