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Earlier this year was a Fedora change proposal seeking to make KDE Plasma the default over GNOME for Fedora 42. A compromise of sorts has now been settled on with the Fedora Desktop Spin being promoted to an "Edition" status that will put it on the same level as the GNOME-based Fedora Workstation Edition.

Testing network speed is a critical part of diagnosing network issues or optimizing performance. On Linux, the command-line tool iperf3 is a robust and reliable solution for measuring bandwidth, latency, and packet loss.

Searching for an uptime monitor? Follow our Uptime Kuma Docker installation and configuration guide to ensure your services stay live 24/7.

First DE supposed to be installed is KDE Plasma 6.2.3, installation follows instructions proposed in thread https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/issues/2764 due to known issue with pipewire-pulse.service in arch ISO version as of 11/01/2024

SolidRun has launched a single-board computer tailored for Industrial Internet of Things and Human-Machine Interface applications, built around the i.MX8M Plus System-on-Module from NXP. Its carrier board includes features like RS232, RS485, dual CAN-FD, and dual 1Gb Ethernet and more.

Controlling services in Linux doesn't have to be a confounding experience. Here's how the process works and why it is often seen as an overly complicated task.

Last week Google announced the general availability of their C4A instances powered by their in-house Axion processors. I delivered launch-day benchmarks looking at the Google Axion CPU performance with the C4A instances compared to other Google Cloud instance types powered by Ampere Altra and Intel Xeon.

Great news for KDE fans! Fedora KDE is no longer a spin! The Fedora KDE Desktop Spin has been officially promoted to Edition status.

Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 is now available, adding Android HAL support, expanding device compatibility, and including stability enhancements.

To us, the Linux Foundation is just a massive scam. It calls itself "Linux", but only about 2% of its budget is devoted to Linux.

Does anyone want to tell Linus Torvalds? No? I didn't think so. I must be a glutton for punishment. Not only was my first programming language IBM 360 Assembler, my second language was C. Programming anything in them wasn't easy. Programming safely in either is much harder.

GNOME 47 ‘Denver’ proved a decent update to the GNOME desktop, delivering a hearty dose of new features, UI refinements, and app improvements.

Intel's Linux kernel test robot has reported a 3888.9% performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel as of this past week.

The Workstation team is working on the final integration of Anaconda Web UI Installer for Fedora Linux Workstation. As a result, the Fedora Workstation Working Group and QA teams have organized a test week from Monday, Nov 11, 2024 to Monday, Nov 18, 2024.

Calibre 7.21 ebook manager introduces an audio overlay for EPUB, enabling immersive reading with sentence tracking & custom voices.

The Banana Pi BPI-CanMV-K230D-Zero is an upcoming single-board computer for AIoT applications, developed in collaboration with Canaan Technology. Featuring the Kendryte K230D chip, it provides local AI inference capabilities, making it useful for DIY projects and embedded systems.

It will be interesting to see what questions Automattic’s CEO and WordPress’s co-founder gets asked about the current brouhaha with WP Engine that has to potential to affect 43% of the world’s websites.

While old Radeon GFX6/GFX7 era graphics processors are no longer actively supported by AMD on Windows and haven't been for quite a while, under Linux with the upstream open-source driver stack they remain supported and still enjoying improvements in large part from common code.

For two decades, Firefox has been at the heart of an open, user-centered web. From the early days of tabbed browsing and pop-up blocking to today’s privacy protections and customization options, Firefox has empowered users like you with control and freedom to explore the internet on your own terms.

So, what exactly is a “release candidate” (RC)? A release candidate is something that might be ready to be GIMP 3.0, but we want the larger community to test it first and report any problems they find.