The Minichord is a compact, chord-focused musical instrument developed by Benjamin Poilve through a co-creation effort with Seeed Studio. Designed for musicians of all skill levels, it combines a tactile chord selection system with a responsive touch interface and MIDI output capabilities. With fully open-source firmware and hardware design, the device encourages community-driven modification and […]

The Intel Integrated Sensor Hub “ISH” allows for offloading sensor polling and other tasks to a low-power co-processor to help reduce overall system power consumption for extending battery life with tablets, embedded devices, and 2-in1 laptops…

The April 18th update of DietPi v9.12 introduces new software options including the fish shell and Amiberry v7/Amiberry-Lite, while also expanding compatibility and resolving various issues. This release focuses on improving usability, editor flexibility, and hardware support across platforms.   DietPi: DietPi is a lightweight, Debian-based operating system optimized for single-board computers and embedded systems. […]

While the FFmpeg multimedia library merged Vulkan Video encode support last year, it was initially limited to H.264 and H.265 formats. With a new patch posted for review this week, AV1 encode support using the Vulkan Video API is now underway…

Ubuntu 25.04 is now available for download, featuring GNOME 48, Linux kernel 6.14, systemd 257, updated toolchains, and enhanced gaming and GPU support.

Let’s explore what Vim and Neovim are, their core features, and the key differences to help you decide which one best fits your workflow.

Calibre 8.2 ebook manager adds new Kobo firmware support, Kindle personal document marking, and bug fixes for macOS, Quickview, and KEPUB rendering.

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LXQt 2.2.0 desktop environment introduces enhanced Wayland support, power profile switching, PCManFM-Qt improvements, and better terminal handling.

Did you have time to keep up with the news this week? Here’s your chance to brag… or not. This week there are 11 questions. Good luck!

The Fedora RISC-V SIG is excited to share that our RISC-V images for Fedora Linux 42 have landed on-time and without delay! If you’ve been watching our progress over the past few releases, you know that staying on schedule is a big deal, especially given our goals of eventually gaining “primary” status for RISC-V as […]

Discover what’s new in Fedora Atomic Desktops 42—GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, COSMIC support, composefs by default, and more.

The Radxa Dual 2.5G Router HAT adds high-speed networking and NVMe storage expansion to single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi 5 and Radxa ROCK series, using a single PCIe connection in a compact form factor. The HAT uses the ASM2806 PCIe Gen3 switch chip to convert a single PCIe lane into multiple downstream lanes. This […]

What good is having software freedom if the hardware makers are holding you hostage? Marco Fioretti explains… with solutions.

Merged today ahead of the Linux 6.15-rc3 kernel test release on Sunday were the set of “x86 fixes” for the week. Of these x86 fixes are two notable changes in particular…

Linux communities are at the heart of AI innovation, contributing to open source frameworks, optimizing hardware acceleration, and fostering global collaboration.

NVIDIA releases Linux Display Driver 575.51.02 (BETA), enhancing Vulkan, GLX, and Xwayland support while fixing crashes in Minecraft and Marvel Rivals.

Following yesterday’s official Fedora 42 release, Fedora 42 for RISC-V is now available. The delay in the Fedora 42 RISC-V builds is due to RISC-V not yet being a primary architecture and the RISC-V builds being unofficial and produced by the Fedora community…

tap is a terminal-based music player that lets you jump to any album with fuzzy-finder shortcuts. It’s got one of the lightest memory footprints of any audio player. There’s a new release out!

TrueNAS 25.04 open-source NAS launches with ZFS fast deduplication, new API features, experimental Incus-based virtualization, and more.

In recent kernel releases there have been performance enhancements to the AES implementations and other cryptographic subsystem code for speeding up the performance on modern Intel and AMD processors. With Linux 6.16 there will be at least some additional small gains to find with Intel and AMD processors bearing AVX-512 when employing AES-XTS…