Operating Systems

While not expected to reach general availability (GA) state until October of 2025, available today in pre-alpha form is the openSUSE Leap 16.0 distribution...

RPM 4.20 is out today as the newest feature release to this package manager system that's been in development the past year and featuring a variety of improvements for the likes of RHEL and Fedora based distributions...

The continues to make headlines, with Apple firmly having the best performance and longest battery life smartphone this year. In PhoneBuff’s test, the 16 Pro Max went head-to-head with the Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra in a test involving a variety of app...

For those on Debian experimental or planning on upgrading to Ubuntu 24.10 that is releasing this week, the Ptyxis terminal emulator is now available in the package archive if wanting to try out this speedy terminal option...

Yesterday when announcing the Linux 6.12-rc2 kernel, Linus Torvalds asked that the kernel maintainers do a better job moving forward with their commit messages...

The NVGRACE-GPU VFIO driver was introduced for handling Virtual Function I/O support with the NVIDIA Grace Hopper Superchip so that the GPU device could be assigned to guests using KVM/QEMU and similar for virtualization. The NVGRACE-GPU driver is now ...

Following work last month for extending the Dell WMI sysman Linux driver to handle Alienware systems for managing the system BIOS within the confines of Linux, another separate improvement is on the way for enhancing Alienware hardware support under Li...

Google may be working on a new feature that will highlight apps compatible with big-screen devices such as tablets and cars. Read more...

Ahead of its official debut, a leaked video of the alleged M4 MacBook Pro has emerged revealing key specs of the device. Read more...

It's been announced that all future Halo games are being built on Unreal Engine 5, and I think that might be exactly what the series needs. Here's why.

Microsoft has announced that its in-house Halo game developer 343 Industries has a new name, Halo Studios. it is working on new Halo games with Unreal Engine 5 as its basis. Read more...

Dear Debian community, this are my bits from DPL for September. New lintian maintainer I'm pleased to welcome Louis-Philippe Véronneau as a new Lintian maintainer. He humorously acknowledged his new role, stating, "Apparently I'm a Lintian maintainer ...

Halo developer 343 Industries is rebranding to Halo Studios, with the team shifting to Unreal Engine 5 for future projects.

Halo developer 343 Industries is rebranding to Halo Studios, with the team shifting to Unreal Engine 5 for future projects.

Ardour is one of the most popular and powerful open-source digital audio workstations (DAW) around, and a major new update was recently made available. Now, I won’t profess to be some kind of music-making maestro, though I did spend a lot my late tee...

Apple is expected to debut new M4 Macs later this month, with an expected launch on November 1. A new unboxing video on YouTube, however, claims to offer our first look the 14-inch MacBook Pro powered by the M4 chip. There are a few interesting things ...

343 Industries will add a way to play part of Halo: Infinite in a third-person viewpoint sometime in November. Read more...

Oxide Games has released the latest patch for the recently released grand strategy game Ara: History Untold with a number of game balance changes and more. Read more...

The free Microsoft Teams for Personal will roll out a new look for the desktop and web versions soon along with Community Owner Badges. Read more...

This week, the Microsoft 365 Roadmap shows that Teams will add some chat improvements for its Town Hall feature and more. Read more...