Linux and Open Source news headlines
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Mon, 01/20/2025 - 22:20
For this App Of The Week, we will be checking out a powerful scratchpad app that has been specifically tailored for developers.
Mon, 01/20/2025 - 22:20
"Why did you get a Slimbook? If you had bought a more upmarket brand, it wouldn't have happened." I'm paraphrasing roughly a dozen emails I received after I published my seventh Slimbook Executive report, in which I complained a lot about buggy firmware and botched system updates that temporarily rendered my beautiful and elegant laptop into a nerdy sandbox.
Mon, 01/20/2025 - 22:20
Rhino Linux 2025.1 has been released today by the Rhino Linux team as the latest stable ISO snapshot of this Ubuntu-based distribution offering a rolling-release model on top of a stable desktop environment.
Mon, 01/20/2025 - 22:20
Fleet says they’ll design your new data center for you, build it according to your design, or have their engineers sit down with your engineers to design it together.
Mon, 01/20/2025 - 22:20
GDB 16.1 was tagged today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger for helping debug a variety of programming languages on numerous different CPU architectures and platforms.
Sun, 01/19/2025 - 22:20
VersaLogic Corp. has introduced the Sabertooth AI, a compact and rugged embedded system designed for AI inferencing and high-bandwidth video applications. Featuring DDR4 ECC memory, dual GbE, and support for multiple displays, it delivers high computational performance in a small form factor for industrial and edge computing.
Sun, 01/19/2025 - 22:20
In a year or two it's possible that YouTube will no longer be usable or accessible except from "approved" or "certified" devices (i.e. hardware designed not to obey its user)
Sun, 01/19/2025 - 22:20
Kodi 21.2 open-source media player is out now with enhanced library management, fixes HDR playback, improves PVR usability, and more.
Sun, 01/19/2025 - 22:20
Neo4j is a high-performance graph database management system for graph storage, data science, ML, analytics, and visualization. In this tutorial, we'll show you step-by-step instructions on installing and using the Neo4j Graph Database on the Debian 12 server.
Sun, 01/19/2025 - 22:20
It’s been about 18 months, but we’ve got a new release for MorphOS, the Amiga-like operating system for PowerPC Macs and some other PowerPC-based machines.
Sun, 01/19/2025 - 22:20
This time, I want to share how to connect a USB gamepad to Waydroid.
Sun, 01/19/2025 - 22:20
Placeholder Gameworks who made Death & Taxes just released Broken Alliance into Early Access with Linux support. An indie love letter to pixel art, old-school adventure games, mythical creatures and fantasy storytelling.
Sun, 01/19/2025 - 22:20
Remember Dillo? The lightweight and open-source web browser written in the FLTK 1.3 GUI toolkit is still alive and has been updated today to version 3.2 as another hefty update after developer Rodrigo Arias Mallo revived the project last year with version 3.1, after being abandoned for more than 9 years.
Sun, 01/19/2025 - 22:20
At CES 2025, Orbbec introduced the Gemini 215 Stereo 3D Camera and the Pulsar SL450 dToF Single-Line LiDAR. The Gemini 215, designed for high-precision scanning, features depth measurement accuracy of less than 0.5 millimeters, multi-camera synchronization, and a lightweight build, making it suitable for various short-range 3D scanning applications.
Sun, 01/19/2025 - 22:20
What do Arch Linux users prefer? The Community Survey results summarize 3,923 responses, unveiling intriguing trends and preferences.
Sun, 01/19/2025 - 22:20
Technical BSD conferences aren't quite as common as the many Linux conferences these days. For the BSD conferences that do happen they tend to be more general in nature than carrying a desktop focus. But being announced this week was GhostBSDCon 2025 as a forthcoming developer conference largely focused on desktop use of this FreeBSD-derived distribution.
Sun, 01/19/2025 - 22:20
deepin 25 preview is now available here, offering a glimpse into a beautifully designed and highly secure Linux-based operating system that challenges Windows 11. Developed in China, deepin demonstrates how open source software can unite global communities and deliver innovation that transcends borders.
Sun, 01/19/2025 - 22:20
A terminal UI based (TUI) file explorer is software which lets you explore the file system offering the ability to quickly navigate through directories and peek at files.
Sun, 01/19/2025 - 22:20
Here's the up to date list of games available on Amazon Prime Gaming, and what compatibility you can expect for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. Each week Prime Gaming, part of what you get with a subscription to Amazon Prime, add and remove various games you can claim to keep.
Sun, 01/19/2025 - 22:20
NetBox is an Infrastructure Resource Modelling (IRM) designed for network automation and infrastructure engineering. This tutorial will show you how to install Netbox IRM on the Ubuntu 24.04 server with PostgreSQL as the database and Apache as a reverse proxy.