Valve today released SteamOS 3.7.8 to their stable channel as the first stable version of their Arch Linux based SteamOS 3.7 operating system…

The PipeWire project released PipeWire 1.4.3 today as yet another minor update to the latest PipeWire 1.4 series for this popular open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux systems.

The FreeBSD project today published their status report outlining their development happenings during Q1’2025. There’s been a lot going on in the FreeBSD world, especially for improving laptop support and other modern hardware coverage for this BSD operating system…

Ubuntu 25.10 is joining the likes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise that are using Chrony as their Network Time Protocol (NTP) implementation. Ubuntu 25.10 is switching over to Chrony in enabling Network Time Security (NTS) support on Ubuntu Linux…

And other ways to get that Amiga feeling on a budgetThe FOSS recreation of AmigaOS is making progress. A new edition runs entirely from a USB key, so you can temporarily turn your PC into an Amiga – without any tricky installation process.…

Mozilla announced today it’s going to be shutting down its Pocket read-it-later bookmarking service this summer…

Our recent article on Home Assistant
observed that the project emphasizes installations using its own Linux
distribution or within containers. The project has now made that emphasis
rather stronger with this
announcement of the deprecation of the “core” and “supervised”
installation modes, which allowed Home Assistant to be installed as an
ordinary application on a Linux system.

These are advanced installation methods, with only a small
percentage of the community opting to use them. If you are using
these methods, you can continue to do so (you can even continue to
update your system), but in six months time, you will no longer be
supported, which I’ll explain the impacts of in the next
section. References to these installation methods will be removed
from our documentation after our next release (2025.6).

Support for 32-bit Arm and x86 architectures has also been deprecated.

Learn a step-by-step guide to installing and using the Dolphin emulator on Ubuntu 25.04 to play your favorite GameCube and Wii console games.

The Fedora Council has ruled on the Fedora Engineering Steering
Council’s (FESCo) decision last year to revoke Peter Robinson’s
provenpackager status. In a statement
published to the fedora-devel-announce mailing list, the council has
announced that it has overturned FESCo’s decision:

FESCo didn’t have a specific policy for dealing with a request to remove
Proven Packager rights. In addition, the FESCo process was handled entirely
in private. The contributor didn’t receive a formal notification or warning
from FESCo, and felt blindsided by the official decision when and how it was
announced. The Fedora Council would like to extend our sincerest apology on
behalf of the Fedora Project to them.

LWN covered the
story in December 2024.

The Canonical Kernel Team confirmed their plans today that with the Ubuntu 25.10 release in October they are planning to employ the Linux 6.17 kernel…

Adding on to the Intel Xeon 6 “Granite Rapids” CPU family are today three new models focused on delivering enhanced GPU-accelerated AI performance…

FFmpeg developers have been working on Vulkan-accelerated FFV1 video encode/decode for that two decade old lossless video coding format. Merged this week to FFmpeg Git were more enhancements to their Vulkan-based FFV1 encoder and yielding big performance improvements for both AMD and NVIDIA graphics processors…

The upcoming Rocky Linux 10 is on track to officially support RISC-V, with builds for VisionFive 2, QEMU, and HiFive P550.

Prime OS can be installed side by side with the Linux system. In the previous post on this blog, I discussed how to install Prime OS. At that time I tried it on Ubuntu, and the results were smooth. But in the comments column of my YouTube channel, there were some who complained about booting

Longtime AMDGPU driver engineer Alex Deucher has posted an interesting set of patches on Wednesday for enhancing the GPU reset experience under Linux with RDNA graphics cards…

A recently posted patch series for the MSI WMI platform driver is aiming this open-source driver to reach parity with MSI’s official Windows application/driver for the MSI Claw gaming handheld systems…

A patch series is baking for likely upstreaming in the Linux v6.17 kernel cycle later in the year to optimize AMD CPU cache flushing when making use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) with KVM…

With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 providing a RISC-V developer preview, CentOS is now in turn also providing initial RISC-V CPU ISA support…

Radxa has introduced a single-board computer with a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi 3, powered by the octa-core Rockchip RK3576 system-on-chip. Key features of the new ROCK 4D include PCIe Gen2 expansion, Gigabit Ethernet with PoE support, and broad I/O compatibility. The board is built around the Rockchip RK3576 SoC, which integrates four […]

When Rocky Linux 10 is released, it will join a growing number of Linux distros that support the open source RISC-V instruction set.