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While I believe that SteamOS will one day evolve into a worthy Windows alternative for PC gamers, I don't think that day will come anytime soon. Despite loving SteamOS, its potential, and what it represents, here's why I won't install SteamOS on my gaming PC any time soon.

El Reg shows you how to run Zypher's speech-replicating AI on your own box. Hands on Palo Alto-based AI startup Zyphra unveiled a pair of open text-to-speech (TTS) models this week said to be capable of cloning your voice with as little as five seconds of sample audio. In our testing, we generated realistic results with less than half a minute of recorded speech.

Radxa has introduced a Mini-ITX single-board computer designed for both consumer and industrial applications. Built around the Rockchip RK3588(J) processor, this SBC provides a broad set of interfaces, high-speed connectivity, and advanced multimedia capabilities.

The still-in-development Chimera Linux released updated ISO images with new apk-tools, kernel 6.13, Plasma 6.3, GNOME 47, and more.

While it's an old language, in recent months there's been a renewed effort over a COBOL language front-end for the GCC compiler. There's been out-of-tree COBOL support for GCC that is working to get into the mainline GNU Compiler Collection codebase. This weekend saw the latest iteration of those patches amounting to 134k lines of new code.

The GNOME Project announced today the official availability of GNOME 47.4, the fourth maintenance update to the latest GNOME 47 “Denver” desktop environment series with more bug fixes and improvements.

The Oreon Project is a Linux distribution based on AlmaLinux that makes SELinux even easier to use.

Since I started using Linux over a decade ago, I’ve been a Mint fan. Over the years I’ve tried using other distros—and tried some really weird stuff, often in service of How-to Geek—but Linux Mint has always remained my daily driver and I’ve never seriously considered getting rid of it. Here’s why I like it.

M5Stack recently launched the ASR Unit, which is an offline voice recognition module incorporating the CI-03T AI offline voice module. It is designed for applications that require speech recognition, voiceprint detection, and voice enhancement without relying on cloud-based processing.

When it comes to web development, there are a wide range of PHP frameworks to choose. The choice depends on finding the right tool for the job at hand. Here’s our pick of the finest PHP web frameworks.

Amarok 3.2.2 open-source music player lands with bug fixes and non-UNIX support, marking the final Qt5/KF5 release before the Qt6 transition.

Stemming from the ongoing discussion around the issues raised with Fedora's Flatpak package of OBS Studio and how Flatpaks should be prioritized within the GNOME Software app center/store, the future of RPM support within GNOME Software raised.

Like past few releases, gThumb 3.12.7 includes only minor new features, bug-fixes, and translation updates. For WebP image format, the release can now save the EXIF data, meaning the metadata about camera settings, date and time, and location etc information.

Overworked, under pressure, and subjected to abuse – is it really worth it? State Of Open Recent events have brought the plight of open source maintainers front and center, but the problems were brewing for many years.

Another day, another Linux-related drama. This time, it's OBS Studio and Fedora going at it.

openSUSE Linux announced earlier this week that they are adopting SELinux as the default mandatory access control (MAC) system for new openSUSE Tumbleweed installations.

Arch Linux might be the most misunderstood of all the Linux distributions. It’s supposed to be difficult to install and maintain, so why do people use it? What makes Arch so different?

Karol Herbst has been a Nouveau driver developer for over a decade working on this open-source, reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. He went on to become employed by Red Hat. While he's known more these days for his work on Mesa and the Rusticl OpenCL driver for it, he's still remained a maintainer of the Nouveau kernel driver.

OpenMV has introduced the Prophesee GenX320 camera module, bringing event-based vision sensing to its embedded platform. Unlike traditional image sensors that capture entire frames at fixed intervals, the GenX320 detects only changes in a scene, reducing data rates while improving efficiency in motion detection.

The hurdles are higher than you might imagine. Getting involved with open source projects is a great way to build experience in development, documentation, internationalization, and more – but it's not as easy as it should be.