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The team behind EmuDeck, a project that started off to provide easy emulation on Steam Deck / SteamOS have announced their own hardware with the Bazzite Linux powered EmuDeck Machines. They're basically Steam Machines tailored more towards retro enthusiasts.

Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS is now officially available, featuring updated software packages and a supported smooth upgrade path from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS.

A new version of the Vivaldi web browser is out with an assortment of amiable improvements. Vivaldi 6.9 intros support for renaming tabs and tab stacks, supports drag-and-drop downloads, and offers an improved overview of tabs synced across devices.

Discover multiple solutions to fix the unexpected error message on the Gnome Extensions site while installing a new extension.

rEFInd is a modern and highly customizable boot manager for UEFI and EFI-based machines that can be easily installed on any new Linux system.

Earlier this week I began with AmpereOne A192-32X benchmarks and will continue for the next several weeks in finally having hands-on with the 192-core AArch64 server processor using a Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD 2U server platform.

Switching from Windows to Linux can be intimidating, but Zorin OS is designed to make it easy. It offers a familiar, Windows-like experience while letting you explore the world of Linux without feeling lost.

Wedson Almeida Filho, a maintainer of the Rust for Linux project, recently announced his resignation, citing "nontechnical nonsense" as the reason for his departure.

Wireshark 4.4 network protocol analyzer is out now with improved graphing tools, profile auto-switching, and exclusive support for Lua 5.4.

Alexander Naumov announced today the release and general availability of GNU Screen 5.0 as the latest stable version of this popular open-source full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes.

Although Elastic plans to make Elasticsearch and Kabana open source again in the “upcoming weeks,” nothing is said about X-Pack, which will evidently continue to be only available under “fauxpen” licensing.

Trese Brothers have kept up their ridiculous rate of updating Cyber Knights: Flashpoint during Early Access, steadily turning it into of of the best squad tactics RPGs. It has Native Linux support and is rated Steam Deck Playable. Well worth a look.

Dissent (previously known as gtkcord4) is a third-party Discord client which bills itself as a “smooth, native experience on Linux desktops”.

System-on-Module (SoM) has proven to be useful in a wide variety of use cases, be it edge computing, cloud servers, or IoT devices. These have also managed to get into the rapidly evolving field of Artificial Intelligence (AI), providing portable firepower to run AI models, and other related tasks.

It's happening! The upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel cycle will be enabling the Xe2 graphics in Lunar Lake and Battlemage out-of-the-box / by-default. The Xe2 support within the open-source "Xe" kernel graphics driver appears to be stable enough now for enabling the support by default for Lunar Lake and Battlemage hardware with the next kernel version. The patches have been submitted.

An article in which our reporter tries to get Leo, Brave's chatbot, to spill the beans on what's really happening at Brave Software.

Toradex has announced the launch of the Verdin Evaluation Kit and has released detailed specifications for the upcoming Aquila iMX95 System on Module. Both products are built around the powerful NXP i.MX 95 SoC, showcasing enhanced processing capabilities and advanced features tailored for sophisticated embedded computing applications.

Here are the simple steps to enable Flatpak support in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to expand your app options.

Learn how to install and configure Fail2Ban to prevent brute force attacks on the Ubuntu system with practical examples.

Copr, which stands for Cool Other Package Repo, is a build system and third-party package repository designed for Fedora and RPM-based distributions.