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With Markdown support, syncing across devices, and end‑to‑end encryption, Lockbook makes it easy to keep your Linux notes organized and locked down. The post Keep Your Linux Notes Encrypted with Lockbook appeared first on FOSS Force.
Announced this week at Mobile World Congress (MWC) by the Linux Foundation was the establishing of the OCUDU Ecosystem Foundation for advancing open-source AI-RAN (Radio Access Network) innovations. OCUDU is building a reference platform and innovations around 5G and early 6G network solutions. With OCUDU being benchmark-friendly, I have been putting the early code through some performance tests on current AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon server platforms.
Linux Mint developers recently outlined their work on developing a new Wayland-compatible screensaver for use with their Cinnamon desktop environment. Linux Mint developers announced today that their new screensaver solution is ready for use...
Last week marked the release of systemd 260-rc1 with a new "mstack" feature, a new "FANCY_NAME" field for os-release, dropping System V service script support, and other changes. Out today is systemd 260-rc2 release with more changes in further working its way toward a stable release for empowering 2026 Linux distributions...
Heading toward the Linux 7.0 kernel and marked for back-porting to current stable Linux kernel versions is employing a new SEV-SNP security feature found on AMD Zen 5 processors for enhancing security of guest virtual machines...
AMD's VP of AI Software, Anush Elangovan, has used Claude Code to help craft a pure-Python AMD GPU user-space driver. This Python user-space driver is currently being created to help exercise other ROCm code and for debugging in passing through the ROCm/HIP user-space stack...
The Radeon R300 series turns 24 years old this year and thanks to the open-source ATI R300 Gallium3D driver that began via reverse engineering, it's still continuing to see the occasional random fixes from the open-source community...
The talk this week among open-source projects from Linux distributions to app stores like Flathub is how to deal with California's latest insanity: the Digital Age Assurance Act. California's AB 1043 state law is mandating that operating systems -- Linux included -- collect age information during account setup and exposing that age to eligible apps beginning on 1 January 2027. That leaves much uncertainty for Linux distributions and other repositories/stores and more. Canonical issued a statement today to clarify that they basically don't have a solution to announce yet...
If you take handwritten notes on a Linux tablet, chances are that Xournal++ is already on your radar as its solid stylus support and touchscreen compatibility has earned it a loyal following among those who’d rather annotate PDFs or sketch diagrams than type everything out. One criticism that follows it around is its interface. It’s rather pointer-led; lots of menus, buttons and tiny hit targets in toolbars. It doesn’t prevent you from doing what you opened the app to do – write, draw, scrawl and markup – but it’s not ideal. Well, that’s what a new tablet mode toolbar configuration […]
Did I get old or has the humble image meme atrophied under the glut of AI slop? Don’t sugar coat it; it’s the former, as a new Linux app called Memerist hit Flathub recently to make it easier to customise and generate meme templates. Memerist is a native (GTK4/libadwaita) app for Linux desktop. It is technically an image editor with a focused set of features, geared to those who want a convenient, local tool to quickly create and share popular memes. While the primary use case is for making memes, Memerist will open any image file. You can use it […]
Nitrux 6.0 Linux distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.19, a new login screen, a new rescue mode, and more. Here's what's new!
Microsoft banned "Microslop" on its Copilot Discord community, locked the server, and then blamed spammers.
Hyprland 0.54.1 is a minor patch update that delivers bug fixes, crash corrections, and stability improvements for the Wayland tiling compositor.
Nitrux 6.0 is out with a CachyOS-patched Linux kernel 6.19, the new VxM hypervisor orchestrator, and several Wayland-native system components.
You won't need to pay Google for using GrapheneOS soon.
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