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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.

Software vulnerability submissions generated by AI models have ushered in a "new era of slop security reports for open source" – and the devs maintaining these projects wish bug hunters would rely less on results produced by machine learning assistants.

A promising patch for the Linux kernel is optimizing the locking contention and scattered address space for the MD bitmap code to improve both the storage throughput and latency.

Simplexity is a simple desktop app that accesses Perplexity. It’s free and open source software.

Microsoft must be very pleased with what IBM is doing

switcherooctl, a lightweight userspace utility, is the recommended solution for managing GPU switching on openSUSE with multiple GPUs.

MiniOS 4.0 unveils a new Toolbox edition, enhanced visuals, better system tools, kernel updates, and support for NTFS, FAT32, and exFAT storage.

While the Ubuntu desktop has been offered the newer GNOME Console as an alternative to GNOME Terminal, there's been a recent fondness around Ptyxis and apparently is becoming the recommended replacement to GNOME Terminal for the Ubuntu camp...

Currently the Linux kernel's "perf" performance monitoring subsystem has a limit on 2,048 CPU cores for its CPU map that is set by the MAX_NR_CPUS value. But that's becoming not enough in today's high core count era that patches are looking to raise it to a 4,096 CPU core limit by default...

Systemd 257 Linux service manager released with major updates: revamped tmpfiles purge, JSON public API, improved device handling, and future-proofed kernel support.

Mid-November release will be maintained for 'several years' Last month's new version of the Linux kernel, 6.12, has been confirmed as the newest LTS release… which also marks the end of the line for kernel 4.19.…