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The Slimbook crew shared on Twitter/X that they are showing off the new Slimbook 6 (Slimbook VI) laptop this weekend during the KDE Akademy conference taking place in the wonderful Würzburg, Germany.

Mozilla Firefox 130 open-source web browser is now available for download with various new features and improvements. Here’s what’s new!

The above isn't a new problem because back in 2007 a Microsoft-connected troll called Acacia sued both Novell and Red Hat over Linux graphics. Hard to believe 17 years have passed since then.

Users of Android should count themselves lucky to have open-source alternatives to commonly used apps, be it a keyboard app, or even an SMS app. On the other hand, users of a certain walled-garden smartphone ecosystem don't have such freedom of choice.

Incus 6.5 rolls out with up to 30x performance improvement, new CLI features, VM enhancements, and more.

Exploring the world of Linux can be like stepping into a vast new universe. With so many distributions (distros) to choose from, it’s easy to feel a bit lost. I’ll help you navigate through the options and find the right Linux distro for your needs.

Valve released a fresh Steam Beta client for Desktop and Steam Deck, with one change I'm sure some will love with the new Game Recording system. Since the new Steam Game Recording feature launched in Beta back in June, Valve have made some nice steady improvements to it.

It's taken until now to add FreeBSD to the X.Org Continuous Integration (CI) automated testing so that all proposed changes to the X.Org Server can now be build-tested on FreeBSD rather than just Linux.

Remotely controlling a desktop or mobile device is an ability that's become indispensable in today's technology-driven world. It can be used for things like supporting a friend with their Arch Linux troubles, or more large-scale things like serving an organization's customers facing an IT outage.

Slimbook and KDE launched today a new Linux-powered ultrabook, the KDE Slimbook Plasma VI, featuring an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS processor, up to 96GB of RAM, and a heftier battery of 80wh.

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The D-Robotics RDK X3 Development Board, recently showcased by Waveshare, is a versatile platform designed for edge AI applications, offering a powerful combination of processing and inference capabilities.

Google recently rewrote the firmware for protected virtual machines in its Android Virtualization Framework using the Rust programming language and wants you to do the same, assuming you deal with firmware.

Check out Wine 9.17: Better High DPI scaling, updated Mono engine, and more ARM64 support.

One of the security changes with AMD Zen 5 processors that I haven't seen AMD publicly mention at least not prominently is that the new cores are not vulnerable to Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO). Unlike Zen 4 and prior, under Linux I noticed that Zen 5 is no longer affected by the SRSO "INCEPTION" vulnerability.

The original released back in 1992 for the Famicom (NES) and now Bitwave Games along with publisher Clear River Games have revived the classic platformer with Gimmick! 2 out now. Much like the recent Toaplan Arcade Shoot 'Em Up Collection from Bitwave Games, it also has Linux support too.

Arduino has just announced the release of the Arduino CLI version 1.0.0, the first stable release for which users and developers can be confident the software API won’t change over time, or at least with minimal changes that will not impact the workflow of applications based on it.

For almost a year, I spent jumping from one Linux distro to the next without ever settling on one for more than a week. Here’s how I stopped and found the right distro for me.

Meet the founder of Ente, building a privacy alternative to Google Photos. Earlier this year, Ente dropped on our radar when its developers decided to open-source the project (including the server code).

There are numerous ways to compare text files on a Linux system from the command line. This post describes seven commands that can help you do this and explains how to interpret the results.