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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.

Seeedstudio has recently showcased the BliKVM Plug-n-Play PCIe, a PCI Express card powered by the Raspberry Pi CM4. Designed to deliver BIOS-level control, this card enables secure and stable remote management of computer systems.

Let's assume that in the past 5 years "over 2 billion" became 2.5 billion. Servers are far fewer than desktops and laptops anyway. What is 4.5% of 2.5 billion? It is about 112,500,000 (112.5 million).

Learn about the LineSelect tool that allows you to interactively select single or multiple lines from stdin and output them to stdout.

With the recently introduced NVIDIA 555 Linux driver stable series their open-source GPU kernel driver modules are in great shape across consumer and professional graphics products.

Funtoo Linux to end? Founder Daniel Robbins announces the project's closure in August. Full story here.

With Windows 10's end of support coming up quickly next year, at least some users may consider making the switch to Linux.