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Clonezilla Live 3.3.3-37 disk imaging/cloning tool is now available for download with Linux kernel 7.1, LUKS2 repository support, and support for PXEBoot and HTTPBoot network boot clients.
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel release due out in the coming hours, an important batch of x86/x86_64 fixes have been merged to address a few outstanding issues...
A major research lab quietly pivots OS strategy after vendor shifts leave critical hardware unsupported.
Gzip 1.15 is out today for succeeding the Gzip 1.14 release from April 2025. With this release comes a number of fixes for bugs present since the beginning of Gzip...
At the KDE Akademy 2026 conference going on right now in Graze, Austria the three KDE goals for the next two years were unveiled...
From a few months ago you may recall Starling as the new Linux desktop written with its own Wayland compositor, using the Swift programming language, and written in large part via AI with Claude Code. Out today is Starling 0.5 with this desktop now gaining an optional 3D desktop mode...
Vulkan 1.4.363 is out as the latest routine update to the Vulkan API specification and also introduces a new Intel vendor extension...
Sent out this morning were a big batch of input subsystem fixes ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel releasing later today. Alongside many bug fixes to different drivers is also expanding the range of supported gaming controllers by the XPad driver...
Convey is a new Linux email client based on the code of Geary, remade with a GTK4/libadwaita UI and support for Microsoft 365 accounts. Somewhat like traditional mail, it arrives not long after I wrote about another new Linux email client, Postcard, which also draws its inspiration from Geary – the source being much-loved by Linux users, but whose last stable release was in 2024. Convey is a self-described hard fork of Geary so, unlike Postcard, it isn’t a tribute so much as a continuation – albeit an unofficial one: the Flathub listing is clear that it is “not affiliated with […]
RustFS 1.0 is now generally available, bringing the Rust-based, S3-compatible distributed object storage platform to production readiness.
Linux has one critical flaw which makes it unusable for me. Here’s what made everything right.
Merged today were this week's set of Btrfs file-system fixes for the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel, which include two notable bug fixes...
A big touchscreen board for makers who want a physical control panel for their homelab, if you don't mind doing the work yourself.
Saving a PC can go from very hard to extremely easy once you set this up.
Pangolin 1.23 introduces self-service HA and clustering, alongside CLI improvements, multi-admin support, and organization management updates.
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