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Today, the KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.6.4 as the fourth maintenance update to the KDE Plasma 6.6 series of this popular desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions.

Introduced in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 was eXecute In Place "XIP" support for RISC-V that allows for the kernel image to be executed from ROM. The intent is on allowing the kernel to run from non-volatile storage like NOR flash that is directly addressable by the CPU and to reduce RAM usage. But after RISC-V XIP support is broken for months at a time, the feature is now set to be retired from the mainline kernel...

Zorin OS says it has no plans to introduce mandatory age or ID verification into the Linux distribution.

Discover a step-by-step guide to install Waydroid on Ubuntu and learn the steps to install, list, run, and uninstall Android applications.

In space no one can you scream, at Microsoft Many a frustrated user has sworn they'll launch Microsoft Outlook into space, but NASA has actually done it – on a journey around the Moon, where it's now causing problems for astronauts.…

A compact carrier board referred to as the Raspberry Pi CM5 TV Stick Lite adapts the Compute Module 5 into a plug-in HDMI form factor. The design allows the module to connect directly to a display while requiring only USB-C power. The board targets portable or embedded use cases where minimizing cabling is a priority. […]

Open-source friendly company Tiny Corp that is behind the Tinygrad MIT-licensed neural network framework and developing a "sovereign" AMD GPU driver stack with their Tinybox hardware offerings has their sights on shipping the Exabox next year. The Tiny Corp's Exabox is expected to retail for around $10M USD but offer immense AI compute power...

JetStream 3 represents a significant BrowserBench update, supported by Apple, Google, Mozilla, and other browser engine contributors.

Following Friday's release of Wine 11.6 with reviving the Android driver and improving game mod support as part of DLL loader updates, Wine-Staging 11.6 is out today with extra patches atop...

After years offline, LinuxCareer.com returns with a new mission: turning real job postings into actionable career intelligence. Updated quarterly with current market data, the site breaks down which skills, certifications, and salary ranges employers are actually hiring for. All data is free, openly available, and published under a Creative Commons license. I hope you find it useful and welcome any feedback.

PacHub gives Arch Linux users a sleek GTK4 app for browsing, installing, and managing packages from official repos and the AUR.

Rust Coreutils 0.8 was released today as the newest major release to this alternative to GNU Coreutils...

Red Hat has launched RHEL Extended Life Cycle Premium, a stand-alone subscription that extends major-version support to 14 years.

After a year of patchwork, maintainers look ready to start retiring 486-class CPUs It's taken nearly a full version number to get the pieces in order, but the long-awaited end of 486 chip support in the Linux kernel appears to be nigh with Linux 7.1's release later this year. …

PeaZip 11.0 improves archive browsing speed, updates 7z/p7zip to 26.00, adds batch archive testing, and refines the file manager.

Meta's great Linux engineering team have been working through some fresh performance optimizations recently from optimizing /proc/interrupts outputs to renewing their investment in jemalloc. A new Linux kernel patch this week provides another optimization to avoid a possible situation of throttling the TCP throughput unnecessarily on Linux systems...

The vdir command is an equivalent to the “ls -l -b” command, printing the content in long list format and showing escape characters on the file or directory name, just like the dir command is equivalent to the “ls -C -b” command.

Good news for fans of the classic Oxygen and Air themes from the old days of the KDE 4 desktop environment series, as they are getting some major improvements.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Netrunner 26, AerynOS, OpenSSH 10.3, Archinstall 4.0, Wine 11.6, Linux hits 5% on Steam, Debian addresses age verification, and more.

Arch Linux developers have announced that iptables now defaults to the nft backend, replacing the previous iptables-nft package name.