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Many of us have dreamed of running Linux on all the things, including our TVs. A decade ago, Ubuntu TV promised to make this a reality. What happened, and are would-be Linux TV viewers out of luck?

The debate over the Linux kernel's Rust programming language policy continues... While some kernel maintainers are against it, Linus Torvalds has reportedly said he would override maintainers that may be against honoring Rust code. Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman has also been a big proponent of Rust kernel code.

SolidRun has launched a single-board computer tailored for Industrial Internet of Things and Human-Machine Interface applications, built around the i.MX8M Plus System-on-Module from NXP. Its carrier board includes features like RS232, RS485, dual CAN-FD, and dual 1Gb Ethernet and more.

A year on from the big overhaul of Plasma 6, more functionality appears. KDE Plasma 6.3 is here, closely followed by a point release, alongside new versions of the KDE Frameworks and KDE Gear apps collection.

Kunai is an open-source tool that provides deep and precise event monitoring for Linux environments.

Taking advantage of open-source AI's benefits while mitigating potential associated risks is an ongoing struggle and balancing act for security admins. While leaders such as Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue highlight open-source AI's ethical transparency and sustainability, other experts, including Geoffrey Hinton, caution against its misuse by bad actors.

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (Long-Term Support) for its Desktop, Server, and Cloud products, as well as other flavours of Ubuntu with long-term support.

Since 2022, Mozilla has been in an active process evolving what we do – and renewing our leadership. Today we announced several updates on the leadership piece of this ongoing work.

Magnifier is a screen magnifier app intended for visually impaired people to use when running Microsoft Windows. Magnifier is proprietary software and is not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

Last week NeatLab released Neat Video 6 as the newest version of their video engine to reduce noise and enhance video quality that can be used with the likes of DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut, and Premiere Pro software. Neat Video 6 features a faster render engine, optimized CPU + GPU performance, enhanced memory management, and other improvements.

Looking for a Cheat Engine like application to search and edit memory in Linux Desktop? Here’s a free open-source app work in process!

The Mesa 25.0 open-source graphics stack has been released today as a major update introducing new features and improvements for several of the included graphics drivers.

To get Nixon, “Deep Throat” advised Woodward and Bernstein to “follow the money.” To “get” this article, written by the latest addition to the FOSS Force team, we suggest that you follow the links. You’ll be glad you did.

2025 is the year of Linux on RISC-V. No, seriously. Sit back down–you can’t get off until the next stop anyways. Fedora is jumping on the RISC-V train as a fifth architecture. While there’s still some work to be done, we’ve hit some major milestones towards a more open computing future.

The FOSS world has replicated most of it in Lazarus. Delphi is still very much with us, but the FOSS world also has its own, largely compatible, GUI-based Object Pascal environment – and it's worth a look.

Pi-hole 6 network-wide ad blocker is a major release that brings an embedded web server, REST API, native HTTPS support, overhauled UI, and more.

Merged today for the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library was yet another AVX-512 optimized code path... Compared to the pure C code, the AVX2 code path was 10.98x faster while this new AVX-512 code path clocks in at 18x the performance of the common C code.

In the Firefox AI Runtime, we can use multiple threads in the dedicated inference process to speed up execution times CPU. The WASM/JS environment can create a SharedArrayBuffer and run multiple threads against its content and distribute the load on several CPU cores concurrently.

A nice surprise for some classic Valve games today with multiple titles like Counter-Strike: Source and Day of Defeat: Source getting major updates. Not many developers continue supporting their games this long after release! Although, Valve do have a lot of resources to do such a thing thanks to how popular Steam is.

Console screencast software (also known as terminal recorder) lets you capture your terminal. Here’s our verdict.