The Alpine Linux team announced today the release and general availability of Alpine Linux 3.22 as another major update to this independent and security-oriented GNU/Linux distribution.

Banana Pi has revealed early details about the BPI-R4 Pro, an upcoming router board powered by the MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880). Designed as a successor to the BPI-R4, it targets high-speed wireless and wired networking for applications such as Wi-Fi 7 access points and multi-gigabit gateways. The BPI-R4 Pro features a quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 CPU […]

Nobara Linux is named after the character Nobara Kugisaki in the anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. The distro’s creator, Thomas Crider, is a fan of the character and chose the name to add a personal touch.

The GStreamer project released GStreamer 1.26.2 today as the second maintenance update to the latest GStreamer 1.26 series of this popular open-source and cross-platform multimedia framework.

The many power management subsystem updates and related changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel…

The seventh edition of the Power Management and Scheduling
in the Linux Kernel Summit (known as “OSPM”) took place on March 18-20,
2025. Topics discussed on the third (and final) day include proxy
execution, energy-aware scheduling, the deadline scheduler, and an
evaluation of the kernel’s EEVDF scheduler.

Believe it or not, OpenAI’s o3 just uncovered a remote 0-day in the Linux kernel’s SMB code—CVE-2025-37899. A patch has already been rolled out.

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The GNOME Project has released GNOME 48.2 today as the second maintenance update to the latest GNOME 48 “Bengaluru” desktop environment series, featuring another round of fixes.

Intel engineers are preparing the Linux kernel for future Data Center GPUs. This work confirms new Intel Data Center GPUs coming based on Battlemage…

Alpine Linux 3.22 is now available as the newest version of this Linux distribution popular for use with containers and embedded purposes due to its small, simple, and secure focus…

Sandisk earlier this month announced the WD_BLACK SN8100 as what they claim is the current world’s fastest PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe SSD for consumers. Given how well the WD_BLACK SN850X performs under Linux as a PCIe Gen 4.0 drive, I decided to buy a WD_BLACK SN8100 for some Linux testing at Phoronix to compare to various other drives in the lab. Here is a preliminary look at the WD_BLACK SN8100 2TB performance under Ubuntu Linux.

Navidrome 0.56, a self-hosted music server and streamer, launches with playlist cover art, security fixes, and major UI improvements.

The latest upstream Linux kernel improvement for AMD’s Secure Encrypted Virtualization “SEV” is the introduction of a virtual TPM driver…

Linux 6.15 is now the latest stable kernel, and Ubuntu users can install it on their machines via the official Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA archive. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to do that via GUI and CLI methods.

Mozilla has decided to throw in
the towel on Pocket, a social-bookmarking
service that it acquired in 2017. This has left many users scrambling
for a replacement for Pocket before its shutdown in July. One possible
option is wallabag, a
self-hostable, MIT-licensed project for saving web content for later
reading. It can import saved data from services like Pocket, share
content on the web, export to various formats, and more. Even better,
it puts users in control of their data long-term.

With how well the open-source and upstream AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver stack is these days between the mainline Linux kernel and Mesa, the Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver releases are not usually notable these days on Phoronix… The packaged Radeon Software for Linux drivers haven’t been popular with gamers/enthusiasts in years given how good the upstream support is and those packaged bits mostly useful for those just running enterprise Linux distributions with older versions of Linux and Mesa. But the next Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver release is set to introduce a big change…

NVIDIA releases Linux Display Driver 575.57 with improved stability for OpenGL, Vulkan, and PRIME setups.

Terasic has introduced the Atum A3 Nano on Crowd Supply, offering a compact FPGA development board based on Altera’s Agilex 3 series. It provides a capable platform for embedded applications requiring high-speed logic and moderate compute performance. Measuring just 85 mm by 70 mm, the board features the Agilex 3 A3CZ135BB18AE7S FPGA, delivering 135,110 logic […]

OBS Studio 31.1 Beta 1 is out today as the newest version of this popular cross-platform and open-source solution for gaming live streaming, desktop screencasting, and similar screencasting/live-streaming uses…