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Fedora benefits from a long-standing, comprehensive, and robust openQA deployment used in release validation testing and testing updates. A recent project extended Fedora’s openQA infrastructure to use containers and cloud resources. Deploying openQA in the cloud protects against physical hardware failures and simplifies the addition of resources to scale up future testing. Another benefit of the cloud deployment is that it makes it easier for anyone to run, test, and experiment with Fedora’s openQA.

As part of the memory management changes expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle is allowing more fine-tuned control over the swappiness setting used to determine how aggressively pages are swapped out of physical system memory and into the on-disk swap space.

Hardware failures, theft, user error, natural disasters. There are always risks with storing your data however much care you take. Fortunately many of these risks can be mitigated with a backup and disaster recovery plan. An important element to this plan is to use a remote backup solution.

Docker is a powerful platform for developing, shipping, and running applications inside containers. However, there are times when you might need to restart Docker or its components for various reasons, such as applying updates, resolving issues, or simply refreshing the environment. This guide will walk you through multiple ways to restart Docker on a Linux system, ensuring your containers and services continue to run smoothly.

Oracle's Linux engineers have released their build of kernel 6.9 for Oracle Linux – and they're already planning for 6.10 and beyond.

The Turing Pi 2.5 is an updated version of the Turing Pi 2.0, a 4-node mini ITX cluster board compatible with Raspberry Pi CM4 modules and Nvidia Jetson modules. This compact device is designed for applications such as building Homelabs, self-hosting, and machine learning tasks, as it is capable of continuous 24/7 operation.

RDP, or Remote Desktop Protocol, enables you to access the graphical interface of another computer over a network. On Linux, you can utilize Xrdp to create an RDP Server. Xrdp is a free and open-source application server implementation of RDP protocol.

File managers for Android have improved significantly over the years. You do not necessarily need to install options like ES File Manager, Solid Explorer, and others. But, even if you do — and you do not like the default file manager (or refuse to use Google's Files app), there is always the open-source way instead of using the proprietary ones I just mentioned.

While there were plans of adding getrandom() in the vDSO with the upcoming Linux 6.11 merge window to speed up user-space random number generation access, Linus Torvalds is unconvinced by the work and intends to reject any pull request with it for Linux 6.11.

Daphile is a headless music server operating system. This provides an audiophile class music server and player OS – targeted to dedicated headless PC.

This week I received an email from Artyom and Kyrill Zorin, the founders of Zorin OS, stating that on July 1st it was already 15 years ago that Zorin OS 1.0 saw the light of day. For me, Zorin OS is one of the Linux distributions that I recommend to users who are curious about trying Linux for the first time. But also for people who want to use Linux for productive purposes and want a fantastic out-of-the-box experience right away, Zorin OS is a solid choice.

Proton, once famed for a VPN, now provides a suite of secure online services, including e-mail, cloud storage, and password manager (Proton Pass Linux app launched last month). Now, it’s adding another string to its privacy-focused bow, and takes aim at Google Docs in the process.

It's been nearly one decade since Intel began working on 5-level paging support for the Linux kernel to allow for greater virtual and physical address space with expanding memory sizes. The 5-level paging kernel-side bits were upstreamed back in Linux 4.12 in 2017 and enabled by default since 2019 with Linux 5.5. Intel CPUs for a while (since Ice Lake) have supported 5-level paging and AMD CPUs too since Zen 4. The Linux kernel may move to unconditionally enabling 5-level paging support for x86_64 kernel builds.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation today released a new update to their Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS operating system for the Raspberry Pi single-board computers adding numerous UI improvements and new settings.

KDE Gear 24.05.2 apps collection improves user experience with fixes for memory leaks, file access issues, and more.

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 9 high quality terminal-based open source calendar software. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for anyone who wants to manage their daily activities.

The OpenMandriva team announced the Release Candidate for OpenMandriva's rolling release, ROME 24.07. This version includes significant updates and enhancements.

Discover the top open-source CRM software for your business needs. Explore features, benefits, and pros and cons in our review.

Dolphin Emulator is adopting a new rolling release schedule and version numbering scheme. So, say goodbye to the eight-year-old Dolphin 5.0 release. Dolphin 2407 is available today on all major platforms.

The KDE Project today announced the general availability of KDE Gear 24.05.2 as the second maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 24.05 suite of KDE apps for the Plasma desktop and other platforms.