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The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee has approved of Fedora 41 switching from power-profiles-daemon to "Tuned" as the default power profile management daemon on Fedora Workstation as well as the KDE Plasma and Budgie desktop spins.

Facing CentOS 7 end-of-life? SUSE provides a lifeline with a Liberty Linux Lite subscription, ensuring the OS stays secure beyond June 30, 2024.

Is such a thing possible for an industry that never respected people's wishes? Mozilla this week said it has acquired ad metrics firm Anonym, touting the deal as a way to help the online advertising industry support user privacy while delivering effective adverts. Essentially, Moz has bought an outfit, founded in 2022 by former Meta executives, that among other things helps advertisers and ad networks measure how well adverts are performing and that they are being seen by the right audiences, in a way that ideally preserves people's privacy.

The Sipeed Lichee Book 4A is a cost-effective laptop utilizing RISC-V architecture, designed primarily for developers interested in exploring this platform. It merges standard laptop features with functionalities tailored to RISC-V, offering a practical tool for both software development and general use.

The KDE Project announced today the general availability of KDE Plasma 6.1 as the latest version of their acclaimed desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions.

Crystal Dock is a cool desktop panel with parabolic zooming effect for KDE Plasma 6.

Your Docker container is not confined to only a single place. Learn how you can move your Docker container and data volumes to another host.

KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment is here as a game-changer for all NVIDIA users, bringing Explicit Sync and Triple Buffering support.

Last week marked the inaugural release of the X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit to make it easier to compile the X.Org Server. That v0.0.1 release was limited to supporting Debian/Apt-based Linux distributions while now this helper toolkit has been extended to support FreeBSD and NetBSD too...

It's not every tech conference that has story-reading sessions… but maybe they should. DEVCONF.CZ Free Software Foundation Europe president Matthias Kirshner's picture book Ada and Zangemann explains the concepts of FOSS to school kids… and managers, marketing people, and victims of Windows-induced Stockholm Syndrome.

Tails 6.4 amnesic incognito live system has been released today as the latest stable version of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution that protects against surveillance and censorship.

Dynamic parameters in PowerShell allow a single function to handle different types of input, such as servers and clients, by defining parameters on the fly.

Liberty Linux Lite to keep the updates coming for a few more years ... for a fee. SUSE has unveiled a Liberty Linux Lite solution aimed at enticing CentOS 7 administrators facing the impending June 30 end-of-support deadline. According to the veteran Linux vendor, "SUSE Liberty Linux Lite for CentOS 7 is a frictionless solution that provides customers with updates and security patches for their existing CentOS system, with no migration whatsoever."

Docker containers are an essential part of modern application deployment and development. Often, there is a need to know the internal IP address of a Docker container for debugging, networking, or integration purposes. This article will guide you through the steps to retrieve the internal IP address of a Docker container using different methods.

Fedora developers are hoping that the long-awaited GIMP 3.0 will ship before October and be all ready for serving as the default GIMP package with the in-development Fedora 41.

Wine has you covered if you want to make Linux your go-to operating system but still need to run Windows apps. Wine isn't just an adult beverage. It's also a compatibility layer that lets you run Windows apps on Linux. Because there are so many applications for Windows that don't have a native version for Linux, it became necessary to create the means to run them on the open-source operating system.

Tails 6.4 security-focused Linux distro rolls out with stronger cryptography, updated Tor Browser, and Thunderbird improvements.

We’ve received many queries in our mailbox about HiFile and problems with openings PDFs. So we thought we’d share our findings publicly.

The MUSE Book is a laptop that features a RISC-V-based architecture, presumably powered by the SpacemiT K1, an 8-core AI CPU built on the RISC-V X60 architecture. The MUSE Book is available for pre-order in three configurations, which include up to 16GB of RAM and two SSD storage capacities.

Learn different ways to kill a process running on a specific port in Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Red Hat, Fedora, Arch, and other distros.