It’s been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma space with the start of a big new feature landing for the Plasma 6.4 desktop…

In the past few days there has been an uptick in patches merged for the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite around “Qt Weld” that has been seeing an increasing number of patches over the past few months for enhancing the Qt toolkit integration…

One of many Linux kernel patch series that NVIDIA has been working on recently to upstream to the mainline Linux kernel are the adjustments needed for Linux running on their newest Smart Switch networking products for the data center…

So far my testing this week of the Linux 6.15 kernel in its early, post-RC1 state has been going well. No major upsets, yet to uncover any significant performance regressions, and overall has been going smoothly with the many new features/changes in Linux 6.15…

Plus a fresh version … nine years after its last. After five years, the extremely experimental GoboLinux project is springing back to life with a new maintainer and a new release.…

GNOME 48 made Decibels the desktop’s official audio player and in doing so also became the first GNOME core application written in the TypeScript porting language. There’s now a second core app for GNOME written in TypeScript…

Wireplumber is the session and policy manager for Pipewire. It has its own systemd user service. It is a separate project, with separate concerns. Current version is 0.5.8 on Fedora Workstation 41. Session managers save the current state of open audio applications along with their connections, allowing sessions to be easily restored without having to […]

Intel graphics driver engineers today sent out their first batch of feature updates to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of the next Linux 6.16 kernel cycle…

The real issue here is people who attack computing freedom and help Microsoft damage Linux.

The Ultimate Guide To Mastering the LS Command

The ls command is one of the most frequently used commands in Unix-based systems. This simple yet powerful two-letter command allows users to list files and directories efficiently. When combined with various options and wildcards, ls becomes an indispensable tool for file management.

In this article, we will explore practical examples of the ls command, followed by detailed explanations to ensure clarity and understanding.

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The Linux kernel is the core component of any Linux operating system, managing hardware resources and system processes.

The latest Kernel from the 6.12 series is Kernel 6.12.21, which has been recently released, coming with a few changes only:

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Looking for a fast way to recall or discover Linux commands? Try the cheat.sh for basic usage and the GitHub cheat command for advanced usage.

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Linux Mint previews upcoming features: regex search in Nemo, Wayland support in Cinnamon, OEM installs in LMDE 7, and new CJS versioning.

With both Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 releasing this month you may be curious how these two Linux distributions are competing for performance. Well, it’s a very tight race for common Intel/AMD x86_64 hardware. In this article are some benchmarks looking at clean installs of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42 on AMD Strix Point.

For those relying on OpenVPN for your virtual private networking (VPN) needs, one of the most exciting innovations in recent times besides transitioning to the WireGuard alternative is the OpenVPN DCO kernel driver. This “data channel offload” driver has the potential to provide significant performance advantages over the current OpenVPN performance…

The lightweight Linux distro Sparky 7.7 rolls out with kernel 6.1 LTS, updated Debian-based packages, and improved desktop environments.

In this guide, we’ll take a dive into environment variables in the Linux shell. By the end, you’ll not only know how to view and set these variables, but also how to persist them, use them in scripts, and troubleshoot issues effectively.

Flashcards are one of the best tools for memorizing information. This is partly because of their versatility. They can help teach multiplication skills, learn a foreign language, recall facts, historical dates, in fact anything that can be learned in an intuitive way.

Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.4 has been released with numerous new features and enhancements. This latest Proxmox VE 8.4 version is based on Debian 12.10.

Merged today was this week’s batch of x86 fixes ahead of the Linux 6.15-rc2 release on Sunday. Notable with these x86 fixes are landing several patches to fix and clean-up the Spectre Return Stack Buffer “RSB” mitigation handling as well as introducing a new document to clarify the overall state and current mitigations…