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Fedora Workstation 41 is the latest release of one of the leading providers of free, open source software, The Fedora Project. This article describes some of the user-facing changes in the newest version of Fedora Workstation. Upgrade today from the official website, or upgrade your existing install using GNOME Software or through the terminal with […]

I’m happy to once again announce an early release of Fedora Linux 41. Every cycle, our Quality team carefully validates candidate builds against our release criteria, and this time around, we felt confident that we were ready at our early target date. Thank you and congratulations to everyone in Fedora who worked so hard to […]

The ARK FPV NDAA-compliant flight controller is compact and designed around the ARKV6X model, following a standard 30.5mm mounting pattern. It supports 3-12s battery input, providing a regulated 12V 2A output for video transmitters and payloads. The controller is compatible with PX4 Autopilot firmware (version 1.15+), pre-installed, and also supports Ardupilot version 4.5+.

PINE64 is preparing to launch the PineNote Community Edition, an update to the original PineNote Developer Edition e-paper tablet introduced in 2022. This version retains the same hardware features as the Developer Edition but will include an OS contributed by the PINE64 community developers.

When a number of Russian Linux developers were removed from their MAINTAINERS file in the Linux kernel, it was described as due to "compliance requirements" but vague in what those requirements entailed. Linus Torvalds then commented on the Russian Linux maintainers being de-listed and made it clear that they were done due to government compliance requirements / legal issues around Russia.

Following the ASUS AIPT patch posting this weekend from an Intel Linux engineer that was analyzing my previously-published Lunar Lake results showing rather poor performance on the ASUS Zenbook S 14, the performance has been looking much better.

Following yesterday's news first featured on Phoronix of several Linux driver maintainers being de-listed from their maintainer positions within the mainline Linux kernel over their connections to Russia, Linus Torvalds has today commented on the matter...

Rustls was initially talked up as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language for its memory safety guarantees. But now besides the talked up advantages due to being written in Rust, it has reached the point of reportedly being faster than both OpenSSL and BoringSSL...

The Free Software Foundation announced on Tuesday they have begun work on "freedom in machine learning applications". Or in particular, a to-be-issued "statement" on free machine learning applications for software and the associated scripts and training data...

Author would like to see a switch back to plain old static HTML. Us too Developer Loris Cro reckons his LSP language server for HTML is a world first, and that the absence of such tools up to now has had grave consequences for the web.…

Embedded systems have become a cornerstone of modern technology, powering everything from IoT devices to automotive control systems. These specialized systems rely on software that is lightweight, efficient, and highly optimized for specific hardware configurations.

Copr is a build-system for anyone in the Fedora community. It hosts thousands of projects for various purposes and audiences. Some of them should never be installed by anyone, some are already being transitioned to the official Fedora Linux repositories, and the rest are somewhere in between.

On Sunday there was a new patch posted by an Intel Linux engineer to boost the Lunar Lake Linux performance out-of-the-box for ASUS laptops by adjusting the new ASUS Intelligent Performance Technology "AIPT" feature so that Linux follows the same behavior as Windows 11.

GNU Boot is a "100% free software project aimed at replacing the non-free boot software" and is a downstream of Coreboot, GRUB, and SeaBIOS. While priding itself on being "100% free", last December they had to drop some motherboard support and CPU code after discovering they were shipping some files that are non-free by their free software standards.

The DC-ROMA RISC-V Laptop II is one of the latest hardware platforms designed for developers interested in the RISC-V architecture. It features a RISC-V 64-bit 8-core CPU, Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, SSD support, and comes pre-installed with Ubuntu Desktop 23.10.

Linus Torvalds, Broadcom, Dell, HPE, and Lenovo on the list. The shape of the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) is evolving. On Tuesday, Intel and AMD announced the formation of an ecosystem advisory group intended to drive greater consistency between the brands' x86 implementations.

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS is out with their newest monthly development summary to highlight advancements made to this unique OS.

The Challenger+ RP2350 Wi-Fi6/BLE5 IPEX3 development board showcases the dual-core Cortex-M33/RISCV RP2350 microcontroller from Raspberry Pi. With 8MB of Flash and RAM, it’s optimized for developers creating embedded solutions that demand high-performance memory and wireless capabilities.

The Trenz Electronic AXE5-EAGLE-ES Agilex5 Devkit, powered by Intel’s Agilex 5 E-series SoC FPGA, supports a range of FPGA applications across industries such as wireless communication, video broadcast, and defense. Its scalable architecture offers engineers a reliable platform for testing designs with advanced FPGA technology and flexible expansion options.

OpenBSD is arguably the most secure general-purpose OS for general-purpose computers. This version has better laptop support, includes more Arm64 kit, and brings hardware-accelerated video playback.