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Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.0 is the first release of Ubuntu Touch that’s based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, a major upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04.
The AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS has 8 cores, 16 threads and is competitive against newer processors from AMD and Intel.
This roundup focuses on the finest web-based food and drink software for Linux.
I put the BOSGAME M4 Plus under a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.
Chess is a recreational and competitive board game played between two players. It’s a very popular game, played by millions across the world.
Linux has lots of software with upscaling functionality, some of which offers a wider range of features than the GIMP AI plugin.
ONLYOFFICE Docs 9.1 brings a significant upgrade.
I look at a few issues I’ve experienced when upgrading to Ubuntu 25.10.
Let’s play some music on the Raspberry Pi 5. It’s a very capable music player.
This article picks some useful tools to help you fix Go code.
A file manager is software which provides a user interface to assist in the organisation of files. It helps users manage their files.
This roundup looks at self-hosted cloud storage solutions.
The BOSGAME M4 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS with integrated Radeon 780M. I put it through various benchmark tests.
For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Radxa ROCK 4D single-board computer.
The BOSGAME M4 Plus Mini PC is a powerful computer based on an AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS processor with integrated Radeon 780M graphics.
For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Radxa Cubie A7A.
September 2025 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.
ChessMD is a free and open source lightweight PGN database viewer and analysis tool. Here’s my verdict on this software.
Gaia is open source software designed for the quick setup and execution of generative AI applications on local PC hardware.
This roundup includes mapping software which offers quick access to maps all across the world. We also include some specialised tools.
This blog documents my adventures with using the NPU present in the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 in Linux.
Euphonica is an MPD client with a GTK4 interface. It sports an integrated spectrum visualiser, metadata downloading and more.
A distro provides the user with a desktop environment, preloaded applications, and ways to update and maintain the system.
Gerbil is a desktop app to easily run Large Language Models locally. The software is powered by KoboldCpp, a fork of llama.cpp.
For this article in the series I put the Radxa Cubie A7A single board computer through a series of benchmarks.
The AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 came to market in the third quarter of 2024. It has 12 cores and 24 threads, with 4 Zen 5 cores, and 8 Zen 5c cores.
Scrobbling is the process of automatically tracking and recording the music you listen to, sending the data to a service.
For this article in the series I put the Radxa ROCK 4D single board computer through a series of benchmarks.
Waydroid is a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on Ubuntu Touch running Wayland based desktop environments.
Radxa OS, or Radxa, is an open source operating system developed by the Radxa team based on the Debian Linux distribution.
Radxa Cubie A7A is billed as an ultra-compact yet feature-rich SBC designed to deliver powerful performance in space-constrained environments.
Let’s start with ComfyUI, open source node-based software for generative AI. I install ROCm, ComfyUI and a useful model manager.
A simple real-world test of the performance of the Radeon 890M with Jan, an open source ChatGPT-alternative that runs 100% offline.
This series looks at the Radxa ROCK 4D single board computer. It’s billed as a high-performance SBC for Edge AI and 4K multimedia.
I put the Minisforum AI X1 Pro mini PC under a series of power consumption tests and compare it to other machines.
I’m exploring GIMP AI plugins for the Arc 140T. These provide a set of OpenVINO based plugins that add AI features to GIMP.
Libertine is a confined sandbox where you can install deb-packaged desktop-based Ubuntu applications on the Volla Quintus.
WhatsApp is a popular, free messaging, social media, and voice-over-IP service that lets users send text, voice messages, and video messages
mtoc (music table of contents) is billed as a visually-rich music player and library browser. It’s written in C++ and built with Qt, TagLib and GStreamer.
The Minisforum AI X1 Pro is a powerful mini PC based on an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with integrated Radeon 890M.
For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS.
I explore the apps already present on the Volla Phone Quintus, a premium smartphone running Ubuntu Touch.
The machine has the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor with integrated Radeon 890M. This is no ordinary processor and no ordinary integrated GPU.
Ham radio is a popular hobby and service bringing people, electronics and communication together. We pick our favorite ham radio tools.
The best video converters make the process simple, and support a wide number of different codecs and formats.
We highly recommend installing a framework with Zsh as it makes dealing with configuration, plugins and themes a lot more straightforward.
The NUC BOX-255H has the mobile/embedded class 15th generation Intel Core 7 255H processor, based on the Arrow Lake architecture.
For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Radxa ROCK 5T single-board computer.
Our popular series on the best free and open source Linux software, hardware, programming, Android, and much more.
This is a new series looking at the Volla Phone Quintus running Ubuntu Touch. This phone sports a powerful Mediatek Dimensity 7050 with 8 cores and 8GB of RAM.
The plugins provide AI-enabled effects, generators and analyzers. I can run them on the NUC Box-255H with no internet connection needed.
In the series I’m going to explore the GPU capabilities of the machine covering AI and gaming. Let’s start with deep learning.
A serial terminal is software that allows communication with devices through a serial port, often used for debugging embedded systems.
For this article in the series I’m looking at the power consumption of the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H.
In this article I’ll benchmark the machine. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite, unless otherwise stated.
This is a series of articles looking at the ASRock Industrial NUC BOX-255H. In this series, I examine every aspect of this Mini PC in detail.
Let’s try to improve the Raspberry Pi 5’s Wi-Fi performance (transfer speed and latency) with a USB 3.0 adapter from BrosTrend.
For this review, I’ve evaluating the Kioxia Exceria Plus G2 Portable SSD. It’s available in 500GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities. I’m reviewing the 2TB version.
Oracle is a modern graphical user interface wrapper for AUR helpers and Pacman. It’s designed to make package management on Arch Linux more accessible and user-friendly. It offers an easy way to search, install and manage packages from both the
quicssh-rs is a QUIC proxy that allows to use QUIC to connect to an SSH server without needing to patch the client or the server.
Davis is a simple, feature-packed, fully translatable DAV server, admin interface and frontend based on sabre/dav
bibref is a tool that helps discovering internal references in the Bible, finding citations of the Septuagint in the Greek New Testament.
LangitKetujuh OS is an Indonesian desktop and multimedia Linux distribution based on Void Linux.
Yesser Calculator is an extensible calculator app made using .NET and Avalonia.
We have compiled a list of the best Java static site generators. These tools are released under a freely distributable license.
Nanocoder is a local-first CLI coding agent that brings the power of agentic coding tools like Claude Code and Gemini CLI to local models
Jimmy is a tool to convert your notes from different formats to Markdown. It has both a CLI and TUI.