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Catch up on the latest Linux news: Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS launches with COSMIC 1.0, Kali Linux 2025.4, Manjaro 25.1 Preview, Cinnamon 6.6, Plasma 6.5.4, Firefox 146, GNOME to reject AI-generated Shell extensions, and more.
Pangolin 1.13, an open-source, zero-trust VPN, introduces Private Resources, user devices, and a new WireGuard-based networking model.
Linus Torvalds released 6.19-rc1 and closed the 6.19 merge window on December 14 (Japan time), after having pulled 12,314 non-merge commits into the mainline. Over 8,000 of those commits came in after our first 6.19 merge-window summary was written. The second part of the merge window was focused on drivers, but brought in a number of other changes as well.
With the right tool and a bit of artistic talent, you can create two-dimensional cartoons, even without Flash. In this article, we present four animation programs and look at how well they perform in practice.
Putting all virtualization tasks on a separate server saves significant resources on the client. phpVirtualBox makes it possible to create, configure, manage, and use remote VMs in a browser window.
XML security problems are numerous, but you can take steps to limit your exposure – or you can use a different standard.
Even state-of-the-art computers need to use clever methods to process ever-increasing amounts of document data. The open source Lucene framework uses inverted indexing for fast searches of document collections.
USB sticks and SD cards quickly lose their value, but if a script distributes the data across several such devices, flash memory is still useful as a fast and shockproof backup medium despite limited capacity.
Ever wondered how secure the apps you install from the Snap Store are? A new website from Ubuntu alumnus Alan Pope makes it easy to find out. The Snapscope website uses Grype, an open‑source vulnerability scanner, to vet packages on the Snap Store for known security vulnerabilities (critical, high, medium, low, actively exploited) which could affect them (and their users). You can “search for any snap package, see its security posture, and dig into the CVEs”, with its maker noting that the site presents “no judgement, just facts”. Snapscope make it easy to see: : Alan shares a video walkthrough […]
KDE SC 4.10 was released six months after KDE 4.9, adding many new features. In the background, work is in full swing for the next generation, KDE Frameworks 5: a KDE based completely on Qt5 and QML.
Mixxx 2.5.4 open-source virtual DJ software for performing live mixes is now available for download with various improvements and bug fixes. Here’s what’s new!
The mysterious /proc virtual filesystem is a rich mine of information about everything in your system.
Valve's Steam Deck with SteamOS features built-in crash data collection as well as for logging other system events worth having knowledge about like the split-lock detection and other events. This is all opt-in by users for data collection by Steam, but for those curious about a bit more insight into this Steam Deck data collection, a presentation at this past week's Linux Plumbers Conference dove into the matter...
Dynamic resource allocation and migration of virtual machines between hosts mean that VMware environments pose new monitoring challenges. A new version of the free OpenNMS network management tool now includes an option for monitoring VMware-based infrastructures.
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