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Hopefully leading to more timely updates to the Zstd compression code within the Linux kernel is a decision to add on a co-maintainer of the in-kernel Zstandard code.

Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems.

Nearly 30 years after its first release, the open source Java programming language is continuing to improve. Today Java 24 becomes generally available, bringing with it substantial improvements across language features, libraries, security, and runtime performance. The latest release contains exactly 24 Java Enhancement Proposals (JEPs), coincidentally matching the version number, along with approximately 3,500 additional fixes and improvements.

The iMX8MP-SOM-4GB-IND is a system on module developed by Olimex, designed for use in industrial applications, machine learning, and machine vision. It operates within an industrial-grade temperature range of -45 to +85°C, which makes it suitable for environments with extreme conditions.

PeerTube 7.1 open-source decentralized video platform released with improved podcast support, better playback stability, and more.

Today, the Fedora Project announced the beta version of the upcoming Fedora Linux 42 release for public testing to give us a glimpse of the new features and report potential bugs.

Theora is Xiph.Org's first released video codec designed for use with Ogg. Theora started out based on the VP3 codec. It's been over 16 years since the release of the libtheora 1.0 reference software implementation and tagged this week was libtheora 1.2 beta.

Actual Budget is an open-source finance management software focused on privacy and built on top of "Envelope Style Budgeting". In this tutorial, we'll show you how to install the Actual Budgeting System on the Debian 12 server.

Open source AI is accelerating cloud-native innovation, providing scalable infrastructure and model development tools, but enterprises face challenges in governance, cost, and complexity.

SourceHut says it's getting DDoSed by LLM bots. SourceHut, an open source git-hosting service, says web crawlers for AI companies are slowing down services through their excessive demands for data.

This most familiar (and user-friendly) of Linux distros triumphs overall and for Gnome fans in particular.

The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the availability of Fedora Linux 42 Beta! We have lots to share with you about our upcoming release of Fedora Linux 42, and we want to give you a sneak preview of what’s in this release in the beta version that is out now.

It should be noted that the Rust language is being developed by the Mozilla Foundation, which is the same organization that is presently turning Firefox into a spyware monster that sends all data about its users somewhere to train "AI".

Last week AMD began shipping the Ryzen 9 9900X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D Zen 5 3D V-Cache desktop processors. We delivered Ryzen 9 9950X3D benchmarks and review for launch day but AMD sadly didn't seed any review samples of the 12-core Ryzen 9 9900X3D processor. Being curious about its performance for Linux developers, enthusiasts, and technical computing workloads, I bought the $600 USD processor on launch day for delivering some Linux benchmarks.

The development team behind the popular GIMP open-source image editing software published today the final build of the highly anticipated GIMP 3.0 release. Let’s take a look at the new features and improvements!

You probably know SUSE best as a Linux powerhouse. You may well also know that, thanks in no small part to its Rancher acquisition, it’s a major cloud player as well. Recently, however, SUSE has also been pushing its way towards being a capable AI partner for its customers as well. This trend was on full display at SUSECON 25.

Arch-based SystemRescue 12, designed for file recovery, backups, and OS repairs, brings kernel 6.12 LTS, bcachefs support, and more.

The developers of one of the coolest Linux distros just dropped a new version, and it makes the old one look boring.

The Banana Pi team is developing a new router board, the BPI-R4 Lite, which is expected to support Wi-Fi 7 and high-speed networking. The design is based on the MediaTek MT7987A quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 processor and includes multiple connectivity and expansion options.

It's going to be a light week for development of the Mesa graphics drivers, Wayland, various other X.Org related components, and the dozens of other open-source projects that rely on the FreeDesktop.org GitLab for facilitating merge requests, CI testing, and related infrastructure.