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FSF Blogs: Llama 3.1 Community License is not a free software license

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GNOME 48 Alpha Released! Battery Charge Limiting & Screen Time Limiting

The first alpha release of GNOME 48 is out today! See what’s new in the desktop environment that will be default in next Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42. First, GNOME 48 introduced new core app called Decibels. It’s a simple audio player that features playback speed adjustment, easy seek controls, and hows the waveform […]

GNU Guix: Guix User and Contributor Survey 2024: The Results (part 2)

The results from the Guix User and Contributor Survey (2024) are in and we’re digging into them in a series of posts! Check out the first post for the details of how users initially adopt Guix, the challenges they find while adopting it and how impor…

GNOME 48 Alpha Is Now Available for Public Testing, Here’s What’s New

GNOME 48 Alpha is now available for public testing with support for accent colors, Wayland improvements, and many other changes. Here’s what to expect!
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How to Install and Configure OpenVPN Server in RHEL 9

The post How to Install and Configure OpenVPN Server in RHEL 9 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .A Virtual Private Network is a technology solution used to provide privacy and security for inter-network connections. The most …

GNOME 47.3 Improves Frame Rate for Monitors Attached to Secondary GPUs

GNOME 47.3 is now available as the third maintenance update to the latest GNOME 47 “Denver” desktop environment series with more bug fixes, updated translations, and other changes.
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Vivaldi 7.1 Delivers Speed Dial Buffs, New Search Engine

Vivaldi web browser has just released its first major update of the year – a corker it is, too! Fans of the Chromium-based browser—though Vivaldi Technologies doesn’t appear to be part of the new Linux Foundation-led Supporters of Chromium Browse…

Wine 10 Includes Plenty to Excite Users

With its latest release, Wine has the usual crop of bug fixes and improvements, along with some exciting new features.

Exploring LXC Containerization for Ubuntu Servers

by George Whittaker

Introduction

In the world of modern software development and IT infrastructure, containerization has emerged as a transformative technology. It offers a way to pac…

GNOME 46.8 Release Speeds Up Thumbnail Loading in the Nautilus File Manager

GNOME 46.8 is now available as the eighth maintenance update to the GNOME 46 desktop environment series with more bug fixes, updated translations, and small improvements.
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Wine 10.0 Released with High-DPI Scaling & Full ARM64EC Support

Wine, the popular free open-source compatibility layer for running Windows apps/games in Linux/Unix, announced new 10.0 major release on Tuesday! The new release features Hi-DPI scaling support. Instead of exposing high-DPI sizes to applications that don’t expect it, it now automatically scale non-DPI aware windows. Wine 10.0 also added fully support for ARM64EC, Microsoft’s API […]

Bun: A Faster JavaScript Runtime for Linux Users

The post Bun: A Faster JavaScript Runtime for Linux Users first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Bun is a modern JavaScript runtime designed to simplify and accelerate the development of JavaScript and TypeScript applications. Unl…

AI Document Editing: Connect GPT4All to ONLYOFFICE on Ubuntu

The post AI Document Editing: Connect GPT4All to ONLYOFFICE on Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Artificial Intelligence is a powerful tool that can do plenty of good things if used correctly and responsibly. AI-based …

FOSS Weekly #25.04: Must-know Jargon, Kernel 6.13 Released, Mint 22.1, WINE 10 and More Linux Stuff

Mint 22.1 upgrade is now rolling out

21 Jargon Every Linux User Should Know

Even if you don’t know Linux well enough, you should know these common terms to blend in 😉

BSD Release: BSD Router Project 1.994

The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. BSD Router Project (BSDRP) is an embedded free and open-source router distribution based on FreeBSD. The project’s latest release is version 1.994 and uses the FreeBSD 15 development bra…

Ignition is a Modern Startup Applications Utility for Linux

I won’t lie: it’s easy to add or remove startup apps, commands, and scripts in Ubuntu. Just open the Startup Applications tool, click ‘Add’, and away you go. But while Ubuntu’s utility is adequate, it’s not as user-f…

GhostBSD Has Scheduled an Online Conference Focused on Desktop BSD

Desktop use of BSD operating systems will take center stage on March 29, with the launch of GhostBSDCon 2025.
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Arch Linux Installer Archinstall Gets Support for the Wayfire Wayland Compositor

Archinstall 3.0.2 Arch Linux menu-based installer is now available with support for the Wayfire Wayland compositor, Btrfs improvements, disk partitioning enhancements, and more.
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FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, February 7, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC)

Join the FSF and friends on Friday, February 7 from 12:00 to 15:00 EST (17:00 to 20:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory.