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Mozilla Firefox 134 has landed, making the browser’s first release of the new year.

Linux Foundation Energy argues rapidly decentralizing electricity sector can't succeed with silos. The energy industry needs to adopt open source AI software, and the collaborative processes used to create it, to satisfy demand for energy created by the growing use of ... artificial intelligence.

According to the Mozilla Github releases page, the new Firefox release added support for touchpad hold gestures for Linux.

Digital flashcards are an important part of every learner’s toolkit. Unlike paper cards, you can quickly tweak a digital card, track your overall progress, and share your deck with others.

Keith Packard is known for his X.Org/X11 work over the course of many years but alongside other software projects he also maintains Picolibc as a C library designed for embedded 32-bit and 64-bit systems. Recently he sent out a patch for adding Picolibc support to the GCC compiler.

That is not dead which can eternal lie… including the grandparent of C, apparently. A 37-year-old compiler is gaining support for a new language… although as that language is 57 years old, we are possibly stretching the adjective "new" more than our post-holiday waistband.

ASRock Industrial has announced the NUC(S) Ultra 200 BOX and Motherboard Series, powered by Intel Core Ultra 200H processors (Arrow Lake-H), offering up to 99 TOPS of AI inferencing for advanced computing applications.

Artificial Intelligence, particularly Generative AI, is rapidly evolving and becoming more accessible to everyday users. With large language models (LLMs) such as GPT and LLaMA making waves, the desire to run these models locally on personal hardware is growing.

Following last year's launch of Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops, Qualcomm is using CES 2025 this week in Las Vegas for promoting the Snapdragon X Series for mini desktop form factor PCs. But the Linux support and performance out of these forthcoming Snapdragon X Platform mini PCs remain to be seen.

With Cron, you can schedule just about any type of job on Linux, such as backing up specific directories to an external drive.

It's so customizable that it comes with an Allen wrench in the chassis.

Tuned for running chunky models on the desktop with 128GB of RAM, custom Ubuntu. CES Nvidia has announced a desktop computer powered by a new GB10 Grace-Blackwell superchip and equipped with 128GB of memory to give AI developers, researchers, and students the tools they need to run large models on the desktop.

FOSDEM 2025 will take place on February 1-2 with over 8000 developers meeting in Brussels to discuss open-source software & hardware projects. The free-to-attend (and participate) “Free and Open Source Software Developers’ European Meeting” grows every year, and in 2025 there will be 968 speakers, 930 events, and 74 tracks.

For the past several months Intel Linux software engineers have been working on Intel Touch Host Controller drivers as an IP block on the PCH for handling touchscreen, touchpad, and related touch input devices.

It’s Adwaita for Steam, a skin to make Steam look more like a native GNOME app. With it, the title and tool bars will be merged into a compact GNOME Client-Side Decoration style header bar.

Applying security updates promptly after they are released is critically important for us Linux admins, as this practice helps protect against vulnerabilities that malicious actors could exploit. Failing to update could expose your Linux systems to cyberattacks, data breaches, and other severe security risks.

Moving up to the 6.12.8 kernel version, Arch-based Bluestar Linux returns with a minor update. This release includes the bugfix update for KDE Plasma 6, which is labeled 6.2.5, as well as e2fsprogs 1.47.2, which is still in beta and replaces the stable 1.47.1 version from Bluestar 6.12.7.

If you're facing the end of support for your operating system and don't want to have to shell out the money for a new one, there's yet another Linux distribution that I'd recommend you consider.

Want to run an AppImage application automatically at boot time? You could do that with a little effort. Here's step by step process to accomplish it.

A discussion that originally started last summer has been reignited: whether it's time to retire GlusterFS within Fedora Linux. But following discussions in recent days, there may be a new packager willing to take over but it doesn't change the fact of declining upstream activity around GlusterFS.