There’s a good range of QR tools available for Linux. Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart.

Gentoo Linux offers bootable QCOW2 disk images for amd64 and arm64 architectures, designed for cloud environments and easy testing with QEMU.

You’ve probably heard phrases like “Spin up a virtual machine” or “Try it out in a virtual machine.” But what are virtual machines, and how can you make use of them?

Believe it or not, to celebrate its 20th anniversary, VLC—the renowned media player used by millions worldwide—has announced a truly out-of-this-world project: sending user-submitted videos to the Moon.

Dispute settled, but not the causes. A clash over different Flatpak-packaged versions of OBS Studio highlights problems with distro-maintained software repositories versus external ones.

Valve is supporting Lenovo with the Legion Go S gaming handheld running their Arch Linux based SteamOS. Beyond the fanfare at CES, Valve has been collaborating with Lenovo on engineering resources for ensuring the Legion Go S is running well with SteamOS and in turn the mainline Linux kernel.

The folks at Nextcloud have upped their game again with this release of Nextcloud Hub 10. Most impressive are the improvements made to the platform’s AI Assistant.

Here we go again. One game I was excited about was the upcoming Mecha BREAK, which currently has a playtest demo on Steam but they've added in anti-cheat.

Extensions are like apps for your browser, letting you customize and enhance your online experience. Nearly half of all Firefox users have installed at least one extension, from privacy tools to productivity boosters.

Before there were modern Linux desktops, people used terminals to interact with computers. How did they get from printing terminals to modern displays?

DietPi 9.11, a Debian-based Linux distro for SBCs, arrives with Pi-hole 6 support, first boot fixes, enhanced Fail2Ban installation, and more.

SVT-AV1 as the open-source, CPU-based AV1 encoder that was started by Intel software engineers and now led by the Alliance for Open Media is out this week with the big SVT-AV1 3.0 release. Here's some details on SVT-AV1 3.0 as well as some initial performance benchmarks for this speedy AV1 encoder, especially on modern Intel and AMD processors.

Tableau is a visual analytics platform transforming the way we use data to solve problems. Tableau is proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

GNU Binutils (short for "Binary Utilities") is a set of command-line tools for handling object files, executables, and binary data.

At the moment things are still tense; we deal with violent Microsoft con jobs (American citizens) and their "hired guns from London" sending unauthorised and totally inappropriate messages to our lawyer, basically trying to not only threaten but also spy

The curl command-line tool is one of the most useful and versatile programs you can learn. Its versatility and comprehensive HTTP implementation mean that, if there’s a URL for it, curl can do it.

Fist we deploy Debian Testing as L1 KVM Guest (8 VCPs,16 GB RAM,CachyOS 6.13.4 Kernel). Second step would be to install KVM Hypervisor on Debian Testing (Trixie Alpha) Virtual machine. Afterwards it appears possible to setup Hyprland with ML4W 2.9.8.2 Dotfiles as L2 KVM Guest serving a dual DE for CachyOS which had been installed first as L2 KVM Guest inside Debian Testing L1 level. Running of Hyprland with ML4W 2.9.8.2 Dotfiles (L2) doesn't require enabling 3D acceleration in Virt-manager's configuration running on top of Debian Testing as KVM Guest

Today, the KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.3.2 as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series to address more bugs, crashes, and other issues reported by users.

AMD has sent out their initial pull request of "new stuff" for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver of feature additions they want to make for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel. Most notable from this week's submission to DRM-Next is preparing a lot of new GPU hardware support.

KiCad, the free open-source suite for electronic computer-aided design, announced new 9.0.0 release a few days ago.