Open Home Foundation Marks Second Year with Structural Changes and Home Assistant 2025.4 Update Open Home Foundation Marks Second Year with Structural Changes and Home Assistant 2025.4 Update

April 2025 marked the start of the Open Home Foundation’s second year. Since its launch at the State of the Open Home 2024 event, the Foundation has grown rapidly, gaining broad community and industry support.

FFmpeg Integrates Video Encoder For Advanced Professional Video (APV)

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LILYGO T-Echo Lite Offers Integrated LoRa, GNSS, and E-Paper Display in Compact Form LILYGO T-Echo Lite Offers Integrated LoRa, GNSS, and E-Paper Display in Compact Form

The LILYGO T-Echo Lite is a compact wireless development board designed for embedded applications that require long-range communication, positioning, and low-power display capabilities.

21-Way Intel Core / AMD Ryzen Linux Laptop Comparison On Ubuntu 25.04 Review

As part of fresh re-testing of existing laptops on-hand given the recent release of Ubuntu 25.04 and then also recent Linux reviews of some interesting models like the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Strix Point and the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 …

Building your own Atomic (bootc) Desktop - Fedora Magazine

Bootc and associated tools provide the basis for building a personalised desktop. This article will describe the process to build your own custom installation.

New Patches Aim To Modernize The Default Linux x86 Kernel Configuration

Longtime Linux kernel developer Ingo Molnar sent out a patch series this morning to enable additional kernel features by default for the Linux default configuration 'defconfig' on x86-based kernels

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 18 (Apr 28 – May 4, 2025)

Catch up on the latest Linux news: openSUSE Leap 16 Beta, Tails 6.15, Firefox 138, Thunderbird 138, Wine 10.7, KDE drops LTS label, Open Source Lab needs your help, and more.

Vulkan API 1.4.314 Brings One New Extension In Working Toward Vulkan Roadmap 2026

Sensor Monitoring For The ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA Coming For Linux 6.16

For those that happen to have the ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA or are shopping for a higher-end Intel Alder Lake / Raptor Lake desktop motherboard for Linux use, the ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA is the latest motherboard seeing hardware sensor monitorin…

IO_uring Zero Copy Receive Seeing DMA-BUF Support Slated For Linux 6.16

Merged for Linux 6.15 was IO_uring network zero-copy receive 'io_uring zcrx' while now on track for landing in Linux 6.16 is extending it to support passing DMA-BUF buffers.

ARM64 Expected To Support Lazy Preemption "PREEMPT_LAZY" With Linux 6.16

Introduced last year for Linux 6.13 was lazy preemption 'PREEMPT_LAZY' for a preemption model that is similar to full preemption but less eager to preempt normal scheduler tasks to provide some of the performance benefits found with voluntary preempt…

FFmpeg Integrates Video Encoder For Advanced Professional Video (APV)

One week ago FFmpeg merged decode support for Samsung's Advanced Professional Video 'APV' codec

Luckfox Core1106 Smart 86 Box with Touchscreen, RS485 Interface, and Optional Wireless Connectivity Luckfox Core1106 Smart 86 Box with Touchscreen, RS485 Interface, and Optional Wireless Connectivity

The Luckfox Core1106 Smart 86 Box is a development board designed for integration into standard 86-type wall enclosures.

Passbolt: Learn How To Install It Yourself On Ubuntu 24.04 | LinuxHostSupport

Learn how to install Passbolt on Ubuntu 24.04 using our latest step-by-step guide. If it's still to hard, let us do it for you.

SUSE the Company Now Uses LLM Slop to 'Write' Its Blog, What Does That Tell Us About SUSE?

There are many giveaways

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 4th, 2025 - 9to5Linux

The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for May 4th, 2025, brings news about Firefox 138, qBittorrent 5.1, 4MLinux 48, openSUSE Leap 16 beta, and more.

