Although we attended the event virtually, FOSS Force was able to get Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks to weigh-in on the open source AI controversy.

Learn how to install the Yarn package manager on Ubuntu using NPM, Corepack, and the APT repository with practical examples.

Ubuntu systems rely on APT (Advanced Package Tool) for package management. While APT is powerful, its output can be overwhelming and difficult to parse at a glance. Enter Nala, a frontend for the APT package manager that offers a more user-friendly experience with cleaner output, parallel downloads, and useful quality-of-life features. If you’ve ever been frustrated by APT’s verbose and sometimes confusing output, Nala might be the tool you’ve been looking for in Ubuntu 24.04 and newer versions.

Below we explain that what Matthew Garrett, helped by Brett Wilson LLP and before that by Neil Brown, boils down to extortion, more so once they brought in an actual strangler from Microsoft to issue additional threats.

Our Marco Fioretti shares his thoughts on Google's (and others') bad boy behavior against Nextcloud (and others).

In addition to the Nouveau driver set to see NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support with the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle, the modern, Rust-based Nova driver for future open-source NVIDIA GPU support is set to become a bit more full with this next kernel release...

Another distro for Windows users – presumably ones who love blingLastOS is a tricked-out version of Linux Mint 22.1 with the Cinnamon desktop and some additional tools to make life easier for Windows folks.…

There’s something wrong with keyboard design, but we can’t put our finger on itOpinion Linus Torvalds is the global hero most of the world doesn't even know exists. There are no big movies about him, no best-selling biographies, no ardent Torvaldian cultists with home altars and gilded icons. At least, we hope not.…

In early 2022 Samsung engineers began working on upstreaming support for the Tesla Full Self-Driving "FSD" SoC to the mainline Linux kernel. Those early patches were mainlined in Linux 5.18 and later in 2022 turned to working on the PCIe support for the Tesla FSD SoC with the mainline kernel, but then work seemingly ceased on this upstreaming effort. More than two years later, the work was restarted today with Samsung posting the latest patches for enabling PCI Express support for the Tesla FSD SoC in the Linux kernel...

The first occurrence of GNU/Linux was owing to my older colleague and it happened here in Manchester, not in Finland or in Portland (Oregon). That's just the real history!

RHEL 10 debuts with built-in AI guidance, post-quantum cryptography, and streamlined OS-container management for modern hybrid infrastructure.

After years of work, Microsoft has made the WSL code publicly available. Yes, Windows Subsystem for Linux is now officially Open Source!

Boardcon has recently introduced the Idea3576, a compact single-board computer built around the Rockchip RK3576. Key features include CAN, RS485, 4G connectivity, and support for Debian 12. The SoC features an octa-core configuration with four Cortex-A72 cores clocked at 2.2GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores at 1.8GHz, enabling a hybrid big.LITTLE setup. It also integrates a […]

Queued up via the FUSE "for-next" Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is a change to increase the read directory buffer size to in turn enhance the performance...

Fixing the annoying error "Failed to connect to raw.githubusercontent.com port 443: Connection refused" during the download process from GitHub.

Avaota has recently shared details about the C1, a compact single-board computer in the Raspberry Pi A form factor. Based on the Allwinner H618 processor, the board is a variant of the Yuzuki Chameleon and expands the Avaota SBC lineup with a small-footprint, feature-rich design aimed at embedded development and multimedia applications. Based on the watermark […]

Coming somewhat as a surprise is the Nouveau driver patches for enabling NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPUs has now been queued to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window. So barring any surprises, this next version of the Linux kernel will feature preliminary open-source mainline kernel driver support for these newer NVIDIA GPUs...

GIMP 3.0.4 is out, bringing bug fixes, UI polish, and performance improvements—especially for font handling and non-destructive filters.

Two days behind schedule, we have frozen trixie a bit more on2025-05-17. This means that we are one step closer to the release oftrixie.

This past Friday at 4PM the Microsofters were leaking out the trial information to Microsoft, which pays for the SLAPPs through salaries (the serial strangler from Microsoft) because there's a crisis at the company and there's incriminating stuff they wish to hide.