Tag: operating-systems
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Linux on Car Safety & Driver Assistance
Linux can finally run your car’s safety systems and driver-assistance features.Increasingly, our cars will be controlled by a small number of powerful computers. There’s a new Linux distro on the scene today, and it’s a bit specialized. Its development was led by the automotive electronics supplier Elektrobit, and it’s the first open source OS that…
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How The Media Treats Linux in 2024
The “Reluctant Anarchist” creates insightful videos about Linux and his experiences with our beloved Operating System. This week’s video explores the often contentious relationship between mainstream media coverage and Linux, particularly focusing on how some writers approach reviewing products like the Steam Deck. It highlights a trend of negative language and bias, with some reviewers…
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AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta is Out
The server-centric, open-source Linux distribution’s latest beta is available with plenty of updates, and it could be your new favorite desktop operating system. Here’s why. Written by Jack Wallen, Contributing Writer During my decades with the Linux operating system, I’ve often wondered why server distributions are so rarely considered for the desktop. Okay, okay… I…
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Linus Torvalds on Security, AI, Open Source and Trust
Torvalds retains his lifelong love of open source development even in a world filled with upstream security issues, overhyped AI, and other people’s hardware bugs. SEATTLE–Linux creator Linus Torvalds sat down Wednesday for a “keynote interview” at the Linux Foundation‘s Open Source Summit North America in Seattle. Torvalds was interviewed by Dirk Hohndel, an early…
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Ubuntu outperforms, faster than Windows 11
Written by Aaron Klotz, Freelance News Writer for Tom’s Hardware.Ubuntu beats Windows 11 once again on another Ryzen-powered machine. Phoronix tested the Framework Laptop 16 in Ubuntu to see if the Linux OS can outperform Windows 11 on the most modular portable rig around. In testing — with Ubuntu 23.10 and 24.04, Phoronix discovered that…
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Linux 6.10 Preps Kernel ‘Panic Screen’ – like BSOD
Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 19 April 2024 While systemd 255 last year introduced a “blue screen of death” inspired solution with systemd-bsod for presenting logged error messages full-screen, it’s not appropriate for all errors. Systemd-bsod can work out for presenting full-screen messages in case of boot failures and other problems where…
