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Over the decades, my primary operating system of choice has changed a few times. As a wee child of six years old, we got out first PC through one of those employer buy-a-PC programs, where an employer would subsidize its employees buying PCs for use in the home..

elementary OS 8 release is around the corner. It is based on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS and features Linux kernel 6.8 at its core. While we shared some of its initial details last year, and its progress last month, it is time to compile all of its expected features here considering the release is closer than ever before!

This tutorial shows how to completely disable suspend and/or hibernate function, so your Linux computer will never go to sleep.

Silicon Labs Solutions architect Nicola Wrachien has designed an Arduino Nano Matter gamepad for which he was successfully able to port Quake, a popular first-person shooter game. We have seen developers and engineers port doom on everything from toothbrushes to GPS receivers.

For more than one year Arm engineers have been working on Guarded Control Stack "GCS" support for the Linux kernel as a means of protecting against return-oriented programming (ROP) sttacks with modern AArch64 processors. It looks like for Linux 6.13 this Arm GCS support will be ready for upstreaming.

Use of Red Hat on Amazon Web Services (AWS) has allowed UK-based financial technology (fintech) innovator Banfico to both get to market quicker but also offer a genuinely global service.

Exciting news! The Tazama project is officially a Digital Public Good having met the criteria to be accepted to the Digital Public Goods Alliance! Tazama is a groundbreaking open source software solution for real-time fraud prevention, and offers the first-ever open source platform dedicated to enhancing fraud management in digital payments.

The Linux community is preparing to release version 6.12 0f the Linux kernel. The 6.12 version is currently in the “release candidate” phase, with 6.12rc1 available as of Sept. 29, 2024.

Linux is a powerful operating system that forms the backbone of numerous servers, workstations, kiosks, and embedded devices worldwide. It accounts for approximately 3.08% (Edit: It's actually 4%) of all operating systems in use globally. Given its critical role in infrastructure and technology, ensuring the security of Linux environments is paramount.

Today marks the release of Qt 6.8 as not only a new feature release but also the latest long-term support (LTS) release for this open-source, cross-platform toolkit.

Stability? Predictability? Reliability? Where's the fun in that? EuroBSDcon 2024: One of Stefano Marinelli's NetBSD boxes sat quietly serving for a decade, because everyone forgot about it. This is how Unix is meant to be.

The Linux kernel is a critical component of infrastructure systems worldwide and is known for its stability and security. At the same time, the kernel’s complexity introduces vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit.

Linux. You've heard about it. You've maybe even tried it. However, statistically, you probably don't use it. Globally as of 2024, just over 4% of desktop PCs run Linux. That's a tiny slice of the market, and yet it's a milestone for Linux worth celebrating.

A new major update to the KDE Plasma desktop has been released, and it’s jam-packed with new features, enhancements, and performance-focused improvements.

Wordcloud is a Python program for creating word cloud images. The project has been there for a long time and has been used in many other projects as dependencies.

Picture this. A developer submits a patch to improve the kernel's performance, only to be met with the scornful gaze of Linux chieftain Linus Torvalds, who declares: "Ah, but your participle is dangling! How do you expect the kernel to thrive under such conditions?"

OpenBSD 7.6, the release in which every single line of the original code form the first release has been edited or removed, has been released. There’s a lot of changes, new features, bug fixes, and more in 7.6, but for desktop users, the biggest new feature is undoubtedly hardware-accelerated video decoding through VA-API.

With the help of Plasma Desktop 6, the latest release of the Arch-based Manjaro Linux has come a long way to making it a desktop for everyone.

Halcyon has launched a new anti-ransomware solution, Halcyon Linux, specifically to enhance protection for Linux-based systems. The solution was introduced in response to a significant rise in ransomware attacks targeting Linux environments.

An interesting project to make an open-source Amazon Kindle-like device.