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Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Apr 26, 2025 2:10 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Linus Torvalds is sharing some of his classic and straight-to-the-point wisdom today over file-systems with case-folding / case-insensitive file and folder support...

Why IT Pros Should Start Paying Attention to Git

  • itprotoday (Posted by bob on Apr 26, 2025 12:38 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Once the domain of developers, Git is fast becoming essential for IT operations, offering powerful benefits for managing infrastructure, automation, and documentation in a DevOps-driven world.

Richard Stallman and the Unix Philosophy

  • Techrights; By Roy Schestowitz (Posted by schestowitz on Apr 25, 2025 11:07 PM CST)
  • Groups: IBM, Red Hat
Maybe one day RMS will be more vocal in criticism or condemnation of systemd, nowadays exceedingly led by and hosted by Microsoft. Microsoft's vision of "Linux" is just something that it controls (i.e. it controls users) via Azure or similar spyware. It already integrates it with TPMs and other terrible things via systemd.

Zalmotek RA6M1, RA8M1, and RZ/A3UL Feather SoMs Target High-Performance Embedded Applications

Zalmotek expands its Feather System on Module portfolio with high-performance options designed for advanced embedded systems. These modules are based on Renesas processors and follow the Feather form factor, enabling flexibility for robotics, industrial control, and edge computing applications. The RA6M1 Feather SoM features an Arm Cortex-M4 CPU operating at up to 120 MHz, paired […]

DietPi 9.12 Launches with Fish Shell Support

DietPi 9.12, a Debian-based Linux distro for SBCs, adds support for Fish Shell, Amiberry v7, Amiberry-Lite, and more.

Beetle RP2350 is a $4.90 Mini Development Board for Embedded Projects

The Beetle RP2350 is a coin-sized development board designed for space-constrained embedded projects. Despite its compact 25 × 20.5 mm footprint, it offers a wide range of hardware features and low power consumption, enabling its use in portable devices such as retro computers, game consoles, lighting controllers, and electronic badges. This board is built around […]

COSMIC Alpha 7 Desktop Adds Pinned Workspaces, New Accessibility Features

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Apr 25, 2025 1:16 PM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Linux hardware vendor System76 released today COSMIC Alpha 7 as the latest development version for this up-and-coming desktop environment written in Rust for GNU/Linux distributions and the company’s in-house Pop!_OS Linux distro.

Enabling system-wide DNS over TLS

  • Fedora Magazine (Posted by bob on Apr 25, 2025 11:45 AM CST)
  • Groups: Fedora; Story Type: News Story
This article will guide you to enforcing DoT (DNS over TLS) on your running system and at boot time. Support is avaliable in Fedora 42. It will also guide you to set up encrypted DNS for system installation, if you want to try it with current Fedora Rawhide (Fedora 43). Background Traditionally, DNS queries are […]

Zalmotek RA0E1, RA2E1, and RA4M1 Feather SoMs for Energy-Efficient Embedded Development

Zalmotek offers a range of Feather SoMs built around Renesas microcontrollers, targeting energy-efficient and compact embedded applications. These modules follow the Adafruit Feather form factor and include essential interfaces for rapid prototyping and deployment in IoT and low-power scenarios. The RA0E1 Feather SoM is designed for ultra-low-power use cases. It features an Arm Cortex-M23 CPU […]

After Three Years, AlmaLinux Is Having an Election

Here’s some preliminary information about AlmaLinux OS Foundation’s upcoming board election. We’ll keep you up-to-date as we learn more.

GStreamer 1.26.1 Improves dav1d AV1 Decoder, Matroska v4 Support in Muxer

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Apr 25, 2025 7:10 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Today, the GStreamer project released GStreamer 1.26.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest GStreamer 1.26 series of this popular open-source and cross-platform multimedia framework.

Debugging and Profiling Linux Applications with GDB and strace

Debugging and profiling are critical skills in a developer's toolbox, especially when working with low-level system applications. Whether you're tracking down a segmentation fault in a C program or understanding why a daemon fails silently, mastering tools like GDB (GNU Debugger) and strace can dramatically improve your efficiency and understanding of program behavior.

Mesa Falling Back To Its Multi-File Cache Due To Performance Reasons

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Apr 25, 2025 4:07 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Steam
Mesa has supported on-disk shader cache for years to help speed-up game load times and overall system efficiencies. They had shifted from a multi-file cache layout to a single file cache for greater space savings. Steam also added support for the single-file cache. But now upstream Mesa is shifting back from the single-file cache default to the multi-file cache over performance issues...

Installing AlmaLinux on Windows Just Got Easier

Windows users can now install AlmaLinux directly from the command line with WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) CLI.

PCIe Controller Support For The Apple M2 Pro Coming To The Mainline Linux Kernel

  • Phoronix; By Michael Larabel (Posted by bob on Apr 25, 2025 1:04 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Kernel, Linux
The latest bit of hardware enablement coming out of Asahi Linux and queued for introduction in the mainline kernel the next cycle is PCI Express (PCIe) support for the Apple M2 Pro SoC...

Debian Package Management: Aptitude vs. Apt-Get in Ubuntu

Package management is at the heart of every Linux system. It’s what makes installing, updating, and managing software on Linux-based distributions not just possible but streamlined and elegant. For users of Debian and its popular derivative Ubuntu, two powerful tools often stand at the center of debate: apt-get and aptitude. Though both are capable of managing packages effectively, they have unique characteristics that make them better suited to different use cases.

Raspberry Pi HEVC Decoder Linux Driver Updated For Mainline Kernel Attempt

At the end of last year the upstreaming efforts began for a Raspberry Pi HEVC decoder driver for getting H.265/HEVC accelerated decode working on the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers with the mainline kernel. Nearly a half-year later that effort is still ongoing but yesterday brought the third iteration of this driver...

AMD Publishes Open-Source GIM Driver For GPU Virtualization, Radeon "In The Roadmap"

AMD has published as open-source their "GPU-IOV Module" used for virtualization with Instinct accelerators. It's also reported on their roadmap for bringing virtualization support to their client (Radeon) discrete GPUs...

Immich 1.132 Brings Smoother Syncing, Mobile UI Enhancements

Immich 1.132 self-hosted photo and video backup solution replaces TypeORM with Kysely, introduces SQLite support, and enhances sync performance.

Fedora 42 has the Answer, but Ubuntu's Plucky Puffin isn't far behind

Watch your partitions – GPT and dual-boot don't always mix. While The Reg FOSS desk was on spring break, both the latest interim Ubuntu and latest Fedora debuted.…

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