The PipeWire project released PipeWire 1.4.3 today as yet another minor update to the latest PipeWire 1.4 series for this popular open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux systems.

The FreeBSD project today published their status report outlining their development happenings during Q1'2025. There's been a lot going on in the FreeBSD world, especially for improving laptop support and other modern hardware coverage for this BSD operating system...

And other ways to get that Amiga feeling on a budgetThe FOSS recreation of AmigaOS is making progress. A new edition runs entirely from a USB key, so you can temporarily turn your PC into an Amiga – without any tricky installation process.…

Learn a step-by-step guide to installing and using the Dolphin emulator on Ubuntu 25.04 to play your favorite GameCube and Wii console games.

Discover an amazing free and open-source cross-platform GUI front-end of FFmpeg for basic editing tasks on your laptop or desktop with fewer system resources.

KDE Plasma 6.4 has entered its beta testing phase. The beta version ships with a lot of new features and improvements. This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to install KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta on Fedora 42.

The upcoming Rocky Linux 10 is on track to officially support RISC-V, with builds for VisionFive 2, QEMU, and HiFive P550.

Prime OS can be installed side by side with the Linux system. In the previous post on this blog, I discussed how to install Prime OS. At that time I tried it on Ubuntu, and the results were smooth. But in the comments column of my YouTube channel, there were some who complained about booting

Radxa has introduced a single-board computer with a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi 3, powered by the octa-core Rockchip RK3576 system-on-chip. Key features of the new ROCK 4D include PCIe Gen2 expansion, Gigabit Ethernet with PoE support, and broad I/O compatibility. The board is built around the Rockchip RK3576 SoC, which integrates four […]

When Rocky Linux 10 is released, it will join a growing number of Linux distros that support the open source RISC-V instruction set.

Fwupd 2.0.10 is out today as the tenth maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility with support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes.

AMI has announced that its Aptio V UEFI Firmware will power the Radxa Orion O6 demo platform at COMPUTEX Taipei 2025. Described as the “World’s First Open Source Armv9 Motherboard,” the compact Orion O6 Mini ITX board is designed for AI, edge computing, and multimedia-intensive workloads. The board uses the CiX P1 CD8180 SoC, which […]

Merged yesterday to the GNOME Display Manager "GDM" codebase is disabling of the X11/X.Org session by default as the first step toward deprecating GNOME's X11 session support...

Fedora 43 moves to a Wayland-only GNOME experience, officially removing support for the X11 session due to a lack of upstream maintenance.

The AlmaLinux Foundation rolls out AlmaLinux 9.6 on the same day that Red Hat officially releases RHEL 10.

Containers have revolutionized how we develop, test, and deploy applications. While Docker is the most well-known containerization technology, Podman offers a compelling alternative that doesn’t require a daemon running in the background. Podman is a free and open-source container engine that’s compatible with Docker while providing additional security benefits through its daemonless and rootless design. This tutorial will walk you through setting up Podman on Ubuntu and getting started with basic container operations.

First step would be to enable required repos, so run as root following script and reboot instance . Versions of some packages have been installed were verified via commands $ sudo zypper search -s plasma*desktop* ; $ sudo zypper search -s plasma*workspace*

In addition to rolling out Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat used their annual developer summit today for introducing llm-d as their newest open-source project...

SiFive has announced a new collaboration with Red Hat to deliver a developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 for the RISC-V architecture. The initial support is available on the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 development platform, giving developers a path to build and test enterprise and cloud workloads on RISC-V hardware. The HiFive Premier […]

Open-source philosophy, system-level optimizations prevent nightmare GenAI deployments, says CentML CTOPartner content “The magic isn’t just in the model, it’s in how you run it,” says Shang Wang, CTO of CentML.…