Umpteen other distros just put out new versions, but this one is our favoriteKernel 6.18 has already been designated the new LTS release – just as we predicted – and Alpine Linux 3.23 has arrived carrying it ahead of a flurry of other year-end distro updates.…

While NTFSPLUS continues to be developed as a new and modern NTFS open-source driver for Linux systems, at the moment NTFS3 from Paragon Software remains the most capable NTFS file-system driver within the mainline kernel. For the Linux 6.19 merge window a variety of fixes have landed for this driver…

The sound subsystem updates were merged on Thursday for enabling a variety of new audio hardware with the Linux 6.19. Among the hardware standing out is getting Intel Nova Lake audio support in order…

Audacity 3.7.6 patch update introduces FFmpeg 8 compatibility, Wavelet spectrograms, middle-mouse panning, cloud upload fixes, and library updates.

The command line remains the most powerful interface for Linux users, but traditional Unix tools like ls, cat, grep, and find are showing their age. A new generation of CLI tools offers significant improvements in speed, usability, and features. In this tutorial, we explore 10 modern alternatives that will transform your daily workflow and boost your productivity.

The big set of kernel graphics driver features were merged today for the Linux 6.19 kernel. As usual there is a lot of new feature work on the AMD Radeon, Intel, and NVIDIA graphics drivers plus the smaller Arm/embedded graphics like now having initial Qualcomm Gen8 GPU support. Plus the growing number of accelerator “accel” drivers for NPUs / AI accelerators…

Radxa has introduced the C200 Orin Developer Kit, a compact carrier board built around NVIDIA’s Jetson Orin NX 8GB module. The design targets robotics, automation, and edge computing systems that require a high performance CPU–GPU combination, wide connectivity, and support for the Jetson software ecosystem. The kit integrates NVIDIA’s Jetson Orin NX 8GB, which includes […]

Amazon AWS today announced Graviton5 as their newest-generation ARM64 server processor for their EC2 cloud. Graviton5 is being promoted as offering 25% higher performance over existing Graviton4 processors…

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 and two of its free-of-charge clones have been released, with Post Quantum Safe encryption algorithms enabled by default. In this article, we’ll look at OpenSSH and OpenSSL on AlmaLinux 10.1, and show you that the Post Quantum Safe algorithms are indeed working.

NVIDIA just released CUDA 13.1 for what they claim is “the largest and most comprehensive update to the CUDA platform since it was invented two decades ago.” The most notable addition with the CUDA 13.1 release is CUDA Tile as a new tile-based programming model…

A new version of the Raspberry Pi OS Debian-based distribution for Raspberry Pi single-board computers is now available for download with new USB features and a few bug fixes.

The many hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem updates were merged today for Linux 6.19 that is predominantly around delivering new hardware support…

As Europe talks up “EuroLinux” and digital sovereignty, Turkey’s Pardus has already spent two decades quietly running in its public sector.

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Version 3.23.0 of Alpine Linux has been released. Notable changes
in this release include an upgrade to version 3.0
of the Alpine
Package Keeper (apk), and replacing the linux-edge
package with linux-stable:

For years, linux-lts and linux-edge grew apart and developed their
own kernel configs, different architectures, etc.

Now linux-edge gets replaced with linux-stable which has the
identical configuration as linux-lts, but follows the stable releases
instead of the long-term releases (see https://kernel.org/).

The /usr
merge planned for this release has been postponed; a new timeline
for the change will be published later. See the release
notes for more information on this release.

As of this writing, 4,124 non-merge commits have been pulled into the
mainline repository for the 6.19 kernel development cycle. That is a
relatively small fraction of what can be expected this time around, but it
contains quite a bit of significant work, with changes to many core kernel
subsystems. Read on for a summary of the first part of the 6.19 merge
window.

The out-of-tree Bcachefs file-system is ready with its reconcile feature, which previously was known as “rebalance_v2”, and what lead developer Kent Overstreet calls the biggest feature to this copy-on-write file-system in the last two years…

This week brought the official release of FreeBSD 15.0 as the latest major update to this BSD operating system. In being eager to test out this new FreeBSD release, for this first round of FreeBSD 15.0 benchmarking is seeing how it compares to the former FreeBSD 14.3 release on a Supermicro + AMD EPYC Turin server.

Developers behind Redox OS, the original open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language, have ported Wayland to it with initially getting the Smallvil Wayland compositor up and running along with the Smithay framework and the Wayland version of the GTK toolkit…

The open-source SVT-VP9 project started by Intel as a high performance VP9 video encoder has seen its first new release in five years…

The Linux kernel’s printk code for logging kernel messages has some useful improvements with the Linux 6.19 kernel…