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Welcome to Linux Consultant

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 […]

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Warp Launches Factories to Let Engineering Teams Build Their Own Cloud Software Factories

The platform is open at every layer, letting teams bring their own models, harnesses, and compute while Warp handles the orchestration.

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Tuba 0.11.0 released with full Mastodon quote support

A big update to Tuba, the GTK4/libadwaita Fediverse client, has landed – along with an experimental version for Android. Tuba 0.11.0 is the first major update to the social app in a year and brings full support for Mastodon quotes. Quoting posts, wheth…

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Distribution Release: Garuda Linux 260819

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Garuda Linux project has published a new release. The new version, 260819 “Temeraire”, introduces a refined way to handle disk sectors and switches the default kernel to match CachyO…

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Modular’s Got Its ‘Mojo’ Working Fully Open Source

Modular has opened Mojo’s compiler and tooling under Apache 2.0, but says outside compiler contributions will have to wait until later this year.
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PINE64 pulls the plug on Linux devices because of AI boom

If you’ve been eyeing up one of PINE64‘s Linux-friendly single-board computers, phones or tablets, now is the time to buy one. The open-hardware company has announced it will stop “producing more Linux devices” for the time bein…

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Book Review: The Ultimate AI Guide for Linux Engineers

A book specifically written for seasoned Linux professionals so that they can use AI effectively and safely in their workflow.

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COSMIC Epoch 1.6.0 Released with Per-App Basis Volume Control

COSMIC Epoch, the Linux desktop environment that’s default in Pop!_OS, released new 1.6.0 version today. The new version added the wl-dmabuf-v6 Wayland protocol support improving compatibility with the latest Wayland GPU-buffer handling. It also added Ei Wayland protocol support for applications such as remote-desktop software and input emulation to send keyboard, mouse, and touch input […]

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Murena Just Made The Fairphone (Gen. 6) Better!

A new variant of the modular smartphone now offers 12GB of RAM and a Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 upgrade.

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VirtualBox 7.2.16 Released with Intel FRED Support

Oracle VirtualBox 7.2.16, the eighth maintenance update for the 7.2 series, was released on Tuesday. The new version of this virtualization software contains only some fixes and performance improvements. For Linux host running on recent Intel platform with FRED (Flexible Return and Event Delivery) enabled (e.g., Fedora 44 on Core Ultra Series 3 laptops), there […]

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frp: Access Local Services Behind NAT Without Port Forwarding

The post frp: Access Local Services Behind NAT Without Port Forwarding first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .frp is a fast reverse proxy written in Go that lets a machine behind NAT accept internet traffic through a
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FSF Blogs: Six more global stories: LibreLocal 2026, part two

Source: Planet GNU

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The Bullet-Proof KDE Software Initiative Is Coming

KDE, Techpaladin, and Kubuntu Focus have announced a new initiative that will provide at least three years of support for KDE Plasma 6.6 LTS and related software.

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Linux Kernel 7.2 Officially Released with Cache-Aware Scheduling, USB4STREAM, and Major AMD Improvements

by George Whittaker

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has officially released Linux Kernel 7.2, opening another chapter in the development of the world’s most widely deployed open-source ke…

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Firefox 154 released with translation, AI feature and UI tweaks

Mozilla has released Firefox 154 with some small AI-related changes, an ‘improved’ full-page translations and faster video seeking on “all operating systems” – or not, as I explain further down. Firefox 154 serves as the final m…

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This Solo Dev Already Built a Popular Distro. Now He’s Trying It Again

Built on AlmaLinux with bootc, it promises atomic updates and zero manual upkeep.

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The PR adds Native Validity Fingerprint Sensors Support to Linux

For those who have computers or laptops with Synaptics / Validity fingerprint sensors, there’s a new pull request contains the driver for libfprint, the default fingerprint library in most Linux Distributions. As you might know, libfprint has a list of unsupported devices. It includes many Lenovo Thinkpad and HP laptops with 138a and 06cb sensors. […]

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The Xen Project is Serious About Safety, So It Formed a Committee

Founding members AMD, EPAM, and Renesas already put in the groundwork, and there’s a new Premier Plus membership tier to go with it.

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Distribution Release: Mainstream OS 1.3.0

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Mainstream OS, an Arch-based, user-friendly Linux distribution with a highly customised desktop that uses the Quickshell toolkit on top of the Hyprland compositor, has been updated to ve…

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Firefox 154.0 added Old Fashioned, Pride, Minimal App Icons Support

Firefox 154.0, the August release of this popular open-source web browser, is available to download. The new version of this browser added new setting option to choose a different Firefox icon. It’s however only available for Windows .exe installation so far, while the support for Linux, macOS, and MSIX installations is coming soon. It so […]

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5 Ways to Test TCP and UDP Ports in Linux Using nc, nmap, ss, and Bash

The post 5 Ways to Test TCP and UDP Ports in Linux Using nc, nmap, ss, and Bash first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Telnet is missing from almost every modern Linux install, but you can still test TCP or UDP ports with nc,
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