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What seemed like an 'explosive' piece in the making seems to have been aborted; we urge the community to be vigilant of corporate shills with an axe to grind, even those who call themselves "journalists" (but lack professional training in journalism)

The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 23.04.3 as the third and last maintenance update in the latest KDE Gear 23.04 open-source software suite for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and other platforms.

One's a bit raw and touchy, but the other is vintage stuff, brought up to date. Maybe the DBUS developers have a point: desktops are like buses… you wait for ages, then two of them come along at once: Lomiri on Debian, and GSDE, the GNUstep Desktop Environment.…

Jupyter Notebook is an open-source server-client application written in Python. The word “Jupyter” comes from the languages that support this platform: Julia (Ju), Python(py), and R (er). Let's install Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu 22.04. Follow our latest tutorial and fid out more about this topic!

German Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers unveiled today the 5th generation of its Stellaris 17 high-end gaming and workstation Linux notebook featuring a powerful NVIDIA GPU and a 13th Gen Intel Core processor.

Building upon the success of its predecessors, the InfinityBook 16 Pro Gen8, from TUXEDO Computers, combines sleek design, top-notch performance, and advanced capabilities to deliver an outstanding user experience. In this blog post, we will explore the key features of this powerhouse laptop that make it a compelling choice for Linux professionals and enthusiasts alike.

Generative AI technologies powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, have shown themselves to be both a big boon to productivity as well as a concerningly confident purveyor of incorrect information. At Mozilla, we’re excited about the potential role generative AI can play in creating new value for people while demonstrating leadership […]

blendOS developers and Ubuntu Unity maintainer Rudra Saraswat announced today the general availability of blendOS 3 as another major update to this Arch Linux-based immutable Linux distribution with some unique features.

Here we go again! Mozilla promoted today the Firefox 116 web browser to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to take a closer look at the new features and improvements in this next major Firefox release.

LXD is no longer a part of the Linux Containers project but is now managed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Here's more on the topic!

Just one notice regarding current review. Quoting mentioned "Howto" : Officially, Windows 11 requires Secure Boot and TPM 2.0. These features are not (yet) available in VirtualBox. The result is that you will get the error as you can see on the right image. Important note for Windows 11:

To bypass these settings, click on the X icon at the right upper corner and quit the setup. Hold the SHIFT key and press F10. Then give the command ‘regedit’. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMSetup and create a new key (folder) here named ‘LabConfig’. Within this key, create a new DWORD (32 bits) value named ‘BypassSecureBootCheck’. Create another DWORD (32 bits) value named ‘BypassTPMCheck’. Don’t forget to set both values to 1.

A simple guide demonstrating how to enable autosave in LibreOffice and OpenOffice documents.

The GNOME Project released today the alpha version of the upcoming GNOME 45 desktop environment as the first development milestone to give us an early look at the new features and enhancements.

After spending eight years as a Linux Containers project, Canonical says it wants to bring the project back home to Ubuntu.

Release is good news for fans of Windows 7, 8, and macOS from Sierra to Mojave. The latest version of Firefox browser is out and should help keep some older operating systems viable, at least for another year.…

Making sure your graphics card’s frames per second (FPS) output matches the refresh rate of your monitor shouldn’t be an issue. But sometimes it can be. libstrangle is a Linux utility that lets you cap the FPS of a game. It’s free and open source software written in C.

No immediate risk of delisting, but company intends to claw its way back. The New York Stock Exchange has notified MariaDB, the database services biz formed around a fork of MySQL, that it is not in compliance with its listing manual after the company's share price dipped below $1 over a 30-day period.…

Post below was inspired by article "How to install Windows 11 in a VirtualBox with Ubuntu Linux as host" . In particular, mentioned "Howto" suggests a known registry hack descscribed in section "Important note for Windows 11" . Down here follows another aproach, proposed in http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/331458/index.html for KVM Hypervisor, it is supposed to be applied to Virtualbox 7.0. Once again we intend to work via "alien" conversion on Ubuntu 22.04 and SparkyLinux 7 .

Hardware video decoding for Intel GPUs on Linux and Tab Manager close buttons are among the new features of the just-released Firefox 115. Learn more here!

The Nitrogen8M Plus SMARC from Laird Connectivity is a high-performance embedded computing module featuring a Quad-core Arm-A53 along with a 2.3 TOPS NPU for machine learning inference and onboard Image Signal Processor (ISP). The product page indicates that the Nitrogen8M Plus features the NXP i.MX 8M Plus with the following architecture:  i.MX 8M Plus — […]