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There have been many Intel Linux/open-source software engineers to leave the company over the past year among other setbacks for their Linux/open-source initiatives. Announced this Friday night is one of their highest profile departures of the year as it pertains to their Linux efforts...
MinIO ends active development on its open-source offering and directs users toward the paid AIStor platform for ongoing features and support.
As anticipated the first release candidate of Wine 11.0 is now available in working toward the annual stable release in January...
Easy package management is no longer the preserve of Mac owners.
For Linux 6.19 as what will be the first stable kernel release of 2026, the IEEE-1394 Firewire stack continues dealing with device quirks and improving support for different Firewire-connected devices. In 2026 is also when the Linux Firewire maintainer plans to begin recommending users migrate away from the IEEE-1394 bus followed by closing the Linux Firewire efforts in 2029...
Want to monitor a device's resources remotely without SSH? Take a look at the first one.
Emma Smith and Kirill Podoprigora, two of Python's core developers, have opened a discussion about including Rust code in CPython, the reference implementation of the Python programming language. Initially, Rust would only be used for optional extension modules, but they would like to see Rust become a required dependency over time. The initial plan was to make Rust required by 2028, but Smith and Podoprigora indefinitely postponed that goal in response to concerns raised in the discussion.
The TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen4 launches as an affordable Linux desktop replacement with an i9-14900HX, RTX 5070 Ti, and a 240Hz QHD display.
Today we're going to go over the use of SSH keys. How to use them, setting them up and why they're preferred! We'll go through creating different keys for different uses, adding public keys to a remote server, setting up an SSH config file for management and more! Helpful reference: Code: GENERATE KEY: ssh-keygen -t ed25519 -C "comment" -f /path/to/key COPY TO SERVER: ssh-copy-id user@server CONFIG FILE (~/.ssh/config): Host nickname HostName server.com User username... https://www.linux.org/threads/how-to-set-up-and-manage-ssh-keys-on-linux.59673/
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (buildah, firefox, gimp:2.8, go-toolset:rhel8, ipa, kea, kernel, kernel-rt, pcs, qt6-qtquick3d, qt6-qtsvg, systemd, and valkey), Debian (chromium and unbound), Fedora (alexvsbus, CuraEngine, fcgi, libcoap, python-kdcproxy, texlive-base, timg, and xpdf), Mageia (digikam, darktable, libraw, gnutls, python-django, unbound, webkit2, and xkbcomp), Oracle (bind, firefox, gimp:2.8, haproxy, ipa, java-25-openjdk, kea, kernel, libsoup3, libssh, libtiff, openssl, podman, qt6-qtsvg, squid, systemd, vim, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Slackware (httpd and libpng), SUSE (chromedriver, kernel, and python-mistralclient), and Ubuntu (cups, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gcp, linux-gke, linux-gkeop, linux-ibm-6.8, linux-iot, and mame).
TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen4 Linux laptop launches with Intel Core i9-14900HX, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, up to 96 GB RAM, and up to 8TB storage.
The IO_uring and block subsystem changes have been merged for the Linux 6.19 merge window with a few improvements worth highlighting this cycle...
Now we can continue learning about Python by Binding Keys and Events. If you have not read the previous article, then you definitely need to read it since this article continues and builds on all of it. Some of the following examples may contain material from the first article. Mouse : MouseWheel You need to use the 'MouseWheel' event on objects that can scroll. Let's look at an example where we have a global variable to keep count, called 'counter'. When you turn the wheel while... https://www.linux.org/threads/python-series-part-20-binding-keys-and-events-part-2.57751/
Finnish company Jolla started out 14 years ago where Nokia left off with MeeGo and developed Sailfish OS as a new Linux smartphone platform. Jolla released their first smartphone in 2013 after crowdfunding but ultimately the Sailfish OS focus the past number of years now has been offering their software stack for use on other smartphone devices. But now it seems they are trying again with a new crowd-funded smartphone...
Open-source terminal Ghostty moves under Hack Club’s non-profit umbrella, ensuring stability and mission-driven stewardship.
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