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AnyDesk is a popular remote desktop application works in Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. It features full remote access, file manager and file transfer, chat, VPN, wake-on-lan, and more.

If it feels like the next major release of open source image editor The GIMP has been in the works forever, know that anticipation for its arrival has been building longer still – yet the wait will soon be over.

Rough start. Very much so. A time travel back into the past, but not in a good way, if you will. I was not very happy the first time I tried Kubuntu 24.04. The distro felt extremely unpolished. Just a few weeks later, the distro had a major update, and along the way, a good few dozen bugs and issues went away.

Systemd 257-rc1 is out today as a big feature update for this release that brings many new features and other refinements to this key piece of the Linux operating system stack.

At this year's Ubuntu Summit in The Hague, we were really hoping to hear some news about Canonical's new immutable desktop distro. It was a hot topic this time last year, and since it did not arrive alongside Noble Numbat in April, we were expecting it would appear alongside last month's Oracular Oriole – but no.

Ahead of tomorrow's availability of the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor as the first Zen 5 CPU released with 3D V-Cache, today the review embargo lifts.

It’s almost time for the Linux Distributions DevRoom at FOSDEM again! Let’s dive into what we’d like to see and how you can get involved! Submit your talk to FOSDEM, when you’re ready! Read on for further information.

21 lines that show the big man still has what it takes. A relatively tiny code change by penguin premier Linus Torvalds is making a measurable improvement to Linux's multithreaded performance.

The long elusive GIMP 3.0 image editor that is a free software alternative to Adobe Photoshop has finally reached the release candidate phase of development.

Everyone is talking about SmolLM. Is it really buzzworthy? Let me share my Raspberry Pi tests.

Typically in my launch-day Linux reviews of new AMD EPYC processors I try to include results both of the performance determinism (default) and power determinism modes available with these server processors since opting in to the power determinism mode can allow for additional performance uplift at the cost of slightly higher power costs.

Swathes of Bitcoin’s history have been erased from the internet forum that hosted communications between developers for nearly a decade.

Linux allows you to create symbolic links, or symlinks, that point to another file or folder on your machine. The best way to do this is with the ln terminal command—though there are some graphical file managers that can create symbolic links too.

The Mozilla Foundation is laying off about a third of its staff. The non-profit org, which oversees the corporation that develops the Firefox web browser, insists it will continue its advocacy mission, though its approach may change.

Yearly report finds explosion of GenAI projects, new users from outside the coding community responsible for boost. There's been an upset in the Octoverse, as Python has unseated JavaScript as the most-used programming language on GitHub.

Fedora 41 has been released! So let’s see what arrives with the new releases for the Fedora Atomic Desktops variants (Silverblue, Kinoite, Sway Atomic and Budgie Atomic).

Valve's work with Proton to run Windows games on Linux / Steam Deck is amazing, but they do require you have newer GPUs so some have been a bit left behind. Proton-Sarek aims to fix that.

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list last week and now queued already via tip/tip.git's "x86/bugs" Git branch is support for a new AMD CPU feature we haven't heard about until now... ERAPS, the Enhanced Return Address Prediction Security.

Firefox 130 introduces automatic alt text for PDF images and an improved alt text flow. In addition to protecting users’ privacy with a small language model that operates locally on their device, these improvements help ensure more images receive alt text resulting in more accessible PDFs.

A popular expression in the Linux forums nowadays is noting that someone “uses Arch btw”, signifying that they have the technical chops to install and use Arch Linux, a distribution designed to be cutting edge but that also has a reputation of being for advanced users only.