The post How to Use Shutdown, Poweroff, Halt, and Reboot Commands in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .In this article, we’ll explain the difference between the shutdown, poweroff, halt and reboot commands in Linux. We’…
Read MoreCanonical has announced the first official Ubuntu desktop image for the Qualcomm DragonWing platform. A beta image of Ubuntu 24.04 desktop compatible with Qualcomm Dragonwing QCS6490 and QCS5430 processors, and specifically tailored for the Qualco…
Read MoreIf you’ve ever wanted to use a rolling release distribution with WSL, now’s your chance.
Read MoreTwenty-one new GNU releases in the last month (as of April 30, 2025):
Read MoreHere’s what people were reading the most on FOSS Force during the month of April, 2025.
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The initial injustice of proprietary software often leads to further injustices: malicious functionalities.
The introduction of unjust techniques in nonfree software, such as back doors, DRM, tethering, and others, has become ever more frequent. N…
Read MoreDevelopment today opened on Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka”, the next short-term release of Ubuntu, due for release in October. Canonical engineer Utkarsh Gupta fired the figurative starting pistol for developers in a post to the Ubuntu mail…
Read MoreAn organization that among other things provides hosting for over 500 free and open source projects from all over the world suddenly finds itself needing a helping hand.
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by George Whittaker
Introduction
In a world teeming with Linux distributions — from Ubuntu to Arch, Debian to Fedora — the idea of building your own may seem daunting, if not redundan…
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. Maria Fokanova has announced the release of ALT Linux 11.0 “Workstation”, an independently-developed Linux distribution with RPM package management and (newly) GNOME as the default deskt…
Read MoreFor NVIDIA users, Ubuntu finally backported the latest NVIDIA 570 driver for Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04, and Ubuntu 24.10 desktop. NVIDIA 570 is so far the latest production branch driver for Linux that was initially released in February. The driver features variable refresh rate (VRR) support on multiple monitors, systemd suspend-then-hibernate sleep method, […]
Read MoreThe DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The DragonFlyBSD project has published its first update in over two years. The update to the 6.4.x branch introduces several fixes in the kernel, userland, and package manager. “6.4.1 fi…
Read MoreWe are very happy to announce that the upcoming version of GNU Health Hospital Information System has entered feature-complete alpha stage. This upcoming version of GNU Health HIS 5.0 supposes over a year of work and is the largest release in terms o…
Read MoreGoing retro, going futuristic.
Read MoreFirefox’s Tab Groups help you organize tabs efficiently. But how efficiently? Let me share my experience.
Read MoreThe post Calculating Mathematical Expressions in Shell Scripting – Part 5 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .By now, you must be feeling a bit more confident writing and understanding basic shell scripts. If you’ve followed th…
Read MoreApril brought a solid set of software updates to an assortment of different apps. In this post, I run through recent releases that didn’t get the “whole article” treatment on this blog. Sometimes, it’s a challenge to cover everything …
Read MoreopenSUSE Leap 16 is now available for public beta testing with the new Agama installer and based on SUSE’s Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP).
The post openSUSE Leap 16 Enters Public Beta Testing with Agama Installer, Linux 6.12 LTS appeared first on 9to5L…