PINE64 has been building budget-friendly ARM and RISC-V hardware since 2015, when the original PINE A64 single-board computer launched on Kickstarter. The community-driven outfit has since put out devices like the PinePhone, the ROCK series of SBCs, and the Ox64 RISC-V board.
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Canonical’s Livepatch can now patch the Linux kernel on ARM64 systems without forcing a reboot. This has been possible on AMD64 machines for years, but ARM64 users had no equivalent option until now. It is available for users on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
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When I first heard about Niri, a Rust-powered, scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor with a supposedly different take on window management, I was both skeptical and intrigued. But after a few weeks of daily driving it and pairing it with the excellent Dank Linux
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In the general trend of “back to the future past” that we’ve been experiencing these days, a lot of users want to roll back from the streaming-based consumption services now, days of physical media or digital files that are locally present on
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Ever since it first appeared as a credit card-sized computer, the Raspberry Pi has quietly reshaped how we think about cheap, hackable hardware. Its ability to run fully-fledged Linux distros and GPIO pins for wiring up sensors and motors all while being
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ArmSoM is known for designing and manufacturing development boards and embedded solutions for a range of use cases that range from multimedia and IoT to AI and industrial applications. We have covered a few of their products here at It’s FOSS, and
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Halfbrick Studios reached out to us recently, and they were hyped to show off their newest project, Guncrypt, a dungeon crawler built around loading bullets in the right order instead of chasing better gear. If that name sounds familiar to you, they
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