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OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 is here featuring Linux kernel 6.14, KDE Plasma 6, GNOME 48, LXQt 2.2, and a brand new Server Edition.

The Docker pull command is one of the essential commands that allows users to download container images from a registry to their local machine. This command is often the first step in the container deployment workflow, enabling developers to retrieve pre-built images before running containers. As part of the core set of Docker basic commands, understanding how to effectively use the docker pull command is essential for anyone working with containerized applications.

Following a lot of work in this direction toward the end goal of removing GNOME X11 support, this milestone may finally be acheived for the Fedora 43 cycle due out by the end of the year. A change proposal has been filed for removing the GNOME X11 packages in the repository and in turn making the GNOME desktop Wayland-only on Fedora Linux...

Learn how to set temporary and permanent environment variables in ZSH to customize system behavior and streamline your workflow.

Today, the OpenMandriva project announced the release and general availability of OpenMandriva Lx 6.0, the latest stable version of this 100% community-driven GNU/Linux distribution and the direct successor to Mandriva Linux.

Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver had been Vulkan 1.4 conformant for Turing and newer GPUs, but now with Mesa 25.2-devel it's Vulkan 1.4 conformant going back to Maxwell GPUs. This change is exported to be back-ported to the upcoming Mesa 25.1 release as well for those interested in using this open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver...

Discover how xclip can supercharge your workflow by letting you copy file content to your clipboard - no mouse required.

QEMU 10 open-source machine emulator brings new CPU features, better device support, and performance improvements.

With the Linux 6.15 kernel settling down nicely, I've been testing out the current Linux Git state on more systems in looking for any performance changes. Unfortunately this week I ran into a large performance regression affecting the Nginx HTTP(S) web server. Here's a look at that problem currently affecting Linux Git.

The open-source QEMU 10.0 machine emulator and virtualization software has been released as a major update that brings many new features and various improvements for next-generation emulation.

Merged yesterday to Mesa Git for next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release is an improvement for the Intel Vulkan ray-tracing code with an eye on next-gen Xe3 graphics hardware...

Arch-based CachyOS's April 2025 update fixes kernel issues, adds OCCT for stress testing, and improves handheld support.

Chrome will keep third-party cookies, a loss for privacy but a win for web ad rivals. After six years of work, Google's Privacy Sandbox, technology for delivering ads while protecting privacy, looks like dust in the wind.…

Running GenAI models is easy. Scaling them to thousands of users, not so much Hands On You can spin up a chatbot with Llama.cpp or Ollama in minutes, but scaling large language models to handle real workloads – think multiple users, uptime guarantees, and not blowing your GPU budget – is a very different beast.…

Today's Linux benchmarking at Phoronix is looking at how the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K performance has evolved since its launch last October. Taking the launch-day benchmarks from October with the same hardware, we are revisiting the Intel Arrow Lake performance under Linux today using the newest system BIOS and the newly-released Ubuntu 25.04 for seeing how the performance has evolved roughly over the past half-year.

This brief tutorial explains how to perform bulk text replacement in Bash using grep, sed, and xargs commands in Linux.

MySQL 9.3 introduces logical user account dumps, improved JavaScript support, and new Group Replication election features.

This lack of morality/courage has helped enable further abuse, lining up more victims

Starting August 15, 2025, Steam will no longer work on Linux systems using glibc older than version 2.31.

Last year a patch was raised for the Linux kernel that would report outdated CPU microcode versions as a security vulnerability. With Intel routinely issuing new CPU microcode updates for security vulnerabilities and addressing other functional issues, the Linux kernel would begin warning users when recognizing that outdated CPU microcode is deployed for a given processor. That patch has now been queued into a tip/tip.git branch and thus looking like it will be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle...