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Gnome 48 Alpha Ready for Testing

The latest Gnome desktop alpha is now available with plenty of new features and improvements.

KaOS Linux 2025.01 Released with Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS and KDE Plasma 6.2

KaOS Linux 2025.01 independent distribution is now available for download with the KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment and Linux kernel 6.12 LTS. Here’s what’s new!
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Distribution Release: KaOS 2025.01

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The KaOS project kicks off 2025 with a new website design and a new ISO snapshot of its rolling release operating system. The project’s latest version, KaOS 2025.01, includes Plasma 6.2 …

Pinta 3.0 Beta Build Released with GTK4/Libadwaita UI

A new beta release of open source graphics editing app Pinta is available for testing. Pinta 3.0 (beta) gives fans of this cross-platform raster image editor, which is directly inspired by the iconic Paint.NET Windows app, an early opportunity to try o…

FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, January 31, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC)

Join the FSF and friends on Friday, January 31 from 12:00 to 15:00 EST (17:00 to 20:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.

Simplifying User Accounts and Permissions Management in Linux

by George Whittaker

Linux, renowned for its robustness and security, is a powerful multi-user operating system that allows multiple people to interact with the same system resources wi…

gprofng-gui @ Savannah: gprofng-gui 2.0 released

We are happy to announce the release of GNU gprofng-gui, version 2.0.

gprofng GUI is a full-fledged graphical interface for the gprofng

profiler, which is part of the GNU binutils.

The tarball gprofng-gui-2.0.tar.gz is now available at

https:…

System76’s Meerkat Mini Linux PC Is Back with Intel Core Ultra CPUs and Faster RAM

System76’s Meerkat mini Linux PC is now available to order with Intel Core Ultra processors, up to 62% faster RAM, and other updates.
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System76’s Meerkat Mini Linux PC Is Back with Intel Core Ultra CPUs and Faster RAM

System76’s Meerkat mini Linux PC is now available to order with Intel Core Ultra processors, up to 62% faster RAM, and other updates.
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System76’s Meerkat Mini Linux PC Is Back with Intel Core Ultra CPUs and Faster RAM

System76’s Meerkat mini Linux PC is now available to order with Intel Core Ultra processors, up to 62% faster RAM, and other updates.
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GNU Guix: Guix User and Contributor Survey 2024: The Results (part 3)

Today we’re looking at the results from the Contributor section of the Guix User and Contributor Survey (2024). The goal was to understand how people contribute to Guix and their overall development experience. A great development experience is impor…

Plank-Reloaded – The Simplest Dock that’s Fully Functional

Remember Plank, the simplest dock on the planet? There’s now a free open-source fork to make it fully functional in recent Linux Distributions. Plank is a 14 years old application that provides an iOS bottom bar style dock app launcher, that’s great for lightweight Linux Desktops. The goal is to provide just what a dock […]

How to Use Rsync to Sync Files Between Linux and Windows Using (WSL)

The post How to Use Rsync to Sync Files Between Linux and Windows Using (WSL) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Synchronizing files between Linux and Windows can seem challenging, especially if you’re not familiar with …

How I am Moving Away From Google’s Ecosystem

One service a time

How to Set Up SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

The post How to Set Up SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .This guide will walk you through installing SQL Server 2022 on RHEL 8.x or RHEL 9.x, connecting to it using
The post How to Set U…

New Pebble Smartwatch Planned After Google Open Source OS

Did you ever own (or covet) one of those e-ink Pebble smartwatches of yore? Well, good news if you did: Google today open-sourced the PebbleOS operating system it used (minus proprietary bits) having acquired Pebble’s assets when buying Fitbit in…

Mozilla Thunderbird 134 Adds New Notification System for Real-Time Desktop Alerts

Mozilla Thunderbird 134 open-source and free email and calendar client is now available for download with new features and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!
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GNU Artanis: How to write a plugin for GNU Artanis

Source: Planet GNU

GNU Artanis: GNU Artanis 1.2.2 release notes

Source: Planet GNU

I Ran Deepseek R1 on Raspberry Pi 5 and No, it Wasn’t 200 tokens/s

Everyone is seeking Deepseek R1 these days. Is it really as good as everyone claims? Let me share my experiments of running it on a Raspberry Pi.