Ditana GNU/Linux, a new Arch-based distribution that combines flexibility, user-friendliness, and advanced security features, is now available

The Nobar Project released today Nobara 41 as the latest version of this Fedora-based Linux distribution for gamers that features unique, in-house tools and lots of performance improvements.

One of the leading rare complaints over the Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer (and the more recently launched Raspberry Pi 500) is that it tops out at just 8GB of system memory... 8GB was enough years ago and still is if planning to use the Raspberry Pi for lightweight desktop and embedded scenarios and other situations where you don't need too much RAM for the four ARM cores, but for those wanting more, today the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB is being introduced...

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The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS operating system has published their December 2024 development recap. The developers involved did a great job ending out 2024 with a lot of exciting improvements for this scratch-based open-source operating system...

Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: What to expect in 2025; Sequoia; Emacs in Scheme; Pony; Homa; 2024 Timeline.
• Briefs: Colliding SHAs; netdev in 2024; Gentoo retrospective; LineageOS 22.1; pkgsrc-2024Q4; RIP Steve Langasek; Firefox 134.0; Algol 68; Ruby 3.4; Quotes; ...
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Intel software engineers have been working on allowing OpenMP offloading to their Intel GPUs by way of targeting generic SPIR-V, the common intermediate representation used across Vulkan / OpenGL / OpenCL drivers. The initial patches to that work have now landed in upstream LLVM/Clang 20 for OpenMP offloading to SPIR-V...

The Sequoia OpenPGP library has been in development for some time. LWN covered the library in 2020. Now the project's command-line interface has been released. The sq tool offers a promising alternative to the venerable GNU Privacy Guard (GPG) tool — albeit one with a different interface, set of terminology, and approach to the web of trust. Several distributions are making increasing use of the tool behind the scenes.

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