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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Review: Battle of the Children of Void
News: Commits to AUR paused, Mageia highlights useful applications, Proxmox introduces ARM support
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If you have been using an ecommerce store to place online orders or have been using multiple softwares for work, it is very likely that one or many of those would be using MySQL on the backend to store, retrieve and manage data. MySQL is a relational database that stores data in a structured format […]
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. iDeal OS, an MX Linux-based desktop distribution with focus on privacy and security, has been updated to version 2026.08.08. This release replaces Firefox with Waterfox as the new defaul…
Read MoreI flummoxed to read a report about how much memory Microsoft’s Weather app uses on Windows 11 – more than 1GB just to render what is, ostensibly, a fancy table of stats. I was less flummoxed to check the memory usage of Mousam, my current go-to w…
Read MoreLightDM, the lightweight display manager originally developed by Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu), returns by releasing version 1.33.0 a few days ago. It’s the first release in four years, that features bug-fixes for the issues since the last 1.32.0 and Qt6 support, while Qt5 will continue to be available. LightDM (Light Display Manager) was the […]
Read MoreKagi has released a new beta of Orion for Linux, a WebKitGTK-based port of its popular browser for macOS and IOS. Orion for Linux v0.4.1 builds on the v0.3.0 public beta, released in May, adding more features found on its macOS and iOS versions and imp…
Read MoreSushi, the file previewer for GNOME desktop environment, released version 51 Beta in last week. GNOME Sushi was revived several months ago. With the latest 51 development version, it’s finally ported to GTK4 with some new functions and API updates. In case you don’t know about Sushi, it’s a macOS Finder’s Quick Look style application, […]
Read MoreOpera, the free Chromium based web browser, released new stable 134 version a few days ago. The new Opera version updated its Chromium base platform to the previous 150 stable release. And, it finally makes the Vertical Tabs feature available for all users. Vertical tabs is the popular feature that displays the browser tabs vertically […]
Read MoreAn interview with Bianca Lewis of OpenSearch, conducted at Open Source Summit India.
Read MoreAn updated version of Dynamic Music Pill, the GNOME Shell extension to put now playing track info and lyrics in your panel or dock with animated flourishes, is out. If you’re prone some desk-side crooning, Dynamic Music Pill v1.3.0 brings two new…
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Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Titalcruise E.A. has announced the release of TitalcruiseOS 5.4, a major update of the project’s Debian-based Linux distribution designed primarily for system administrators, developers …
Read MoreThe latest release of the GNU Compiler Collection addresses regressions and serious bugs found in GCC 16.1.
The post GCC 16.2 Released With More Than 100 Bugs Fixed appeared first on FOSS Force.
According to two sources, the Linux operating system has hit a major milestone in market share that naysayers thought would never happen.
Read MoreA new bug-fix release of Calibre, the open-source e-book manger, view and converter, is available for download. Calibre 9.13 fixes a number of PDF-related issues, including a conversion error that could occur on Linux distributions shipping an ‘a…
Read MoreMesa, the open-source implement of OpenGL, OpenGL ES, Vulkan, OpenGL, and other graphics API, released new 26.2.0 version on Wednesday. The new version updated its Rusticl OpenCL implementation with OpenCL 3.1 capability across Apple AGX, Intel, AMD, Vulkan-based, and CPU software backends, allowing OpenCL 3.1 applications to run through Mesa on those platforms. The Vulkan […]
Read MoreThe Children’s Online Social Media Safety Act has device makers collect the age bracket, but apps still have to act on it.
Read MoreThe release is powered by Debian 13.5 and Linux 7.0, with NVIDIA Grace and Vera systems fully supported.
Read MoreThe post 20 Linux Networking Interview Questions and Answers for 2026 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .You’ve probably memorized networking definitions like “What is DNS?” or “What is a subnet?”…
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