Don’t leave deleted files behind—Raider File Shredder offers an uncomplicated solution for permanently erasing data.

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Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fixCloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a “hyper-scale DDoS attack,” before figuring out the real problem.…

Discover a step-by-step guide to install the latest version of Slack on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions with practical examples.

The Debian Project released today a new project called Debian Libre Live Images that allows you to run and install the Debian GNU/Linux operating system without non-free software.

The first Release Candidate of the highly anticipated GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) 3.2 release is now available for public testing with more new features and dozens of improvements.

The Debian Project released the second update for Debian 13 trixie. Here’s what’s new and how to upgrade to the Debian 13.2 release.

Blender 5.0, a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software, is now available for download as a major update that introduces numerous new features and improvements.

The source is a built-in command-line tool that reads and executes the commands from the specified file as its argument in the current shell.

It’s the Blender 5.0 release day! Blender 5.0 is a big step forward for this open-source 3D modeling software with better Vulkan viewport support across different GPUs/drivers, HDR support when using Vulkan and Wayland on Linux, and other very nice refinements for this popular cross-platform software package…

GIMP 3.2 RC1 introduces native SVG export and a redesigned rasterize workflow for text, vector, and link layers, giving a clear picture of what we can expect from the final stable 3.2 release.

In the past we have seen Llama.cpp with Vulkan outperforming AMD’s ROCm compute stack in some of the large language model (LLM) AI benchmarks. Curious if anything has changed given the recent ROCm 7.1 release, I ran some benchmarks of an up-to-date Llama.cpp using the AMD ROCm back-end compared to the Vulkan back-end with the latest RADV driver. For this round of testing the Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card was used.

Life online seems to be returning to normal after a major outage centered on Cloudflare’s WARP service. Sporadic outages still possible for the next few hours.

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There have been several recent announcements about Linux distributions changing
the list of architectures they support, or adjusting how they build binaries for
some versions of those architectures.
Ubuntu introduced architecture variants, Fedora
considered dropping support for i686 but
reversed course after some pushback, and Debian developers

have discussed raising its architecture baseline for the upcoming

Debian 15
(“forky”).
Linux supports a large number of architectures, and it’s not always
clear where or by whom they are used.
With increasing concerns about diminishing support for legacy
architectures, it’s a good time to look at the overall state of architecture
support on Linux.

In addition to the RADV driver status update shared recently in Vienna at XDC2025, there was also a presentation on the current status of the NVK driver as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa that currently targets the Nouveau kernel driver and the Rust-based Nova kernel driver in the future…

Qualcomm upstreamed new Cloud AI 100 “AIC100” firmware today to linux-firmware.git to fix a rather significant power/performance issue for these AI accelerators…

Today, the AlmaLinux OS Foundation announced the release and general availability of AlmaLinux OS 9.7 (codename Moss Jungle Cat) as the latest stable version of this free Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) fork.

The Homebrew project is an
open-source package-management system that comes with a repository of
useful packages for Linux and macOS. Even though Linux distributions
have their own package management and repositories, Homebrew is often
used to obtain software that is not available in a distribution’s repository
or to install more current versions of projects than are available
from long-term-support (LTS) distributions. Homebrew 5.0.0,
released on November 12, 2025, expanded Linux support to include
64-bit Arm packages in addition to x86_64, and turned on concurrent
downloads by default to speed up package downloads.

Marathon OS is a new, still-in-development mobile Linux system with a Qt6 Wayland compositor and a QML touch UI inspired by BlackBerry 10.

OpenVPN 2.6.16 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source VPN (Virtual Private Network) system for creating secure point-to-point or site-to-site connections in routed or bridged configurations.

A proposal has been raised by two CPython core developers to introduce the Rust programming language to CPython. Initially the focus is on allowing Rust to be used for developing optional extension modules for CPython but ultimately their goal is for Rust to become a hard dependency of CPython and used throughout its codebase…