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Choosing the best Linux distro can be a daunting task with the sheer variety of options available. Whether you’re a beginner looking for the best Linux desktop distro, an intermediate user wanting more control, or a power user seeking the best Linux flavor, there is something for everyone in the Linux world.

Linus Torvalds, Broadcom, Dell, HPE, and Lenovo on the list. The shape of the x86 instruction set architecture (ISA) is evolving. On Tuesday, Intel and AMD announced the formation of an ecosystem advisory group intended to drive greater consistency between the brands' x86 implementations.

The MSI MS-CF17 is a fanless 3.5-inch single board computer powered by the Intel 13th Gen Raptor Lake-P series with options for embedded and industrial SKUs. The MSI MS-CF17 3.5? single-board computer supports the Windows 10 IoT Enterprise 2021 LTSC and Windows 11 IoT Enterprise operating systems, with Linux support available on request.

Oracle released today VirtualBox 7.1.4 as the second maintenance update in the VirtualBox 7.1 series of this powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform virtualization software for Linux, macOS, Solaris, and Windows.

Are you tired of Windows but scared of Linux? But what if Linux looked like Windows and offered a user-friendly terminal-free user experience? Here are five Linux distributions offering a Windows-like experience so you can smoothly make the jump to Linux!

Richard Biener of SUSE published a GCC 15.0.0 status report for outlining the current development state of the GCC 15 open-source compiler as it works its way toward the stable GCC 15.1 release in the early months of 2025.

PlayTogether Studio who made Run Prop, Run! and the Mad Experiments: Escape Room series have put up a demo and release date for Puropu Defense Squad. A mixture of a shooter and tower defense. The good news is that it has a demo up now you can play for Steam Next Fest that was expanded with more content, and it will release with Native Linux support on December 9th.

Clonezilla Live 3.2, a partition and disk imaging/cloning program, is here with Debian Sid base, Linux kernel 6.11, and improved disk scanning.

Fail2ban is free and open-source IPS (Intrusion Prevention Software) that helps administrators secure Linux servers against malicious login and brute-force attacks. In this guide, you'll learn how to install Fail2ba on Ubuntu 24.04 server.

Straight forward install Pycharm-community-2024.2.3 via extracting tar ball either snap will fail showing up following error : $ ~/Downloads/pycharm-community-2024.2.3/bin> ./pycharm.sh

**Start Failed** Internal error java.lang.InternalError: Unable to load native GTK libraries

To avoid this failure libgthread-2_0-0 is supposed to be preinstalled.

The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.2.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment series with an initial batch of bug fixes.

Debian Developer Niko Tyni announced that Debian Unstable has been upgraded to Perl 5.40.0, bringing a range of new features, security updates, and bug fixes.

OpenZFS 2.3-rc1 released last week with RAIDZ expansion, fast deduplication, and direct IO support among other changes for this ZFS file-system implementation for use on Linux and FreeBSD systems. OpenZFS 2.3-rc2 is out today with a few more interesting changes.

Python comes with several different libraries that allow you to write a command line interface for your scripts.

In short, there's some dodgy private company trying to promote itself by trash-talking "Linux" for over 10 days already (many shallow pieces in "the media"). But it's not about Linux, it's about servers that haven't been patched for ages and it's the fault of some outdated programs installed on them.

LibreSSL 4.0 introduces portable changes, bug fixes, and internal cleanups. Now supporting OpenBSD 7.6, improving TLS, X.509, and RSA key handling.

As Matt Mullenweg and David Heinemeier Hansson feud over FOSS, community worries about the fallout. WordPress has banned its user groups from accepting sponsorship from WP Engine – or even allowing its employees to attend events.

A lot of early UNIX and therefore Linux games struggled with the fact that the X toolkit was geared towards constructing staid graphical user interfaces, rather than for the speed and flexibility needed by games.

Learn how to install iTunes on Ubuntu using a Wine program, then how to launch iTunes on Ubuntu, including its removal steps.

Fwupd 2.0.1 has been released today as the first maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility for Linux-based operating systems.