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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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findutils @ Savannah: GNU findutils 4.11.0 released

This is to announce findutils-4.11.0, a stable release.

This release follows the recent POSIX (IEEE Std 1003.1-2024) changes,

especially to mention the new behavior of ‘find -mount’ vs. ‘find -xdev’,

as well as a lot of documentation improvement…

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GNOME Has A Modern New Email App Work in Progress

Want an email app between Evolution and Geary? Check out Gnome’s modern new “Stamp” app which is working in progress. Stamp is an open-source mail, contact, and calendar suite application for Linux, which was unveiled at OpenSUSE conference 2026: The project provides a complete mail client with integrated contact and calendar functionality. It features a […]

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Ubuntu 26.10 retires dbus-daemon after 22 year run as default

Ubuntu 26.10 is replacing its D-Bus implementation for the first time since 2004, swapping dbus-daemon for dbus-broker – a change end-users are unlikely to notice. Processes on your desktop talk to each other and to the host system using D-Bus, a &#821…

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Red Hat will support your RHEL forever now – for a price

Red Hat’s new Long-Life Add-On extends support on a specific release for as long as you’re willing to pay for it.

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SpaceX wants to launch 100,000 more Starlink satellites – for 100x the bandwidth

It could mean faster internet for rural customers, but not everyone is happy.

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FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, July 17, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC)

Join the FSF and friends on Friday, July 17 from 12:00 to 15:00 EDT (16:00 to 19:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.

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The ‘learn to code’ era is over – and employers are on the hook for reskilling now

AI’s ushered in a new era of reskilling. Here’s what the industry can learn from the last decade’s drive to put people in tech jobs.

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Linux Mint Now Considers Wayland Stable

Cinnamon will fully support both X11 and Wayland sessions starting with Mint’s next release, due Christmas.

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I’m a Windows user who installed Linux for the first time – here’s how the experience changed me

I put Ubuntu on an old Dell laptop to see if Linux could really replace Windows 11. See why my final destination was so worth the speed bumps.

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FSF Blogs: How the FSF sysadmins block botnets with reaction

Source: Planet GNU

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In an Angry Fit, Dev ‘Sabotages’ OpenMandriva Repository

A dust-up in OpenMandriva’s dev ranks escalates from abusive chats to vanished repositories and a ‘saboteur’ package that threatens Gnome and Cosmic users.
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Claude desktop app for Linux enters beta

Anthropic has released a beta of its Claude desktop app for Linux, launching alongside an apt repo Ubuntu users can add for ongoing updates. According to the official docs, Claude desktop for Linux offers “the same Chat, Cowork, and Claude Code e…

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Tangent for Linux.com

By Alexey Volkov, Bo Li, Ben Chen, Maksym Yezhov, Pete Luferenko, and Volv Grebennikov – Shopify Machine learning work is full of loops: form a hypothesis, build a pipeline, run it, read the metrics, adjust, repeat. Tangle is already where Shopify’s ML experiments run, giving engineers a shared platform to build and execute pipelines. Tangent […]

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I’ve used Linux for 30 years – here’s how I’d rank DistroWatch’s top 10

DistroWatch says these are the top Linux distros. I say this order is better.

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Heroes of Fedora Quality for Q2 2026

The second quarter of 2026 is over, and so in this post we’d like to highlight the top Fedora Quality contributors who helped us maintain the quality bar for Fedora during this time period. Fedora wouldn’t be a high-quality distribution without its community. Every single person who helped us detect and resolve issues, or verify … Continue reading Heroes of Fedora Quality for Q2 2026

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FOSS Weekly #26.28: Microslop Moment, Rustification, Brave New features, KDE Plasma Tips and Meme Distro and More

K in KDE stands for Kustomization.

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NVIDIA 610 Driver Coming Soon to the Official Ubuntu Repository

NVIDIA 610 (610.43.02) graphics driver is finally made into the proposed repository for testing purpose. If everything goes well, it will be released to the general public soon. NVIDIA 610 is the latest new feature branch Linux driver, which was released more than a month ago on May 26. It introduced several new Vulkan extensions […]

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herdr: A Terminal Tool for Managing Multiple AI Coding Agents

The post herdr: A Terminal Tool for Managing Multiple AI Coding Agents first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .If you run multiple AI coding agents at the same time, you’ve probably faced this problem: too many terminal tabs,…

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Avoiding Vendor Lock-in By Using KDE Plasma As Personal Knowledge Base

Exploring a rudimentary style of notes management with Markdown and KDE Dolphin. Sometimes, simplicity is the best solution.

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Lightwell: Red Hat’s and IBM’s AI Defense Against AI-Based Attacks

The only elephant in the room isn’t in the oval office. For enterprises dependent on IT — meaning every enterprise on the planet these days — there’s an elephant in every server and in every data center. Unless you’re air-gapped, that’s any code that…

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