Slopfarms are a real pain and last night we said that they had slowed down a bit lately, perhaps because their operators too decided to take a summer's break.

The August 2025 release of DietPi v9.16 introduces full support for Debian 13 “Trixie,” initial support for Debian 14 “Forky,” and a wide set of software and system enhancements. Released on August 23rd, this update also includes optimizations to DietPi tools, additional RISC-V support, and numerous bug fixes.   DietPi: DietPi is a lightweight, Debian-based […]

Fwupd 2.0.14 has been released today as the thirteenth maintenance update to the fwupd 2.0 series of this open-source Linux firmware update utility, adding support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes.

Container technology has matured rapidly, but in 2025, two tools still dominate conversations in developer communities: Docker and Podman. Both tools are built on OCI (Open Container Initiative) standards, meaning they can build, run, and manage the same types of images. However, the way they handle processes, security, and orchestration differs dramatically. This article breaks down everything developers need to know, from architectural design to CLI compatibility, performance, and security, with a focus on the latest changes in both ecosystems.

AAEON has released the MIX-MTLD1, a Mini-ITX motherboard featuring Intel Core Ultra processors, Intel Arc graphics, and an on-chip AI Boost NPU. Built on Intel’s multi-pillar die architecture, the design combines CPU, GPU, and NPU resources to accelerate inference workloads and expand deployment potential across AI-driven and edge applications. The platform is powered by Intel […]

Supports several Chinese chips and GPUs – and of course it has AI insideChina’s KylinSoft has delivered a major update to its flagship Linux, which Beijing hailed as a great leap forward for the nation’s ambition to develop operating systems that match and exceed the capabilities of western products.…

For those using Intel Arc A-Series graphics cards on Linux, the i915 kernel driver remains the default but switching over to the Xe driver can yield some incremental performance benefits. For OpenCL / GPU compute workloads especially, switching to the Xe kernel driver can be rather dramatic.

Armbian 25.8.1 brings Linux kernel 6.16, Debian Trixie support, new SBC boards, and updated drivers.

My brain hurts a lotClaude creator Anthropic has given customers using its Free, Pro, and Max plans one month to prevent the engine from storing their chats for five years by default and using them for training.…

With the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop environment series, scheduled for release in late October 2025, the KDE Project will introduce a new tool called KDE Initial System Setup that makes it easier for users to set up their newly installed systems.

Media multitool taps Vulkan for GPU encoding, adds VVC support, and dusts off some ancient formatsFFmpeg 8.0 brings GPU-accelerated video encoding via Vulkan – and can now subtitle your videos automatically using integrated speech recognition.…

OBS Studio 32.0 has entered public beta testing today for this powerful, open-source, cross-platform, and free software for video recording and live streaming on Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

Earlier this week I provided benchmarks looking at the Linux 5.15 LTS through Linux 6.17 Git kernel performance using the latest stable and development kernels compared to the Long Term Support (LTS) kernels over the past four years. For having hardware support back to Linux 5.15 I was using an AMD EPYC Milan-X server. In those benchmarks there were some nice gains and even from Linux 6.16 to 6.17 Git was around a 3% geo mean improvement. So I was curious to run some benchmarks on the latest-generation AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors to see if there was similar uplift there...

Step-by-step instructions for installing Visual Studio Code on Debian 13 “Trixie,” helping you set up your coding environment in minutes.

Wireshark 4.4.9 has been released today as the ninth maintenance update to the latest Wireshark 4.4 stable series of this popular, open-source, free, and cross-platform network protocol analyzer software for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

DongshanPi has shared early details about an upcoming SBC designed for AI and computer vision education. Based on the Rockchip RK3576, the DshanPi-A1 supports OpenCV and multimedia workloads through a software stack built around ArmbianOS (community-supported) and Rockchip’s media and inference libraries. DshanPi-A1 features the Rockchip RK3576, an octa-core processor with four Cortex-A72 and four […]

Compiz-inspired Wayfire 0.10 3D Wayland compositor is out with Vulkan and Pixman rendering, per-device input settings, and new animations.

Learn how to search inside files in Linux using grep, find, and ripgrep. Useful to debug configs, search logs, and explore codebases fast.

While Linus Torvalds doesn't too often like new kernel options being enabled by default, one area where it has proven beneficial and otherwise an oversight by those configuring their own kernel builds is the architecture-optimized crypto algorithm implementations. Some will enable support for different kernel crypto algorithms only to forget or be unaware that there are CPU architecture specific implementations that can also typically be enabled for much better performance over the common code. Google engineer Eric Biggers has been cleaning this up and BLAKE2s is the latest receiving treatment...

With Alpaca, managing Ollama models on Linux is easier than ever — no proprietary tools required.