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When Open-Source Developers Go Bad

JavaScript developer Marak Squires wasn’t happy about not making money from his open-source libraries, so he deliberately corrupted them, leaving programmers and end-users with dead-in-the-water programs.
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Open Source Sabotage Incident Hits Software Supply Chain

An astonishing incident in recent days highlights the risks of widespread dependence on open source software – while also highlighting the free labor corporations benefit from by using open-source software. Marak Squires, an open-source coder and maintainer, sabotaged his repository to protest against unpaid work and his failed attempts to monetize faker.js and color.js, two major NPM […]

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Clonezilla Live Disk Cloning and Partitioning Tool Is Now Powered by Linux 5.15 LTS

Clonezilla Live 2.8.1 is here one and a half months after Clonezilla Live 2.8 and it’s the first release of the live Linux system to be powered by the latest and greatest Linux 5.15 LTS kernel series. The previous release was powered by Linux kernel 5.14, which reached end of life in November 2021. Linux […]

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GNU Linux-Libre 5.16 Kernel Released for Those Seeking 100% Freedom for Their PCs

Based on the Linux 5.16 kernel series, the GNU Linux-libre 5.16 kernel is here to introduced an analogous firmware_reject_builtin function for the new firmware_request_builtin call in Linux kernel 5.16, as well as to unify the various separate shell functions used by the cleanup scripts to disable request_firmware and the _nowarn variant, and extended them to […]

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Here’s Our First Look at System76’s Rust-Based Desktop Environment

If you’ve been itching to hear some progress about System76’s new desktop environment, you’re in luck! Developer Eduardo Flores went hands on with early development versions of several COSMIC components and written about his findings …

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Isolating Xwayland in a VM

In my last post, Qubes-lite with KVM and Wayland, I described setting up a QubesOS-inspired Linux system that runs applications in virtual machines. A Wayland proxy running in each VM connects its applications to the host Wayland compositor over virtwl, allowing them to appear on the desktop alongside normal host applications. In this post, I extend […]

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Modern Alternatives to Some of the Classic Linux Commands

Here are some faster, better and feature rich alternative command line tools to replace the decades-old legacy Linux commands.
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qBittorrent 4.4 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Adds an Official AppImage, Qt 6 Support

After more than half a year of development, qBittorrent 4.4 is finally and it’s the first stable release of popular BitTorrent client to offer a pre-compiled binary in the AppImage universal binary format for GNU/Linux distributions. The good news is that it’s now a lot easier to run qBittorrent on your favorite distro. Created on […]

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How to Install PowerShell on Fedora Linux

The post How to Install PowerShell on Fedora Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .
PowerShell is both a command-line shell and fully-developed scripting language that is built on the .NET framework. Just like Bash, it is d…

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How to Check Disk Space in Linux Using the df Command

The Linux df command has many helpful use cases. Learn how to check disk space in Linux using the df command here.
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Development Release: Slackware Linux 15.0 RC3

The Slackware Linux distribution has been slowly gearing up toward a new stable release for a while now, gradually releasing new development snapshots over the past eleven months. The project has announced a new (and final) release candidate, tagged S…

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Ubuntu 22.04 Aims to Ship GNOME 42, But Few GTK4 Apps

GNOME 42 could still feature in Ubuntu 22.04 when it arrives this April — but don’t expect to see too many GTK4 apps with it. Ubuntu developers say they ‘aim’ to include the bulk of GNOME 42 release in Ubuntu 22.04 but are currently t…

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How to Install MariaDB on NetBSD

MariaDB is a fast, scalable, and robust RDBMS. Learn how to install MariaDB on NetBSD here.
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An Overview of the echo Command in Linux

The echo command is one of the most basic, important commands in programming. Get a basic overview of the echo command in Linux here.
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DXVK 1.9.3 Released with Improvements for Several Games

DXVK 1.9.3 is here to make the DLSS implementation work on supported games, in combination with dxvk-nvapi. Learn more about this new release here.
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5 Best Open-Source Writing Software for Linux

Linux is fundamentally an open-source Operating System. Using open-source software on Linux is as peaceful as the Himalayas. Here we’ve discussed 5 such software that could be the best friend of a writer if done right.1. Markdown:We writers are fond of…

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Say Hello to Warble, a ‘Wordle’ Clone for elementary OS

It was inevitable that the popularity of viral word guessing game Wordle would inspire clones, and thus only a matter of time before one of them popped up on Linux. And lo, it has. elementary OS gets to call first-dibs with Warble. Built by Andrew Voja…

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Extension Manager: Search & Install GNOME Shell Extensions on a Desktop

Extension Manager is a new, unofficial application to browse and install GNOME Shell extensions from your desktop, without having to use a web browser. Learn how to install and use Extension Manager here.
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How to Create XFS File System in Linux (Step by Step)

XFS is a 64-bit journaling file system that works with Linux. Learn how to create an XFS file system in Linux here.
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Special File Permissions in Linux: SUID, GUID, and Sticky Bit

Linux has some special file permissions called SUID, GUID, and Sticky Bit. Learn more about special file permissions in Linux here.

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