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Built on debsecan, debvulns‑exporter surfaces Debian security metadata for Prometheus and Grafana. The post Deb Dev Builds Graphical Debian Vulnerability Exporter for Prometheus appeared first on FOSS Force.
PeaZip 11.2 open-source archive manager is now available for download with read support for Zeno IMproved .ZIM archives, improved auto-refresh of the file manager, improved drag and drop, and more.
The rest are ready to use out of the box without requiring a spare Raspberry Pi or tinkering.
Not bad for the company that once called Linux "cancer."
PeaZip 11.1 has been released as the latest version of the open-source, cross-platform archive manager. A key addition is read support for ZIM archives, a format widely used to distribute offline copies of large collections like Wikipedia and Project Gutenberg. Under the hood, PeaZip 11.2 updates its 7z/p7zip backend to version 26.02. The bundled PEA […]
Fastfetch 2.66 adds Azure Linux and Flatcar logos, improves AMD GPU naming, and fixes GPU core counting on Asahi Linux.
The Harmonic Firmware Initiative "HFI" is trying to provide a generic, standardized power-on firmware experience for RISC-V boards. Akin to the x86 world with having immediate graphics card initialization to provide a display while the system is booting and also having a BIOS setup utility for system configuration, HFI is trying to do the same for the RISC-V world...
It wasn't on my bingo card for the week but merged to Git ahead of today's Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel release are a number of fixes for the SEGA Dreamcast drivers...
The staging driver fixes that were sent out this week ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release is predominantly made up of hardening the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. In particular, a number of fixes for addressing out-of-bounds behavior when connecting to "bad" WiFi hosts...
Linux.org has been online in some form since 1994, making it one of the earliest sites built around the Linux community. It's in good company among survivors from that era: LWN.net, still running continuously since 1997, Slashdot, which has been through several owners since its 1997 launch but is still around, and DistroWatch, tracking distributions since 2001. linux.org has had its own bumps along the way too, built, gone dark, rebuilt twice, and still independent today. Its history is... https://www.linux.org/threads/the-linux-org-story.68810/
A first look at the new Frosted Glass effect in the COSMIC desktop environment on the Pop!_OS Linux 24.04 LTS distribution.
Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended. The post FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending July 10, 2026 appeared first on FOSS Force.
My Neocities website was in dire need of a redesign, so I built a new page as a pilot test. Here's what worked and what didn't.
Navidrome 0.63 introduces word-by-word synchronized lyrics, smarter search, and dramatic speed improvements for large music libraries.
We can think of the Canvas widget in Tkinter as similar to a painter's canvas; it lets you place graphical elements on it, such as shapes, but also objects. For this article, there is a lot to cover. The Canvas widget has a lot of parameters and methods to cover. Canvas Widget A Canvas is based on a graphical rendering of objects and drawings. The canvas itself can be scrollable if needed. To create a Canvas widget, you can give a name to the object. Such as: Code: canvas =... https://www.linux.org/threads/pytho...-1-the-canvas-and-its-drawable-objects.61668/
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