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Microsoft's journey through intellectual property has been a multi-year saga that makes Game of Thrones look like a haiku. From the young Bill Gates and Paul Allen plundering software companies' garbage bins for source code listings, Gates writing a snotty letter to computer clubs a few years later complaining about software copying, and Ballmer calling Linux a cancer, to Windows having an embedded Linux layer, Microsoft has shown a very variable attitude to intellectual property.

System76's COSMIC desktop just released a set of eight official wallpapers, which are now available for Pop!_OS users to install. Check them out!

Back in February I wrote about Intel's open-source graphics driver engineers working on a new adaptive sharpening filter capability to be found with upcoming Xe2 graphics starting with Lunar Lake. This new adaptive sharpening filter has minimal power and performance impact and at least according to the driver engineers is working out rather well.

Clement Lefebvre, the lead developer of Linux Mint, announced that the final version of Linux Mint 22 will be released this month. The team is currently focused on addressing issues reported during the BETA phase.

One might argue this data points to a silent exodus from Windows to GNU/Linux

The IDM/IPA team is working on testing the new HSM support and functionality. As a result, the Identity Management and QA teams have organized test days from Tuesday, July 09, 2024, to Thursday, July 11, 2024. The wiki page in this article contains links to the test images you’ll need to participate.

Cachet is an open-source status page system written in PHP. It allows you to monitor downtime and system failure on your infrastructure. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to install and run Cachet on an Ubuntu 24.04 server with Docker.

Endless OS is billed as a fast, powerful and friendly operating system. It features a completely re-imagined and simplified user interface designed to stay out of your way, minimize distractions, and help you get things done.

The 195th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on July 7th, 2024, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Understanding which processes are listening on specific ports in Linux is crucial for system administration and security. This knowledge helps diagnose network issues, secure the system, and ensure services are running as expected. In this article, we’ll guide you through identifying listening ports and the processes using them on your Linux system.

LXer Feature: 08-Jul-2024

How I turned a brand new Chromebook that kinda worked into a Linux Laptop that totally rocks!

Learn about the LocalSend app that allows sharing files, folders, text, and clipboards across devices such as Android, iOS, macOS, or Linux.

In this article, you'll learn how a developer or SysAdmin can find the AWS EC2 instance type over SSH using six practical methods.

Linux Mint 22 BETA faces challenges, with 109 bugs reported, 53 of which are still open. The final stable release is expected in late July.

SnoopGod Linux is a Linux-based penetration testing distribution for penetration testers and security researchers. It’s designed to be fast, easy to use, and provide a minimal complete desktop cybersecurity and developer friendly environment.

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.10-rc7 as the latest weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 6.10 kernel.

Those still making use of Ubuntu 23.10 ‘Mantic Minotaur’ should be aware that official support for this version of Ubuntu ends on July 11, 2024. Which, to orient the blissfully slow who, like me, remain convinced 2024 has only just started, is this week: July 11 is on Thursday.

An openSUSE Leap 15.6 review, and what new updates and features you can expect from it.

Compact Edge AI Systems with NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX for Robotics Applications ICP Deutschland recently featured the NRU-150-FT series, comprising the NRU-154PoE-FT and NRU-156U3-FT models. These represent a robust line of fanless edge AI computers powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX, designed specifically for demanding applications such as robotics, embedded systems, and other industrial applications.

The Linux kernel's block subsystem for storage is poised to introduce support for atomic writes with the upcoming Linux 6.11 merge window.