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Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability for public testing of the first Release Candidate (RC) development milestone of the upcoming Linux 6.11 kernel series.

While the upcoming AMD Ryzen 9000 series desktop processors continue to make use of RDNA2 graphics, with the Ryzen AI 300 series shipping today in notebooks there are RDNA3.5 graphics being introduced alongside the Zen 5 CPU cores and upgraded Ryzen AI XDNA2 NPU.

OpenBSD's latest update brings VA-API support, enabling hardware-accelerated video decoding for improved performance and efficiency in video playback.

PreviewQt is a file previewer that strives to be lightweight, very fast, and simple. It supports a huge range of files and formats.

This is a review on Lubuntu 24.04, and whether it fixed some issues it has in the past releases or not.

A comprehensive guide for a hassle-free upgrade to Linux Mint 22 "Wilma" from 21.3 "Virginia." Tested and proven to give you successful results.

Today, the Linux Mint team opened the upgrade path from Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia” to the latest Linux Mint 22 “Wilma” allowing existing users to upgrade their installations. Here’s how!

Available now with Native Linux support and full Steam Deck support with the 1.0 release, Scorchlands has left Early Access.

While most Linux file-systems are rather robust in recovering when the system experiences a power loss, the UBIFS file-system is more prone to problems when a power-cut happens.

This article spotlights alternative tools to watch.

Learn about the best new features of Linux Mint 22, "Wilma".

If you plan on trying the new Linux Mint 22 release in a virtual machine, why not double-up the fun by taking it for a spin in the VirtualBox 7.1 beta, which slipped out last night.

Zulip Server 9.0, a free and open-source Microsoft Teams alternative, brings streamlined navigation, updated channels, and faster messaging.

A FreeBSD marketing document highlighting FreeBSD’s strengths is, of course, hardly a surprise, but considering it’s fighting what you could generously call an uphill battle against the dominance of Linux, it’s still interesting to see what, exactly, FreeBSD highlights as its strengths.

OpenSUSE's Aeon is up to its third release candidate as what was formerly known as MicroOS Desktop GNOME for a container-based, immutable desktop operating system.

electerm is a terminal emulator with bags of additional functionality. It’s free and open source software.

The developer of Puzzledorf emailed in about their rather vibrant Sokoban-style game that recently added Native Linux support.

After more than a year in the works, Vanilla OS 2 “Orchid” has been released today for this Debian-based operating system built with simplicity in mind and offering a vanilla GNOME desktop experience.

OPNsense 24.7 'Thriving Tiger' open-source firewall and routing platform rolls out powered by FreeBSD 14.1, with enhanced VPNs and performance.

Some days there’s something extra interesting to watch online — a sports event, election coverage, a certain show is leaving Netflix so you gotta binge — but you’ve got work to do. The Picture-in-Picture feature in Firefox makes multitasking with video content smooth and easy, no window shuffling necessary.