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This article is part of a continuing series about data collection today. The previous articles talked about devices in your home and your car; now we’ll get more personal. The data collected by fitness devices occupies an ambiguous place on ... Read more The post What Everybody Knows About You: Your Watch appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Earlier this month I posted benchmarks of the Loongson 3B6000 for this 12-core / 24-thread LoongArch Chinese CPU with DDR4 ECC memory. Those initial benchmarks were done with Debian LoongArch64 while since then I've shifted over to using Arch Linux on LoongArch.
Canonical released Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS today as the newest point release to the Noble Numbat...
The Linux 7.0 networking pull request showcases two extremes and the diversity and robustness of the open-source kernel ecosystem. Linux 7.0 is laying the groundwork for WiFi 8 Ultra-High Reliability (UHR) support while this kernel version is also bidding farewell to the last Ethernet driver for use over parallel printer ports...
The Linux kernel's workqueue for async task handling within a dedicated kernel thread is seeing some useful improvements with Linux 7.0...
When Lilidog Linux 26.02.06 was released on Friday, our Larry Cafiero opened it up and took a look to become one of the first to review it. As you will see, he was pleasantly surprised by what he found. The post Hands-On With Lilidog Linux 26.02.06, the New Debian-Based Openbox Distro appeared first on FOSS Force.
FocusWriter 1.9, a simple fullscreen word processor, adds heading shortcuts, refines heading behavior, and switches to KDSingleApplication.
To celebrate the beginning of my journey as a Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Trainer, I wanted to reshape some video content of mine as an LPI article. So: Hello everybody, I’m Szymon Izydorek, the creator behind the BecomeDevops channel. In ... Read more The post How I Scored 100% on the Linux Essentials Exam appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
The performance "perf" events changes for the Linux 7.0 kernel are continuing to prepare for next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors as the successor to current Xeon 6 Granite Rapids...
Join the Fedora Council public video meeting on Wednesday, February 25, 2026, at 14:00 UTC. Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta will share outcomes from the recent 2026 Strategy Summit and outline the strategic direction for the upcoming year. Attendees can ask questions live on Google Meet or submit them early via the Fedora Discussion topic. This is your opportunity to engage directly with leadership regarding Fedora's future.
Intel has upstreamed some Resource Control "resctrl" improvements to Linux 7.0 for enhanced telemetry monitoring. This is the good kind of telemetry with this new code being useful for being able to monitor how much energy or work is attributed to a group of tasks / process IDs on the system...
The Linux 7.0 kernel has removed support for signing kernel modules using SHA-1 as it's no longer considered secure but existing SHA-1 signed modules can still be loaded...
All of the media subsystem driver updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel and brings some new work around AV1 acceleration as well as other driver updates...
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Tails 7.4.2 Linux OS is now available for download as an emergency release that fixes critical security vulnerabilities in Linux kernel, as well as other issues.
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