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Here we go again! Mozilla promoted today the Firefox 116 web browser to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to take a closer look at the new features and improvements in this next major Firefox release.

LXD is no longer a part of the Linux Containers project but is now managed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Here's more on the topic!

Just one notice regarding current review. Quoting mentioned "Howto" : Officially, Windows 11 requires Secure Boot and TPM 2.0. These features are not (yet) available in VirtualBox. The result is that you will get the error as you can see on the right image. Important note for Windows 11:

To bypass these settings, click on the X icon at the right upper corner and quit the setup. Hold the SHIFT key and press F10. Then give the command ‘regedit’. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMSetup and create a new key (folder) here named ‘LabConfig’. Within this key, create a new DWORD (32 bits) value named ‘BypassSecureBootCheck’. Create another DWORD (32 bits) value named ‘BypassTPMCheck’. Don’t forget to set both values to 1.

A simple guide demonstrating how to enable autosave in LibreOffice and OpenOffice documents.

The GNOME Project released today the alpha version of the upcoming GNOME 45 desktop environment as the first development milestone to give us an early look at the new features and enhancements.

After spending eight years as a Linux Containers project, Canonical says it wants to bring the project back home to Ubuntu.

Release is good news for fans of Windows 7, 8, and macOS from Sierra to Mojave. The latest version of Firefox browser is out and should help keep some older operating systems viable, at least for another year.…

Making sure your graphics card’s frames per second (FPS) output matches the refresh rate of your monitor shouldn’t be an issue. But sometimes it can be. libstrangle is a Linux utility that lets you cap the FPS of a game. It’s free and open source software written in C.

No immediate risk of delisting, but company intends to claw its way back. The New York Stock Exchange has notified MariaDB, the database services biz formed around a fork of MySQL, that it is not in compliance with its listing manual after the company's share price dipped below $1 over a 30-day period.…

Post below was inspired by article "How to install Windows 11 in a VirtualBox with Ubuntu Linux as host" . In particular, mentioned "Howto" suggests a known registry hack descscribed in section "Important note for Windows 11" . Down here follows another aproach, proposed in http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/331458/index.html for KVM Hypervisor, it is supposed to be applied to Virtualbox 7.0. Once again we intend to work via "alien" conversion on Ubuntu 22.04 and SparkyLinux 7 .

Hardware video decoding for Intel GPUs on Linux and Tab Manager close buttons are among the new features of the just-released Firefox 115. Learn more here!

The Nitrogen8M Plus SMARC from Laird Connectivity is a high-performance embedded computing module featuring a Quad-core Arm-A53 along with a 2.3 TOPS NPU for machine learning inference and onboard Image Signal Processor (ISP). The product page indicates that the Nitrogen8M Plus features the NXP i.MX 8M Plus with the following architecture:  i.MX 8M Plus — […]

How To Configure PureFTPd To Accept TLS Sessions On Debian Linux. FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure. This article explains how to configure PureFTPd to accept TLS sessions on a Debian server.

Swing Music bills itself as a cooler Spotify from both a visual and functionality perspective. That caught my attention. Unlike Spotify, it’s not a streaming service. Instead, Swing Music is a self-hosted music player where you provide the audio files. This is free and open source software.

The end dates are approaching for CentOS Stream 8 and CentOS Linux 7. Users need to start planning system migrations and consider options like CentOS Stream 9, converting to RHEL 8, or exploring other operating systems. After May 31, 2024, CentOS Stream 8 will be archived, and no further updates will be provided. Similarly, CentOS Linux 7 reaches its end of life on June 30, 2024, with no more updates available. It's crucial to migrate containers and establish a regular update strategy to prevent security risks and potential costs. Always remember to set resource limits, autoscaler limits, and update containers regularly.

When you're on the wrong side of Red Hat, these could be subject to change. Last week, the Rocky Linux project said it had found a way to continue delivering its RHEL-based distribution. Now we have some information on how it's doing it.…

Orange Pi launched today a single board computer board with a small form-factor based on the Allwinner H618 64-bit processor clocked at 1.5GHz. The Orange Pi Zero 3 is equipped with one Gigabit Ethernet port with PoE support, various GPIOs and Wi-Fi/BT 5.0 connectivity. This Orange Pi board comes in a similar form-factor (50 x […]

Inode notify (inotify) is a Linux kenel subsystem which provides APIs to to monitor filesystem events. Besides communicating with such APIs from proper programming languages, it is possible to take advantage of the exposed functionalities by using some explicitly designed command line tools such as inotifywait, which can be easily installed in all the major Linux distributions.

Effortlessly analyze, track and monitor your Internet traffic in real-time with Sniffnet network monitoring tool in Linux, and Unix.

Peppermint OS Ditches the Sweet Logo and Gets a Major Makeover with Debian 12 'Bookworm'