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The USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates were submitted today for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window along with the other areas of the kernel overseen by Greg Kroah-Hartman.

Recently, the field of AI has been making some significant strides when it comes to following an open-source approach to development. The proprietary crowd wished they had that kind of close-knit community of developers working towards achieving great things.

Discover a wave terminal especially designed for people who find existing Linux terminals boring, as it tends to make things way easier, especially for Linux beginners.

Most browsers know way too much about you – your latest obsession, your shopping cart, even your weekend plans. Firefox? It’s built to power your browsing, nothing more. Here’s a breakdown of the Firefox features that keep you private and secure online.

DXVK 2.4.1, a Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 8/9/10/11, brings dynamic memory sizing for better performance in various game launchers.

This guide will walk you through the process of installing VirtualBox on Fedora Linux 41 and older versions.

Privacy activist group noyb has filed a complaint against Mozilla over a "Privacy Preserving Attribution" feature that was quietly enabled in the Firefox browser following a July update. "Contrary to its reassuring name, this technology allows Firefox to track user behavior on websites," noyb stated this morning. Worse: "Mozilla decided to turn it on by default once people installed a recent software update."

Joshua Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics team has opened a Mesa merge request to support a proposed "frog-fifo-v1" protocol for Wayland to address the matter of "FIFO is fundamentally broken under Mesa's Wayland WSI right now."

COSMIC, the new Linux desktop environment developed by System76, got its very first public release last month. And System76 just announced the second Alpha release of this new desktop environment, which is available for testing now.

The Archcraft idea started as a passion project, and now it is a responsibility for the creator. Learn more about the journey here.

The open source and cross-platform Nexus Mods app that's currently in development has a new 0.6.1 release available for testing with some nice improvements. Eventually this will replace Vortex when it's ready.

Alpha 2 of System76's COMIC desktop is now available for public testing bringing exciting enhancements. Learn all about the new features here!

In this blog post, we'll explore the causes of the dpkg lock error, the correct solutions to handle dpkg lock issue in Debian and Ubuntu Linux systems.

The Tor Project, a non-profit focused on network anonymity, is joining forces with Tails, an anonymity-focused Linux distribution, in an effort to make better use of financial and technical resources.

PostgreSQL 17 is out today as the newest annual feature release to this widely-used SQL database server. Notable with PostgreSQL 17 is having an AVX-512 optimized bit_count function along with several other heavy hitting performance optimizations.

Linux hardware vendor System76 released today the second alpha (Alpha 2) development version of their upcoming COSMIC desktop environment written in Rust for the Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS 24.04 Linux distro.

As with all PostgreSQL releases there is a focus on improved performance. For enterprise users, a key focus of the update is a series of innovations that will make the database easier to use and manage. PostgreSQL has always been a relational database, but with the new release, it now integrates more JSON document database capabilities, that many enterprises commonly associate with the MongoDB Atlas database.

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 6 best C++ static site generators. All of these tools are released under a freely distributable license.

Tor Project & privacy-focused Tails Linux distro join forces to boost global internet freedom and enhance online privacy. Here's more on that!

The world of scientific computing has consistently leaned on robust, flexible operating systems to handle the demanding nature of research tasks. Linux, with its roots deeply embedded in the realms of free and open-source software, stands out as a powerhouse for computational tasks, especially in disciplines that require extensive data processing and modeling, such as neuroscience.