A new driver in the Linux 6.19 kernel is the ASUS Armoury driver for supporting additional functionality with the ROG Ally gaming handhelds and other ASUS ROG gaming hardware like their laptops. The ASUS Armoury driver builds off the existing ASUS WMI driver but provides some design improvements to make it better than handling it within the existing driver. There is support for adjusting the APU-allocated memory, Intel core count control for P and E cores, FHD and UHD mode switching for display panels, and other features typically only exposed via the system BIOS...
KDE Plasma 6.6 feature development work continues winding down while Plasma 6.7 has begun seeing more feature work. This week also saw at least nine different crash fixes affecting Plasma/KWin...
Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library "glibc" was released on Friday evening as the newest half-year feature update. This is a very feature packaged update and even managed to be released ahead of the 1 February release plan...
With Equinix Metal headed for shutdown, Alpine Linux has secured fresh backing from regional cloud and hosting providers, emerging with more diverse and resilient infrastructure than before. The post Alpine Linux Turns Equinix Metal Exit Into an Infrastructure Upgrade appeared first on FOSS Force.
GNU Guix 1.5 transactional package manager and an advanced distribution of the GNU system are out now with new features and improvements. Here's what's new!
Tonearm is a new GTK4/libadwaita TIDAL client that delivers what the streaming service itself doesn’t: a native Linux app with solid desktop integration – albeit unofficially, of course. It’s the third unofficial client for Linux I’ve covered, joining High Tide and the Electron-based Tidal-Hifi. All exist as TIDAL doesn’t provide a Linux app itself, leaving users with the option of the web player. The web app works fine, but it means keeping a browser tab open and losing out on system-side niceties like media controls and keyboard shortcuts. Thankfully, TIDAL offer a robust API that, with a bit of open-source […]
Following the release of Wine 11.0 stable just under two weeks ago, Wine 11.1 is now available as the first of the bi-weekly development snapshots for Wine in leading toward the Wine 12.0 release next January...
Filesystems seem to be one of those many areas where the problems are well understood, but there is always somebody working toward a better solution. As a result, filesystem development in the Linux kernel continues at a fast pace even after all these years. In recent news, the EROFS filesystem is on the path to gain a useful page-cache-sharing feature, there is a new NTFS implementation on the horizon, and XFS may be about to get an infrastructure for self healing.
In the digital era, it seems like the hope for personal privacy is lost. We all hear stories of daily privacy violations along with scary predictions for the future. But what is really happening? This eleven-part series scans the landscape ... Read more The post What Everybody Knows About You: Data Collection and Privacy in 2026 appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
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