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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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Add multiple picture widgets to your Ubuntu desktop

If you remember that desktop picture widget for GNOME I wrote about last year, but found it a bit too basic for your personalisation preferences, you weren’t alone. Another user felt it could lacked enough flexibility, so forked and improved it. …

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ByteDance’s OIN 2.0 Deal: Patent Non-Aggression Meets Reputation Management

By placing its qualifying patents in OIN 2.0’s cross-license community, ByteDance strengthens a defensive resource for open source while distancing itself from the political baggage surrounding TikTok.
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Kubescape: Kubernetes Security Scanning for Manifests, Images, and Clusters

The post Kubescape: Kubernetes Security Scanning for Manifests, Images, and Clusters first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Kubescape is a CNCF security scanner that checks your Kubernetes manifests, container images, and live clu…

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LightDM is Back From The Dead, But Canonical isn’t in Charge Anymore

It took years of silence, new maintainers, and a release to bring LightDM back.

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GeForce NOW’s Linux app drops its beta tag, gets Flatpak repo

GeForce Now’s native Linux app has exited beta after seven months of testing, with official support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. The app is a frontend for Nvidia’s game streaming service, with over 4,500 PC titles running in the cloud on…

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GeForce NOW’s Linux app drops its beta tag, gets Flatpak repo

GeForce Now’s native Linux app has exited beta after seven months of testing, with official support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and later. The app is a frontend for Nvidia’s game streaming service, with over 4,500 PC titles running in the cloud on…

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FOSS Weekly #26.33: Mint Kernel, PDF Editing, VLC Drama, Omarchy Quattro and More Linux Stuff

VLC got blamed for Microsoft’s clumsiness.

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Omarchy Bets Its Future on AI Agents While the Linux World Stays Cautious

While some open source projects are locking AI out of their codebases, Omarchy’s upcoming v4 release treats AI as part of the system.

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QEMU 11.1.0 Released with Recent ARM CPU Support && Improvements

The popular FFmpeg media library announced the first maintenance update for the 9.0 “Lei” release on Wednesday. PPA updated for Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04 and 26.04 LTS. The new FFmpeg 9.0.1 brings a total of 83 fixes and improvements mainly for its libavcodec, libavfilter, and libavformat libraries. For the Vulkan-accelerated FFV1 decoder, it now determines and […]

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MakerSkills: Add AI Agent Skills to Claude Code on Linux

The post MakerSkills: Add AI Agent Skills to Claude Code on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .makerskills is an open-source pack of AI agent skills for Claude Code. This walkthrough covers how to install it on
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VLC is Wrongly Blamed for Microsoft Defender’s Clumsiness

VLC takes a long time to play MP3 on Windows? Blame it on Microsoft Defender, not VLC.

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wdiff @ Savannah: wdiff-1.2.3 released [stable]

This is to announce wdiff-1.2.3, a stable release.

There have been 29 commits by 2 people in the 637 weeks since 1.2.2.

See the NEWS below for a brief summary.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed!
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Distribution Release: Manjaro Linux 26.1.0

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Philip Müller has announced the release of Manjaro Linux 26, the new stable build of the project’s set of rolling-release distributions with a choice of GNOME, KDE Plasma and Xfce deskto…

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LightDM returns from the dark with first release in 4 years

LightDM, Ubuntu’s former display manager, has had its first new release in four years – and the first under a new set of maintainers. LightDM v1.33.0 is a ‘catch up’ release that adds Qt6 support (Qt5 still works, don’t worry) a…

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QEMU 11.1.0 Released with Recent ARM CPU Support & QMP Monitor Hot-Plug

QEMU, the open-source virtualizer and virtual machine monitor, released new 11.1.0 version one day ago. The new version of this software introduced many new features support for ARM, PowerPC, RISC-V emulation, improved QMP/HMP monitoring support, and fixed various issues. QEMU 11.1.0 added support for very recent ARM CPU architectures, especially the newer FP8 + SVE/SME […]

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SimpleX Chat Wants Its 400K+ Users to Become Investors Too

The funds will go towards keeping the project up and running.

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How to Install Claude Desktop App in Ubuntu 26.04/24.04, Linux Mint 22

This is a step by step guide shows how to install the Claude Desktop App in Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and their based Linux Distributions. The Claude Desktop for Linux is so far a Beta app that provides the same Chat, Cowork, and Claude Code experience as on macOS and Windows. Supported Hardware & OSes: […]

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Rio Terminal Emulator for Linux: Speed Up Your Command-Line Workflow

The 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…

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GNOME Shell search redesign uses a floating overlay

The 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 …

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ChatGPT desktop app is now available for Linux (in preview)

OpenAI 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…

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