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Lions juggling chainsaws are fun to watch, but you wouldn't want them trimming your trees. Nobody likes The Man. When a traffic cop tells you to straighten up and slow down or else, profound thanks are rarely the first words on your lips. Then you drive past a car embedded in a tree, surrounded by blue lights and cutting equipment. Perhaps Officer Dibble had a point.

If you’ve played any of the versions of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing over the years, you’ll know that eventually you get to the point where you’ve maxed out your virtual house and filled it with all the furniture you could possibly want — which is arguably as close to “winning” the game as you can get.

There is an openSUSE project called Reproducible-openSUSE "RBOS" working on a proof-of-concept for constructing openSUSE in a bit-identical manner as part of the broad Reproducible Builds effort to be able to reproduce builds bit-for-bit against what is being compiled by the distribution vendor or other software distribution. The openSUSE RBOS has achieved 100% bit-identical packages as a major milestone.

“Musk needs to be arrested with no bail until he accounts for the information that he has stolen and tells where it has been stored and located,” Perez said. “Unfortunately, that is very unlikely to happen.”

Today, the KDE Project announced the general availability of KDE Plasma 6.3.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series with an initial batch of bug fixes.

This week sees the (belated) release of Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, the first point release update in the noble series to bring an updated hardware enablement (HWE) stack with it.

Any article about Serpent OS or Solus OS (or now, AerynOS), is first and foremost an article about Ikey Doherty.

Plasma 6.3.1, the first bugfix update to KDE's latest 6.3 series, addresses crashes, UI glitches, and display issues for a polished experience.

That old legacy system is gone, never to be heard from again. Right? But what do you do on the fateful day that someone needs to access data that's trapped in an old legacy application? If modern applications can't read the data, you need to run the legacy system. And that's where system emulation comes in.

Limine 9.0 is out today as the newest major release for this open-source modern multi-protocol bootloader and boot manager. Limine also boasts its own Limine Boot Protocol in addition to the native Linux support and chainloading/multiboot capabilities.

Our first look at the default desktop for Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 'Plucky Puffin'. The next version of the default desktop for most of the big Linux distros is in beta. Here's what to expect next month, or soon thereafter.

A fresh start isn’t just for your home — your iPhone or iPad deserves a privacy detox too. With Firefox for iOS, you can block hidden trackers, stop fingerprinting, and keep your browsing history more private with Enhanced Tracking Protection.

Cloud Controller Manager is a crucial yet often overlooked Kubernetes component that streamlines cloud integrations. Here's why it matters and how to use it effectively.

Serge is a chat interface crafted with LLaMA for running GGUF models.

Linux 6.13 is now the latest stable kernel and Ubuntu users can install it on their machines via the official Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA archive. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to do that via graphical or command-line methods.

The friends at CodeWeavers have relayed work that they are looking to hire multiple Wine developers to join their paid team working on upstream Wine as well as their CrossOver products, Valve's Proton downstream for Steam Play, and related Wine-based tech.

The Veda SL917, developed by Ezurio and based on the Silicon Labs SiWx917 chipset, is a low-power wireless module designed for industrial IoT applications. It provides connectivity options, including Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth Low Energy 5.4, and support for Matter and IP networking, providing secure cloud connectivity and efficient power management.

TigerVNC 1.15 cross-platform VNC client & server brings back/forward mouse button support, clipboard redirection, password security checks, and more.

Vanilla Kubernetes offers 14 months of support; Canonical is now offering 10 times that support, starting with its latest version.

The best video converters make the process simple, and support a wide number of different codecs and formats.