The Rust-based Redox OS open-source operating system provided a status update on all of their interesting development activities during the month of March. In addition to a lot of code improvements, Redox OS also enhanced its documentation as well as added an AI policy to reject any contributions relying on large language models...

GNU Nano 9.0 command-line text editor delivers smoother side scrolling, rebindable Meta arrow keys, improved macro handling, and more.

APT 3.2 expands package history management by introducing undo, redo, and rollback commands to Debian’s package manager.

Sony Electronics has announced availability of the AS-DT1 LiDAR depth sensor, unveiled last year. It is described as one of the smallest LiDAR sensors in its class and is designed for integration into size- and weight-constrained systems such as mobile robots, drones, and inspection platforms. The AS-DT1 measures 29 × 29 × 31 mm and […]

OpenShot 3.5.1 has been released today as the first update in the OpenShot 3.5 series of this powerful open-source, free, and cross-platform video editing software that brings new features and improvements.

Anthropic just dropped $1.5 million on the Apache Software Foundation. Is it paying back the open source world — or buying goodwill?

For conversion three different plotting scripts building each one it's own surface into a multi-threaded (multi-process) version, we separate the code logic for each surface into a separate task. This allows CPU to calculate simultaneously the paraboloid, sine wave, and Möbius strip.

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.8 has been released today as a new maintenance update to the major Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0 series of this cross-platform utility for installing Raspberry Pi OS and other operating systems to a microSD card.

Immich 2.7 enhances duplicate management, introduces CSP support, improves the asset viewer, and resolves Safari live photo download issues.

In addition to the release today of Flatpak 1.16.4 for shipping new security fixes including a sandbox escape and the ability to delete host files, XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.20.4 is also now available with another security fix of its own to prevent sandboxed apps from being able to trash arbitrary host files...

Foenix Labs’ A2560Me is a Mini-ITX motherboard built around the Motorola MC68LC060 processor and designed as an updated version of the earlier A2560M platform. The system combines a legacy 68k CPU architecture with FPGA-based subsystems and more recent interfaces such as PCIe and DDR3 memory. The A2560Me uses a 32-bit MC68LC060RC66 processor alongside a Xilinx […]

GStreamer 1.28.2 multimedia framework fixes security issues and improves playback, streaming, and stability across the multimedia framework.

Fabled Q&A site for devs struggles with its future as AI takes over its original purposeStack Overflow, the once-popular dev community, has abandoned a planned redesign that was meant to refocus the site more on discussions than the question-and-answer format that built its reputation.…

Last week I provided benchmarks to quantify how the AMD Strix Halo graphics performance has evolved since launch one year ago, in today's article is a look at how the Zen 5 CPU performance with the flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 has evolved under Linux in the year since these exciting APUs began making their way to high-end laptops and desktops. Complementing the nice Radeon 8060S performance gains are also some nice CPU performance benefits quantified when using Ubuntu 26.04.

The Debian Project tagged today APT 3.2 as the latest stable release of this package manager for Debian-based distributions that lets you install, update, and remove packages from your system.

COSMIC Desktop 1.0.9 improves performance, hardens greeter security, and delivers fixes and enhancements across Files, Settings, Store, and more.

Building on prior Mesa contributor guidelines and discussions among upstream Mesa developers, there are two generative AI "GenAI" policies that have now been decided upon for Mesa development moving forward...

Today, the KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.6.4 as the fourth maintenance update to the KDE Plasma 6.6 series of this popular desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions.

Introduced in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 was eXecute In Place "XIP" support for RISC-V that allows for the kernel image to be executed from ROM. The intent is on allowing the kernel to run from non-volatile storage like NOR flash that is directly addressable by the CPU and to reduce RAM usage. But after RISC-V XIP support is broken for months at a time, the feature is now set to be retired from the mainline kernel...

Zorin OS says it has no plans to introduce mandatory age or ID verification into the Linux distribution.