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If you currently use Windows as your primary operating system, but feel that you are missing out on some important Linux features, it is possible to install Ubuntu on Windows through the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) feature.

Linux kernel 6.13 says goodbye to ReiserFS. The filesystem is now history, with support removed. Here's more on that!

Kent Overstreet, the lead developer of the Bcachefs file system, has publicly announced that the future of Bcachefs in the Linux kernel is uncertain due to an ongoing dispute with the Linux Kernel Code of Conduct (CoC) committee.

The four pull requests adding various SoC and board/platform support have now been merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel.

Learn how to use VirtualBox, KVM, and virt-manager to create and manage virtual machines on Ubuntu, tailored to different expertise levels and use cases.

It is possible to resize the root partition in Linux, even if you are actively booted into the installation that resides on the partition. Ordinarily, hard drive partitioning changes should only be carried out on unmounted partitions and hard drive space that is not being actively used.

Cassette Beasts from Bytten Studio is a brilliant spin on the whole monster catching genre, and a fresh update out now continues expanding it. Cassette Beasts has Native Linux support and is Steam Deck Verified. It's also just thoroughly cool, you should check it out.

Hyprland is a dynamic tiling window compositor that is both highly customizable and provides plenty of eye candy. It is also very popular in Linux ricing groups these days. And why not? If you are into customizing the looks of your desktop, Hyprland is surely worth all the hype.

Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source tree. Removing ReiserFS from the Linux tree lightens the kernel by 32.8k lines of code.

Qualitative data analysis (QDA) is a cornerstone of research across various fields, from social sciences to marketing. It involves uncovering patterns, themes, and meanings within non-numerical data such as interviews, focus groups, and textual narratives.

Here’s something lighthearted for you—unless you’re pedantic about ornithology, in which case you won’t be so chirpy: it seems a Bullfinch found its way into Ubuntu 24.10 ‘Oracular Oriole’.

Shotwell is a free open-source photo manager designed for the GNOME Desktop. It’s pre-installed and default in Ubuntu Desktop, when you installed the system with default or full installation mode.

I’ve linked to quite a few posts by OpenBSD developer Solène Rapenne on OSNews, mostly about her work for and knowledge of OpenBSD. However, she recently posted about her decision to leave the OpenBSD team, and it mostly comes down to the fact she hasn’t been using OpenBSD for a while now due to a myriad of problems she’s encountering.

Canonical pursued convergence with the Ubuntu Phone, an effort to make a phone that was also a PC. Purism has promised this same thing with the Purism Librem 5.

On top of an exciting Vulkan spec update out today, The Khronos Group has announced the Slang Initiative based on NVIDIA's open-source Slang compiler code.

The RED-BEET 2.0 by 8Devices is a compact powerline communication module built on the Qualcomm QCA7006AQ PLC chip, supporting SPI, Ethernet, HomePlug GreenPHY, and HomePlug AV standards. Its small size, industrial temperature tolerance, and automotive-grade certification are designed for integration into e-mobility and automotive applications.

Additional sessions from this year’s conference are now available on All Things Open‘s YouTube Channel, and December’s Meetup will feature a Red Hatter who’ll talk about AI.

One of the things you'll come across during everyday use of a great Linux distribution like Ubuntu is installing apps and opening certain files. While most apps can be found in the Ubuntu Software Center or even as manual downloads, there might be a time when an app or a file you want will come as a tar.gz file type.

Feeling creative? After you’ve scanned out slew of changes shipping in the new Blender 4.3 release, you’ll find it hard not to!

When hosting a website on a server, you were probably asked by your hosting company to point your domain to their nameservers. For example, your domain.com is using dns1.nameserver.com and dns2.nameserver.com.