Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia has been pursuing the Fair DRM Scheduler as a "fair" scheduling policy to help with multiple applications/processes aiming to make use of the GPU concurrently. With this week's v4 patch-set to the DRM Fair Scheduler there are some big code changes but overall looking well as a nice scheduling policy for multiple apps/games/processes wanting equal access to GPU resources...

Did you have time to keep up with the news this week? Here’s your chance to brag… or not. This week there are 11 questions. Good luck!

PhotoPrism’s latest release boosts performance, adds new UX features, and enables external AI services for scalable image classification.

Auto-cpufreq 2.6 CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux introduces Bluetooth control at boot, a TUI for system monitoring, and more.

Let's recite some facts about the Open Source Initiative (OSI)

As we near the end of April, KDE developers remain quite busy working on more enhancements for the Plasma 6.4 desktop while many of them were also meeting this week in Graz, Austria for further development and planning...

Incus 6.12 container & virtual machine manager adds online VM memory growth, enhanced network ACLs, and reworked logging for better monitoring and flexibility.

Easy-to-follow guides on how to transcribe audio files into text using privacy friendly tools and how to convert different documents into a singular format. The majority of popular AI models rely on data crawled from the web, frequently without the explicit permission of copyright holders. This lack of clarity has led to lawsuits and a […]The post Mozilla, Eleuther AI launch toolkits to help AI builders create open datasets appeared first on The Mozilla Blog.

The NUCLEO-WBA65RI is a wireless STM32 Nucleo-64 development board built around the STM32WBA65RIV7 microcontroller. It combines the MB2130 MCU RF board with the MB1801 mezzanine board to support Bluetooth LE and IEEE 802.15.4-based protocols such as Thread, Matter, and Zigbee. The STM32WBA65RIV7 microcontroller is a 32-bit Arm Cortex-M33 device featuring 2 MB of flash and […]

Intel today released a new version of the Intel Extension for PyTorch in order to apply optimizations to PyTorch for benefiting Intel's hardware. With the Intel Extension for PyTorch v2.7 release, there is support for new large language models (LLMs) as well as various performance optimizations and other enhancements...

Linus Torvalds is sharing some of his classic and straight-to-the-point wisdom today over file-systems with case-folding / case-insensitive file and folder support...

Once the domain of developers, Git is fast becoming essential for IT operations, offering powerful benefits for managing infrastructure, automation, and documentation in a DevOps-driven world.

Maybe one day RMS will be more vocal in criticism or condemnation of systemd, nowadays exceedingly led by and hosted by Microsoft. Microsoft's vision of "Linux" is just something that it controls (i.e. it controls users) via Azure or similar spyware. It already integrates it with TPMs and other terrible things via systemd.

Zalmotek expands its Feather System on Module portfolio with high-performance options designed for advanced embedded systems. These modules are based on Renesas processors and follow the Feather form factor, enabling flexibility for robotics, industrial control, and edge computing applications. The RA6M1 Feather SoM features an Arm Cortex-M4 CPU operating at up to 120 MHz, paired […]

DietPi 9.12, a Debian-based Linux distro for SBCs, adds support for Fish Shell, Amiberry v7, Amiberry-Lite, and more.

The Beetle RP2350 is a coin-sized development board designed for space-constrained embedded projects. Despite its compact 25 × 20.5 mm footprint, it offers a wide range of hardware features and low power consumption, enabling its use in portable devices such as retro computers, game consoles, lighting controllers, and electronic badges. This board is built around […]

Linux hardware vendor System76 released today COSMIC Alpha 7 as the latest development version for this up-and-coming desktop environment written in Rust for GNU/Linux distributions and the company’s in-house Pop!_OS Linux distro.

This article will guide you to enforcing DoT (DNS over TLS) on your running system and at boot time. Support is avaliable in Fedora 42. It will also guide you to set up encrypted DNS for system installation, if you want to try it with current Fedora Rawhide (Fedora 43). Background Traditionally, DNS queries are […]

Zalmotek offers a range of Feather SoMs built around Renesas microcontrollers, targeting energy-efficient and compact embedded applications. These modules follow the Adafruit Feather form factor and include essential interfaces for rapid prototyping and deployment in IoT and low-power scenarios. The RA0E1 Feather SoM is designed for ultra-low-power use cases. It features an Arm Cortex-M23 CPU […]

Here’s some preliminary information about AlmaLinux OS Foundation’s upcoming board election. We’ll keep you up-to-date as we learn more.