A few weeks back the Linux kernel “Faux Bus” was proposed by Greg Kroah-Hartman as a “fake” bus solution for simple devices. Today ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc3 tagging, the faux bus code was merged and comes at the same time both with C and Rust language bindings…
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Streamline Your Logs: Exploring Rsyslog for Effective System Log Management on Ubuntu
In the world of system administration, effective log management is crucial for troubleshooting, security monitoring, and ensuring system stability. Logs provide valuable insights into system activities, errors, and security incidents.
KDE Frameworks 6.11 Adds Search Providers for Nix Packages, Docker Hub, and More
The KDE Project released KDE Frameworks 6.11 today as a new update to this collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt providing commonly needed functionality to KDE apps and the KDE Plasma desktop.
No More Snakes: Serpent OS Rebrands as AerynOS
Ikey Doherty, the leader of the Serpent OS project, announces that the Linux distro rebrands to AerynOS to better reflects its vision.
Vaaman is a $180 reconfigurable board with an Efinix Trion T120 FPGA and Rockchip RK3399
The Vaaman is a reconfigurable edge computing platform, first seen in 2023. The CrowdSupply campaign has finally launched, offering a system that combines the flexibility of an FPGA with the processing power of a six-core ARM processor.
How to Install Goose AI Locally on Ubuntu 24.04
Codename Goose is an AI agent built to automate deployment, debugging complex tasks independently.
Firefox User Manages Experimental Browser Port To GTK4 Toolkit
For four years there has been an open bug report for Mozilla Firefox requesting the browser’s GTK widget support be updated for GTK4. An independent user/developer has taken it into his own hands and has managed to get Firefox using the GTK4 toolkit up and running on Linux…
11 Best Free and Open Source Linux HDR Imaging Software
High dynamic range imaging (HDR) is an important technology for photographers. It is a collection of techniques that allow a wider dynamic range of luminances between the lightest and darkest areas of an image.
GNOME 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, gdctl, Adwaita Fonts Default & More
The GNOME 48 Beta release was officially announced this morning as the latest stepping stone toward the official GNOME 48 desktop release due out in mid-March…
Fwupd 2.0.6 Adds Support for HPE Gen10 and Gen10+ Devices Using Redfish
Fwupd 2.0.6 has been released today as the sixth maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility for Linux-based operating systems.
Intel Killer E5000 Ethernet Support For Linux 6.15
The upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle will be adding support for Intel Killer E5000 Ethernet…
Btrfs-Progs 6.13 Released With “mkfs.btrfs –compress” Support
Btrfs-Progs 6.13 was released this weekend as the newest routine update to the user-space utilities for the Btrfs file-system…
134k Lines Of Code Posted As Latest Effort For COBOL Support Within GCC
While it’s an old language, in recent months there’s been a renewed effort over a COBOL language front-end for the GCC compiler. There’s been out-of-tree COBOL support for GCC that is working to get into the mainline GNU Compiler Collection codebase. This weekend saw the latest iteration of those patches amounting to 134k lines of new code…
(Updated) NanoKVM-USB: 4K HDMI Loopback, USB 3.0, and Integrated Keyboard/Mouse Control
This month, Sipeed unveiled the NanoKVM-USB, described as a compact and low-cost device designed to simplify the operation and management of multiple systems.
A workaround for Final Fantasy VII Rebirth on Linux with NVIDIA GPUs has been found
While Final Fantasy VII Rebirth can work on Linux with AMD GPUs (like Steam Deck), the situation with NVIDIA GPUs has been messy. Open source to the rescue though, again.
Linux Networking Protocols: Understanding TCP/IP, UDP, and ICMP
In the world of Linux networking, protocols play a crucial role in enabling seamless communication between devices. Whether you’re browsing the internet, streaming videos, or troubleshooting network issues, underlying networking protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, and ICMP are responsible for the smooth transmission of data packets.
Python and Microsoft: Pandas Should Have Known OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft Excel Are Different and Competing Things
Who decided to put Microsoft brands in the interfaces?
Zed Editor Introduces Open-Source “Zeta” Edit Prediction Model
The Zed code editor for macOS and Linux systems has proven to be quite popular for this Rust-based editor started by the creators of the Atom editor. Their latest feature being introduced is Zeta as an open-source edit prediction model to further enhance this code editor with AI capabilities.
How to Install Fast API with MongoDB on Ubuntu 24.04
FastAPI is a web framework based on Python for creating API services. It’s a modern, fast, high-performance framework supporting asynchronous operations.
FreeBSD 13.5 Overcomes UFS Y2038 Problem To Push It Out To Year 2106
Following last week’s FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 1 release to kick off this next FreeBSD 13 point release that will also end the series, FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 2 is out this weekend for testing…