Laptop Power Management Issues Still Bug Linux

Sometimes Linux drains battery life for no good reason, which shouldn’t be confused with “The Linux way.”
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Ayaneo Retro PC: Inspired by Mac, Runs Windows, Supports Ubuntu

Outside of single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi, small form-factor desktop PCs aren’t super common — a market gap gaming hardware company Ayaneo hopes to fill. They’ve unveiled the Ayaneo Retro Mini PC AM01, an AMD-powered desktop c…

Add Shortcut Key to Switch Monitor Input Source in Ubuntu 22.04

Have 2 or more PCs connected to a single external monitor? If you run Ubuntu (or other Linux) on one of the PCs, then here’s how to add a keyboard shortcut to switch video source on the monitor. Most external monitors today have more than one video input ports, e.g., HDMI1, HDMI2, DP1, allowing to […]

First Look at Ubuntu 23.10 on Raspberry Pi 5

My Raspberry Pi 5 finally arrived yesterday, so the first thing I did after I set it up was to try various GNU/Linux distributions, ending up with Canonical’s latest Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur) release. Expect this to be a review of both software an…

TUXEDO Pulse 14 Linux Laptop Refreshed with AMD Ryzen 7

If you’re looking to buy a Linux laptop offering a balance of decent performance and fair price, check out the latest offering from European company TUXEDO Computers. They’ve just launched a refresh of the TUXEDO Pulse 14, their ultra-porta…

Amazon Making its Own Linux-Based OS to Replace Android

Amazon is reportedly working on its own Linux-based OS to replace Android on its Fire TVs, smart displays, and other non-tablet devices. —What’s that? This isn’t Ubuntu related? Oh I know that — but I’m excited! Word of Amazon’s…

Peppermint OS Introduces Devuan Build for ARM

Peppermint OS unveils a Devuan-based build for ARM devices, ensuring compatibility and efficiency for a variety of hardware.
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Roundup: SiFive’s Big Layoffs, AlmaLinux Waiting for RHEL, Fedora 39 Delayed Twice, and More…

Also included in this FOSS Week in Review: The Linux Foundation’s upcoming Technical Advisory Board election.
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TUXEDO Linux Gaming Laptops Powered by AMD Ryzen 7000 Series CPUs Are Back

At the request of many users, German-based Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers announced today the return of its TUXEDO Polaris 15 and TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Linux gaming laptops with AMD Ryzen 7000 Series CPUs.
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BenQ’s New Lamp- and Laser-Free Green Projector Cuts Operating Costs

BenQ’s new lampless and filterless projector uses 15% less power than conventional projectors and requires very little maintenance.
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How to Install GreenWithEnvy on Ubuntu (NVIDIA GPU Tool)

Do you use Ubuntu with an NVIDIA graphics card? If so, you may want to install GreenWithEnvy. And in this post I show you how. GreenWithEnvy is a free, open-source utility for Linux designed exclusively for use with with NVIDIA graphics cards. It displ…

Running Ubuntu on Apple Silicon Macs is Possible

Ubuntu Asahi is a community project that brings a full Ubuntu desktop experience to Apple silicon Macs. If you’re familiar with efforts to get Linux running on Apple silicon you’ll have heard of the Asahi Linux project, which is headed by a…

Raspberry Pi 5 Officially Announced – And It’s a Beast!

The wait is over: the Raspberry Pi 5 has been officially unveiled! The new model of this super-successful single-board computer has been a long time cooking. The Raspberry Pi 4 was released (aptly) 4 years ago and has sold over 14 million units to day …

Oracle Cloud Antes Into Generative AI and LLM Game With NVIDIA Chips

Oracle launches something of a bare metal cloud that takes advantage of Nvidia’s H100 Tensor Core GPUs and is intended for running heavy duty generative AI and LLM workloads. A more budget minded offering using Nvidia’s L40S GPU will be available early…

Bruschetta-Board: Multi-Protocol Swiss Army Knife for Hardware Hackers

Bruschetta-Board is a device for all hardware hackers looking for a fairly-priced all-in-one debugger and programmer. Learn more here.
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Purism Announce New 11-Inch Linux Tablet

Purism has announced its first foray into tablet computing with the Librem 11 tablet. The 11-inch slate uses the company’s secure, privacy-focused PureBoot technology as standard, and ships with the their…

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How to Enable VT-x/VT-d/AMD-v Hardware Virtualization Feature from the BIOS/UEFI Firmware of Your Motherboard

Practical guide on you how to enable the VT-x/VT-d/AMD-v hardware virtualization CPU feature from the BIOS/UEFI firmware of the popular desktop motherboards.

Bisecting Fedora kernel

This post shows how to bisect a Fedora kernel to find the source of a regression. I needed that recently and I found no good guide, so I’m at least capturing my notes here, perhaps you find it useful. This approach can be used to identify which exact commit caused a bad kernel behavior on … Continue reading Bisecting Fedora kernel →

Pine64’s RISC-V Tablet Now Has KDE-Powered Desktop Image

When Pine64 launched its RISC-V tablet earlier this year they were clear from the start: software support, particularly usable desktop Linux distros, would be lacking at first. But not for…

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Debian 13 Will Officially Support 64-Bit RISC-V

I totally missed news that Debian has made RISC-V a supported architecture – and somewhat selfishly I’m hoping some of you missed it to so this post isn’t so late…

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