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Linux admins and infosec professionals tasked with safeguarding sensitive communications face increasing risks with emerging privacy threats like China-sponsored telecom hacking on the rise.

GNU Shepherd as a service manager for both system and user services that is used by Guix and relying on Guile Scheme has finally reached version 1.0. For those not pleased with systemd, GNU Shepherd can be used as an init system and now has finally crossed the version 1.0 milestone after 21 years of development.

Flathub is an increasingly popular portal for Flatpak apps for every Linux distribution. Now, it's doing something to help the ecosystem grow!

It's been a few months since running any fresh Linux graphics driver comparison benchmarks. But given the imminent availability of the first Intel Arc Battlemage graphics cards, I have been carrying out some fresh Linux GPU driver testing.

IBM has recently disclosed a security vulnerability (CVE-2024-37071) affecting its Db2 database software for Linux and UNIX platforms. Under certain circumstances, an authenticated user could use the flaw to launch a denial of service (DoS) attack by abusing bad memory allocation with a specially constructed query.

Last July, Arduino announced plans to switch from the soon-to-be deprecated Arm Mbed to Zephyr RTOS, and the company has now outed the first beta release of “Arduino Core for Zephyr OS” for a range of boards.

You can utilize your Raspberry Pi to experience games too, with a catch!

Te openSUSE project shared today that there is enhanced multi-GPU switching support to enjoy now with openSUSE Linux.

'Navix' follows OpenELA rules, comes with ten years support, and is already used in production at scale. Korean web giant Naver has gone into the operating system business, releasing its very own Linux distribution.

The Linux Mint team is testing the disc images of the upcoming version, which means it's not far away now. These will likely be Beta versions which will be released to the public for two weeks of testing before the Stable version is released.

It’s no secret that I am very worried about the future of Firefox, and the future of Firefox on Linux in particular.

Video and image encoders/decoders written in the Rust programming language for its memory safety guarantees is often viewed as one of the compelling areas for the programming language to better protect against malformed/malicious content especially within web browsers.

A cross-platform open source feed reader that gets the job done.

The Raspberry Pi 500 keyboard PC is just out along with the 15.6-inch Raspberry Pi Monitor and received samples from Raspberry Pi for review a few days ago. I’ve had time to play with both, so in this review, I’ll go through an unboxing of the kit I received and report my experience with both the keyboard PC and monitor.

For high-quality screen recording and streaming from the desktop nothing comes close to matching the power and versatility of cross-platform and open-source OBS Studio – this weekend a new version went live.

AAEON has unveiled the UP Xtreme i14 Edge, a compact fanless Mini PC powered by Intel Core Ultra processors, Intel Arc graphics, and up to 64GB of LPDDR5 memory. Designed for tasks such as computer vision and AI-driven security, it offers significant improvements in memory, graphics, and display capabilities compared to its predecessor.

The Linux kernel EFI Zboot code for carrying the Linux kernel image for EFI systems in compressed form is doing away with its "compression library museum" of offering Gzip, LZ4, LZMA, LZO, XZ, and Zstd compression options to instead just focus on Gzip and Zstd compression support.

To avoid any confusion, I must first state that this article is dealing with the man and tldr commands in Linux. While man pages are incredibly detailed, they can be intimidating, especially for those just starting out. Instead, you can use the tldr command to get a short, simple, and easy-to-understand explanation of any Linux command.

If you're serious about Linux, your best bet is to run an open source distro from either bare metal or a virtual machine. But if that's not in the cards for you, WSL is a decent alternative.

While the winter holidays are quickly approach, KDE developers remain very busy working on new feature code for the Plasma 6.3 desktop. A number of new features were merged this week for the KDE desktop.