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The new Proxmox Backup Server 3.4 boosts performance with optimized garbage collection, better offsite sync filters, and improved tape backup throughput.

Initially developed for Oracle Linux, this version brings many useful enhancements to this open-source framework for in-place migrations.

Hyperion ships another patch, which is nice Belgian software house Hyperion Entertainment has released Update 3 for AmigaOS 3.2, the version of the classic operating system it launched in 2021. The update targets Amigas with 680x0 processors, including systems enhanced with PiStorm accelerator boards.…

In this guide, we'll take a dive into environment variables in the Linux shell. By the end, you'll not only know how to view and set these variables, but also how to persist them, use them in scripts, and troubleshoot issues effectively.

Flashcards are one of the best tools for memorizing information. This is partly because of their versatility. They can help teach multiplication skills, learn a foreign language, recall facts, historical dates, in fact anything that can be learned in an intuitive way.

Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.4 has been released with numerous new features and enhancements. This latest Proxmox VE 8.4 version is based on Debian 12.10.

The lightweight Linux distro Sparky 7.7 rolls out with kernel 6.1 LTS, updated Debian-based packages, and improved desktop environments.

The latest C++ iteration delivers powerful updates and improved multithreading to boost productivity, safety, and performance while preserving C++'s core strengths.

Meme is a command line utility for creating image macro style memes. It’s free and open source software.

This blog post will explain the HTTP 415 Unsupported Media Type Error and how to fix it. The following error occurs when the server cannot serve the requested format by the client because the format isn’t supported. In other words, this is a mismatch between what the client’s browser sends and what the server is willing to accept.

Yesterday brought the newest update to Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution, Azure Linux. The Azure Linux 3.0.20250402 brought many package updates mostly in the name of shipping security fixes plus brought new instructions on making use of the AMD graphics driver stack under this Microsoft Linux distribution along with various other updates...

Fwupd 2.0.8 introduces new plugins to update UEFI Signature Database and KEK, plus several bug fixes enhancing UEFI and hardware compatibility.

Red Hat might be the company making money off of Enterprise Linux, but the now discontinued Linux distribution CentOS Linux has many times more installs.

Merged back in Linux 6.9 was AMD Preferred Core support for Linux for the concept of "preferred cores" with newer Zen processors that are communicated via ACPI CPPC for select cores able to reach a higher maximum frequency or should otherwise be preferred over other cores on the system in the name of maximizing performance. That was a nice step forward for better handling newer Ryzen processors on Linux and matching functionality that had already been working under Microsoft Windows. Of focus more recently has been working on enabling more dynamic Preferred Core support for where the priority of the preferred cores may change at run-time...

The 1990s called – they're impressed The FreeDOS Project has released version 1.4 of its fully open source DOS-compatible OS – but you'll need a BIOS for bare metal.…

Proxmox VE 8.4 is out now, featuring live VM migration with NVIDIA vGPU, API for backups, virtiofs, and updated open-source tech.

Fwupd 2.0.8 is out today as the eighth maintenance update to the latest fwupd 2.0 release of this open-source Linux firmware update utility with support for more devices, new features, and bug fixes.

The Ubuntu 25.04 release shipping this month will now feature JPEG-XL image format support out-of-the-box...

openSUSE's new Agama installer v13 is here, bringing hostname configuration, LVM support, and more.

Electronic Design Automation (EDA) is a type of software that enables individuals to design electronic systems. We pick the best open source tools for Linux.