For now at least - even though government buying can improve, open-source is not all its cracked up to beDebate Not for the first time, Microsoft is in the spotlight for the UK government's money it voraciously consumes – apparently £1.9 billion a year in software licensing, and roughly £9 billion over five years. Not surprisingly, there are plenty of voices challenging whether this is good use of public money. After all, aren't there plenty of open source alternatives?…

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It was nearly one year ago in the Linux 6.13 kernel that the ReiserFS file-system was dropped from the mainline kernel after having been deprecated in 2022. That dropped 32.8k lines of code from the Linux kernel but some documentation remnants of ReiserFS were mistakenly left in but now in the process of dropping those remnants for the defunct file-system...

The upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library release continues to get more exciting almost by the day. The newest feature being squeezed into this next release is a Whisper audio filter for making use of OpenAI's Whisper model for providing automatic speech recognition / transcription capabilities...

Learn how to install Docker on Debian 13 (Trixie) from start to finish and get your containerization environment ready in minutes.

Kanri is a fast, open source Kanban app for Linux that keeps your projects on your desktop. Learn how to install it and start managing tasks locally in minutes.

Podman now includes native Quadlet commands, streamlining declarative container and service management directly from its CLI.

Aside from glam, includes cool features like standalone GNOME Flashback session with no GNOME shellDebian 13 has arrived, now with RISC-V and preconfigured "blends" right in the main installer.…

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week approved a number of additional features for the upcoming Fedora Linux 43 release...

Sixfab has launched the ALPON X5 AI on Kickstarter, a compact industrial-grade edge AI computer for applications including smart surveillance, healthcare monitoring, autonomous robotics, and industrial automation. It combines Raspberry Pi compatibility with a high-efficiency AI accelerator for a plug-and-play solution from prototyping to deployment. The ALPON X5 AI is built around the Raspberry Pi […]

Last week alongside our Framework Desktop review with the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" SoC I posted benchmarks of the Strix Halo performance compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X / 9950X3D socketed desktop processors. For those wondering similarly how the top-end Strix Halo SoC in the Framework Desktop competes with the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" flagship in performance and power efficiency, here are those comparison benchmarks.

The new NVIDIA 580.76.05 Linux driver fixes Vulkan hangs, improves Wayland support, and adds advanced display options for better performance.

Syncthing 2.0, an open-source peer-to-peer file synchronization tool, debuts with a switch to SQLite, revamped logging, faster syncing, and more.

Several years ago Google engineers began exploring address space isolation for the Linux kernel and ultimately proposing Linux ASI for better dealing with CPU speculative execution attacks. While the hope was it would better cope with the ever growing list of CPU speculative execution vulnerabilities, the effort was thwarted initially by I/O throughput seeing a 70% performance hit. That level of performance cost was unsustainable. But now that I/O overhead has been reduced to just 13%...

NVIDIA released today the stable version of the NVIDIA 580 series of their graphics drivers for NVIDIA GPUs on Linux, BSD, and Solaris systems.

Following this weekend's release of Debian 13.0 "Trixie", Debian GNU/Hurd 2025 has been released as the state of Trixie while running atop Hurd rather than Linux...

Kubuntu Focus unveils the Zr GEN 1, delivering the most powerful mobile hardware with an out-of-the-box Linux experience.

Even prior to the Linux 6.17-rc1 release on Sunday I already had kicked off some Linux 6.17 Git benchmarking in being eager to see how the performance is beginning to shape up for this next kernel release that is set to power the likes of Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora 43. There is some good news and bad news with my early testing on the ZBook Ultra G1a for AMD Strix Halo...

HackerBox is a monthly subscription service delivering electronics kits for hobbyists, students, and makers. Issue #0117, titled “RFID Lab,” focuses on radio-frequency identification technology, combining a Raspberry Pi RP2040-Zero microcontroller with a dual-frequency RFID system, full-color TFT display, and a selection of RFID tags for experimentation. The kit supports both high-frequency (13.56 MHz) and low-frequency […]

Making a bit of a FOSS with Virtual Environment updateViennese virtualization veteran Proxmox has updated its hypervisor and its storage offering to new, Debian 13 versions.…