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Linux Mint 22.2 ‘Zara’: More Excellence From a Consistently Outstanding Distro
This week, our Linux distro gadabout takes a look at both the Cinnamon and Mate editions of Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara,” and finds absolutely nothing to complain about.
Denmark's Strategic Leap Replacing Microsoft Office 365 with LibreOffice for Digital Independence
In the summer of 2025, Denmark’s government put forward a major policy change in its digital infrastructure: moving away from using Microsoft Office 365, and in part, open-source its operations with LibreOffice. Below is an original account of what this entails, why it matters, how it’s being done, and what the risks and opportunities are.
Google stuffs Chrome full of AI features whether you like it or not
Why browse the web yourself when an AI sidekick can spoon-feed it to you?
Now that it knows it won't be forced to sell its browser, Google is cramming AI into every vacant corner of Chrome it can find, whether you like it or not. …
Bluefin LTS Released: Immutable Desktop on CentOS Stream 10
Bluefin LTS released: immutable Linux workstation with CentOS Stream 10 base, Flathub, ZFS, Homebrew, and 3–5 years of long-term support.
Revisiting DDR5-6400 vs. MRDIMM-8800 Performance With Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids"
One of the exciting elements of Intel's Xeon 6 Granite Rapids launch last year was introducing support for MRDIMMs alongside DDR5-6400 memory support. After the Xeon 6900P series debut I posted some of the first independent DDR5-6400 vs. MRDIMM-8800 benchmarks. One year later, today is a fresh look at the DDR5-6400 vs. MRDIMM-8800 performance for Granite Rapids with new/updated benchmarks, the latest Linux software improvements, and also looking at the impact on power and thermals of MRDIMM memory.
Rspamd 3.13 Launches with Redis-Backed Multiclass Bayes
Rspamd 3.13, an open-source spam filtering system, introduces multiclass Bayes, a neural module overhaul, and improved LLM embedding support.
Fedora Forge Announced For Modernizing Fedora's Development & Collaboration
The Fedora Forge has been soft-launched for Fedora contributors to help modernize the development and collaboration tools around the Linux distribution...
Tails 7.0 Anonymous Linux OS Released, Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”
Tails 7.0 is out today as a major update to this portable Linux OS based on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that protects users against surveillance and censorship.
After Arch Linux, Mageia Faces Infrastructure Outage
After Arch Linux, Mageia is now reporting infrastructure outages, with forums and wiki down due to what looks like another bot-driven attack.
UEFI Secure Boot for Linux Arm64 -- where do we stand?
Still exotic for now, but moves are afoot
Arm devices are everywhere today and many of them run Linux. The operating system also powers cloud computing and IT environments all over the world. However, x86 is still the dominant architecture of global computer hardware, where the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) with Secure Boot incorporated is a standard. But what does UEFI look like from an Arm perspective?…
Linux Mint Releases LMDE 7 Beta
Following the recent release of Linux Mint 22.2 as the Linux Mint project's premiere operating system currently built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, today marks the beta release of Linux Mint Debian Edition 7...
Multipass Makes Spinning Up Ubuntu Images as Simple as It Gets
Multipass offers a quick way to create Ubuntu virtual machines with no extra hardware or complex setup needed.
GNOME 49 Desktop Environment Released, This Is What’s New
GNOME 49 arrives with a modern video player, revamped document viewer, HDR wallpapers, and major upgrades across Calendar, Web, Maps, and more.
NVIDIA To Make $5B Investment Into Intel - x86 RTX SoCs & More To Come
NVIDIA is making a $5 billion investment into Intel and the two companies will work together on custom data center and client CPUs...
OpenJDK 25 & GraalVM 25 Released With 32-bit x86 Support Removed
Released yesterday was the OpenJDK Java 25 release along with Oracle's GraalVM 25 alternative JVM...
Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.3 Is Out with GNOME 49, Improved Webcam Support
The Slackware-based PorteuX 2.3 distribution, inspired by Slax and Porteus and designed to be super fast, small, portable, modular, and immutable, is out today with various updates and changes.
TI expands C2000 portfolio with affordable real-time MCUs for motor control
Texas Instruments has introduced its most affordable C2000 real-time MCUs to date, aimed at appliances, digital power supplies, and power tools. The new F28E12x series, including the F28E120SC and F28E120SB, delivers a 30% performance boost over earlier C2000 devices while maintaining a cost-efficient design. The F28E12x devices integrate TI’s C28x digital signal processor core with […]
AMD "GFX1251" Target Added To LLVM As Latest RDNA 4.5 APU
The past few months we have been intrigued by an AMD GFX1250 target added to the LLVM codebase for the AMDGPU shader compiler back-end. GFX12 is RDNA4 and GFX1250 is presumably some "RDNA 4.5" / "RDNA Refresh" part akin to GFX1150 having been for the RDNA 3.5 parts with Strix Halo / Strix Point. The prior LLVM code confirmed GFX1250 is in APU form factor but product details beyond that have been scarce. Today a new AMD GFX1251 target was merged to LLVM...
JDK 25 LTS Released with TLS Key Exporters, Improved Debugging
JDK 25 LTS improves IO, HTTP, concurrency, and TLS while removing outdated system properties.
Scale AI says 'tanks a lot' to Pentagon for data-classifying deal
First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong?
Data curation firm Scale AI has partnered with the Pentagon to deploy its AI on Top Secret networks - a move its interim CEO says is necessary if the US wants AI to be useful for national security.…
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