Luckfox Nova Features Cortex-A35 and Onboard Audio Peripherals
LuckFox has introduced a compact Linux development board named Luckfox Nova, built around the Rockchip RK3308B. This quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A35 processor runs at 1.3GHz and is designed for audio processing and smart voice applications. This device shares the same form factor as other LuckFox boards, such as the Pico Ultra RV1106 (ARM Cortex-A7) and […] ⌘ Read more
Windows 9x QuickInstall simplifies installing Windows 98
If you’re elbow-deep in ’90s retrocomputing and maintain a fleet of your own personal seemingly identical but definitely completely different Windows 98 machines, Windows 9x QuickInstall is tailor-made just for you. It takes the root file system of an already installed Windows 98 system and packages it, whilst allowing drivers and tools to be slipstreamed at will. For the installer, it uses Linux as a base, paired with … ⌘ Read more
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I’m playing with ratterplatter again: It’s a toy that watches disk I/O and emulates the noise of a real hard disk. (Linux only.) It uses sound samples from one of my older disks.
I tried a different approach at estimating the disk activity and I think I finally got it right (after almost 10 years … 🤦).
Demo, booting a Windows 2000 VM: https://movq.de/v/1400544cc6/2kboot-ratterplatter-2.mp4
(For this purpose alone, I put a couple of mini speakers into my PC case, so that the noise comes from the right place: https://movq.de/v/a3b2dc0932/speakers.jpg)
The results aren’t too bad, but this thing can’t be super accurate due to the huge I/O caches that we have these days. For the video, I dropped the caches before booting Windows, otherwise you would have heard almost nothing.
FWIW, if you don’t know it yet, this is the equivalent for proper keyboard sound: https://github.com/zevv/bucklespring
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Nova Custom: this week’s sponsor
Nova Custom, based in The Netherlands, makes laptops focused on privacy, customisation, and freedom. Nova Custom laptops ship with either Linux, Windows, or no operating system, and they’re uniquely certified for Qubes OS (the V54 model will be certified soon), the ultra-secure and private operating system. On top of that, Nova Custom laptops come with Dasharo coreboot firmware preinstalled, which is completely open source, instead of a proprietary BIOS. Nova Custom c … ⌘ Read more
Zorin OS (Linux) Ditches Firefox for Brave
The fallout from Mozilla’s Terms of Use change continues, as a prominent Linux distribution switches web browsers. ⌘ Read more
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%%title%% Low-Cost Luckfox Pico Pi Boards Offer Linux Development with Ubuntu Support
The Luckfox Pico Pi series consists of four models with a Raspberry Pi SBC form factor, designed for embedded applications. Offering various processing capabilities, connectivity options, and memory configurations, these boards include PoE support and optional 4G connectivity. This SBC accommodates the LuckFox Core1106 module seen earlier this year. The series features the Rock … ⌘ Read more
6.6.85: longterm
Version:6.6.85 (longterm)Released:2025-03-28Source:linux-6.6.85.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.6.85.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.85 ⌘ Read more
6.1.132: longterm
Version:6.1.132 (longterm)Released:2025-03-28Source:linux-6.1.132.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.1.132.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.132 ⌘ Read more
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Easily Create MacOS Virtual Machines with VirtualBuddy
VirtualBuddy offers a simple way to quickly virtualize MacOS (and Linux) on any Apple Silicon Mac, offering an easy method for developers, enthusiasts, and the curious to run multiple instances of MacOS on their Mac. And VirtualBuddy is speedy with great performance, plus it’s free and open source, so you can easily explore the world … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/03/26/easily-create-macos-virtual-machines-with-virt … ⌘ Read more
Easily Create MacOS Virtual Machines with VirtualBuddy
VirtualBuddy offers a simple way to quickly virtualize MacOS (and Linux) on any Apple Silicon Mac, offering an easy method for developers, enthusiasts, and the curious to run multiple instances of MacOS on their Mac. And VirtualBuddy is speedy with great performance, plus it’s free and open source, so you can easily explore the world … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/03/26/easily-create-macos-virtual-machines-with-virt … ⌘ Read more
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Help The Lunduke Journal Fight Against The Tech Goliaths
Mozilla, The Linux Foundation, & other corrupt, Woke “Open Source” organizations have received hundreds of millions in donations. ⌘ Read more
Help The Lunduke Journal fight against the Tech Goliaths
The corrupt Tech Foundations of the world — WikiMedia, The Linux Foundation, Mozilla, and the rest — have received hundreds of Millions of dollars in donations. ⌘ Read more
next-20250325: linux-next
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6.14: mainline
Version:6.14 (mainline)Released:2025-03-24Source:linux-6.14.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.14.tar.signPatch:full ⌘ Read more
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6.12.20: longterm
Version:6.12.20 (longterm)Released:2025-03-22Source:linux-6.12.20.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.12.20.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.20 ⌘ Read more
6.6.84: longterm
Version:6.6.84 (longterm)Released:2025-03-22Source:linux-6.6.84.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.6.84.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.84 ⌘ Read more
Nvidia Linux GPU driver ported to Haiku
Nvidia releasing its Linux graphics driver as open source is already bearing fruit for alternative operating systems. As many people already knows, Nvidia published their kernel driver under MIT license: GitHub – NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules: NVIDIA Linux open GPU kernel module source (I will call it NVRM). This driver is very portable and its platform-independent part can be compiled for Haiku with minor effort (but it need to implement OS-specific … ⌘ Read more
next-20250321: linux-next
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NXP’s FRDM i.MX 91 Board Provides Low-Power Solution for Linux-Based IoT Systems
Following the release of the FRDM i.MX 93 board, NXP has launched the FRDM i.MX 91 development board, a compact platform based on the i.MX 91 applications processor. It is intended for early-stage development and evaluation of industrial and IoT systems that require basic Linux support, integrated connectivity, and hardware-level security. The board features a […] ⌘ Read more
@kat@yarn.girlonthemoon.xyz Using full-blown Cloud services is good for old people like me who don’t want to do on-call duty when a disk fails. 😂 I like sleep! 😂
Jokes aside, I like IaaS as a middle ground. There are IaaS hosters who allow you to spin up VMs as you wish and connect them in a network as you wish. You get direct access to all those Linux boxes and to a layer 2 network, so you can do all the fun networking stuff like BGP, VRRP, IPSec/Wireguard, whatever. And you never have to worry about failing disks, server racks getting full, cable management, all that. 😅
I’m confident that we will always need people who do bare-bones or “low-level” stuff instead of just click some Cloud service. I guess that smaller companies don’t use Cloud services very often (because it’s way too expensive for them).
