Linux and Open Source news headlines
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Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
The hurdles are higher than you might imagine. Getting involved with open source projects is a great way to build experience in development, documentation, internationalization, and more – but it's not as easy as it should be.
Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
Kdenlive 24.12.2 open-source video editing software brings bug fixes, including UI resizing, proxy clip handling, and improved Speech-to-Text support.
Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) folks are working on the final integration of Fedora images for users in WSL. As a result, we have organized a test day on Monday,February 17, 2025 . The wiki page in this article contains links to the test images you’ll need to participate. Please continue reading for details.
Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
You can stick Linux in just about anything, and that's a big part of what makes it special. So here are some fun but still vaguely practical devices people have stuck Linux inside of.
Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
As a follow-up to the news from last October of Ubuntu considering Dracut to replace initramfs-tools for initrd generation, that work remains ongoing with some improvements since having been prepared for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release but it remains overall an active affair.
Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
In the world of system administration, effective log management is crucial for troubleshooting, security monitoring, and ensuring system stability. Logs provide valuable insights into system activities, errors, and security incidents.
Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
The KDE Project released KDE Frameworks 6.11 today as a new update to this collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt providing commonly needed functionality to KDE apps and the KDE Plasma desktop.
Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
Ikey Doherty, the leader of the Serpent OS project, announces that the Linux distro rebrands to AerynOS to better reflects its vision.
Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
The Vaaman is a reconfigurable edge computing platform, first seen in 2023. The CrowdSupply campaign has finally launched, offering a system that combines the flexibility of an FPGA with the processing power of a six-core ARM processor.
Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
Codename Goose is an AI agent built to automate deployment, debugging complex tasks independently.
Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
A change queued up by an Amazon engineer ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle will ensure that PlayStation 5 controllers on Linux load with the correctly desired driver.
Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
High dynamic range imaging (HDR) is an important technology for photographers. It is a collection of techniques that allow a wider dynamic range of luminances between the lightest and darkest areas of an image.
Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
Fwupd 2.0.6 has been released today as the sixth maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility for Linux-based operating systems.
Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
This month, Sipeed unveiled the NanoKVM-USB, described as a compact and low-cost device designed to simplify the operation and management of multiple systems.
Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
While Final Fantasy VII Rebirth can work on Linux with AMD GPUs (like Steam Deck), the situation with NVIDIA GPUs has been messy. Open source to the rescue though, again.
Sat, 02/15/2025 - 22:20
FastAPI is a web framework based on Python for creating API services. It's a modern, fast, high-performance framework supporting asynchronous operations.
Sat, 02/15/2025 - 22:20
Calibre 7.26 ebook manager released with enhanced book details, better metadata editing, bug fixes, and more.
Sat, 02/15/2025 - 22:20
In this tutorial, we are going to explain what the ERR_CONNECTION_RESET error is and how to fix it.
Sat, 02/15/2025 - 22:20
I fought the Torv and ... the Torv won. Hector Martin, project lead of Asahi Linux, resigned early Friday, Japan Standard Time, citing developer burnout, demanding users, and Linus Torvalds's handling of the integration of Rust code into the open source kernel.
Sat, 02/15/2025 - 22:20
Wiki.js is a modern open-source wiki software. This guide explains how to install Wiki.js using Podman and Docker Compose on Debian Linux 12.