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Learn how to enable a microcontroller's USB interface and exchange data with a host Linux machine. We'll first emulate a serial port, then build a pen-drive-type device, and finally create a fully custom data transfer interface.
This month in Linux Voice and Elvie.
Nate explores Devuan 6.0, SparkyLinux 8.1, Zorin OS 18, and BesGnuLinux JWM 3-1.
Rather than emulating the old hardware to play games, engine remakes allow you to combine the original assets with modern conveniences.
Curious about the planes that fly over your home? With some simple and affordable equipment, you can receive their ADS-B signals and uncover detailed flight information.
The Terraform orchestration tool lets you create a remote desktop configuration that you can easily bring up and tear down, which could save you money and add flexibility to your environment.
Nate explores the top FOSS including the latest version of Waterfox Browser, an image metadata removal tool, a lightweight media player, and the latest LibreQuake beta.
With bandwhich, you can quickly see the current network load on your computer.
Typically when receiving any review hardware preloaded with Microsoft Windows I tend to run some Windows vs. Linux benchmarks just as a sanity test plus it still seems to generate a fair amount of interest even though the outcome is almost always the same: Linux having a hefty performance advantage over Windows especially in the more demanding creator-type workloads. As an unexpected twist and time consuming puzzle the past two months, when recently testing out the Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 it's faster for numerous workloads now on Microsoft Windows 11 than Ubuntu Linux.
Using an industry-oriented device can surely test the limits of a DIY enthusiast.
Want to ditch Windows but you're stuck with Adobe? You have options.
X.Org package wrangler Alan Coopersmith at Oracle announced today the release of imake 1.0.11, the newest version of this utility that 20+ years ago was used extensively as part of the X Window System build process for generating Makefiles from a template. With this first imake point release in two years, imake itself can now be built via Meson and there is now support for RISC-V and LoongArch architectures...
Security updates have been issued by Debian (openjpeg2, osslsigncode, php-dompdf, and python-django), Fedora (fluidsynth, golang-github-alecthomas-chroma-2, golang-github-evanw-esbuild, golang-github-jwt-5, and opentofu), Mageia (ceph and ruby-rack), and SUSE (anubis, apache2-mod_auth_openidc, dpdk22, kernel, libpng16, and python311-openapi-core).
Over the past few years building the Linux kernel with Clang has matured a lot thanks to upstream improvements to both LLVM/Clang and the Linux kernel. As it's been a while since our last comparison for GCC vs. Clang built kernels on the resulting system performance, our latest year-end 2025 benchmarking is providing a fresh look at the Linux 6.19 upstream Git kernel built under the latest stable GCC 15 and LLVM Clang 21 compilers. Plus with the Clang-built kernel is also the option of the Link-Time Optimized (LTO) kernel for even greater performance.
The v3 patch series brings improved performance and new features while dropping the "Plus" moniker.
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