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Like most Linux distributions, Fedora Linux comes in many different variants. For years, I stuck with the default version: Fedora Workstation. Now it's only Fedora Silverblue for me. Here's how this version of Fedora won me over.

Submitted today via DRM-Misc-Next to DRM-Next for staging ahead of the Linux 6.12 merge window in mid-September is optional support for displaying a QR code within the DRM Panic handler infrastructure when a Linux kernel panic occurs.

The Debian Project announced today the release and general availability of Debian 12.7 as a new ISO update to the latest Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” operating system series.

Suricata is an open-source IDS (Intrusion Detection System) and IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) developed by OSIF (open infosec foundation). It can monitor and examine network traffic and process every packet to detect malicious network activity.

This is what the Linux Foundation did to Linux.com after firing all the staff!

NoSQL database vendor MongoDB says it is making significant gains against open source relational rival PostgreSQL in a claim that seems to fly in the face of recent research.

Shotcut 24.08, a free cross-platform video editor, brings subtitle improvements, including new import formats and streamlined editing.

VersaLogic’s Swift is an upcoming high-performance embedded computer powered by Intel’s 6-core Xeon-E processor. This unit is designed for industrial applications, featuring robust capabilities such as up to 32 GB of error-correcting RAM, fast NVMe storage, and multiple expansion slots.

nook is an application which plays Animal Crossing hourly themes on the hour. Animal Crossing is a social simulation video game developed by Nintendo.

Even before the Bcachefs file-system driver was accepted into the mainline kernel, Debian for the past five years has offered a "bcachefs-tools" package to provide the user-space programs to this copy-on-write file-system.

ONLYOFFICE Docs or Document Server is an online office suite that can be installed on your local server. This guide shows you how to deploy the ONLYOFFICE Document Server on an Ubuntu 24.04 server, with PostgreSQL as the database and Nginx as a reverse proxy. You'll also secure the ONLYOFFICE Docs with HTTPS through Certbot and Letsencrypt.

Coming two months after Shotcut 24.06, the Shotcut 24.08 open-source and cross-platform video editor has been released today with new subtitle features and various other improvements.

The team behind EmuDeck, a project that started off to provide easy emulation on Steam Deck / SteamOS have announced their own hardware with the Bazzite Linux powered EmuDeck Machines. They're basically Steam Machines tailored more towards retro enthusiasts.

Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS is now officially available, featuring updated software packages and a supported smooth upgrade path from 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS.

A new version of the Vivaldi web browser is out with an assortment of amiable improvements. Vivaldi 6.9 intros support for renaming tabs and tab stacks, supports drag-and-drop downloads, and offers an improved overview of tabs synced across devices.

Discover multiple solutions to fix the unexpected error message on the Gnome Extensions site while installing a new extension.

rEFInd is a modern and highly customizable boot manager for UEFI and EFI-based machines that can be easily installed on any new Linux system.

Earlier this week I began with AmpereOne A192-32X benchmarks and will continue for the next several weeks in finally having hands-on with the 192-core AArch64 server processor using a Supermicro ARS-211M-NR R13SPD 2U server platform.

Switching from Windows to Linux can be intimidating, but Zorin OS is designed to make it easy. It offers a familiar, Windows-like experience while letting you explore the world of Linux without feeling lost.

Wedson Almeida Filho, a maintainer of the Rust for Linux project, recently announced his resignation, citing "nontechnical nonsense" as the reason for his departure.