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For a pinch more personalisation of Ubuntu 24.10 check out Auto Accent Colour, a new GNOME Shell extension that changes the system accent colour based on your current desktop wallpaper.

If you're looking for an efficient desktop, Unity is hard to beat, and there's an official spin ready to make your life a bit easier.

Computing has changed in recent years, with the demand for high-performance computing (HPC) rising every single day. Many advancements were made, with most notable breakthroughs in the form of artificial intelligence and supercomputing.

This short term releases includes the GNOME 47 desktop, as well as a new security console.

DXVK 2.5 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download as a significant update that improves support for multiple games.

The latest terminology within the Fedora camp causing concern is "karma" that's long been used for conveying feedback around package updates with their Bodhi software used for gating Fedora Linux package updates.

It's not the first time the embedded microkernel OS has changed its terms. Version 8 of the Software Development Platform for the QNX microkernel real-time OS has gone freeware – but there are some strings attached.

Fedora Linux 42 elevates KDE to Edition status alongside GNOME, granting it flagship recognition and equal marketing support across Fedora's platforms.

After a few days of using System76's Linux distribution, you'll find yourself hesitant to go back to whatever OS you were using. It really is that good.

If you're building a website or programming web tools using PHP, MySQL or other common languages, it helps to have a test site you can run on your local PC. However, most web hosting services, including the best web hosting services, use Linux, not Windows as their hosting environments.

Linux is great at using your computer efficiently, but sometimes you might find yourself on a slower or older machine. How can you make Linux work better with lower performance?

Radxa recently introduced a compact networking device powered by the hexacore Rockchip RK3582 System-on-Chip. This new model builds on the design of the previous Radxa E20C but features dual 2.5GbE RJ45 ports, enhancing its networking capabilities.

As another effort for boosting the energy efficiency and behavior of Intel Core platforms with a mix of energy efficient "E" and performance "P" cores, a set of patches were posted Friday night for adapting Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) to the Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling driver with a focus on providing better energy efficient performance initially for Lunar Lake SoCs.

Vuls is an agentless, free, and open-source vulnerability scanner for Linux and FreeBSD. In this guide, you'll learn how to install Vuls Vulnerability Scanner on the Debian 12 server. You'll install Vuls, set up CVE databases, and then scan the local system and remote machine Vuls.

LLMs not only ruin the Web. They ruin the planet.

The 213th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on November 10th, 2024, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

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.

We recommend the finest free and open source console-based file managers for Linux and other operating systems.

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.