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PineNote (a Linux-Powered e-Ink Tablet) is Coming Back
Pine64 has confirmed that its open-source e-ink tablet is returning. The PineNote was announced in 2021, building on the success of its non-SBC devices like the PinePhone (and later Pro model), the PineTab, and PineBook devices. Like most of Pine64’s...
2024-10-02 23:45
Pine64’s Linux-Powered E-Ink Tablet is Making a Return
Pine64 has confirmed that its open-source e-ink tablet is returning. The PineNote was announced in 2021, building on the success of its non-SBC devices like the PinePhone (and later Pro model), the PineTab, and PineBook devices. Like most of Pine64’s...
2024-10-02 23:45
Ubuntu powers Azure’s confidential AI offering
Microsoft Azure’s confidential virtual machines, powered by Ubuntu and featuring NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPUs, offer enhanced security for AI workloads. Discover how this technology addresses data privacy concerns in sectors like healthcare, finance,...
2024-10-02 22:04
Steam Remote Play Adds AV1 Video Streaming Support Plus More Linux Fixes
Steam's Remote Play feature that allows playing Steam games on phones / tablets / TVs / other PCs while streamed from your main gaming system now is able to handle AV1 video streaming...
2024-10-02 20:18
Launching Your Ubuntu Confidential VM with Intel® TDX on Google Cloud: A Guide to Enhanced Security
In the world of cloud computing, we rely on abstraction layers to manage complex systems. While this simplifies development, it also creates vulnerabilities for sensitive data. Traditionally, privileged software within the cloud has access to your data...
2024-10-02 19:50
Linux 6.12 Drops New Driver That Ended Up Breaking Laptop Touchpad Support For Many Users
If you have been trying out Linux 6.12-rc1 or a recent Linux Git snapshot and discovered your laptop's touchpad is no longer working, you are far from alone. The good news is the issue has been quickly tracked down and has led to a new input driver bei...
2024-10-02 16:32
Some Intel Linux Driver Maintainers Have Left The Company
With the recent Intel layoffs and early retirement / buyout packages, I have been curious to see what impact it will have on the open-source/Linux software engineers at the company. There's at least a few driver maintainers that have unfortunately depa...
2024-10-02 14:23
Schedule for openSUSE.Asia Summit is Published
The schedule for this year’s openSUSE.Asia Summit is out and features a diverse lineup of talks highlighting advancements in open-source and with the project. This year’s event takes place in Tokyo, Japan, and is a two-day event running from Nov. 2...
2024-10-02 13:00
Redox OS Making Progress On RISC-V Support, Eyes QEMU & Neovim Ports
The Redox OS open-source Rust-written operating system project has published their September 2024 status update...
2024-10-02 12:54
Intel Xeon 6980P SNC3 vs. HEX Clustering Mode Performance
With the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors that launched last week there are SNC3 and HEX clustering modes for these new processors. The default Sub-NUMA Clustering 3 (SNC3) mode for the three compute dies while the HEX mode is like SNC1 mod...
2024-10-02 11:10
Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Release In December
A roadmap/schedule has been published for the lightweight Xfce 4.20 desktop. If all goes well this next iteration of the Xfce desktop will be out before Christmas...
2024-10-02 10:49
Canonical joins OPEA to enable Enterprise AI
Canonical is committed to enabling organizations to secure and scale their AI/ML projects in production. This is why we are pleased to announce that we have joined the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA), a project community at the Linux Foundation ...
2024-10-02 08:36
Fedora Linux Flatpak cool apps to try for October
This article introduces projects available in Flathub with installation instructions. Flathub is the place to get and distribute apps for all of Linux. It is powered by Flatpak, allowing Flathub apps to run on almost any Linux distribution. Please rea...
2024-10-02 08:00
Notcurses Is Still Alive For Ramping Up "Terminal Bling" With Complex TUIs
For those wanting to build really nifty and complex text user interfaces (TUIs) for terminal applications, Notcurses is one of the options for maximizing the "terminal bling" with some rather vibrant features that goes well beyond what's offered with t...
2024-10-02 06:47
Golang Now Enables Speedier getrandom() On Linux
The Linux 6.11 kernel introduced getrandom() in the vDSO for faster yet secure user-space random number generation needs. In addition to patches pending for Glibc to make use of getrandom() vDSO support, Golang is now another early user of this functio...
2024-10-02 06:34
OpenVPN Kernel Driver Patches Updated For Improving VPN Performance
For those making use of OpenVPN for your virtual private network (VPN) needs, years in the making has been an "OVPN" Linux kernel driver to enhance the performance by offloading more of the work to kernel-space...
2024-10-02 06:19
Manjaro 24.1 Released With GNOME 46, KDE Plasma 6.1 & Xfce 4.18 Desktop Options
Manjaro 24.1 "Xahea" debuted on Tuesday as the newest update to this Arch Linux based distribution. Manjaro 24.1 is the first new tagged release since May and with it comes updated desktop options, the Linux 6.10 kernel, and other package upgrades...
2024-10-02 05:53
Audacious 4.4.1 Released with Assorted Minor Improvements
A chorus of improvements are on offer in the newest update to the popular open source, cross-platform Audacious music player. Audacious 4.4.1 builds on the changes introduced in Audacious 4.4 (a release that brought GTK3 and Qt6 UI choices, the return ...
2024-10-02 01:34
Steam On Linux Percentage Receded A Bit Further In September
Back in May Steam on Linux usage crossed the 2% threshold and remained that way until August when it dropped back below 2% for all Steam gamers. The September 2024 Steam Survey results were just published and point to another downward bump for Steam on...
2024-10-01 20:21
Firefox 132 Enters Beta with Support for Blocking Third-Party Cookie Access
Firefox 132 web browser is now available for public beta testing with support for blocking third-party cookie access and HTTP-favicons, WebRender hardware accelerated rendering for most SVG Filter Primitives, and other changes. Here's what to expect! T...
2024-10-01 14:34