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The Linux Mint team is busy cooking interesting recipes for improvements. What is it this time?

David Kaplan who is a Senior Fellow at AMD focused on security technologies has published an initial set of Linux kernel patches for "Attack Vector Controls" in rethinking the CPU security mitigation handling.

FriendlyELEC NanoPi Zero2 is one of the world’s smallest Arm Linux computers with the 45x45mm board featuring a Rockchip RK3528A quad-core Cortex-A53 processor, up to 2GB RAM, microSD and eMMC flash module sockets for storage, a Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 jack, an M.2 socket for WiFi, a USB Type-A port, and a 30-pin GPIO FPC connector for expansion.

Haiku is a free and open-source operating system, based on the technical and design foundations of the now-defunct BeOS, instead of Linux or Unix. After more than a year since the last release, Haiku R1 Beta 5 is now available to download.

The ASRock Industrial SBC-374 is a robust single board computer designed for embedded applications. It features Intel Core Ultra Processors (Meteor Lake-PS) on an LGA 1851 socket and is supported by an AMI SPI BIOS with secure flash options, suitable for demanding tasks in secure environments.

A new Wordpress malware has been discovered that is able to bypass detection by 14 major WordPress security scanners, including Wordfence.

Learn how to deface human faces in pictures and videos using blur or custom images with a free CLI tool available for Linux, Windows, and macOS.

The KDE Project released today the beta version of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment series, a major update that promises numerous new features and improvements.

With the upcoming PostgreSQL 17 database server release there is some initial AVX-512 optimizations that are looking quite nice according to Intel's findings.

LMDE 5 reaches end of life, Cinnamon 6.4 desktop environment to feature an improved default theme, addressing the aesthetic gap.

Learn how to find system information like RAM size, CPU, GPU, storage, and more from the command line in the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) and its allies are getting closer to a definition of open source AI. If all goes well, Stefano Maffulli, the OSI's executive director, expects to announce the OSI open source AI definition at All Things Open in late October. But some open source leaders already want nothing to do with it.

One of the basic utilities supplied with any operating system is the calculator. We recommend the finest terminal-based calculators.

The MS-CF17 from MSI is an advanced single-board computer that combines high performance with a compact, fanless, ultra-low-power design. Featuring Intel’s latest 13th Gen Raptor Lake-P processors, the board is also available in an industrial-grade variant, making it suitable for demanding applications.

In this blog post, we'll guide you through the process of installing Oracle VirtualBox 7.1 on a Debian 12 Linux system.

Setup Arch Linux (minimal) using archinstall and the most recent ISO as of 09/01/24 along with base-devel git openssh sddm vim nano . We intend to perform both DEs installation using Paru as AUR Helper. Start with paru build . Version of ML4W was mistyped in first sumbission.

Simply telling someone to RTFM is not an answer when the manual is outdated, unreadable, or nonexistent. We need to improve the quality of our documentation, and the way to do that is simple.

As one of the early feature proposals for Fedora 42, there is a proposal being considered to make for a nice out-of-the-box experience running x86/x86_64 game/application binaries atop Fedora 42 AArch64 hosts.

Redis is the most popular database on AWS, which is, of course, the most popular cloud. The fact the relatively little known database, which launched in 2009, punches above its weight against well-established rivals might owe a lot to its reputation as a handy off-the-shelf cache developers know and love.

Fedora 42 may switch to a new web-based installer, focusing on user-friendly guided options and better support for advanced storage configurations.