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Audacity 3.7 open-source audio editor boosts stability with improved Linux compatibility, MP3 export tweaks, and more.

DRM_Panic is the functionality first added in Linux 6.10 for "Blue Screen of Death" type functionality when a kernel panic occurs or similar for displaying a nice graphical error message. Since the initial introduction it's been extended to handle QR code error messages, monochrome logos, and other customization options.

Shotcut 24.10, a free cross-platform video editor, debuts AI-powered Speech to Text using OpenAI’s Whisper, adding advanced subtitle automation for creators.

The Ultra Accelerator Link Consortium – an alliance of enterprise tech vendors that pointedly excludes Nvidia because it wants a shared standard for accelerator-to-accelerator links – has opened its doors and promised to deliver a spec in the first quarter of 2025.

TUXEDO Computers announced today the general availability of TUXEDO OS 4 as the fourth major update to their Kubuntu-based operating system for TUXEDO hardware and everyone else who wants to use it.

Pixel art is a form of digital art drawn with graphical software where images are built using pixels as the only building block. We recommend the best free and open source pixel art editors.

TrueNAS SCALE 24.10 (Electric Eel) debuts Docker-based apps, RAIDZ expansion, TrueCloud backup, and revamped UI with global search.

Earlier this year Google announced Axion as their first Arm-based CPU for the Google Cloud. Today already they are taking Axion to general availability with the new C4A instances.

With Firefox 132 hitting the stable channel today on all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major release of their open-source web browser, Firefox 133, to the beta channel for public testing.

If you're coming from Windows, the Linux file system structure can seem particularly alien. The C: drive and drive letters are gone, replaced by a / and cryptic-sounding directories, most of which have three-letter names.

As Linux-based systems gain greater prevalence across various IT infrastructures, they become increasingly popular targets for attackers. One of threat actors' primary goals post-breach is persistence, techniques that allow them to access compromised systems even after reboots or updates.

Howdy is a free open-source Python program, that can use your built-in IR emitters and camera in combination with facial recognition to prove who you are.

For those of you longing for better gaming on an Apple Silicon device, Asahi Linux is here to help.

It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle will be adding RISC-V support for user-space pointer masking and tagged address ABI.

Notepad++ is a popular editor on Windows, but it doesn't have official Linux support. However, running Notepad++ on Linux isn't impossible either, and we'll show you how. We'll also show you some noteworthy alternatives to consider in case our workarounds don't suit you.

KDE started trick or treating early, and will continue after it’s late.

The Shotcut open-source, free, and cross-platform video editing software written in Qt has been updated today to version 24.10, a release that introduces Shotcut’s first AI feature.

Raspberry Pi OS now uses Wayland out of the box!

Powered by Linux kernel 6.11, Fedora Linux 41 ships with GNOME 47, Wayland only, DNF 5, a new Miracle official spin, and more.

Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel, thinks the majority of marketing circulated by the industry on Generative AI is simply fluff with no real substance - and it may take many years before the tech is proven.