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Wed, 04/16/2025 - 13:34
Duplicati is a backup client that securely stores encrypted, incremental, compressed backups on cloud storage services and remote file servers.
Wed, 04/16/2025 - 13:34
The T2 Linux team has release today T2 Linux SDE 25.4, codenamed “It Only Does Everything”, delivering a massive update for this highly portable source-based Linux distribution.
Wed, 04/16/2025 - 13:34
Today, the Manjaro Linux team announced the release and general availability of Manjaro 25.0 (codename Zetar) as the latest stable release for this Arch Linux-based distribution featuring Xfce, GNOME, and KDE Plasma flavors.
Wed, 04/16/2025 - 13:34
The Metis Compute Board is a compact single-board computer designed for AI applications requiring high computational performance at the edge. Built around the ARM-based RK3588 processor, it integrates the Metis AIPU for AI acceleration and features up to 16 GB of RAM, dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, and GPIO support. The board incorporates the Rockchip RK3588 […]
Wed, 04/16/2025 - 13:34
Learn how to use the Linux cut command to extract text by fields, characters, or bytes with real-world examples and tips.
Wed, 04/16/2025 - 13:34
The Fedora Project released today Fedora Linux 42 as the latest stable version of this powerful, Red Hat-sponsored distribution for the masses, featuring some of the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies.
Tue, 04/15/2025 - 22:20
If you want to convert a PDF to Markdown format (while keeping the images), this guide will show you how to do it using poppler-utils and pandoc, two powerful open-source tools used for document processing.
Tue, 04/15/2025 - 22:20
The work talked about back in January for improving the 32-bit PAE Linux kernel code for Physical Address Extensions to better jive with the code around Page Table Isolation (PTI) for mitigating the Meltdown vulnerability could soon be merged...
Tue, 04/15/2025 - 22:20
PipeWire 1.4.2 multimedia framework fixes MIDI CPU issues, improves pw-cat streaming, and resolves crashes.
Tue, 04/15/2025 - 22:20
The first Linux patch was posted today by an Intel engineer that explicitly mentions "Bartlett Lake" in opening the door for any other Linux kernel patches explicitly catering to Bartlett Lake processors...
Tue, 04/15/2025 - 22:20
PinePods is a Rust-based podcast management system that supports multiple users and relies on a central database with clients to connect to it.
Tue, 04/15/2025 - 22:20
The PipeWire project released today PipeWire 1.4.2 as a minor update to the latest PipeWire 1.4 series for this popular open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux systems.
Tue, 04/15/2025 - 22:20
PanVK, the open source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali GPUs, has reached a new milestone and is now officially conformant with the Vulkan 1.1 specification on the Arm Mali-G610 GPU
Tue, 04/15/2025 - 22:20
While LLVM LLD and Mold are two popular linkers on Linux systems with the latter being known for its impressive speed and much faster than GNU LD and Gold, this past week Qualcomm open-sourced a new linker: ELD...
Tue, 04/15/2025 - 22:20
MX Linux 23.6 has just been officially released today as the newest ISO snapshot in the MX Linux 23 “Libretto” series of this lightweight Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution for everyday use.
Tue, 04/15/2025 - 22:20
PeaZip 10.4 open-source file archiver enhances stability, error handling, and UI adaptability with new theme support, smarter context menus, and more.
Mon, 04/14/2025 - 22:20
Game engines are referred to as “game middleware” because they provide a flexible and reusable software platform.
Mon, 04/14/2025 - 22:20
qBittorrent 5.0.5 has been released as a new maintenance update to the latest qBittorrent 5.0 series of this popular, free, open-source, and cross-platform BitTorrent client for handling torrent/magnet links.
Mon, 04/14/2025 - 22:20
The 235th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on April 13th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.
Mon, 04/14/2025 - 22:20
While the Linux 6.15 merge window ended just one week ago and there is a month and a half until it will debut as stable, a notable feature has already been queued into a "next" branch for the follow-on Linux 6.16 cycle. For those making use of modern Intel Xeon processors with virtualization, the Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) support for KVM virtualization looks like it will finally be mainlined...