Ultramarine Linux 39 combines the latest kernel 6.5 with Budgie 10.8.2, offering a different Fedora computing experience. Here’s more on that!

Source: LXer – Ultramarine Linux 39 Launches Featuring Fedora’s Latest Innovations

DietPi v8.24 was released a few days ago and it introduced support for a couple of Single Board Computers including the Orange Pi Zero 3, ROCK 5A and the ASUS Tinker Board 2. Additionally, there were other enhancements and bug fixes for other embedded devices. DietPi: DietPi is a lightweight and optimized OS based on […]

Source: LXer – DietPi November 2023 news (version 8.24)

OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 brings the latest KDE Plasma 5.27.9 desktop, powered by cutting-edge Linux kernel 6.6.2. Here’s what’s new!

Source: LXer – The Wait is Over: OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 Debuts with Major Updates

The OpenMandriva project announced today the release and general availability of OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 as the latest major release of this 100% community-driven GNU/Linux distribution.

Source: LXer – OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 Is Out as the Last KDE Plasma 5 Release, Powered by Linux 6.6 LTS

RocketChat is an open-source fully customizable communication platform written in Javascript. RocketChat offers a variety of features such as real-time communication, flexibility, and scalable solutions, and has high data protection standards. In this tutorial, we are going to guide you on how to install RocketChat on Ubuntu 22.04.

Source: LXer – How to Install RocketChat on Ubuntu 22.04

A brand-new discrete GPU design in a compact form factor is literally a game changer.

Source: LXer – ASRock Challenger ITX Intel Arc A380 Graphics Card

TUXEDO Computers unveiled today a new all-AMD Linux gaming laptop, the TUXEDO Sirius 16, powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 processor and AMD Radeon RX graphics, TPM 2.0, as well as up to 96 GB RAM.

Source: LXer – TUXEDO Sirius 16 Unveiled as TUXEDO Computers’ First All-AMD Linux Gaming Laptop

Proxmox Virtual Environment 8.1 debuts with Debian 12.2 base, Linux kernel 6.5, QEMU 8.1.2, and LXC 5.0.2, enhancing virtual environments.

Source: LXer – Proxmox VE 8.1 Introduces Secure Boot Compatibility

The Banana Pi BPI-R4 is a high-performance, open-source router board, equipped with MediaTek Filogic 880 SoC and designed to cater to a wide range of networking applications requiring multiple Gigabit Ethernet ports and wireless connectivity. A key feature of the BPI-R4 is its MediaTek Filogic 880 chipset, a premier network processor that enhances both wired […]

Source: LXer – Affordable 0 Banana Pi BPI-R4 Router Board Featuring 2x10G SFP Ports

This detailed tutorial provides a concise introduction to the Rust programming language, followed by clear instructions on how to install Rust using rustup on Linux. It also guides you through updating Rust, creating and running a sample Rust program, and finally, how to uninstall Rust from your Linux system.

Source: LXer – Beginner’s Tutorial: Setting Up Rust Using Rustup on Linux Systems

Explore fastfetch, a tool designed for fetching system information similar to neofetch but with a focus on performance and customization.

Source: LXer – Fastfetch – A Tool for Fetching System Information in Linux

Learn what’s new in Qt Creator 12, which brings a performance boost, co-pilot integration and updated tools to Linux developers.

Source: LXer – Qt Creator 12.0 Released with Co-Pilot Integration

You may never have heard of it, but you almost certainly use it, possibly many times a dayNew versions of this amazingly versatile tool, used in most streaming video services and devices, don’t come along very often.…

Source: LXer – FFmpeg 6.1 drops a Heaviside dose of codec magic

No, but here comes the Functional Source License to further muddy the open-source licensing waters. Opinion Way back when we loaded software with punch cards and magnetic tape, all programs were “free software” and “open source.” Then along came proprietary software, and everything changed. But programmers rebelled and developed the first formal definitions of free and open source software.…

Source: LXer – Do we really need another non-open source available license?

Donate today to fund Sandler’s $250,000 per annum salary and $500/hour motions to gag Professor Eben Moglen (with help from real lawyers, who later do blog posts that further demonise Professor Moglen).

Source: LXer – Who is the Mystery Payer of Sandlers’ (Software Freedom Conservancy) Quarter Million Dollars (Huge Salary) Per Year?

Mkosi is a lightweight tool to build images from distribution packages. This article describes how to use mkosi to build images with packages from RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and RHEL UBI. RHEL Universal Base Image is a subset of RHEL that is freely available without a subscription. Mkosi features Mkosi supports a few output […]

Source: LXer – Building RHEL and RHEL UBI images with mkosi

When is a spreadsheet not a spreadsheet? On Call Fridays can often feel like purgatory to prepare for the heavenly weekend, which is why The Register marks the day with a new installment of On Call, our weekly reader-contributed tale of tech support torture.…

Source: LXer – User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn’t make ‘Excel’ work

tap is a terminal-based music player that lets you jump to any album with fuzzy-finder shortcuts. It’s got one of the lightest memory footprints of any audio player. It’s written in Rust and published under an open source license.

Source: LXer – tap v0.4.10 – terminal-based music player

OpenSSL 3.2 has been released today as a major update to this powerful, open-source, cross-platform, and free software library that provides secure communications over computer networks for applications and websites.

Source: LXer – OpenSSL 3.2 Adds Support for TCP Fast Open on Linux, Argon2 KDF, and More

Learn about some of the latest best lightweight web browsers in Ubuntu and other Linux distributions.

Source: LXer – 10 Best Lightweight Browsers for Ubuntu and Other Linux