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GPD MicroPC 2: Souped-Up Successor to Original Pocket PC
Everything receives a sequel eventually, and so it is so for the GPD MicroPC. A souped-up, second-gen successor to the small, serial-port-packing original goes on sale this summer. It boasts a bigger, brighter screen that rotates, a beefier Intel-based...
2025-07-04 15:26
Bcachefs Fixes Merged For Linux 6.16-rc5
A handful of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted yesterday to Linus Torvalds for merging ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc5 release due out on Sunday. Today they were merged...
2025-07-04 14:07
Travel Support Available for openSUSE.Asia Summit
The openSUSE.Asia Summit 2025 will take place from August 29 to 31 at MRIIRS in Faridabad, India, and we’re excited to welcome community members from across Asia and around the globe. To make the summit more accessible, the Travel Support Program (TS...
2025-07-04 13:00
Rust-Written Redox OS Continues Making Progress With Wayland
The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system project just published their June 2025 status report to outline recent progress on this innovative platform...
2025-07-04 11:00
Acer Nitro Gaming Controller"NGR200" To Be Supported By Linux 6.16
Sent in today for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle as part of the input subsystem fixes is enabling support for the Acer Nitro Gaming Controller (NGR200)...
2025-07-04 09:18
🧱 Building better initramfs: A deep dive into dracut on Fedora & RHEL
Learn how to harness the full power of dracut, the modern tool behind Fedora and RHEL's boot process. This hands-on guide explores real-world scenarios, custom module configurations, and performance tuning tips for building better initramfs images.
2025-07-04 08:00
Intel Enables Wildcat Lake Display & Experimental Flip Queue For Linux 6.17 Graphics
Intel today sent out a batch of new kernel graphics/display driver code for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening in a few weeks. There is now DRM Panic support for the Intel i915 and Xe kernel drivers, Wildcat Lake "WCL" display enablem...
2025-07-04 07:00
Debian Looks To Attract More Contributors, Eyes Budget For AI/LLM Usage By Debian Developers
The Debian project is hoping to address challenges of mentoring newcomers to contribute to the Debian Linux distribution as well as making it more known that open-source contributors can do more than just work on Debian packaging but that help is neede...
2025-07-04 06:30
Redis 8.2 Preparing More Performance Optimizations, SVS-VAMANA
The first release candidate of Redis 8.2 is now available for testing of this popular in-memory key-value database. Redis 8.2 is building off the recent Redis 8.0 release that ended up going tri-licensing with the AGPLv3 stemming from developer/communi...
2025-07-04 06:19
Bash 5.3 Released With Many Improvements
Three years since the Bash 5.2 release and one year since the first alpha release, GNU Bash 5.3 was released overnight as the newest step forward for this popular shell used on Linux and other operating systems...
2025-07-04 06:09
Open Source at the Crossroads of AI Opportunity and Cybersecurity Necessity
Each year, Open Source Summit North America, hosted by the Linux Foundation, brings together people from around the world to learn, connect, and collaborate. As a Research Mentee, I had the amazing opportunity to attend this conference and see firstha...
2025-07-04 01:21
GIMP 3.2 Adds New Painting Mode, Photoshop Patterns + More
GIMP 3.2 will include a new Overwrite painting mode, support for Photoshop pattern files, and expanded file format support. You're reading GIMP 3.2 Adds New Painting Mode, Photoshop Patterns + More, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewh...
2025-07-03 22:59
GIMP Dev Release Adds New Painting Mode & Text Outline Settings
GIMP 3.2 will include a new Overwrite painting mode, support for Photoshop pattern files, and expanded file format support. You're reading GIMP Dev Release Adds New Painting Mode & Text Outline Settings, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce e...
2025-07-03 22:59
GIMP 3.2 Dev Release Adds New Paint Mode + More
GIMP 3.2 will include a new Overwrite painting mode, support for Photoshop pattern files, and expanded file format support. You're reading GIMP 3.2 Dev Release Adds New Paint Mode + More, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without...
2025-07-03 22:59
Perl 5.42 Released With New Operators, Unicode 16 Support, Security Fixes
Perl 5.42 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language that comes one year after the prior Perl 5.40 release...
2025-07-03 19:55
Fedora Linux Looks To End Support For UEFI On MBR-Paritioned Disks
A proposal raised for Fedora 43 would end support for allowing UEFI installations on MBR-partitioned disks for x86_64 systems in the Anaconda installer. This would enforce a requirement on using GPT partition tables for all UEFI-based Fedora installati...
2025-07-03 16:06
Debian 13 Installer Now Supports Rescuing of Btrfs Systems Installed via Calamares
Debian 13 "Trixie" installer gets a second Release Candidate with support for rescuing Btrfs systems installed via the Calamares installer, as well as other enhancements. The post Debian 13 Installer Now Supports Rescuing of Btrfs Systems Installed vi...
2025-07-03 15:09
KDE Gear 25.04.3 Released as the Last Update in the KDE Gear 25.04 Series
KDE Gear 25.04.3 is now available as the third and last maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 25.04 open-source software suite series with fixes for various KDE applications. The post KDE Gear 25.04.3 Released as the Last Update in the KDE Gear 25...
2025-07-03 14:28
Vivaldi 7.5 Browser Adds Tab Stack Colours, New DNS Settings
Colourful tab stacks and concise tab context menu are the headline changes on offer the latest update to the Vivaldi web browser. You're reading Vivaldi 7.5 Browser Adds Tab Stack Colours, New DNS Settings, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduc...
2025-07-03 14:24
Libreboot 25.06 Open-Source BIOS/UEFI Firmware Adds More Hardware Support
Libreboot 25.06 open-source BIOS/UEFI firmware is now available for download with support for new hardware, as well as other improvements. Here's what's new! The post Libreboot 25.06 Open-Source BIOS/UEFI Firmware Adds More Hardware Support appeared f...
2025-07-03 13:51