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Catch up on the latest Linux news: Chimera Linux, Nobara 41, Sparky 7.6 releases, Debian 13 alpha installer, Plasma 6.2.5, Fish Shell in Rust, & more.

After a short break over the holidays, KDE developer Nate Graham is back with his "This Week in Plasma" series to highlight the interesting KDE Plasma desktop changes made each week.

Absolute Linux, the Slackware-based distro, ends its journey as Paul Sherman announces its termination, citing a lack of time.

Mozilla published today the final builds of the Firefox 134 web browser, which you can download from the official download server for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

Although it appears that after a 22-year run that linux.conf.au is now a thing of the past, the folks who brought it to you have launched a new conference that’s about… well, everything open.

I'm genuinely looking forward to replaying through Medal of Honor: Allied Assault and the expansions thanks to the open source OpenMoHAA project that just put out a new Beta release. It works cross-platform across Linux, macOS and Windows.

This is a step by step guide shows how to set the priority of certain packages, launchpad PPAs, and/or other apt repositories in Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, and their based systems.

Mullvad is Firefox, but enhanced for privacy, pretty interesting take as a cross-platform private browser app.

We see many 16-bit retrocomputers around here based on Intel and Intel-like chips such as the 8086, 8088, V20, and similar. While they don’t seem very powerful by today’s standards, they were perfectly capable machines and, thanks to Elks (Embeddedable Linux Kernel Subset), you can run something fairly Linux-like on these devices.

A quick glance into the new features of Xfce 4.20 desktop environment.

The 221st installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on January 5th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

For fans of the Xubuntu derivative of Ubuntu Linux, the upcoming Xubuntu 25.04 release will feature the Xfce 4.20 desktop...

The new ProtonUp-Qt v2.11 enhanced gaming on Linux with proton-ge-rtsp, WineZGUI, and key bug fixes.

Two years, 57k lines of C++, now 75k lines of Rust. Fish Shell 4.0 beta has been entirely rewritten in the Rust programming language.

With the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle Google is poised to have its ChromeOS UCSI driver upstreamed...

DB-Engines publishes the 2024 database popularity stats. See the leading platforms in data management for the past year.

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The lightweight Linux distro Sparky 7.6 rolls out with kernel 6.1 LTS, KDE Plasma 5.27.5, Xfce 4.18, LibreOffice 7.4.7, and more.

The languages are sometimes being blamed for shoddy coding practices

LLVM development has peaked in recent years at around 37k commits per year for this huge, innovative open-source compiler stack. It was another very exciting year for this leading open-source compiler stack.