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Armbian 24.11 is here with streamlined builds, improved Rockchip kernel, advanced userspace tools, and dedicated application images.

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How do you change your domain name the right way? We'll take you through it step-by-step in our latest easy-to-follow guide.

7-Zip 24.09 open-source file archiver enhances compression with larger default dictionaries, new hash checksums, improved APM/HFS support, and bug fixes.

Greg Kroah-Hartman is out today with all of the pull requests for Linux 6.13 of the areas of the kernel he oversees. Most notable with the updates on the staging side are clearing out several drivers seeing no real code activity and no apparent users of the mainline Linux kernel... As such the staging pull lightens the kernel by around 107k lines of code.

The Armbian team announced today the release and general availability of Armbian 24.11 as a major update aimed at enhancing functionality and expanding hardware support of this Debian and Ubuntu-based distribution for ARM devices.

There’s a good range of Linux software which helps to reduce the running cost of your computer. Software solutions offer things like processor frequency scaling, advanced power management including GPU power management, Wi-Fi power saving, and much more.

'BTW I use Arch' runway greased, plus clarification around package licensing. Version 3 of the Arch Linux installer is out, with usability improvements and clarifications to its licensing.

Cinnamon 6.4 desktop environment is here with redesigned themes, clutter dialogs, improved OSDs, and smarter UI enhancements.

TUXEDO OS, TUXEDOComputers' in-house Linux distribution, continues to receive regular updates and fixes, with the last few weeks being no exception!

There are a few Network File System (NFS) enhancements worth pointing out with the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel.

The PICO2-XL and PICO2-XXL are open-source hardware boards that build upon the Raspberry Pi PICO2, featuring the RP2350B microcontroller. These enhanced versions include up to 48x GPIOs, a microSD card slot, and several other improvements.

Same setup as was proposed in original video was successfully tested on Fedora 41 KDE Spin on bare metal . See https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2024/11/hyprland-with-ml4w-297-d... .

'secure' boot isn't about security (it's about Microsoft being in control of physical computers irrespective of what operating system they run), and for merely having the audacity to point this out - as we've done for nearly 13 years already - you'd receive constant harassment and abuse by Microsofters

Proxmox Backup Server 3.3 brings faster backups, "push" sync jobs, removable data stores, webhook notifications, and more.

Making for an even more exciting Black Friday is the Kbuild pull request submitted today for the near-over Linux 6.13 merge window... And it includes Clang Auto Feedback Directed Optimization (AutoFDO) support for kernel builds as well as Clang's Propeller.

The OrangePi CM 5 is a compact, high-performance module designed for multimedia and high-speed networking applications. Its key features include support for up to four camera interfaces and dual 2.5GbE ports, in addition to a 1GbE port on the compatible carrier board.

UBports announces Ubuntu Touch OTA-7, addressing security flaws that could let apps access microphones without consent. Here's more on that!

On Monday, the Apache Software Foundation announced that Ruth Suehle has replaced David Nalley as the foundation’s president.

Leading Linux desktops boldly address the "not enough distros" non-problem. KDE and GNOME have decided that because they're not big and complicated enough already, they might work better if they have their own custom distributions underneath. What's the worst that could happen?…