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Talking to the distro's self-appointed benevolent dictator for life about 20 years of Ubuntu. Canonical founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth spoke to The Reg FOSS desk at Ubuntu Summit 2024 in The Hague about the Linux distribution's success, its missteps, his regrets, and what he'd tell his younger self.

CachyOS November 2024 release: Performance boosts, NVIDIA fixes, and AMD Cache Optimizer updates enhance gaming and laptop efficiency.

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A set of Linux kernel patches posted on Friday by Meta/Facebook provide for sizable performance optimizations for applications leveraging /proc/kcore such as for debuggers.

You know what they say about lipstick on a pig…

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to backup and restore using Rsnapshot on a Linux server. You'll be setting up rsnapshot for local backup and remote backup. You'll also learn how to set up an automatic backup with rsnapshot and cron.

The Fedora Linux installer, Anaconda, has been around for 25 years! While it’s been a reliable way to install Fedora Linux (and CentOS, RHEL, and others), many people — especially those new to Fedora — sometimes have issues with complexity and jargon.

We’ve already checked out the hardware of the Maxtang T0-FP750 mini PC with an unboxing and a teardown in the first part of the review, before thoroughly testing the AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS mini PC in Windows 11 Pro.

Boost your Linux command line efficiency with aliases. Learn how to create and manage aliases in Linux for Bash, Zsh, and Fish shells.

Want to try a different download manager for a change? Try AB download manager!

The Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution has issued its November 2024 media refresh. Notable this time are pulling a few performance-related patches into its kernel build.

Flatpak is an universal Linux package format that runs in sandbox environment. Many popular applications (e.g., Firefox, GIMP, OBS Studio) provide official Linux packages through Flatpak, and Flathub repository hosts tons of app packages in this format.

Important note: Hyprland has just been released in version in version 0.45.0. The new version will introduce new shadow variables which results on 4 error messages on top of your screen when you're using the Dotfiles in 2.9.6.5 or lower. The new version 2.9.6.6 of the Dotfiles will be compatible with Hyprland 0.45.0 and is already available with yay -S ml4w-hyprland-git.

The Latest Niri release, v0.1.10, brings window moving, pointer options, input enhancements, and fixes to Wayland's scrollable-tiling compositor.

The development team behind the Arch Linux-based CachyOS distribution released today a new ISO snapshot that brings various improvements for AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, as well as other changes.

The Radxa X4L, also known as the Palmshell SLiM X4L, is a compact device powered by Intel’s quad-core N100 processor. With features like a 2.5GbE LAN port, Wi-Fi 6E, and dual 4K@30Hz display support, it’s well-suited for multimedia and general-purpose use.

Linus Torvalds just christened the Linux 6.12-rc7 kernel today for what will hopefully be the last release candidate before declaring Linux 6.12 stable next week Sunday.

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.21, Wine-Staging 9.21 is available as this experimental blend of Wine that carries extra patches for testing/evaluation to enhance the ability for Windows games and apps to run on Linux.

Got a modern Nvidia or AMD graphics card? Custom Llamas are only a few commands and a little data prep away. Large language models (LLMs) are remarkably effective at generating text and regurgitating information, but they're ultimately limited by the corpus of data they were trained on.

Freedom is not something you can legally pursue or accomplish when it is "too late", i.e. when everything is already proprietary or when you live under a dictatorship