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📰 I stopped recommending Raspberry Pis for most projects, here's what I suggest instead Raspberry Pi is iconic and was a solid recommendation for learning and home projects. Whether it's a small server, a Home Assistant hub, or learning Docker, a Raspberry Pi earned its spot thanks to its affordable price tag for hobbyists and everyone interested. 🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/stopped-recommending-raspberry-pis-for-projects-suggest-instead/ #raspberry

📰 More ISA Differences Come To Light With The New AMD GFX1170 "RDNA 4m" Earlier this month we spotted the addition of a new GFX1170 GPU target in the AMDGPU LLVM back-end. Making this GFX1170 target interesting is that its marked as an APU/SoC part with "RDNA 4m" while being part of the GFX11 series. The GFX11 series is for RDNA3, GFX115x is for RDNA 3.5, and GFX12 is RDNA4. More ISA changes have now been committed to the AMDGPU LLVM back-end that make a few more instruction differences better aligned with RDNA4... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GFX1170-More-ISA-Diffs #amd

📰 Chromium on MediaTek: From testing to real-world performance on Genio 700 & 720 A deep dive on the current status of Chromium enablement on MediaTek Genio SoCs, including what the numbers look like when MediaTek’s hardware codecs are driven by Chromium’s V4L2 paths. 🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/chromium-hardware-codecs-on-mediatek-genio-700-and-720-from-test-plans-to-real‑world-performance.html #chromium

📰 Running Debian on the OpenWrt One With openwrt-one-debian, you can now install and run a full Debian system leveraging the OpenWrt One’s NVMe storage, enabling everything from custom services and containers to development tools and lightweight server workloads, all on open hardware. 🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/openwrt-one-meets-debian.html #debian

📰 System76 Preparing To Introduce Redesigned Thelio Hardware Linux hardware vendor System76 has begun teasing a redesign of their Thelio chassis that is used by their modern desktops and workstations. Helping distinguish System76 from other Linux desktop/PC vendors has been their custom-engineered, built-in-the-USA enclosures and now they are preparing to launch a next-generation design... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Thelio-Redesign #linux

📰 Pocketblue Brings Fedora Atomic Linux to Mobile Devices Pocketblue brings Fedora Atomic to select ARM-powered devices, providing users with an immutable Linux system on their phones and tablets. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/pocketblue-brings-fedora-atomic-linux-to-mobile-devices/ #linux#fedora#arm

📰 Apple M3 With Asahi Linux Continues Making Progress, No ETA Yet For Shipping Asahi Linux developers have published a status report following the recent Linux 6.19 kernel release to outline recent progress and upcoming items around Apple Silicon support on Linux. This year will also mark five years that Asahi Linux has been around for bringing Linux to the Apple M-Series hardware... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M3-Asahi-Linux-2026 #linux#kernel

📰 Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux Unfortunately, the HDMI Forum refused to allow HDMI 2.1+ features in the open source driver, but that hasn't stopped one developer.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux. 🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/experimental-code-ready-for-testing-to-enable-hdmi-2-1-frl-with-amdgpu-on-linux/ #linux#opensource

📰 FreeBSD's KDE Desktop Install Option Ready For Testing As part of enhancing the FreeBSD experience on laptops and desktops, FreeBSD developers have been working toward adding a convenient desktop install option to their text-based installer for easily deploying the KDE Plasma desktop along with the necessary GPU drivers. After it didn't get wrapped up in time for the FreeBSD 15.0 release, that desktop installer option is now ready for testing... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Desktop-Option-Testing #plasma#kde

📰Linus T tells The Reg how Linux solo act became a global jam session Ts'o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possible If you know anything about Linux's history, you'll remember it all started with Linus Torvalds posting to the Minix Usenet group on August 25, 1991, that he was working on "a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. 🔗 Source: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/linus_torvalds_and_friends/ #linux#gnu

📰 8 Years Later, Linux-based AsteroidOS 2.0 is Here to Add New Life to Your Old Smartwatch The AsteroidOS 2.0 release aims to provide a stable, beautiful base for people who want an open smartwatch today, and an interesting project for developers who want to experiment, learn and contribute. 🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/news/asteroidos-2-release/ #linux#linuxbased

📰 NTFS3 Driver Sees Improvements In Linux 7.0 While "NTFS Remake" Driver Bakes The NTFS3 driver maintained by Paragon Software for Microsoft NTFS file-systems today saw a batch of improvements merged for Linux 7.0 This comes as there is also the competing "NTFS Remake" driver that began a few months ago as the "NTFSPLUS" driver. That NTFS Remake driver isn't looking like it will be submitted for the Linux 7. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS3-Linux-7.0 #linux