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A quick tutorial on how to customize the KDE Plasma desktop in Endeavor OS! In this video, you'll learn how to easily change your desktop theme using KDE's built-in settings. From changing the Plasma theme, icons, and window layout, your desktop will look more attractive and organized. Perfect for beginners looking to spruce up the look of Linux without the hassle!

Immutable Linux distributions are gaining traction by making core file systems unchangeable — offering enhanced security, improved stability, and simplified maintenance.

With Firefox 141 promoted to the stable channel as the latest ESR (Extended Support Release), Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 142, to the beta channel for public testing.

The first release candidate of Python 3.14 is now available for testing as what will be this year's big feature update to this popular scripting language...

Mozilla Thunderbird 141 open-source email client is out now with a new Archive button, better OpenPGP key handling, and a wide range of bug fixes.

The crew working on enhancing the FreeBSD laptop support is hoping to have an install option within the installer of FreeBSD 15 that will easily provide a KDE Plasma based desktop environment...

These interactive Linux-based games teach everything from basic commands to advanced shell skills, all while keeping you engaged.

Microsoft 'kill switch' installed by Matthew J. Garrett - in the face of resistance from Linus Torvalds (whom Garrett would later defame a lot)

The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optical media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Intel-based Macs as release-blocking...

Fans say low usage no surprise when obscure but beloved feature disabled by default GitHub has "paused" the removal of the command palette, which enables keyboard control of the GitHub web application, following developer protests.…

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 196 has been released today as a new stable update to this open-source hardened Linux firewall distribution introducing various improvements, updated components, and other changes.

Google launches the OSS Rebuild project to verify open source packages and combat supply chain attacks through reproducible builds.

The Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit is an upcoming high-performance platform built for next-generation humanoid robotics, real-time sensor fusion, and generative AI at the edge. It delivers up to 2070 FP4 TFLOPS of AI performance, includes 128 GB of LPDDR5X memory, and supports high-throughput, low-latency connectivity for deploying large transformer and vision-language models in real-time […]

The distro's greatest asset is arguably also its greatest weakness If you installed the Firefox, LibreWolf, or Zen web browsers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) in the last few days, delete them immediately and install fresh copies.…

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week voted to approve a number of new features/changes for the upcoming Fedora 43 release...

The fwupd 2.0.13 update speeds up startup by 60%, lowers memory use, and adds support for new MediaTek, HP, and Logitech devices.

Learn how to install and customize the Starship shell prompt on Linux. Make your terminal faster, cleaner, and more useful in just minutes.

Last week NVIDIA open-sourced 12k lines of C header files for Blackwell GPUs to help in the open-source driver efforts, namely for Nouveau / NVK and the in-development NOVA Rust driver. On Friday they made public some additional header files for helping in the Blackwell and Hopper open-source driver enablement...

You only live once, but regret is forever Cursor's AI coding agent will run automatically, in YOLO mode, if you let it. According to Backslash Security, you might want to think twice about doing so.…

The Mozilla Firefox 141.0 release binaries are out today for this monthly update to this cross-platform, open-source web browser...