Fish shell, the popular free open-source command line shell, release new major 4.0 version yesterday. Shell is a program that interprets and executes the commands you type in the terminal. Linux has different type shells, e.g., Bourne Shell (sh), GNU Bourne-Again Shell (bash), and C Shell (csh). And, current Ubuntu releases default to bash shell. […]
February proved a bumper month for Linux software updates, seeing big release of productivity suites LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE and, plus a crop of smaller app updates which didn’t merit a full-length article on this blog. Rather than skip over t…
How well did you pay attention to tech news this week? Here’s your chance to check in and check yourself out. This week there are 10 questions. How will you score?
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Seal Security is launching a new solution to automate fixing Linux vulnerabilities.
The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. The Murena team have announced the launch of an update in the /e/OS 2.x series. The new version imrpoves the account manager and software centre while fixing bugs on multiple devices. Th…
The post Linux Problem-Solving Scenarios: Real-World Challenges & Solutions first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Linux is a powerful and reliable operating system, but even seasoned users encounter unexpected problems. Whether i…
NVIDIA announced the new 570.124.04 stable driver yesterday as the latest production branch version for Linux users. Compare to the last 570.86.16 Beta driver, this release added new conceal_vrr_caps parameter to the nvidia-modeset kernel module. Which, allows to enable features on displays (such as ULMB) that are incompatible with variable refresh rate (VRR). The new […]
by George Whittaker
Introduction
In the ever-evolving digital world, Linux servers form the backbone of enterprises, web applications, and cloud infrastructure. Whether hosting websit…
NVIDIA 570 graphics driver is now available for download with VRR (variable refresh rate) support on multi-monitor setups and other changes. Here’s what’s new!
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Just a week since the last release, KDE announced the second maintenance update for the Plasma 6.3 Desktop. Plasma 6.3.2 added support for fractional scaling with denominator of 120. According to this page, the appropriate denominator for the scale is 120. However, Display Configuration previously only allowed 5% increments. In the new release, it supports […]
LibreOffice 25.2.1 is now available for download as the first point release to the latest LibreOffice 25.2 office suite series with 77 bug fixes.
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Emacs text editor released new major 30.1 version a few days ago. For Ubuntu users who prefer the classic .deb package, here’s unofficial PPA updated for all current Ubuntu releases. Emacs 30.1 features Android port, improved touchscreen support, new trusted-content option, native JSON support, default app for ‘org-protocol’, ability to set toolbar to bottom, new […]
The post How to Set Up FreeDOS on Linux Using Qemu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .FreeDOS is a free and open-source DOS-compatible operating system that allows you to run legacy DOS software and games on
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Modern times require modern tools… or do they?
Modern times require modern tools… or do they?
The post How to Reduce RAM & CPU Usage on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .Linux is a powerful and efficient operating system, but high RAM and CPU usage can degrade performance, slow down applications,
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Hot off the back of its recent leadership rejig, Mozilla has announced users of Firefox will soon be subject to a ‘Terms of Use’ policy — a first for the iconic open source web browser. “Although we’ve historically relied on our open …
It’s Deal of the Week time again, and this we have multiple deals, Like Lenovo Memory Cards — up to 2TB for 99 cents each — a mini keyboard, great to keep around for use with your phone for less than $12, and a really cool laptop sized portable monit…
Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) has been given an April release date with many notable updates.
The latest point release of the LTS version of Ubuntu has been released with a new kernel and plenty of other improvements.