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Linux 6.11 introduced the getrandom() in the vDSO support for faster yet secure user-space random number generation needs. Initially that was focused on Linux x86_64 while for Linux 6.12 is ported to five more architectures.

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Setting up a Linux virtual machine in Windows.

Typing tutor software teaches fast and accurate typing through a system of informative lessons and progress tracking.

KaOS 2024.09 arrives with KDE Plasma 6.1.5, updated installer, and new apps like Zed editor. Dolphin and Konsole get enhancements.

Waveshare recently launched the 4-inch e-Paper HAT+(E), a E-Ink Spectra 6 full-color e-paper module designed to work with the Raspberry Pi using the HAT+ standard. This 600×400 pixel display includes E-Ink Spectra 6 technology and doesn’t have a backlight. The Spectra 6 allows for high contrast and color saturation whereas no backlight means the display consumes very low power.

After five months of development, MPV 0.39.0 is now available for download as the latest stable release for this open-source and acclaimed media player software.

The perf tooling changes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel. Notable on the perf tools side is supporting some features found in newer Intel processors.

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There’s one feature in the Nautilus file manager I use daily: the Recent files shortcut. One-click gives me access to my most recently downloaded, modified, and newly created files together, regardless of the folder they’re in.

OpenSSH 9.9 is out now! Support for post-quantum key exchange, improved security features, and bug fixes.

Software industry veteran and developer advocate Kelsey Hightower, well known for his contributions to the Kubernetes community, has an interesting take on generative AI: he won't be paying too much attention to it for now, except insofar as how it will be instrumental in changing what it means to be a software engineer.

The EPO's lingering attempts to shut us down go back to 2015 and a year later the CEO of Sirius Open Source told me in person (in Alton Towers) that Microsoft was contacting him, trying to get me in trouble. They even phoned him.

Although Linux runs almost every supercomputer, most of the web, the majority of smart phones, and a few writers’ ancient Macbooks, there’s one major weak point in the Linux world that will almost always have developers reaching for a different operating system. Linux is not a real-time operating system (RTOS), meaning that it can’t respond to requests in the real world within a set timeframe.

If you ever get bored of your ordinary, default Ubuntu desktop or you feel that you do not utilize your video card the way you should, you could enable the 3D cube effect to give your desktop an extra spark. This effect is provided by Wayfire, a 3D compositor for Wayland.

The MS-CF16 is a compact Pico-ITX single-board computer designed for fanless, low-power, high-performance applications in harsh environments. Powered by Intel Alder Lake-N or Amston Lake Series SoCs, the board features a 2.5GbE LAN port, a GbE LAN port, and SATA 3.0 for storage.

In between Linus Torvalds' busy week being in Vienna for the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit and related Linux Foundation events as well as managing the Linux 6.12 merge window with landing new features like sched_ext and real-time PREEMPT_RT, he also managed to finish up some of his own code for this next kernel version.

We take a fresh look at MusicPod and note that the program has seen significant improvements.

Many raise their eyebrows towards the security-side of open-source, and say that numerous projects are not as actively maintained as the popular ones.

In this brief tutorial, we will learn how to efficiently search Linux Manual Pages with the 'man -k' command in Linux with an example.