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The EXT2 file-system's direct access "DAX" mode is being deprecated and expected for removal at the end of 2025, after this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version...

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As another alternative to the likes of the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V developer board, the Andes Voyager is in the process of seeing patches reviewed for mainline Linux kernel support...

Learn how to install Bitwarden on Ubuntu 24.04 in our latest easy-to-follow guide. You can install Bitwarden on the same VPS as your website. Bitwarden is a free and open-source password manager that can be used to store passwords for any device and browser. This application helps you not only create and manage passwords but also sync them across all devices. Bitwarden offers multiple client applications including mobile apps, CLI, web interface, browser extensions, and desktop apps. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Bitwarden on Ubuntu 24.04.

Oregon State University's Open Source Lab may shut down without $250K in funding. Projects like Gentoo, Debian, Fedora, etc., rely on it.

Be sure to take the included poll after you read this delve into Redis and the wishy-washy world that has become the company’s relationship with open-source.

Linux kernel developers target outdated CPU support, with major code cleanup and a push for streamlined x86 architecture support.

Cheap Linux VPS hosting is a trap you need to be cautious about. Find out all the important industry secrets and what to look out for.

The QEMU processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack has been seeing experimental support for the Rust programming language developing within its codebase. There continues to be good progress being made on this Rust support as more QEMU components get ported over to this programming language for memory safety and other security benefits...

Blueprint is a currently-experimental markup language and compiler for crafting GTK4 user interfaces. Blueprint allows declaratively creating GTK UIs and aims to be a very easy and nice developer experience...

Wine 10.7 is out now, featuring user fault fd support, float format conversion updates, PDB backend work, and 14 bug fixes.

This tutorial explains why Flatpak apps use so much disk space and are larger in size compared to traditional packages in Linux.

The first beta release of FreeBSD 14.3 was released on Friday night for testing. FreeBSD 14.3 will become the newest stable release this summer while later in 2025 we can look forward to the big FreeBSD 15.0 release...

Last year Redis made the much criticized move to Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1 (SSPL) licensing. The move was widely panned by the open-source community and led to the Linux Foundation forking it as Valkey and also other forks like Redict coming about. In the months since many Linux distributions have switched from Redis to Valkey. Now Redis Labs announced today that with the Redis 8.0 release, they are adding AGPLv3 to the licensing mix...

Did you have time to keep up with the news this week? Here’s your chance to brag… or not. This week there are 10 questions. Good luck!

When I first ran Endeavor OS on a new PC device. I tried to watch a video, and when in fullscreen mode, suddenly the monitor screen went blank like the monitor was dead. At that time I clicked 2x using the mouse so that the screen became fullscreen. In addition, trying to use the F11 button on the keyboard is also the same.

For anyone storing personal information on their laptops especially, I definitely recommend making use of Linux LUKS-based full disk encryption capabilities. I've been recommending going with the full disk encryption capabilities for nearly two decades to help protect personal data in case your laptop is lost or stolen. The performance implications of using full disk encryption have went down over time and in most real-world workloads you'll see minimal to any difference out of it. As it's been a while since running any reference benchmarks looking at no disk encryption to full disk encryption, here are some results on the newly-released Ubuntu 25.04 paired with the Framework Laptop 13 powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point".

Thousands of users wanted it, so Firefox delivered it. Tab Groups are now live to help you declutter and stay organized while browsing.

Microsoft can see this; all it can do is spam the "media" with WSL nonsense (i.e. stay with Windows, please!).