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Why Linux Mint Is My Main Distro

Linux News - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 22:20
Since I started using Linux over a decade ago, I’ve been a Mint fan. Over the years I’ve tried using other distros—and tried some really weird stuff, often in service of How-to Geek—but Linux Mint has always remained my daily driver and I’ve never seriously considered getting rid of it. Here’s why I like it.
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M5Stack ASR Unit with CI 03T for Offline Voice Recognition in Smart Devices for $7.50

Linux News - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 22:20
M5Stack recently launched the ASR Unit, which is an offline voice recognition module incorporating the CI-03T AI offline voice module. It is designed for applications that require speech recognition, voiceprint detection, and voice enhancement without relying on cloud-based processing.
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15 Top Free and Open Source PHP Web Frameworks

Linux News - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 22:20
When it comes to web development, there are a wide range of PHP frameworks to choose. The choice depends on finding the right tool for the job at hand. Here’s our pick of the finest PHP web frameworks.
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Amarok 3.2.2 Launches as the Final Qt5 Release Before Moving to Qt6

Linux News - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 22:20
Amarok 3.2.2 open-source music player lands with bug fixes and non-UNIX support, marking the final Qt5/KF5 release before the Qt6 transition.
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GNOME Software May Eventually Drop RPM Support In Favor Of Flatpaks

Linux News - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 22:20
Stemming from the ongoing discussion around the issues raised with Fedora's Flatpak package of OBS Studio and how Flatpaks should be prioritized within the GNOME Software app center/store, the future of RPM support within GNOME Software raised.
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gThumb Released 3.12.7 with Better WebP Images Support

Linux News - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 22:20
Like past few releases, gThumb 3.12.7 includes only minor new features, bug-fixes, and translation updates. For WebP image format, the release can now save the EXIF data, meaning the metadata about camera settings, date and time, and location etc information.
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Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze

Linux News - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 22:20
Overworked, under pressure, and subjected to abuse – is it really worth it? State Of Open Recent events have brought the plight of open source maintainers front and center, but the problems were brewing for many years.
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Open Sue! OBS Studio Threatens Fedora With Legal Action

Linux News - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 22:20
Another day, another Linux-related drama. This time, it's OBS Studio and Fedora going at it.
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openSUSE Replaces AppArmor with SELinux on New Tumbleweed Installations

Linux News - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 22:20
openSUSE Linux announced earlier this week that they are adopting SELinux as the default mandatory access control (MAC) system for new openSUSE Tumbleweed installations.
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What Is Arch Linux, and How Is It Different From Other Versions of Linux?

Linux News - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
Arch Linux might be the most misunderstood of all the Linux distributions. It’s supposed to be difficult to install and maintain, so why do people use it? What makes Arch so different?
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Karol Herbst Steps Down As Nouveau Maintainer Due To Linux Kernels Toxic Environment

Linux News - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
Karol Herbst has been a Nouveau driver developer for over a decade working on this open-source, reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. He went on to become employed by Red Hat. While he's known more these days for his work on Mesa and the Rusticl OpenCL driver for it, he's still remained a maintainer of the Nouveau kernel driver.
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OpenMV Introduces the GENX320 Camera Module for Event-Based Vision

Linux News - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
OpenMV has introduced the Prophesee GenX320 camera module, bringing event-based vision sensing to its embedded platform. Unlike traditional image sensors that capture entire frames at fixed intervals, the GenX320 detects only changes in a scene, reducing data rates while improving efficiency in motion detection.
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Why do younger coders struggle to break through the FOSS graybeard barrier?

Linux News - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
The hurdles are higher than you might imagine. Getting involved with open source projects is a great way to build experience in development, documentation, internationalization, and more – but it's not as easy as it should be.
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Kdenlive 24.12.2 Brings Bug Fixes and UI Improvements

Linux News - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
Kdenlive 24.12.2 open-source video editing software brings bug fixes, including UI resizing, proxy clip handling, and improved Speech-to-Text support.
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Contribute at the Fedora Test Day for WSL

Linux News - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) folks are working on the final integration of Fedora images for users in WSL. As a result, we have organized a test day on Monday,February 17, 2025 . The wiki page in this article contains links to the test images you’ll need to participate. Please continue reading for details.
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8 Weird and Wacky Linux Hardware Devices

Linux News - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
You can stick Linux in just about anything, and that's a big part of what makes it special. So here are some fun but still vaguely practical devices people have stuck Linux inside of.
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Ubuntu Making Progress On Replacing initramfs-tools With Dracut

Linux News - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
As a follow-up to the news from last October of Ubuntu considering Dracut to replace initramfs-tools for initrd generation, that work remains ongoing with some improvements since having been prepared for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release but it remains overall an active affair.
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Streamline Your Logs: Exploring Rsyslog for Effective System Log Management on Ubuntu

Linux News - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
In the world of system administration, effective log management is crucial for troubleshooting, security monitoring, and ensuring system stability. Logs provide valuable insights into system activities, errors, and security incidents.
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KDE Frameworks 6.11 Adds Search Providers for Nix Packages, Docker Hub, and More

Linux News - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
The KDE Project released KDE Frameworks 6.11 today as a new update to this collection of more than 70 add-on libraries to Qt providing commonly needed functionality to KDE apps and the KDE Plasma desktop.
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No More Snakes: Serpent OS Rebrands as AerynOS

Linux News - Sun, 02/16/2025 - 22:20
Ikey Doherty, the leader of the Serpent OS project, announces that the Linux distro rebrands to AerynOS to better reflects its vision.
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