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Announced one year ago was KDE Internet of Things "Kiot" with an emphasis on providing nice integration between the KDE Plasma desktop and Home Assistant for handling open-source home automation. Development on Kiot sadly fell through the cracks for most of the year but development on it recently restarted...

Linux Desktop is Fragmented (And That's NOT a Bad Thing)  It's FOSS

FOSS Weekly #25.51: Pop OS 24.04 Release, Fresh Editor, eBPF Tools, Cinnamon 6.6, NTFSPlus and More Linux Stuff  It's FOSS

Kubuntu vs. Fedora: Which Linux distro is right for your KDE Plasma desktop?  ZDNET

Intel's Video Processing Library "libvpl" is out with a new version ahead of the holidays. The only major change with libvpl 2.16 is adding experimental APIs for AI-assisted video encode functionality...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 (RHEL) features some significant updates to RPM and DNF, two technologies designed to help you manage software installs and updates. The RPM package manager (RPM) creates installation files used to install and uninstall an application, and that can be queried for information about what libraries and binaries the application contains. The dnf command is the tool used on RHEL to search for available applications, and then to install, update, or uninstall them. These are important components of a computer system, so we've worked hard to improve them.RPM signature imp

Imagine that after 60 hours of training, a large language model (LLM) on an 8x NVIDIA H100 GPU cluster costing $55 an hour, your job fails at 90% completion. You must restart from your last checkpoint, which was saved 3 hours ago, wasting $165 in compute costs, and delaying model deployment. This kind of scenario isn't hypothetical, it's a daily reality for organizations running distributed AI training workloads in production environments. LLM training represents one of the most compute-intensive workloads in modern AI infrastructure. With GPU clusters costing thousands of dollars and training

The final quarter of the year is marked by accelerated innovation. Red Hat is leading the way by integrating AI into management, fortifying our security foundations, and readying your infrastructure for both present and future demands like quantum computing and highly scaled virtualization. This month brought significant platform updates across Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat OpenShift, along with key insights from our performance engineering teams. The following articles provide the essential technical and strategic information you need to make the most of your hybrid cloud journe

A lot of teams we work with are juggling 2 worlds at once: the Red Hat OpenShift projects that keep accelerating, and the previous hypervisor platforms or physical infrastructure that need to be kept to run the traffic management and security policies of the BIG-IP appliances.This gets the job done, but nobody enjoys maintaining 2 sets of infrastructure with 2 different lifecycles. It’s a tax we all pay because there hasn’t been a clean alternative.Now there is.F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) is officially validated by F5 to support Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and listed in the Red Hat

Meet Armbian Imager, the Official Flashing Utility for Armbian Linux, Beta Out Now  9to5Linux

Systemd 259 is out as the newest feature release for this widely-used Linux init system and service manager. Yes, there are more features in tow for this systemd release to top off 2025...

Systemd 259 Released With Experimental Musl libc Support, More Features  Phoronix

Flatpak 1.16.2 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Enables VA-API for Intel Xe GPUs  9to5Linux

A new set of patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list begin adapting the Linux software RAID code paths to begin making use of the folio data structure...

Linux Patches Begin Adapting RAID Code To Use Folios  Phoronix

Intel XPU Manager 1.3.5 released today as the newest version of this open-source software for monitoring and managing Intel GPU hardware with a focus on their data center products. Notable with this revision is adding BMG-G31 GPU support...

Intel XPU Manager Updated With BMG-G31 GPU Support  Phoronix

5 features that make Linux more productive than Windows or Mac  How-To Geek

Gnome Linux desktop bans vibe-coded extensions over AI slop code  Notebookcheck

Official Proton VPN app lands on even more Linux devices  TechRadar