Unipi has introduced the Edge E410, E411, and E413 controllers, a family of DIN-rail industrial devices based on the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. The systems combine PLC, RTU, IPC, and gateway functionality in a compact chassis targeting building automation, HVAC control, energy management, and industrial monitoring. All three models use the quad-core Arm Cortex-A72 […]
Category Archives: Linux
DietPi 9.19 Introduces BirdNET-Go, Expands Debian Trixie Support
DietPi 9.19 introduces BirdNET-Go, broad Debian 13 support for major apps, and includes fixes for Raspberry Pi and Allwinner boards.
Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 46 (Nov 10 – 16, 2025)
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Debian 13.2, RHEL 10.1, Nitrux 5.0, Wine 10.19, Plasma 6.4.6, Docker 29, Proton 10.0, Canonical expands the LTS support to 15 years, and more.
Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc6
Linus has released 6.18-rc6 for testing.
“So we have a slightly larger rc6 than usual, but I think it’s just the
“
random noise and a result of pull request timings rather than due to any
issues with the release. But I guess we have a couple of weeks remaining to
find out.
Linux 6.18-rc6 Released With Fix For ARM64 “Catastrophic Performance Issue”
Linus Torvalds is out today with the eighth weekly test release of the Linux 6.18 kernel in working toward the stable release at the end of the month…
NVIDIA Highlights The Shortcomings With Wayland Screencasting
In addition to showing the need for unifying DRM driver-side APIs within the Linux kernel, NVIDIA’s Linux graphics driver team at XDC2025 also showcased the shortcomings of screencasting under Wayland…
Qt Moves Away From Direct RDRAND/RDSEED Usage For Better Performance & Less Bugs
The Qt toolkit is moving away from directly relying on the CPU’s RDRAND and RDSEED instructions for random number generation and to instead rely on the OS-supplied entropy…
OAK 4 D and OAK 4 S Standalone Edge Vision Cameras with PoE and 48MP Imaging
Luxonis has opened early access preorders for the OAK 4 D and OAK 4 S, two standalone edge-processing cameras designed for computer vision tasks. Both systems provide a 48MP RGB sensor with optional autofocus or wide-angle variants, USB 3 and PoE connectivity, IP67-rated enclosures, and on-device inference capabilities. Both devices are built around the RVC4 […]
Linux 6.19 Landing Initial Display Support For Xe3P_LPD / Nova Lake
The upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle is set to introduce initial Xe3P_LPD GPU support for Nova Lake as well as beginning to build out support for the Crescent Island graphics card. Now joining DRM-Next with that initial Intel Xe3P_LPD code for Linux 6.19 is being able to drive displays with that Xe3 hardware…
NVIDIA Linux Engineer Highlights The Need For Unifying DRM Driver-Side API
One of the NVIDIA presentations at the recent XDC2025 developer conference was not around the NVIDIA driver itself but the ongoing fragmentation that’s happening within the Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem and arguing the need for unifying more driver-side APIs for supporting different Linux DRM clinets…
GCC Developer Discovers “Our Codebase Isn’t Fully C++20 Ready”
Following the recent idea floated to consider C++20 as the default C++ language dialect by the GCC compiler rather than C++17, it was discovered that the GNU Compiler Collection itself has problems building in C++20 model…
PureAudio Lotus DAC5 & Other PureAudio Hardware Supported For Linux 6.18
As part of this week’s sound subsystem fixes ahead of today’s Linux 6.18-rc6 kernel release is adding some quirks for supporting the PureAudio Lotus DAC5 and other PureAudio audio hardware…
Banana Pi Previews Its First SOPHGO BM1688-Based Compute Module
Banana Pi has previewed the BPI-SM9 16-ENC-A3, a compact deep learning compute module built around the SOPHGO BM1688 processor. The module is described as targeting low-power AI workloads, hardware video acceleration, and mixed-precision neural inference across microservers, edge systems, industrial platforms, and AIoT devices. The BM1688 datasheet does not appear to be available on the […]
How to install Git on Debian 13
In this blog post, we will explain how to install Git on Debian 13 OS. Git is a free and open-source distributed version control system that manages the code changes in files among multiple developers. The main characteristic of Git is its distributed nature, which means that every developer has a complete copy of the entire project locally.
Debian 13.2 “Trixie” Released with 123 Bug Fixes and 55 Security Updates
Today, the Debian Project announced the release and general availability of Debian 13.2 as the second update to the latest Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” operating system series.
Waveshare Pairs RISC-V ESP32-P4 and ESP32-C6 for Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, and PoE Support
Waveshare has released the ESP32-P4-WIFI6-POE-ETH, a compact development board built around the ESP32-P4 along with an ESP32-C6 wireless module. The design combines Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5 LE, Ethernet, and optional PoE power delivery in a single platform aimed at multimedia processing, display and camera applications, and general embedded development. Like the earlier Waveshare ESP32-P4-WIFI6 development […]
How To Backup And Restore Installed Packages In Ubuntu Linux
Learn how to easily backup and restore installed packages, PPAs, Snap, Flatpak apps, and dotfiles in Ubuntu Linux Step-by-Step.
GCC Compiler Developers Begin Considering C++20 Default
Compiler engineer Marek Polacek of Red Hat recently proposed making the C++20 language specification (or rather the GNU++20 dialect) the default C++ version when not otherwise specified…
Servo 0.0.2 Released For Those Wanting To Try Out This Example Rust Web Browser
Released minutes ago was the Servo 0.0.2 web browser engine update. Along with this new Rust-based web engine release is also the “servoshell” in tow for the example implementation built around this open-source codebase…
Fedora at Kirinyaga University Docs workshop
We did it again, Fedora at Kirinyaga university in Kenya. This time, we didn’t just introduce what open source is – we showed students how to participate and actually contribute in real time. Many students had heard of open source before, but were not sure how to get started or where they could fit. We […]