This site is a collection of tips, examples and small chunks of code I’ve used over the years as I’ve worked with Linux. Mostly the items found here are for my own use but I’ve made the site public in the chance that it will help other people. If you find something useful please let […]
Read MoreThere’s no guarantee it leads to an official release, but it would give Linux users another way to run Chromium or Chrome.
Read More35 years ago, a Finnish student began a humble project that would forever change the course of technology.
Read MoreThe Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Massachusetts 501(c)(3) charity with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom, seeks a motivated and talented individual to be our new Systems Integration Administrator. This position is ideally full-ti…
Read MoreThe Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Massachusetts 501(c)(3) charity with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom, seeks a motivated and talented individual to be our new Systems Integration Administrator. This position is ideally full-…
Read MoreFrom Canada to Poland, LibreLocal 2026 organizers shared free software with their communities!
Read MoreThe Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 26.8, a new version of its open-source office suite for Windows, macOS and Linux. Among the changes is a new Paragraph Composer, which improves the way Writer handles justified text. In many wo…
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Haiku project has released a new development snapshot of the lightweight, single-user operating system. Haiku R1 Beta 6 introduces support for multiple web browsers and features a po…
Read MoreGNU Emacs, the powerful text editor, released new 31.1 version a few days ago. The new version was launched nearly a year after the previous release. It features much better completion, more powerful window/frame management, unicode 17, and many other changes. The new 31.1 removed the old unexec dumper, that’s deprecated since Emacs 27, and […]
Read MoreUbuntu’s Desktop Icons NG (DING) extension has a little-known way to bring order to a chaotic desktop: stacks. Stacks groups multiple files of the same type in a collapsible icon, e.g. images in one stack, PDFs in another and so on. Folders don&#…
Read MoreBy Gilles Chehade You change one line in a large file. Your “incremental” backup re-uploads the whole thing anyway. Nine times out of ten, it’s not the network, and it’s not your storage backend. It’s the algorithm deciding where to cut your data into pieces. Every deduplication system works the same way: split data into […]
The post Why Your Backups Are Too Big: A Practical Guide to Content-Defined Chunking appeared first on Linux.com.
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Armbian distribution is designed for ARM development boards and a range of other machines. The project’s latest release, version 26.8.3, introduces a few key change, including a new …
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Armbian distribution is designed for ARM development boards and a range of other machines. The project’s latest release, version 26.8, introduces a few key change, including a new sy…
Read MoreDarktable, the open-source photography and raw developer application, tagged 5.6.1 version today. The new version is a maintenance release that improved the AI support, fixed numerous issues, and updated translations. The last Darktable 5.6.0 introduced AI sub-system and a preference dialog to download AI models. The new version updated the download manager, so it will […]
Read MoreGo language (aka Golang) released new major 1.27 version in last week, six months after the last 1.26. The new version of this popular programming language added support generic methods, which can now declare their own type parameters, making generics more flexible. As an example, Rand now supports a generic method N, matching the behavior […]
Read MoreThe $42 open source dongle gives you BIOS-level keyboard and mouse control plus SSH access. No software installation is needed on the target machine.
Read MoreMore than four decades after Richard Stallman began GNU Emacs, version 31.1 makes the classic editor friendlier for everyday Linux users.
The post GNU Emacs 31.1: Approaching Fifty and Still Improving appeared first on FOSS Force.
Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed ‘Stonking Stingray’, entered feature freeze on 20 August – though the formal announcement arrive later than usual. From this point onwards, development focus shifts from landing major changes to improving them, along…
Read MoreChina has ordered several government agencies to drop a Chinese-developed version of Windows 10 in favor of either KylinOS or UOS.
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Vanilla OS team has announced the release of Vanilla OS 3, the latest version of the project’s immutable Linux distribution based on Debian’s “Testing” branch. Code-named “Reunion”, …
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