Linux and Open Source news headlines
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Sun, 10/13/2024 - 22:20
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS is out with their newest monthly development summary to highlight advancements made to this unique OS.
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 22:20
The development team behind the KDE neon rolling release distribution announced that they’ve released KDE neon 6.2, based on the latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series.
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 22:20
The Challenger+ RP2350 Wi-Fi6/BLE5 IPEX3 development board showcases the dual-core Cortex-M33/RISCV RP2350 microcontroller from Raspberry Pi. With 8MB of Flash and RAM, it’s optimized for developers creating embedded solutions that demand high-performance memory and wireless capabilities.
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 22:20
Distrobox 1.8 container wrapping layer brings massive updates, shell fixes, better NVIDIA support, and new container distros.
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 22:20
It's only been 17 years, but developers can finally stop finding workarounds for running Linux on Android devices. Google is working on official support for Debian Linux on Android through a new Terminal app. Imagine running Android Studio directly on your Android tablet!
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 22:20
Can you replace Shazam with this open source app? Let's see!
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 22:20
The Trenz Electronic AXE5-EAGLE-ES Agilex5 Devkit, powered by Intel’s Agilex 5 E-series SoC FPGA, supports a range of FPGA applications across industries such as wireless communication, video broadcast, and defense. Its scalable architecture offers engineers a reliable platform for testing designs with advanced FPGA technology and flexible expansion options.
Sun, 10/13/2024 - 22:20
The 24.10 release offers fun and freshness, but not immutability. The first interim release of Ubuntu since the somewhat troubled Noble Numbat is a smooth upgrade - but not all of the new hotness is here yet.
Sat, 10/12/2024 - 22:20
The KDE project announced today the release of KDE Frameworks 6.7 as the latest version of this collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt that provide a wide range of commonly needed functionality to the KDE Plasma desktop environment and KDE applications.
Sat, 10/12/2024 - 22:20
To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 4 best Groovy static site generators.
Sat, 10/12/2024 - 22:20
Thundercomm has recently introduced the Rubik Pi AI SBC built around the Qualcomm QCS6490 SoC with a 12.5 TOPS AI accelerator. The SBC comes in a “PI-CO ITX” form factor that combines the Pico-ITX standard and the 40-pin GPIO header found on Raspberry Pi SBCs.
Sat, 10/12/2024 - 22:20
At the X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC 2024) happening this week in Montreal, NVIDIA shared a road-map around their Wayland plans as well as encouraging Wayland compositors to target the Vulkan API.
Sat, 10/12/2024 - 22:20
Apple's latest OS release is the newest member of the Open Group list of officially verified UNIX variants – by quite some margin.
Sat, 10/12/2024 - 22:20
KDE releases Frameworks 6.7.0, with Breeze icon fixes, CMake updates, KAuth improvements, and more.
Sat, 10/12/2024 - 22:20
Want to save loads of time? Try executing multiple commands at once in your Linux terminal. This allows you to run simple sequential commands, execute commands in the background, and even handle conditional commands together.
Sat, 10/12/2024 - 22:20
GNOME Shell shows now playing info in the notification shade, out of view but there when you want to check in. Most users like this approach, but perhaps you don’t?
Sat, 10/12/2024 - 22:20
To open a port on Ubuntu, you’ll need to configure the default firewall, UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall). By default, UFW blocks all incoming connections. To allow traffic through a specific port, you must create a new firewall rule. This guide will help you understand how to open a port on Ubuntu using UFW, whether you’re allowing access for a specific IP address, network range, or general traffic.
Sat, 10/12/2024 - 22:20
Pyenv is a tool for managing multiple Python versions. Once pyenv is installed you can easily switch between one project that uses Python 3.13.0 and a system-wide default Python 3.12.7.
Sat, 10/12/2024 - 22:20
Last month Intel introduced their Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" processors with up to 128 P cores, MRDIMM support, and other improvements as a big step-up in performance and power efficiency for their server processors.
Sat, 10/12/2024 - 22:20
The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 24.08.2 as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 24.08 series of this collection of over 180 individual apps, plugins, and libraries for the KDE ecosystem.