next-20250320: linux-next
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Spanish Wii Hacker Turned Trans Cartoon VTuber Quits Linux Apple Silicon Development
Last month, the lead developer (a Spanish man) of Asahi Linux quit. ⌘ Read more
@movq@www.uninformativ.de ancient……. i love old linux it’s so janky
next-20250319: linux-next
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After 47 years, OpenVMS gets a package manager
As of the 18th of February, OpenVMS, known for its stability and high-availability, 47 years old and ported to 4 different CPU architecture, has a package manager! This article shows you how to use the package manager and talks about a few of its quirks. It’s an early beta version, and you do notice that when using it. A small list of things I noticed, coming from a Linux (apt/yum/dnf) background: There seems to be no automatic dependency … ⌘ Read more
next-20250318: linux-next
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Goodbye GNU/Linux, Hello Rust/Linux
Ubuntu plans to ditch the battle-tested GNU Coreutils (chmod, Is, kill, & others), in favor of an unfinished Rust-based re-write, in the next few months. ⌘ Read more
next-20250317: linux-next
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Industrial Embedded Computing with FET3506J S SoM and Linux Compatibility
The FET3506J-S System on Module is designed for industrial environments that require stable performance and a range of connectivity options. It supports Linux and various industrial interfaces, making it adaptable to applications in automation, healthcare, power systems, and communication technologies. The FET3506J-S features the Rockchip RK3506J processor with a triple-core Cortex-A7 architecture … ⌘ Read more
6.14-rc7: mainline
Version:6.14-rc7 (mainline)Released:2025-03-16Source:linux-6.14-rc7.tar.gzPatch:full ( incremental) ⌘ Read more
wahhh i wanna work towards my dream of offering pay as you can web hosting (static & dynamic) but i don’t know how!!!!! i keep drifting towards hosting panels but i don’t exactly have fresh linux servers for those nor do i like the level of access they require. so i’m like ok i can do the static site part with SFTP chroot jails and a front-end like filebrowser or something…. but then what about the dynamic sites!!!!!!! UGH
granted i doubt i’d get much interest in dynamic sites but i’d like to do this old school where i can offer people isolated mySQL databases or something for some project (i’m thinking PHP based fanlistings), which means i could do it the old school way of… people ask me to run it and i do it for them. but i kind of want to let people have access to be able to do it themselves just short of giving them SSH access which isn’t happening
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6.12.19: longterm
Version:6.12.19 (longterm)Released:2025-03-13Source:linux-6.12.19.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-6.12.19.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.19 ⌘ Read more
5.4.291: longterm
Version:5.4.291 (longterm)Released:2025-03-13Source:linux-5.4.291.tar.xzPGP Signature:linux-5.4.291.tar.signPatch:full ( incremental)ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.4.291 ⌘ Read more
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Ubuntu to replace classic coreutils and more with new Rust-based alternatives
After so much terrible tech politics news, let’s focus on some nice, easy-going Linux news that’s not going to be controversial at all: Ubuntu intends to replace numerous core Linux utilities with newer Rust replacements, starting with the ubiquitous GNU Coreutils. This package provides utilities which have become synonymous with Linux to many – the likes of ls, cp, and mv. In … ⌘ Read more
Chimera Linux drops RISC-V support because capable RISC-V hardware doesn’t exist
We’ve talked about Chimera Linux a few times now on OSNews, so I won’t be repeating what makes it unique once more. The project announced today that it will be shuttering its RISC-V architecture support, and considering RISC-V has been supported by Chimera Linux pretty much since the beginning, this is a big step. The reason is as sad as it is predictable: there’s simply n … ⌘ Read more
Linux Foundation Wants “Non-White, Non-Male” People in their Projects
Linux Foundation Community Manager proudly proclaims, “I haven’t contributed” anything but wants “Non-White, Non-Male, Non-30ish” people to feel welcome. ⌘ Read more
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Expanding Open-Source Support for MediaTek’s Genio IoT Platforms with Collabora
MediaTek continues to strengthen upstream support for its Genio IoT platforms through its collaboration with Collabora. Following the initial efforts to integrate Genio EVKs into the open-source ecosystem, recent updates bring improvements to the Linux kernel, Debian-based images, and automated testing frameworks. These enhancements ensure broader compatibility and long-term support for … ⌘ Read more
Exploring the (discontinued) hybrid Debian GNU/kFreeBSD distribution
For decades, Linux and BSD have stood as two dominant yet fundamentally different branches of the Unix-like operating system world. While Linux distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu, and Fedora, have grown to dominate the open-source ecosystem, BSD-based systems like FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD have remained the preferred choice for those seeking security, performance, and licensing flexibility. … ⌘ Read more