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Following the Rust Coreutils presentation from FOSDEM this weekend, Rust Coreutils 0.6 is now available as the latest feature release for this Rust programming language re-implementation of GNU Coreutils...
Linux From Scratch reluctantly confirms a systemd-only future, ending System V init development due to mounting maintenance pressure and upstream changes.
Yowch – Raspberry Pi has announced further price hikes to its single-board computers, bumping the cost of some models by as much as $60. The latest increases are on top of the ones announced late last year for certain memory capacity models of the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5. Why the rise? It’s not to goose any bottom lines but what the company describes as an “unprecedented rise in the cost of LPDDR4 memory, thanks to competition for memory fab capacity from the AI infrastructure roll-out”. “The cost of some parts has more than doubled over the last quarter. As […]
PicoIDE is a device that turns microSD cards into working hard drives and CD-ROMs for retro PCs.
I got tired of accidentally breaking things.
With the concerns raised over comments by Mozilla's new CEO with wanting to evolve Firefox into a "modern AI browser", the Firefox 148 release due out later this month aims to address some of those concerns by having a new AI controls area within the web browser's settings...
Why settle for a restrictive storage dashboard? I replaced my specialized NAS software with Ubuntu and its better at almost everything.
The kernel's swap subsystem is a complex and often unloved beast. It is also a critical component in the memory-management subsystem and has a significant impact on the performance of the system as a whole. At the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit, Kairui Song outlined a plan to simplify and optimize the kernel's swap code. A first installment of that work, written with help from Chris Li, was merged for the 6.18 release. This article will catch up with the 6.18 work, setting the stage for a future look at the changes that are yet to be merged.
Microsoft in Windows 11 22H2 introduced a new ACPI Device Specific Method (DSM) "Turn On Display" notification that the Linux 7.0 kernel will be adding support for in dealing with some otherwise problematic laptop behavior...
I traded Ubuntu's flashy interface for Debian’s "No Nonsense" philosophy, and I'm not going back.
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (iperf3, kernel, and php), Debian (ceph, pillow, pyasn1, python-django, and python-tornado), Fedora (bind9-next, cef, chromium, fontforge, java-21-openjdk, java-25-openjdk, java-latest-openjdk, mingw-python-urllib3, mingw-python-wheel, nodejs20, nodejs22, nodejs24, opencc, openssl, python-wheel, and qownnotes), Red Hat (binutils, gcc-toolset-13-binutils, gcc-toolset-14-binutils, gcc-toolset-15-binutils, java-1.8.0-openjdk, and java-25-openjdk), Slackware (expat), SUSE (bind, cacti, cacti-spine, chromedriver, chromium, dirmngr, fontforge-20251009, glib2, golang-github-prometheus-prometheus, govulncheck-vulndb, icinga2, ImageMagick, kernel, logback, openCryptoki, openssl-1_1, python311-djangorestframework, python311-pypdf, python314, python315, qemu, and xen), and Ubuntu (linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-hwe-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-iot, linux-kvm and linux-aws-fips, linux-fips, linux-gcp-fips).
Linux is winning the productivity war. From seamless updates to a better way to install apps, here are the features I wish Microsoft would replicate.
While we might see Git 3.0 released around the end of 2026, Git 2.53 is out today as the latest feature release and continuing to make changes with an eye toward that big Git 3.0 milestone...
You pay a premium for Photoshop, Windows, and macOS—but they wouldn't exist without free, open-source building blocks
While many open-source enthusiasts like to flaunt RISC-V as not having the security challenges as x86_64 CPUs have seen over the past several years with various speculative execution / side-channel attacks and arguing for the benefits of an open-source ISA in stronger security, in practice it's not so clear-cut. Security researchers at Germany's CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security have found current RISC-V CPU implementations coming up short for their actual security...
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