Category Archives: Linux

5 reasons I can’t go back to Windows after trying Linux

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Linux distros might be extremely popular in the server community, but they’re still a niche in the general computing sector, which the Windows lineup continues to dominate. Ever since I began my home lab obsession, I’ve spent more time with Linux than Windows – and let me tell you, Linux distributions have some game-changing features that are severely lacking in their modern Windows counterparts.

ArcaOS 5.1.1 released

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It’s been two years since the release of ArcaOS 5.1, which was a hugely important release because it brought UEFI support to this continuation of IBM’s OS/2, ensuring longevity for the project for years to come.

Kde Plasma 6.3 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

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Highlights of KDE Plasma 6.3 include the ability to clone a panel, better fractional scaling for everyone, support for remembering the active virtual desktop per activity, a revamped Graphics Tablet page in System Settings, an option to prefer screen color accuracy in KWin, and support for viewing battery cycle count in Info Center.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080/5090 Performance With Neat Video 6 On Linux

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Last week NeatLab released Neat Video 6 as the newest version of their video engine to reduce noise and enhance video quality that can be used with the likes of DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut, and Premiere Pro software. Neat Video 6 features a faster render engine, optimized CPU + GPU performance, enhanced memory management, and other improvements. Neat Video 6 continues to support Linux natively when it comes to DaVinci Resolve usage as well as various OFX hosts like Natron / Flame / Mistika / Fusion Studio / Nuke. As they also updated their NeatBench benchmark, I was curious to see how the performance of Neat Video 6 is for the new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Blackwell GPUs.

Linus Torvalds Would Reportedly Merge Rust Kernel Code Over Maintainer Objections

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The drama surrounding Rust code within the Linux kernel continues… Christoph Hellwig is the maintainer of the DMA mapping helpers and several other areas of the kernel has been an outspoken critic of Rust code or secondary programming languages within the Linux kernel kernel. Hellwig has been critical of Rust code for the Linux kernel and its long-term maintainability. Today he’s out with another mailing list post where he notes that Linus Torvalds mentioned in private he would override maintainer vetoes on Rust code within the kernel…

What is an SPF Record?

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SPF or Sender Policy Framework is a DNS record that indicates mail exchanges in which hosts are authorized to send mail for a domain. An SPF record is a type of TXT(text), and its purpose includes essential notices regarding the domain. They are used because the SMTP protocol does not authenticate the “from” address in an email. Without it, attackers may easily impersonate the sender’s email address. This works so that the attackers or spammers can edit the From address to make it look like they are sending from an email address to your domain. This action is also known as email spoofing, which uses the user’s private information and can decrease the reputation of the IP address where the domain is pointed, which may lead to blocking. That is why using the SPF record is crucial when configuring the domain.

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Pi-hole v6 released

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Pi-hole v6 has been released. The
latest version of the popular ad-blocking software sports a redesigned
user interface, has support for subscribing to allowlists, and brings
a new REST API and embedded web server. Its Docker/OCI image is now
based on Alpine Linux
rather than Debian to reduce image
size. See the announcement for guidance on upgrading existing Pi-hole
installations.

A milestone for reproducible openSUSE

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The Reproducible-openSUSE project has announced
that it has created a usable version of openSUSE with 100% reproducible
packages.

[Bernhard] Wiedemann took on this 4-month-long project to create a
fork of openSUSE that has 100% bit-reproducible packages. So far
ring0 (aka bootstrap) and ring1 with 3,300 software packages have
all successfully been patched and tested.

This build is not yet recommended for production use, though.

[$] FUSE folio conversion confusion

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Kernel developers have been working to convert various internal interfaces to
use

folios; while this process has been progressing, there is still the
occasional regression introduced by the change. In December 2024, it was
discovered that installing a

Flatpak application could trigger a filesystem bug in
the kernel that would cause the software to read incorrect data from the disk.
The problem was quickly fixed — only for an another problem caused by the folio
rewrite to pop up in the same kernel subsystem. This was discovered by an Arch
Linux user, who noticed that selecting files in a Flatpak application was
causing kernel crashes. Now both bugs are fixed, but there may be more bugs to find.