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The extended filesystem, otherwise known as ext, has been a fundamental part of Linux since before the 1.0 release in 1994. Currently the filesystem is on its fourth major revision, in use since its release in 2008 thanks to its stability, reliability, and backwards compatibility with the other ext filesystem versions. But with that much history there are bound to be a few issues cropping up here and there.

Valve released today Proton 9.0-4 as the latest stable release of this open-source compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components for playing Windows games on Linux systems.

Back at the 2024 LLVM Developers' Meeting was an interesting presentation by AMD engineer Joseph Huber for how they have been exploring running common, standard C/C++ code directly on GPUs without having to be adapted for any GPU language / programming dialects or other adaptations.

Want to optimize your Linux desktop for responsiveness or gaming? Try the custom Libquorix or XanMod Kernels. Besides the default and mainline Kernels, there are some other kernels available for Debian/Ubuntu users.

Fresh off of adding support for automatic window snapping, the developers behind GNOME Shell’s most configurable and feature-packed window tiling extension are back with another update.

So, are you ready to try openSUSE for gaming?

Every now and then I load OpenPA and browse around. Its creator and maintainer, Paul Weissmann, has been very active lately updating the site with new articles, even more information, and tons of other things, and it’s usually a joy to stumble upon something I haven’t read yet, or just didn’t know anything about.

The OpenMandriva team released today OpenMandriva Lx 24.12 as the latest snapshot of the “ROME” rolling release series of this Mandriva Linux successor featuring the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies.

Going toe-to-toe with proprietary players these days means including a capable AI assistant. As Ragu used to say, “It’s in there.”

With the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel one of the biggest features for those using new AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors is using the AMD P-State driver by default for servers/motherboards with ACPI CPPC support enabled.

Linux admins and infosec professionals tasked with safeguarding sensitive communications face increasing risks with emerging privacy threats like China-sponsored telecom hacking on the rise.

QEMU 9.2 open-source machine emulator introduces advanced ARM support, Nitro Enclave emulation, Vulkan-enhanced graphics, and more.

Learn how to simulate the goto functionality in Bash scripts using label-based navigation. This approach leverages structured techniques like case statements to replicate the behavior of jumping between labels, offering a cleaner and more maintainable alternative to traditional goto logic.

Because it is an open source technology, anyone can use Fast-LLM to help accelerate AI training, including fine tuning operations. The intent is that it can be a drop-in replacement to an existing AI training pipeline with minimal configuration changes. The new open source project aims to differentiate against commonly used AI training frameworks, including the open-source PyTorch, with a series of innovations for data parallelism and memory management.

The Linux Mint team has now published the ISO images of the beta release of the upcoming Linux Mint 22.1 release, which can be downloaded right now for public testing from the official mirrors.

GNU Shepherd as a service manager for both system and user services that is used by Guix and relying on Guile Scheme has finally reached version 1.0. For those not pleased with systemd, GNU Shepherd can be used as an init system and now has finally crossed the version 1.0 milestone after 21 years of development.

I wasn’t about to write that without confirmation from benny. The fourth law of journalism, “don’t write about something unless you’re sure you know what you’re writing about,” applies as much to tech journalism as it does to real journalism.

Apple Weather is a weather app that keeps you informed about conditions including temperature, rain, snow, and wind. It's available on Apple devices such as iPhones, iPads, and Apple Watches.

Miracle-WM 0.4 Wayland compositor rolls out with i3-IPC support, named workspaces, and better Waybar integration.

Here's a quick guide to adding users and groups, and then how to add users to groups, all from the command line on the Linux platform.