EXT2 DAX Being Deprecated & For Removal At Year's End

The EXT2 file-system's direct access 'DAX' mode is being deprecated and expected for removal at the end of 2025, after this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version.

402 Error: Payment Required - What is it and how to fix it? - RoseHosting

What is the 402 Error Payment Required and how can you fix it? Learn everything you need in our latest post or let us fix it for you.

Andes Voyager RISC-V Micro-ATX Board Seeing Patches For Mainline Linux Support

As another alternative to the likes of the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V developer board, the Andes Voyager is in the process of seeing patches reviewed for mainline Linux kernel support.

Install Bitwarden on Ubuntu 24.04: How To Guide | LinuxCloudVPS Blog

Learn how to install Bitwarden on Ubuntu 24.04 in our latest easy-to-follow guide. You can install Bitwarden on the same VPS as your website.

Iconic Open Source Hub Appeals for Lifesaving Donations

Oregon State University's Open Source Lab may shut down without $250K in funding. Projects like Gentoo, Debian, Fedora, and many more rely on it.

Linux 6.15-rc5 Released: "Most Of It Looks Very Nice & Small"

Should You Trust Redis's Rebaptism Into the Holy Open Source Spirit? - FOSS Force

Take the included poll after you read this delve into Redis and the wishy-washy world that has become the it's relationship with open-source.

Linux Kernel to Drop Support for Legacy i486 and Early 586 CPUs

Linux kernel developers target outdated CPU support, with major code cleanup and a push for streamlined x86 architecture support.

Sensor Monitoring For The ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA Coming For Linux 6.16

For those that happen to have the ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA or are shopping for a higher-end Intel Alder Lake / Raptor Lake desktop motherboard for Linux use, the ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA is the latest motherboard seeing hardware sensor monitorin…

Cheap Linux VPS Hosting Is a Trap: What You Need to Look For

Cheap Linux VPS hosting is a trap you need to be cautious about. Find out all the important industry secrets and what to look out for.

EXT2 DAX Being Deprecated & For Removal At Year's End

The EXT2 file-system's direct access 'DAX' mode is being deprecated and expected for removal at the end of 2025, after this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version.

Bcachefs Patches Aim For Faster Snapshot Deletion But With Another On-Disk Format Update

Andes Voyager RISC-V Micro-ATX Board Seeing Patches For Mainline Linux Support

Rust Use Within The QEMU Emulator Shaping Up Well

The QEMU processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack has been seeing experimental support for the Rust programming language developing within its codebase

GNOME's Blueprint Markup Language Making Progress For GTK4 UIs

Blueprint is a currently-experimental markup language and compiler for crafting GTK4 user interfaces

Wine 10.7 Released with Improved Write Watch Performance

Wine 10.7 is out now, featuring user fault fd support, float format conversion updates, PDB backend work, and 14 bug fixes.

Rust Use Within The QEMU Emulator Shaping Up Well

Why Flatpak Apps Use So Much Disk Space On Linux

This tutorial explains why Flatpak apps use so much disk space and are larger in size compared to traditional packages in Linux.

FreeBSD 14.3 Beta Released Ahead Of FreeBSD 15.0 Later This Year

The first beta release of FreeBSD 14.3 was released on Friday night for testing

Redis 8.0 Released: Now Tri-Licensed With AGPLv3

Last year Redis made the much criticized move to Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1 (SSPL) licensing

Labwc 0.8.4 Ships More Usability Improvements For This Wayland Compositor

FOSS Force Mostly Open Tech News Quiz - May 2, 2025 - FOSS Force

Did you have time to keep up with the news this week? Here's your chance to brag… or not. This week there are 10 questions. Good luck!

Oh No, My PC Monitor Goes Blank When Fullscreen On Endeavor OS Linux KDE Plasma!

  When I first ran Endeavor OS on a new PC device. I tried to watch a video, and when in fullscreen mode, suddenly the monitor screen went b...

GNOME's Blueprint Markup Language Making Progress For GTK4 UIs