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During the last round of price hikes on Raspberry Pi devices due to RAM pricing, they were able to keep the 1GB and 2GB single board computer versions steady. But Eben Upton announced today that the RAM pricing has become "unsustainable" and even the 2GB versions now are facing steep price hikes...
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For ending out the month of September the OpenMandriva Linux distribution crew released OpenMandriva ROME 26.0 as their long overdue release held up by various technical issues and a reported sabotage attempt to their platform. With OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 having been their last release, this is quite a big update...
The FSF’s concerns go beyond whether AI platforms need kill switches. They extend to who controls them—and whether users will have any say. The post The FSF’s Warning on AI Kill Switches appeared first on FOSS Force.
There is a local desktop AI assistant for KDE Plasma.
More Snapdragon X1 and X2 laptops will be able to run Ubuntu 26.10, and a new concept image released to help test them. Canonical’s Tobias Heider says the new preview ISO is built on the Ubuntu 26.10 Beta and will help to find bugs in the upcoming release earlier. He also expects ‘most of the work’ here to be present in the final release in the generic Arm64 image. Ubuntu 26.10 Snapdragon Concept image notably offers early enablement support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 laptop, including the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7, HP EliteBook X G2q and the ASUS Zenbook A14/A16. It […]
As part of Valve's work on developing the Steam Frame VR headset, they worked on foveated rendering support for the Mesa Turnip driver that supports the Qualcomm Adreno graphics with open-source Vulkan API support. Foveated rendering is the technique to more closely mimic human vision by rendering high detail at your direct gaze point and lower quality in the peripheral vision. For computer graphics, foveated rendering for headsets can be beneficial for conserving power in areas of the render frame that are less important to provide more performance with your main area of focus...
A scramble for CentOS replacements sparked new community distros and vendor plays reshaping enterprise Linux dynamics.
Previously in public preview, it now offers new commands, Consommé networking, and Intune registry controls.
I had already picked my favorite before testing them. That turned out to be a mistake!
Update WSL, type one command, and you're good to go.
Blanc is a new open-source browser that replaces the traditional, always-visible tab strip and address toolbar with a minimal ‘island’. This pill floats at the of the window (but not over the web page) to show current site address, common actions like back/forward and bookmark and to relay page security information. It expands as-needed to let you open, manage and switch between tabs, enter web addresses, run searches or sift through browsing history or bookmarks. You can click on it or press super + l at any point to get to it, with commands using /. Despite a lack of […]
OpenTofu 1.13 adds official Windows ARM64 builds, new functions for reducing unknown values during planning, and early experimental linting.
A lot has happened in the KDE Plasma desktop environment in the last year. Marco Martin, a KDE contributor who spends most of his time working on Plasma, took the stage at Akademy 2026 in Graz, Austria to give an update on Plasma's major new features, some of the minor-but-interesting ones, and a preview of what's coming soon. The biggest upcoming change, dropping X11 support from Plasma, has been well-advertised; but there are also plans afoot to further improve remote-desktop support and more.
The full set of videos from the recently concluded Kernel Recipes conference has been posted. Also noteworthy are the associated caricature drawings, by Frank Tizzoni, of attendees and the speakers.
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