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 MoreThe post Rio Terminal Emulator for Linux: Speed Up Your Command-Line Workflow first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Rio is a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Rust that gives you built-in tabs, splits, and a command pa…
Read MoreThe next version of GNOME Shell, out in September, is ‘likely’ to include a redesigned search experience. In current versions of the desktop, when you start a search from the GNOME Shell overview, a dedicated search results screen replaces …
Read MoreOpenAI has announced a preview release of the official ChatGPT Desktop app for Linux. Compared to using ChatGPT in a browser tab, the GUI desktop app can run Codex in your local repos, hook into and control other apps via extensions, handle ChatGPT Wor…
Read MoreThey have already cracked Xbox game downloads, and macOS support is also being worked on.
Read MoreThe local AI scene is more fragmented than the Linux distro landscape.
Read MoreThe idea is to use Raspberry Pi as an always-on Hermes backend while using it from the computer(s).
Read MoreThe work-in-progress feature would clear out old, unused kernels automatically every week.
Read MoreLinux Mint 22.3, the popular Ubuntu 24.04 based Linux Distribution, got a Hardware Enablement update by releasing new 7.0 Kernel HEW ISO images. The new update features Linux Kernel 7.0 provided by Ubuntu 24.04 (backported from Ubuntu 26.04), enabling new hardware support and better performance. The new kernel features improved gaming support for old AMD […]
Read MoreThe wallpaper competition for Ubuntu 26.10, Stonking Stingray, is now open for submission! Top TWO of the 3 categories will be included in the .iso images. Everyone can participate, by either submitting an image taken from a camera or made by digital creative tools, or just voting your favorite ones! And, you can get cool […]
Read MoreGNU poke (http://www.j … rch.net/poke) is an interactive, extensible
editor for binary data. Not limited to editing basic entities such
as bits and bytes, it provides a full-fledged procedural,
interactive programming language designed to descr…
Read MoreSparkleShare’s funding success shows that grants can revive struggling open source projects—but only if maintainers can find the organizations ready to support them.
The post SparkleShare Finds Funding—and an Unintended Lesson for Open Source appeared …
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. SparkyLinux is a Debian-based distribution with a variety of desktop editions. The project’s latest version, SparkyLinux 8.4, reintroduces 32-bit support for x86 machines. “A year ago, D…
Read MoreUnless a kernel patch is a valid security fix, it will be rejected if it was created using AI.
Read MoreLinux Mint has announced an overhaul in its kernel management, and will now automatically delete old kernels once a week. Kernel management is moving out of Update Manager and into the System Administration tool on both standard and LMDE versions and i…
Read MoreThe CLI installer’s new experimental profiles target the upcoming Server Edition, while Shelly gets a full rewrite.
Read MoreA new Linux Mint 22.3 HWE ISO is available for download, powered by Linux kernel 7.0. The distro made the first Linux Mint 22.3 HWE ISO available in March, with an installer that boots Linux 6.17 by default. That image remains available to download alo…
Read MoreTransmission, the BitTorrent client that’s default in Ubuntu (when installed in “Extended selection” mode since 24.04), will be possibly forked into “ReTransmission”. Someone asked “Why has the project been forked as ‘retransmission’?” in the project discussions page, and the maintainer answered: There are several reasons, but the easiest one to explain quickly is it solves […]
Read MoreTransmission, the BitTorrent client that’s default in Ubuntu (when installed in “Extended selection” mode since 24.04), will be possibly forked into “ReTransmission”. Someone asked “Why has the project been forked as ‘retransmission’?” in the project discussions page, and the maintainer answered: There are several reasons, but the easiest one to explain quickly is it solves […]
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The CachyOS project has published a new snapshot. The distribution’s August release features improvements to the system installers, the welcome window, and handheld device detection. “Ca…
Read MoreThe new rust-lang/rust policy allows AI-written code only under a narrow, disclosed experiment, and doesn’t apply to the wider Rust project.
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