Meet Open NotebookLM: An Open Source Alternative to Google’s NotebookLM

Good to see an open source alternative arriving on the scene so soon.

DistroWatch Weekly, Issue 1091

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly:
Review: Redox OS 0.9.0
News: Redox begins RISC-V port, Linux Mint polishes the user interface, Qubes certifies NitroPad v56 laptop
Tips and tricks: Unif…

Ardour 8.8 (Open Source DAW) Drops Fresh Fixes & Features

Ardour is one of the most popular and powerful open-source digital audio workstations (DAW) around, and a major new update was recently made available. Now, I can’t profess to be some kind of music-making maestro, though I did spend much of my la…

How to Install MongoDB on AlmaLinux 9

MongoDB is an open-source, cross-platform, and distributed NoSQL (Non-SQL or Non-Relational) database system. This guide will show you how to install MongoDB on an Alma Linux 9 server.
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Ardour 8.8 DAW Launches with Hot-Fixes and New Features

Ardour 8.8 Digital Audio Workstation introduces new features, including track dragging, ruler changes, and powerful parallel disk I/O.
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Auto-run Custom Actions When Waking up Your Ubuntu from Sleep

This tutorial shows how to automatically run custom command, script, or other actions after resuming your Linux PC/laptop from suspend or hibernate. As you may know, there are quite a few ways to run something automatically at Ubuntu startup. You can use “Startup Applications” utility to run apps or custom commands at login, use crontab […]

How to Install Odoo 18 on Ubuntu 24.04

Odoo 18 is an open-source suite of business applications that provides a complete ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) solution for organizations of various sizes. It offers a wide range of integrated tools and modules to help manage all aspects of a business, such as finance, sales, inventory, human resources, and more. The open-source community edition is […]

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Banana Pi and OpenWrt’s One/AP-24.XY Router Board Hits the Market

The first official OpenWrt One/AP-24.XY router board goes on sale, featuring MediaTek’s latest SoC with WiFi 6 for enhanced connectivity, priced at $111.
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How to Install Pydio Cells on AlmaLinux 9

Pydio Cells is an open-source document-sharing and collaboration platform for your organization. In this guide, we’ll show you how to install Pydio Cells on an Alma Linux 9 server.
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FFmpeg 7.1 Added VVC decoder, Vulkan H.264/HEVC Encoder [Ubuntu PPA]

The popular FFmpeg media library released new version 7.1 a few days ago. Here are the new features and Ubuntu PPA for Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 users. The new release of FFmpeg library added official VVC decoder support. Versatile Video Coding (VVC in short), also known as H.266, has about 50% better compression rate for […]

What is a Raspberry Pi HAT? What is it Used for?

The HAT can enhance the capabilities of your Raspberry Pi. Learn more about them in this article.

Fwupd 2.0 Open-Source Linux Firmware Updater Released with Major Changes

This new major release beaks the libfwupd ABI to drop legacy signing formats for verification of metadata and firmware, reduce the runtime memory usage and CPU startup cost significantly, remove all the long-deprecated legacy CLI tools, remove libgusb and GUdev from plugins and use libusb and sysfs instead, and stream firmware binaries over a file […]

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PyGObject: A Guide to Creating Python GUI Applications on Linux

Creating graphical user interface (GUI) applications is a fantastic way to bring your ideas to life and make your programs more user-friendly. PyGObject is a Python library that allows developers to create GUI applications on Linux desktops using the GTK (GIMP Toolkit) framework. GTK is widely used in Linux environments, powering many popular desktop applications […]

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Fwupd 2.0: Major Changes and New Hardware Support

Fwupd 2.0 launches with major enhancements: drops old signing formats, adds Darwin support, and revamps device firmware management.
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XFCE 4.20 Aims To Bring Preliminary Wayland Support

The XFCE developers are aiming to release the XFCE version 4.20 with the introduction of preliminary Wayland support in December 2024.
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FSF Blogs: The FSF is turning 39! Join us in celebrating almost 40 years of fighting for software freedom

Source: Planet GNU

qBittorrent: A Lightweight, Feature-Rich BitTorrent Client for Linux

qBittorrent is a popular open-source BitTorrent client that allows users to download and share files over the internet. The latest version, qBittorrent 5.0, was released recently and comes packed with new features and improvements. This article will guide you on how to install qBittorrent 5.0 on Linux, highlight its key features, and explain how to […]

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Tilix: A Tiling Terminal Emulator With Bookmark Support

Discover an amazing Tilix terminal emulator that offers features such as tiling management and command bookmarking.
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OpenStack Dalmation Advances Open Source Cloud with New Dashboard, Better AI Support

The latest release of the open-source OpenStack cloud platform introduces a more modern dashboard and key features aimed at improving AI workloads and security.
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Speech Note – An Offline Speech Recognition, Text-to-Speech and Translation App for Linux

Speech Note is an open-source, privacy-focused application that offers offline Speech to Text (STT), Text to Speech (TTS), and Machine Translation (MT) capabilities. With Speech Note, you can take, read, and translate notes in multiple languages.
The p…