For those currently owning an ASUS ROG MAXIMUS X HERO or ASUS Pro WS TRX50-SAGE WIFI A motherboard, Linux sensor monitoring support will be in place for the next kernel release…

Clapper 0.10, an open-source media player, strengthens its enhancer plugin system, adding configurability, new plugins, and more.

Lua 5.5 programming language is out with incremental major garbage collection, a new generational GC mode, and significantly more compact arrays.

In this article, you will learn how to use the finger alternative pinky command to list the logged-in users on the target machine and view their information.

It looks like the upcoming Intel Panther Lake H SoCs for the next-gen premium/high-end performance laptop market there could be quite a few different SKUs. A new patch for an Intel open-source driver expands the Panther Lake H line-up from three to 13 different IDs…

The elementary OS team released today elementary OS 8.1 as the latest stable version of their Ubuntu-based distribution using the modern Pantheon desktop environment.

For helping with thread placement on modern AMD Zen systems with multiple CPU core complexes, Google has been developing “BPF CCX” that leverages the Linux kernel’s eBPF capabilities paired with a user-space agent for fine-grained thread control. Google has found very positive performance results out of their use of this alternative means of high performance scheduling for achieving even greater performance on AMD processors under Linux…

Auvidea has released the X242, a high-performance carrier board designed for NVIDIA Jetson T5000 (Jetson Thor) modules. The board targets edge systems that require high-bandwidth I/O, multi-display support, and upgrade paths from earlier Jetson AGX Xavier and Orin platforms. The X242 is designed as a scalable, industrial-grade carrier board intended for commercial deployment volumes. It […]

Thirteen months after the release of Elementary OS 8.0, Elementary OS 8.1 is now available for this Ubuntu 24.04 LTS based Linux distribution that focuses on ease of use and usability. With Elementary OS 8.1 they have transitioned to using the Wayland session by default…

Version
6.20 of the Incus container and virtual-machine management system
has been released. Notable changes in this release include a new
standalone
command to add IncusOS servers to a cluster,
qcow2-formatted
volumes for clustered LVM, and reverse
DNS records in OVN. See the announcement for a full list of
changes.

elementary OS 8.1 is a point release that brings a default Secure Session, better tools for managing background apps and workspaces, and a more informative AppCenter experience.

The post Elementary OS 8.1 Is Out With Secure Session — and We Have Screenshots appeared first on FOSS Force.

Five years after releasing Lua 5.4, Lua 5.5 debuted today as the newest version of this lightweight and embeddable scripting language…

Version 17.1 of the GDB debugger is out. Changes include shadow-stack
support, info threads improvements, a number of Python API
improvements, and more, including: “Warnings and error messages now
start with an emoji (warning sign, or cross mark) if supported by the host
charset. Configurable.” See the
NEWS file for more information.

Version 4.3.0 of the security-oriented Qubes OS distribution has been
released. Changes include more recent distribution templates, preloaded
disposable virtual machines, and the reintroduction of the Qubes Windows
Tools set. See the
release notes for more information.

They can probably squeeze about 400 people into this room if they try hard enough

Ian Jackson (along with Sean Whitton) has posted a manifesto and status
update to the effect that, since Git repositories have become the
preferred method to distribute source, that is how Debian should be
distributing its source packages.

Everyone who interacts with Debian source code should be able to
do so entirely in git.

That means, more specifically:

1. All examination and edits to the source should be performed via
   normal git operations.

2. Source code should be transferred and exchanged as git data, not
   tarballs. git should be the canonical form everywhere.

3. Upstream git histories should be re-published, traceably, as part of
   formal git releases published by Debian.

4. No-one should have to learn about Debian Source Packages, which are
   bizarre, and have been obsoleted by modern version control.

This is very ambitious, but we have come a long way!

For those still using old AMD GCN 1.0 “Southern Islands” or GCN 1.1 “Sea Islands” graphics cards, the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel is a wonderful holiday gift. With Linux 6.19, the GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs are now defaulting to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver in place of the legacy “Radeon” DRM driver that has been the default for GCN 1.1/1.0 and other ATI/AMD graphics processors of the past 2+ decades. In this article is a look at the performance benefit of now AMDGPU being the default as well as now enabling RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box.

At Open
Source Summit Japan 2025, Erin McKean talked about the challenges to
producing good project documentation, along with some tooling that can help
guide the process toward success. It is a problem that many projects
struggle with and one that her employer, Google, gained a lot of experience
with from its now-concluded Season of Docs
initiative. Through that program, more than 200 case studies of
documentation projects were gathered that were mined for common problems
and solutions, which led to the tools and techniques that McKean described.

University researchers presented Rex at this month’s Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 in Tokyo. Rex is designed for “safe and usable” Rust-based kernel extensions that could serve in place of eBPF programs for extending the Linux kernel functionality…

The upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel (unless it ends up being called Linux 6.20) will drop support for the AMD NPU2 as their second-generation neural processing unit that never ended up being released into any retail products…