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Over the festive period Valve released an update to Proton Experimental bringing in more game fixes for the likes of Marvel Rivals and other games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux. There's also an update to the open source Xalia tool, which is used for getting gamepad input in launchers.

ADLINK’s I-Pi SMARC Amston Lake is a fanless development kit based on SMARC 2.1-compliant system-on-module with an Intel Atom X7433RE quad-core SoC, 8GB LPDRR5 memory, and up to 256GB eMMC flash, plus a carrier board with dual 2.5GbE with TSN, two Raspberry Pi-compatible GPIO headers, and a range of other interfaces.

Everyone likes something cheap, and when that cheap thing is a router that’s supported by OpenWRT, it sounds like a win. [Hennung Paul] ordered a Wavlink WL-WN586X3 for the princely sum of 39 Euros, but was disappointed to find his device a rev. 2 board rather than the rev.1 board supported by the Linux distribution.

Privacy and security have never been more important—or more under threat. With headlines constantly reporting data breaches, hacks, and the unchecked collection of sensitive personal information, it’s easy to feel like your digital life is always at risk.

Open AI models on the rise are shaking up the AI market, breaking a stranglehold of proprietary models running on proprietary hardware.

Recently, two things happened. A friend of my gave me his old iPhone, so now I have it available for all sorts of testing. I wrote an article on how to copy local music, sans any cloud nonsense, to the iPhone, using VLC. And then, I wrote a second tutorial, on how to accomplish this with KDE Connect. Three things. Three.

Spend the holidays with some holiday themed puzzles, riddles and quizzes.

COBOL, your mother’s and grandmother’s programming language, is still in relatively wide use today, and with the initial batches of COBOL programmers retiring and, well, going away, there’s a market out there for younger people to learn COBOL and gain some serious job security in stable, but perhaps boring market segments. One of the things you would not associate with COBOL, however, is gaming – but it turns out it can be used for that, too.

If you're a fan of Windows PowerShell and you're using Windows 10, you'll be glad to know you can install and use that powerful command line tool on Linux.

MYIR has introduced the MYC-LT536 SoM, powered by the Allwinner T536 quad-core Cortex-A55 processor, and designed for industrial and IoT applications. It is also supported by a compatible development board featuring dual GbE ports, NVMe PCIe support, and wireless connectivity.

Based on Fedora, Nobara is a multimedia user's dream operating system, installed with all the necessary multimedia codecs to view movies or listen to music.

There's activity again around potentially disabling and then ultimately removing the RNDIS Linux kernel code for those drivers complying with the Microsoft Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) protocol specification.

It is a breeze to use Linux in 2025 with all the major annoyances gone. And, here's why.

What's next for Linux in all its facets in the coming year? We'll tell you!

The 12 days of Christmas starts today. We'll share one new feature, change, or something special with you every day for the next 12 days.

This best-of-technology list for 2024 has zero gadgets or AI chatbots.

Upscayl, the popular free open-source AI image upscaler, announced new 2.15 released at Christmas! The release improved user experience for enlarging and enhancing low-resolution images by new AI module and improved module selection dialog.

Systemd had another busy year working on many new features from run0 as a sudo alternative to making systemd-homed more robust, increasing Varlink use, systemd-boot continuing to gain more traction, and more.

Ubuntu Pro is an optional security feature that Ubuntu LTS users can enroll in to get critical updates for more than 25,000 packages that would otherwise sit unpatched.

This blog post provides a step-by-step tutorial on compiling and booting from Linux Kernel 6.x. We will use a VM environment for safety. This blog post is ideal for developers and curious learners.