Apple SMC Driver Merged For Linux 6.17 To Be Able To Reboot Macs
The Apple System Management Controller (SMC) driver was successfully merged this week into Linux 6.17 for being able to reboot modern Apple M1 / M2 Macs under Linux (the Apple M3 / M4 Linux support remains in development). It's the latest improvement f...
Linux Begins Preparing For The Lenovo Legion Go 2 Handheld
In recent days there have been an increasing flow of leaks surrounding the Legion Go 2 as the next-generation handheld from Lenovo. The Lenovo Legion Go 2 is reported to be launching later this year with an AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme SoC, 144Hz OLED display,...
Vivo’s BlueOS: written in Rust, similar to HarmonyOS?
BlueOS kernel is written in Rust, featuring security, lightweight, and generality. It is compatible with POSIX interfaces and supports Rust’s standard library. ↫ BlueOS kernel GitHub page This is the kernel for the BlueOS operating system, develope...
Ubuntu 25.10 Offers Improved Disk Encryption Using TPM
Ubuntu 25.10 improves experimental TPM-backed full-disk encryption, which ties security to hardware integrity. New options and checks will be in place. You're reading Ubuntu 25.10 Offers Improved Disk Encryption Using TPM, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu....
Why are you (still) using OpenBSD?
Last week-end, I was invited to the UNIX Social Camp in Dijon, France to talk about the reasons I still use OpenBSD these days and why should others do so; or at least, have a look at OpenBSD. ↫ Joel Carnat Here’s my short pitch as to why you ...
State of the Thunder: Answering Community Questions!
For the past few months, we’ve been talking about our roadmaps and development and answering community questions in a video and podcast series we call “State of the Thunder.” We’ve decided, after your feedback, to also cover them in a blog, for...
New Debian Developers and Maintainers (May and June 2025)
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Cordell Bloor (cgmb) Enkelena Haxhija (enkelenah) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Karsten Schöke Lorenzo Puliti ...
How to enable Real-time Ubuntu on your machine
If you’re here, you likely already know about preemption, determinism, and real-time capable operating systems. If that’s the case, and you want to learn how to get up and running with Real-time Ubuntu, skip ahead now to find out how to enable the ...
Google’s new toolset to help connect AI agents to BigQuery
Google has come out with a new toolset that will allow enterprises to connect their AI agents to data stored inside BigQuery in the wake of rising demand for agentic applications. Agentic applications, which can perform tasks without manual interventi...
