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KDE neon, an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution spun by the KDE project to include the latest KDE software has been rebased on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. While Ubuntu 22.04 LTS will be supported until 2027 by Canonical, it has older software and KDE thinks it's time to rebase KDE neon.

The Dark Angels ransomware group is known for its “sophisticated” and “stealthy” attack strategies that primarily target large corporations for significant ransom payments. This group has gained fame for executing highly targeted attacks, including a record-breaking “ransom of $75 million” paid by a ‘Fortune 50 company’ in early 2024.

Canonical released today Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) as the latest stable version of their popular GNU/Linux distribution featuring up-to-date components and new features.

The Open 3D Engine as the open-source game engine developed under the Linux Foundation umbrella and began as an advanced version of the Amazon Lumberyard engine is out with a new feature release.

What is Systemctl and how should you use it? Learn everything you need to know about this command and the systemd services it manages.

Let's take a sneak peek at this interesting operating system — Redox OS.

Better support for gaming on Fedora Asahi Remix has been a long standing user request. Today at XDC 2024, we announced the preliminary availability of our game playing toolkit, integrating x86 emulation with MS Windows compatibility.

OpenBSD is arguably the most secure general-purpose OS for general-purpose computers. This version has better laptop support, includes more Arm64 kit, and brings hardware-accelerated video playback.

Raspberry Pi owners have always been prone to coming up with elaborate, technically interesting but practically questionable projects, and Pi enthusiast Jeff Geerling has an exciting new submission to that canon: connecting an old AMD Radeon RX 460 GPU to the Raspberry Pi 5's PCI Express bus and managing to play demanding titles like Doom 3 (2004) and Tux Racer at a crisp 4K resolution.

KDE Gear 24.08.2 apps collection is now available for download, with key improvements to the Dolphin, Kate, and Konsole apps.

German-based Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers unveiled today the TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen6 Linux-powered laptop with updated processor, graphics, and display components.

For the next five years, Microsoft will be under the watchful eye of Germany’s Federal Cartel Office, which will be seeking to thwart any monopolistic activity coming from Redmond proactively.

While Intel Xe2 graphics have just debuted with Lunar Lake and we are awaiting Battlemage discrete GPUs with Xe2, Intel's open-source Linux driver engineers have begun work enabling Xe3 graphics! Xe3 driver work is now underway for next-generation Intel graphics.

The ESP32-P4 Function EV Board, powered by the ESP32-P4 chip, is designed for developing cost-effective, networked audio and video applications that demand low power and high performance, including smart displays, network cameras, and digital signage.

Kvark is a new release from developer Latest Past and publisher Perun Creative, set in a fictional version of the 80s Czech Republic where you explore a top-secret uranium mine. The 1.0 release is out now, which comes with a Native Linux version after a year in Early Access.

A honeypot is a ‘cybersecurity mechanism’ that is primarily designed to lure threat actors away from legitimate targets. While this mechanism is performed by simulating a valuable asset like a “server” or “application.” Not only that even it also serves as a lure that enables the organizations to “monitor” and “analyze” the ‘tactics’ and ‘techniques’ used by threat actors.

ChromeOS may not be the most popular Linux distro, but it’s still a decent operating system for users who only rely on Google’s web apps. Although Google lets you set up ChromeOS Flex on devices that aren’t first-party Chromebooks, there are plenty of ChromeOS-based operating systems out there.

In a recent performance review comparing Intel's Lunar Lake Core Ultra 200 series laptop processors on Linux and Windows 11, performance on Linux was consistently better across almost all benchmarks. Linux was on average 14% faster, and Blender 3D rendering and heavily multi-threaded workloads saw the biggest performance gap.

In this article, you will learn how to install Python and Pip package manager and install popular Python libraries with practical examples.

You probably have documents on your desktop operating system that contain sensitive information. So what do you do to protect that data? You could hide the document in an obscure folder -- but that's not really safe, because anyone with access to your computer could rummage around and locate the file in question.