The MythTV open-source project is now 22 years old for being this PVR/DVR software for TVs and home theaters. While PVRs/DVRs aren’t nearly as popular as they were in the pre Internet streaming era, MythTV continues forging ahead and MythTV 35 is now available as the newest annual feature release to the project…
Category Archives: Linux
4 New Effects Added to ‘Burn My Windows’ GNOME Extension
A set of four cool new window opening and closing animations got added to gaudy GNOME Shell extension Burn My Windows this weekend.
Sailfish OS 5.0 released for all supported devices
Sailfish OS 5.0, originally released late last year as part of the new Jolla C2 Community Phone, will now be pushed to all Sailfish OS devices. There have been several other minor releases since the original release, so if you’re running Sailfish OS on something other than the C2, you’re getting a release with some more bugfixes and improvements.
Why I Still Love and Use RSS Feeds in 2025
RSS feeds are classic. And surprisingly, they are still relevant in 2025.
Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 8 (Feb 17 – 23, 2025)
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Ubuntu 24.04.2, Plasma 6.3.1, COSMIC Alpha 6, Pi-hole 6, NVIDIA vs AMD, Docker Hub drops pull consumption fees, and more.
I’m a Distro-Hopper, But Here’s Why I Come Back to Ubuntu Every Time
The joy of using Linux is that there are so many choices. I’m someone who takes advantage of that choice, testing different Linux distros out there. However, when it comes to daily driving, I went with the flow and stuck with Ubuntu. I don’t regret it.
Armbian 25.2 Released with Support for New Boards, Linux 6.12 LTS, and More
Today, the Armbian community announced the release and general availability of Armbian 25.2 as a major update aimed at enhancing functionality and expanding hardware support of this Debian and Ubuntu-based distribution targeting ARM devices.
Armbian 25.2 Released With New Boards Supported, Kernel Upgrades
Armbian 25.2 is now available as the newest feature release for this Debian-based Linux distribution focused on providing a great ARM experience as well as a growing number of RISC-V boards…
Beta of Unix version 2 restored to life
What is dead may never die. After a heroic effort, the oldest machine-readable copy of Unix version 2 is running again. The recovered code runs on a PDP-11 simulator and contains a version of Unix that’s later than V1 from 1972, but doesn’t contain V2 API calls; a sort of Unix V2 beta.
OSI to Faraone: Too Friggin’ Bad
Remember the classic headline from the 1970s: “Ford to city — drop dead”? Well, this is how it looks, transcribed to open source in the 21st century. It’s a different scale, but…
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Machine Learning in Linux: Jan – alternative to ChatGPT
Jan is a ChatGPT-alternative that runs 100% offline on your desktop. The aim of the project is to make it easy for anyone to run LLMs and use AI yet retain full control and privacy.
Aqualung 2.0 released
Version
2.0 of the Aqualung
gapless music player has been released. Aqualung supports playback of
a wide range of audio formats, ripping CDs to WAV, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis,
or MP3, and subscribing to podcasts via RSS or Atom feeds. The primary
change in this release is the migration
from GTK2 to GTK3, and dropping support for custom skins as a
result.
Canonical Rolling Out Improved CLA Process For Ubuntu Contributions
Canonical’s Contributor License Agreement (CLA) used for various projects they develop around Ubuntu Linux isn’t changing itself, but the process for signing the CLA is being improved upon…
Is AI Compatible With Free Software?
As everybody from The Linux Foundation to Open Source Initiative to Facebook can tell you, figuring out how to make artificial intelligence platforms fit the four freedoms has been no easy task.
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Intel Linux Driver Preparing VRSR Support For Battlemage GPUs
To help with idle/suspend scenarios use for Intel Arc B-Series “Battlemage” graphics processors, a set of patches were posted today for the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver for enabling VRAM Self Refresh “VRSR” support…
IceWM 3.7 Window Manager Brings Enhanced Customization
IceWM 3.7 window manager for the X Window System brings new theming options, improved keybinding support, and bug fixes.
Jolla Releases Sailfish OS 5.0 With WireGuard VPN, Updated Android Compatibility
For those intrigued by Jolla’s Linux-based Sailfish OS mobile phone operating system, Sailfish OS 5.0 is officially out today as the latest iteration of this software stack…
[$] Slabs, sheaves, and barns
The kernel’s slab allocator is responsible for the allocation of small
(usually sub-page) chunks of memory. For many workloads, the speed of
object allocation and freeing is one of the key factors in overall
performance, so it is not surprising that a lot of effort has gone into
optimizing the slab allocator over time. Now that the kernel is down to a single slab allocator, the
memory-management developers have free rein to add complexity to it; the
latest move in that direction is the per-CPU
sheaves patch set from slab maintainer Vlastimil Babka.
(usually sub-page) chunks of memory. For many workloads, the speed of
object allocation and freeing is one of the key factors in overall
performance, so it is not surprising that a lot of effort has gone into
optimizing the slab allocator over time. Now that the kernel is down to a single slab allocator, the
memory-management developers have free rein to add complexity to it; the
latest move in that direction is the per-CPU
sheaves patch set from slab maintainer Vlastimil Babka.
Intel Announces Xeon 6500P + Xeon 6700P Processors
After launching the Intel Xeon 6900P “Granite Rapids” processors last September, today Intel is expanding the family with the launch of the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P server processors.
Intel Announces Xeon 6300 Series – Tops Out At 8-Core Xeon 6369P For $545 USD
In addition to announcing the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P processors along with the Xeon 6 SoC (Granite Rapids D), the Xeon 6300 series are also making a quiet debut today. The Xeon 6300 series is in effect the continuation of the Xeon E series but with little change over the existing Xeon E-2400 processors…