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The I-Pi SMARC Amston Lake is a prototyping kit built on Intel’s Amston Lake architecture, designed to accelerate embedded system development. Key features include dual 2.5GbE LAN ports with Time-Sensitive Networking support and CAN interfaces for industrial applications.

KDE developers have been busy preparing for Plasma 6.2 with lots of bug fixing and polishing while also beginning to land some features for Plasma 6.3.

ASUS Tinker Board 3 is a credit card-sized SBC based on Rockchip RK3566 SoC with an HDMI port, a 3.5mm audio jack, gigabit Ethernet, an M.2 socket for WiFi and Bluetooth, four USB ports, and a 40-pin GPIO header with a layout similar to the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.

It's time we got to try an open-source browser not based on Chrome. Zen Browser is the hero we didn't know we needed.

Most Linux distributions have been defaulting to MariaDB as the default MySQL server for years. Ubuntu though has been a notable outlier still relying on Oracle MySQL for the default MySQL service. A proposal raised by an Ubuntu developer hopes to change that for Ubuntu 25.04 in the new year.

Relic Entertainment / SEGA have announced that all players that have Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II have been given a free upgrade to the new Anniversary Edition. Dawn of War II does have an old Native Linux version from Feral Interactive.

Around 70 percent of Redis users are considering alternatives after the database company made a shift away from permissive open source licensing.

The ATOMS3R development kit is a compact and versatile programmable controller based on the ESP32-S3-PICO-1-N8R8 module. Designed for embedded smart device applications, it combines robust processing power with built-in Wi-Fi, making it effective for a wide range of IoT and motion-sensing projects.

When it comes to the question of the fastest x86_64 Linux distribution the answer is very easy with Intel's Clear Linux. But what about in the AArch64 world? When having the AmpereOne server in the lab curiosity got the best of me and I ran benchmarks across seven different Linux distributions on this Supermicro ARM server for seeing what platform had the fastest out-of-the-box Linux performance.

Vivaldi web browser has arrived on the Canonical Snap Store – officially. This closed-source, Chromium-based web browser has been available on Linux since its debut in 2015, providing an official DEB package for Ubuntu users (which adds an APT repo for ongoing updates).

Web scraping is a technique organizations and researchers use to extract useful information from the web. However, this method poses various ethical and technical concerns. Many websites employ anti-scraping measures, making collecting data efficiently and responsibly challenging.

Virter is a useful little tool if you often create – and then remove – VMs to try stuff. It's arguably carried on the ripples from HashiCorp dropping the BSL into the FOSS pond.

There has been a lot of talk the past few days over the AMD AGESA PI 1.2.0.2 update that has begun rolling out to AMD AM5 motherboards with BIOS updates. The AGESA 1.2.0.2 is said to improve inter-core latency for Ryzen 9000 "Zen 5" processors when cores from different CCDs are cross-communicating.

This article, will introduce Podman Pods and demonstrate how to use them with a simple application built using Node.js. The app will be lightweight and easy to set up, showcasing the power of running multiple containers in a pod.

Every year, on the third Saturday of September, comes a special occasion: the Software Freedom Day (SFD), a global celebration dedicated to free and open source software (FOSS) organized by the Digital Freedom Foundation.

RAR files are a popular format on Windows, allowing you to efficiently manage large files and share them across platforms. On Linux, though the TAR format is more commonly used, handling RAR files is just as simple. But what if you need to extract a RAR file or share it with a Windows user directly from the Linux terminal?

Oliver Smith as the Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop at Canonical is out with a new status update on Ubuntu 24.10 development and related ambitions. This also includes more details about bringing the KDE Plasma desktop to Ubuntu Core Desktop in Snap form.

Data visualization is not just an art form but a crucial tool in the modern data analyst's arsenal, offering a compelling way to present, explore, and understand large datasets. In the context of Ubuntu, one of the most popular Linux distributions, leveraging the power of data visualization tools can transform complex data into insightful, understandable visual narratives.

Here's a fun one for you. What do you do when you're a game developer and your laptop dies? Use your Steam Deck to continue developing of course. The game is made with the free and open source Godot Engine, which has some of the best Linux support available of any game engine.

Well this is a hell of a surprise... Microsoft announced today that DirectX will be adopting SPIR-V as the interchange format of the future. Microsoft's DirectX 12 will accept shaders compiled to SPIR-V, the intermediate representation defined by The Khronos Group and commonly associated with Vulkan / OpenGL / OpenCL drivers.