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Tuxedo computer is working on an ARM Linux laptop powered by Snapdragon X Elite chipset. Great news for Linux users! Tuxedo Computers, a company that specializes in creating computers built for Linux, has announced that they are working on an ARM-based Linux laptop using Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X Elite chipset.

Today, it's widely known that proprietary firmware, such as BIOS and UEFI, often contains backdoors that compromise user privacy. I believe that hardware manufacturers intentionally integrate these backdoors into their closed-source firmware for obvious reasons. This presents a serious privacy issue, prompting the open-source community and privacy advocates to develop secure, open-source boot firmware. These alternatives prioritize user privacy and enhance hardware security.

HandBrake 1.8.1 free video transcoder fixes video artifacts, subtitle corruption, and more. Windows users, install .NET Desktop Runtime 8.0.x first!

It's been a long time coming. Now our journos speak their brains. The US government on Thursday banned Kaspersky Lab from selling its antivirus and other products in America from late July, and from issuing updates and malware signatures from October.

Microsoft Paint is a simple raster graphics editor that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows.

SeeedStudio Previews R1000 Powered by Raspberry Pi CM4

Flathub as the centralized repository for serving Flatpak sandboxed Linux applications crossed the threshold this weekend of serving more than two billion downloads.

X4: Foundations 7.00 Update and X4: Timelines from Egosoft bring some huge changes to the huge space sim and there's never been a better time to try it out.

Learn how to check the PHP (or PHP-FPM) version on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions from the command line.

Meet Reflector, the Arch Linux tool that optimizes your Pacman experience by selecting the fastest and most up-to-date mirrors. Here's how to use it.

Earlier this week was a proposal for creating a new Mesa legacy driver branch for clearing out older OpenGL drivers like the ATI R300, AMD R600, Lima, Nouveau NV30, and other older GPU drivers. However, other upstream Mesa developers aren't convinced by the proposal.

Mozilla backtracking on private window changes after uproar. Firefox remains the browser of choice for many, but the latest update has lost users' tabs and makes it much more apparent when they have private tabs open, missing the point of privacy.

We have plenty of note-taking applications for Android. Some might prefer to use the default apps by Samsung, Google or any other phone manufacturer, and others would look for open-source solutions like Standard Notes.

Here are the best free JavaScript runtimes with our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart.

A new version of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, a free, open-source, and cross-platform office suite, is now available to download. If you’ve not yet found a reason to try this productivity powerhouse out, this latest update could well change that. Last autumn’s ONLYOFFICE 7.5 release added a new PDF application to the suite. This could open/view PDF files, and handle basic PDF editing, like form filling, highlighting, simple annotations, and scribbling on documents with a pen tool.

Prestashop is a fully customizable and feature-rich e-commerce solution for building comprehensive e-commerce websites. In this guide, you’ll learn how to install Prestashop on the Ubuntu 24.04 server with the LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP) and Composer.

Darktable 4.8 open-source raw image editor has been released today as a major update introducing new features, improvements, and enhanced camera support.

Launch your data science journey with Canonical's Data Science Stack (DSS). This open-source environment (built on MicroK8s, JupyterLab, MLflow) offers a ready-to-run platform for machine learning on Ubuntu workstations.

Or any other hypervisors that might hypothetically be acquired or suddenly get more costly. Moving a VM from one host machine to another is easy. Moving VMs from one hypervisor to another is less trivial – but help is at hand.

Newly merged patches for Mesa 24.2 slightly enhance the default out-of-the-box build experience for the open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers on POWER/PowerPC platforms.