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Thanks to their powerful tools, open-source nature, and cross-platform availability, two software solutions, GIMP and Krita, have revolutionized the creative landscape. While their primary focus is different, they do rival each other in specific areas. That said, for serious creatives, Krita clearly emerges as the superior choice due to its focus on digital painting and drawing.

KDE Plasma 6.2.2 desktop environment rolls out with new translations and fixes, including updates to KWin, Plasma Audio, and Workspace.

SiFive recently introduced the HiFive Premier P550, a high-performance RISC-V development board for demanding applications. Designed in a compact Mini-DTX form factor, it supports Linux development and is optimized for RISC-V operating systems across various industries.

Following the ASUS AIPT patch posting this weekend from an Intel Linux engineer that was analyzing my previously-published Lunar Lake results showing rather poor performance on the ASUS Zenbook S 14, the performance has been looking much better.

Several Russian Maintainers removed from the Linux Kernel due to Compliance Concerns. Is nationality the new criteria for contributing to Linux?

After a one-week delay, the GNOME project released today GNOME 47.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest and greatest GNOME 47 “Denver” desktop environment series to fix bugs and crashes, but also introduce various improvements.

BoxBuddy is a graphical user interface for Distrobox, a container wrapping layer that lets users install containerised versions of Linux.

Learn about the new features of the Fedora 41 release workstation edition.

Tor Browser 14.0, based on Firefox ESR 128, is now available with enhanced privacy, security, and fingerprinting protections.

Following yesterday's news first featured on Phoronix of several Linux driver maintainers being de-listed from their maintainer positions within the mainline Linux kernel over their connections to Russia, Linus Torvalds has today commented on the matter...

What is fstab in Lunix? What are fstab options, and when should you use them? Our latest tutorial covers all the fstab details and everything you need to know about this file. Let’s get straight into it.

AlmaLinux OS, an open-source and free enterprise Linux operating system, is developing a preview version of AlmaLinux OS 10, codenamed "Kitten".

Parrot Security announced today the release and general availability of Parrot OS 6.2 as the latest version of this Debian-based distribution for ethical hacking and penetration testing.

Parrot OS 6.2, a security and privacy-focused Linux distro, rolls out with updated packages and the new Rocket Docker launcher.

The Tor project released today Tor Browser 14.0 as the latest stable update to this open-source, cross-platform, and free web browser designed to protect yourself against tracking, surveillance, and censorship using the Tor anonymous network.

Rustls was initially talked up as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language for its memory safety guarantees. But now besides the talked up advantages due to being written in Rust, it has reached the point of reportedly being faster than both OpenSSL and BoringSSL...

AlmaLinux Kitten preview offers a sneak peek into AlmaLinux’s next major 10 release with x86-64-v2 support, Secure Boot, and more.

THINGS are not exactly improving. Linux affairs are just getting less transparent.

The AlmaLinux Foundation warns that this new distribution, which was made available today, is not intended for production use but is for developers working downstream of AlmaLinux OS.

Calamares 3.3.10 rolls out with updates to permissions handling, keyboard, and locale modules.