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Steam just released its monthly hardware survey, and there are a few noteworthy trends worth commenting on. While the majority of Steam users have 16GB of RAM (47.08%), a good number are quickly migrating to 32GB. Users with 32GB are still a far second at 28.72%, but this number jumped by 0.63% compared to the previous month — the largest growth in any of the RAM configurations Steam lists.

The 190th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on June 2nd, 2024, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

SSH is a communication protocol that allows us to access remote hosts and securely transfer data over unsecure networks, thanks to encrypted connections. By using the SSH tunneling technique, we can forward TCP traffic from and to a local machine, bypassing firewall restrictions. In this tutorial, we learn the difference between local and remote SSH tunnels, and how to create them.

At Computex 2024, AMD confirmed the Instinct MI325X will be released in Q4'2024 as the successor to the MI300X accelerator. Next year will be the AMD Instinct MI350 series based on the new CFNA 4 architecture. AMD is committing to an annual Instinct accelerator roadmap moving forward as they further up their AI game.

Discover a step-by-step tutorial for downloading YouTube audio and video on Linux from the command line using yt-dlp.

Here’s our review of the TEAMGROUP MP44 2TB M.2 NVMe SSD, a low-cost, DRAM-less NVMe tested under Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

COMPUTEX The third version of text-to-image model Stable Diffusion will be released into public preview on June 12. The date was revealed at the Computex conference in Taiwan today, where Stability AI CTO and co-interim CEO Christian Laforte revealed the news as he joined AMD CEO Lisa Su on stage.

Kaspersky has released a new virus removal tool named KVRT for the Linux platform, allowing users to scan their systems and remove malware and other known threats for free.

Linus Torvalds has announced the second release candidate (RC2) for the upcoming Linux kernel 6.10.

Learn how to install and use Grunt Javascript Task Runner, from basic usage to real-life implementation in web development projects.

Fedora FESCo grants an exception for shipping prebuilt macOS binaries to support Apple Silicon. Here's more on that!

Discover a step-by-step guide to install Ghost on Ubuntu, then create and set up a new Ghost site and configure Ghost with Nginx.

A new release of Ultramarine Linux 40 is now available & we did a test drive for a quick review.

Controversial free software developer Eric S Raymond has been spending a lot of time recently on the new Autodafe project as a means of free software projects from relying on Autotools. This "De-Autoconfiscation" has now led to the release of Autodafe 1.0 with the tool now being considered production-ready.

A web framework offers the developer a choice about how to solve a specific problem. By using a framework, a developer lets the framework control portions of their application. While it’s perfectly possible to code a web application without using a framework, it’s more practical to use one.

MediaWiki is an open-source wiki software written in PHP and MySQL. It is scalable and extensible wiki software-powered sites like Wikipedia and Wikimedia. This guide will show you how to install MediaWiki on Ubuntu 24.04 server.

Learn how to install Scrcpy on your Linux system and connect it to your Android device for seamless mirroring and control via USB or WiFi.

Now past the Linux 6.10 merge window, this week brought an initial batch of drm-misc-next changes submitted to the Direct Rendering Manager subsystem's DRM-Next for queuing until the Linux 6.11 merge window opens up in July. The changes this week include a notable addition for the open-source NVIDIA (Nouveau) driver and some improvements for the Intel iVPU driver for their Neural Processing Unit (NPU).

2024 FreeBSD Survey highlights user satisfaction and crucial OS features. Discover users' needs and views on system improvements.

Learn how to install Node.js and NPM on Ubuntu 24.04 using our easy to follow step-by-step guide or have our admins do it for you.