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This guide explores advanced hardening techniques, including MAC frameworks, network security enhancements, proactive vulnerability management, container security, and the use of AI for threat detection.

As a quick follow-up to the article earlier today... The Wayland Color Management and HDR protocol support is now merged to upstream Wayland Protocols!

TRX, the Tomb Raider I & II: Community Edition open source re-implementation project, has continued advancing and a fresh release of both are out now. With the Tomb Raider II side adding Linux support.

The Asahi Linux founder Hector Martin resigns from the Project lead position due to Kernel conflicts, upstreaming and personal issues.

SECO S.p.A. and Raspberry Pi Ltd have introduced the SECO Pi Vision 10.1 CM5, an HMI solution powered by the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, debuting at embedded world 2025 from March 11-13 in Nuremberg. This modular system combines SECO’s hardware and IoT expertise with Raspberry Pi’s technology for industrial automation, smart retail, and transportation.

Assembling a Network-Attached Storage unit can be a fun project, regardless of whether you repurpose old hardware or purchase new components.

At the weekend, a Google engineer proposed raising the default Linux kernel timer frequency from 250 Hz to 1,000 Hz. Linux-centric tech site Phoronix has quickly stepped up and assessed what the change might mean to users with a suite of A/B testing. Spoiler alert: The most notable benefits were seen in AI LLM acceleration.

We're revising our weekly news quiz, which we pretty much abandoned three or four years ago. This inaugural quiz for the reboot is only seven questions, so it's a quick in-and-out, win-or-lose for those who want to play.

If your PC can't upgrade to Windows 11, switching to Linux can extend its life past 2025. WattOS is one of the best options I've tested.

Last week Hector Martin resigned from upstream maintainership of the Apple Silicon code for the Linux kernel. At the time he was still going to contribute to the Asahi Linux project's downstream kernel but in a surprise move today, he has decided to resign as project leader of Asahi Linux.

After 6 months of development, Go language announced new 1.24 release few days ago on Tuesday.

If you were expecting Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS to drop tomorrow, I come bearing some bad news: the release has been delayed by a week.

MINIX has recently launched the NGC-NR660, a compact yet powerful Mini PC featuring an AMD Ryzen 5 6600H processor and AMD Radeon 660M graphics. Designed for multitasking, gaming, and productivity, this system supports triple display output, 8K Ultra HD resolution, and dual 2.5GbE RJ45 ports for high-speed wired connectivity.

Objection from open source community heralded as 'great victory for the ecosystem'. The WordPress Foundation's effort to trademark the terms HOSTED WORDPRESS and MANAGED WORDPRESS has been thwarted, for now, following a petition from a dissenting member of the open source WordPress community.

Since writing my initial thoughts on Garuda Linux, I left and spent years hopping from one Linux distro to another. I've now returned to Garuda Linux, my beloved, as a daily driver and was surprised by a few things I saw.

SELinux replaces AppArmor as the default Mandatory Access Control system in openSUSE Tumbleweed, with enforcing mode enabled on new installations.

SUSE/openSUSE has a long history with the AppArmor Linux security module going back to the Novell days and when AppArmor was originally known as SubDomain. OpenSUSE/SUSE and Ubuntu Linux have been big proponents of AppArmor for Linux security but now moving forward on new installations of openSUSE Tumbleweed it will be defaulting to Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux).

Electronic circuit simulation uses mathematical models to replicate the behavior of an actual electronic device or circuit. We feature the best GUI tools.

Xedge32 brings Lua-based development to the ESP32, allowing direct hardware control without C coding. Streamline your workflow and focus on building embedded applications more efficiently.

Waveshare recently launched the ESP32-S3 IR Thermal Imaging Camera Module which is a wireless infrared thermal imaging device based on the ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 chip. Designed with a compact form factor of 29 × 29mm, this module is intended for applications such as thermal monitoring, security surveillance, and industrial diagnostics.