This Black Friday is an in-depth look at the current performance of the open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver (the Nova driver not yet being ready for end-users) paired with the latest Mesa NVK driver for open-source Vulkan API support. With that NVK Vulkan driver is also looking at the OpenGL performance using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver used now for OpenGL on modern NVIDIA GPUs rather than maintaining the Nouveau Gallium3D driver. Plus the Rusticl driver for OpenCL compute atop the NVK driver. This fully open-source and latest NVIDIA Linux driver support was compared to NVIDIA's official 580 series Linux driver. Both RTX 40 Ada and RTX 50 Blackwell graphics cards were tested for this thorough GPU driver comparison.

Discover FEX-Emu, the userspace emulator that allows you to run x86 and x86-64 applications on ARM64 Linux devices.

AV Linux 25 multimedia production distro has been released as a major version derived from the latest MX Linux release and introducing various new features and enhancements.

LILYGO has introduced the T-Lora Dual LR, a compact board that integrates an ESP32-S3R8 microcontroller with two LR1121 transceivers, combining Wi-Fi, Bluetooth LE, and LoRa across sub-GHz and 2.4 GHz bands. The module uses the ESP32-S3R8 as its main processor. It features a dual-core LX7 architecture and includes integrated wireless connectivity for Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n […]

This new offering from Collabora takes the company’s popular modernized LibreOffice spin from online to offline on users’ local machines.

Axiomtek’s AIM101 is a compact fanless edge computer built around Intel’s Processor N150, offering PCIe-based AI acceleration, dual 2.5GbE networking, wide-range DC input, and extended-temperature operation for industrial, machine-vision, and real-time inference workloads. The system is powered by the Intel Processor N150, a quad-core N-series SoC with clock speeds up to 3.6GHz. This platform integrates […]

KDE shifts the upcoming Plasma 6.8 release to a Wayland-only setup, keeping X11 apps running via Xwayland and maintaining X11 session support only until early 2027.

Just a few days ago I wrote about the Glibc math code seeing a 4x improvement on AMD Zen by changing the used FMA implementation. Merged overnight was a new generic FMA implementation for the GNU C Library and now yielding up to a 12.9x throughput improvement on AMD Zen 3...

The read command is a built-in Linux utility that allows shell script writers to take single line input from the keyboard or from the file descriptor and store it in a variable.

Pebble watch software is now 100% open source, including the new mobile app and tools, securing long-term support for all Pebble devices.

Following up on the discussion from earlier this month among GCC developers over switching to C++20 by default for the GCC compiler as the default C++ standard when not otherwise set, that change has indeed happened. Merged now is the change defaulting to C++20 (well, the GNU++20 dialect) rather than C++17/GNU++17 when not otherwise specified when compiling C++ code...

The November release of DietPi v9.19 introduces a new continuous audio analysis tool, expanded Debian Trixie compatibility across several software packages, and updates that improve performance and stability on popular ARM-based single-board computers. The update also provides fixes for Raspberry Pi systems, Allwinner H3/H5 devices, and several DietPi-Software components.   DietPi: DietPi is a lightweight, […]

Following the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 earlier this month, Rocky Linux 10.1 is now available for this popular community-driven alternative to RHEL 10.1...

GNOME 49.2 desktop environment updates Shell, GTK, GLib, Nautilus, Epiphany, and other key components, focusing solely on stability and bug fixes.

For Thanksgiving’s Distro of the Week, we put openSUSE Tumbleweed Xfce through install, configuration, and multitasking tests to see how its classic tools and newer additions hold up in everyday use.

Learn Linux Kernel internals using Linux Kernel Explorer, a free website that helps you explore the Linux kernel in a simple and structured way.

In Bash and also for other implementations of the shell, like zsh and fish, you can use the HereDoc to redirect a multi-line or block of lines from the script as an input to interactive commands.

Debian 13.2 freshness, better HiDPI support, and 101 other things to run on your PiRaspberry Pi Ltd has shipped two updates for its single-board computers: a very small refresh to Pi OS 6, and a more substantial upgrade to the tool that writes your Pi's operating system to an SD card.…

Collabora releases a new modern office suite for Linux desktops. Learn about its features, privacy benefits, and how to install it on Linux.

The terminal may seem powerful, but it's not always as good as it sounds. Learn all the misconceptions of using the Terminal vs using the GUI