It’s almost like the good ol’ days of install fests and the like! ‘End of 10’ is an organization that’s making it easy for Windows 10 users with computers that can’t upgrade to Windows 11, to install Linux instead of sending good hardware to the landfill.

The latest Clonezilla live 3.2.2-5 release brings a fresh Debian Sid base, a new kernel, Ezio tweaks, and bug fixes to improve disk imaging performance.

After taking the quiz and seeing your score, you’ll be given the option to view the headlines — with links — behind the quiz questions! This week there are 11 questions. Good luck!

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MySQL is one of the world’s most popular and widely used relational database management systems (RDBMS). Developed in 1995 by MySQL AB, the software is now under the auspices of Oracle Corporation.

Smart device manufacturer HONOR has posted a patch series adding direct I/O support to DMA-BUF with the “DMA_BUF_IOCTL_RW_FILE” flag. In turn this direct I/O use can yield significant throughput improvements and lower latency to help with AI model loading, real-time data streaming, and other uses…

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Microsoft finally fixed the GRUB boot issue on dual-boot systems nine months after a Windows update caused widespread Linux boot failures.

Google Earth is a very popular virtual globe app. While it’s available for Linux the software is freeware, and therefore not open source. In this article we recommend the best free and open source virtual globe software. We also include related software in this roundup.

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Learn the step-by-step process to install and configure Spicetify for Spotify on Ubuntu. Transform your music app with personalized styles and settings.

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The folks who develop Helwan O.S say it’s “designed by devs for devs and creators,” but our Larry Cafiero says it’s a distro that it would probably fit about anybody.

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Learn how to use the Linux cd command to navigate file directories easily, from basics to shortcuts, aliases, and handling hidden folders.

Discover the 8 best free and open source NVIDIA GPU monitoring tools to optimize performance and enhance your gaming or computing experience today.

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Now having shown the very strong AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux performance for this “Strix Halo” SoC with Radeon 8060S iGPU for its integrated graphics, you may be wondering on the same hardware how this compares to Microsoft Windows 11. Today’s article is looking at the Microsoft Windows 11 Pro performance as shipped by HP on their ZBook Ultra 14 G1a laptop compared to Ubuntu 25.04 with a clean install.

Test your knowledge with the FOSS Force Mostly Open Tech News Quiz! Join us on May 2, 2025, for a fun challenge on the latest in open tech.

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For those that may be upgrading to the new Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 300 series “Strix Point” SoCs and curious about hitting the best possible Linux performance, this article is for you. Here is a look at the performance of the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 across CachyOS, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora Workstation 42, Manjaro Linux 25.0, openSUSE Tumbleweed, and Ubuntu 25.04.

The KDE Project released today the beta version of the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series for public testing, a major update promising many new features and improvements.

A public Ubuntu 25.10 desktop road-map was published today to outline some of the plans that Canonical engineers are beginning to work on ahead of the next Ubuntu Linux release in October…

AMD is once again hiring more Linux engineer(s) to work on their Ryzen client efforts under Linux with next-gen hardware enablement, enhancing features/support for existing Ryzen systems, and related efforts…

AlphaEvolve may optimize your code in ways you hadn’t thought possible. Or not. Not is possible, tooGoogle’s AI shop DeepMind has unveiled AlphaEvolve, its “evolutionary coding agent” powered by large language models to discover and optimize algorithms.…

Following recent discussions by Linux kernel developers around integrating swap cache and swap maps functionality with the swap allocator, Swap Table was born. With Swap Tables the hope is for lower memory use, higher performance, dynamic swap allocation and growth, greater extensibility, and other improvements over the existing swap code within the Linux kernel…