Serpent OS is an interesting release to look forward to in 2025. The Linux ecosystem is a genuinely innovative space, where we have countless distributions. We have the popular ones like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, and their derivatives.

Forlinx Embedded recently introduced the FETMX8MPL-C SoM, a cost-effective solution for industrial and IoT applications that balances performance and functionality without incorporating advanced multimedia or machine learning features.

If you're considering leaving the soon-to-sunsetted Windows 10 for Linux, you'll want to know how to manage networks with the open-source operating system.

Sigil is a popular free and open-source ePub ebook editor that works in Windows, Linux, and macOS. However, it does not provide official packages for Linux.

It was on New Year's Eve 2019 that Edward Shishkin announced the Reiser5 file-system as an evolution of the out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system code. While next week would mark five years of Reiser5, the Reiser4/Reiser5 file-system still appears effectively dead and hasn't been touched in quite a while.

We round up the top 10 Linux-related trends and best practices in 2024, covering topics like Linux security and the growing role of Linux in edge computing and quantum computing.

I'll share 12 new content, features or changes to It's FOSS platform during the holiday period.

Installing WordPress with the LEMP stack on Ubuntu 24.04 is straightforward and may take up to 15 minutes. Let’s get things done!

Learn how fat containers and the Multipass tool can help create cloud virtual machine stacks on your laptop, thus accelerating productivity while cutting cloud costs.

Meet Ghostty 1.0: The GPU-accelerated terminal emulator exits beta after two years, challenging Kitty and Alacritty with its speed and features.

Wiki.js is a powerful and extensible open source wiki software to create the perfect wiki and knowledge base documentation.

OneXPlayer maintains a line of handheld gaming consoles following in the success of the likes of Valve's Steam Deck, Lenovo Legion Go, and ASUS ROG Ally. These OneXPlayer devices ship with Microsoft Windows by default but the Linux support has been improving...

Over the festive period Valve released an update to Proton Experimental bringing in more game fixes for the likes of Marvel Rivals and other games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux. There's also an update to the open source Xalia tool, which is used for getting gamepad input in launchers.

ADLINK’s I-Pi SMARC Amston Lake is a fanless development kit based on SMARC 2.1-compliant system-on-module with an Intel Atom X7433RE quad-core SoC, 8GB LPDRR5 memory, and up to 256GB eMMC flash, plus a carrier board with dual 2.5GbE with TSN, two Raspberry Pi-compatible GPIO headers, and a range of other interfaces.

Everyone likes something cheap, and when that cheap thing is a router that’s supported by OpenWRT, it sounds like a win. [Hennung Paul] ordered a Wavlink WL-WN586X3 for the princely sum of 39 Euros, but was disappointed to find his device a rev. 2 board rather than the rev.1 board supported by the Linux distribution.

Open AI models on the rise are shaking up the AI market, breaking a stranglehold of proprietary models running on proprietary hardware.

In addition to the exciting hardware launches this year particularly around Xeon 6 Granite Rapids, Lunar Lake processors, and the new low-cost Battlemage graphics cards, what remains particularly exciting and consistent are all of Intel's great investments around open-source and Linux.

Recently, two things happened. A friend of my gave me his old iPhone, so now I have it available for all sorts of testing. I wrote an article on how to copy local music, sans any cloud nonsense, to the iPhone, using VLC. And then, I wrote a second tutorial, on how to accomplish this with KDE Connect. Three things. Three.

Spend the holidays with some holiday themed puzzles, riddles and quizzes.

COBOL, your mother’s and grandmother’s programming language, is still in relatively wide use today, and with the initial batches of COBOL programmers retiring and, well, going away, there’s a market out there for younger people to learn COBOL and gain some serious job security in stable, but perhaps boring market segments. One of the things you would not associate with COBOL, however, is gaming – but it turns out it can be used for that, too.