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TUXEDO OS 4 rebase on Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS is here! Now version-free, featuring KDE Plasma 6.1.5 and Linux kernel 6.11.

Audacity 3.7 open-source digital audio editor and recording software has been released today as a bugfix update while the development team is working hard on the next major release, Audacity 4.0.

AlmaLinux now has a status on Microsoft’s cloud that it shares with only six other Linux distributions. Here’s what it means.

The Linux Rolling release model can be daunting at first glance. Learn what makes them tick and the pros and cons of using a rolling Linux distro today.

Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make certain that changes in Fedora work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora before, this is a perfect way to get started.

The Tinker Board 3 is a compact, fanless single-board computer powered by the Rockchip RK3566 SoC, designed for embedded and IoT applications that require multi-display capabilities, wireless connectivity, or Gigabit Ethernet support.

Audacity 3.7 open-source audio editor boosts stability with improved Linux compatibility, MP3 export tweaks, and more.

DRM_Panic is the functionality first added in Linux 6.10 for "Blue Screen of Death" type functionality when a kernel panic occurs or similar for displaying a nice graphical error message. Since the initial introduction it's been extended to handle QR code error messages, monochrome logos, and other customization options.

Shotcut 24.10, a free cross-platform video editor, debuts AI-powered Speech to Text using OpenAI’s Whisper, adding advanced subtitle automation for creators.

The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium – an alliance of enterprise tech vendors that pointedly excludes Nvidia because it wants a shared standard for accelerator-to-accelerator links – has opened its doors and promised to deliver a spec in the first quarter of 2025.

TUXEDO Computers announced today the general availability of TUXEDO OS 4 as the fourth major update to their Kubuntu-based operating system for TUXEDO hardware and everyone else who wants to use it.

Pixel art is a form of digital art drawn with graphical software where images are built using pixels as the only building block. We recommend the best free and open source pixel art editors.

TrueNAS SCALE 24.10 (Electric Eel) debuts Docker-based apps, RAIDZ expansion, TrueCloud backup, and revamped UI with global search.

Earlier this year Google announced Axion as their first Arm-based CPU for the Google Cloud. Today already they are taking Axion to general availability with the new C4A instances.

With Firefox 132 hitting the stable channel today on all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major release of their open-source web browser, Firefox 133, to the beta channel for public testing.

If you're coming from Windows, the Linux file system structure can seem particularly alien. The C: drive and drive letters are gone, replaced by a / and cryptic-sounding directories, most of which have three-letter names.

As Linux-based systems gain greater prevalence across various IT infrastructures, they become increasingly popular targets for attackers. One of threat actors' primary goals post-breach is persistence, techniques that allow them to access compromised systems even after reboots or updates.

Howdy is a free open-source Python program, that can use your built-in IR emitters and camera in combination with facial recognition to prove who you are.

For those of you longing for better gaming on an Apple Silicon device, Asahi Linux is here to help.

It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle will be adding RISC-V support for user-space pointer masking and tagged address ABI.