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LibreOffice supports Zip compression for ODT and DOCX files, among other compression uses. There's now work beginning to be merged for supporting Zstandard (Zstd) compression moving forward...

Windows 11's WSL 2 now officially has support from Arch Linux with monthly images promised  Windows Central

Patch Posted For Addressing The AMD CPU Performance Regression On Linux 6.15  Phoronix

Linux in Excel? Sure, why not ruin both  theregister.com

7 Linux Text-Processing Tips to Get the Most Out of Your Plain Text  How-To Geek

During the past month on Phoronix were 249 original news articles and another 23 featured Linux hardware reviews and multi-page benchmark articles. There was a lot of interesting topics in April from the launch of the Framework Laptop 13 powered by AMD Strix Point, an interesting and cheap RISC-V board coming about, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 proving to be an interesting low-power Linux laptop, Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 releasing, and much more...

Sculpt OS 25.04 hasbeen released as the newest version of this general purpose OS built atop the Genode OS operating system framework...

For those that have spent any length of time in the open-source world have likely come across osuosl.org when downloading open-source projects that often are mirrored at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL). The OSU OSL over the past two decades has also provided VMs for various architectures from x86 and AArch64 to POWER for CI and testing purposes to open-source projects, among many other support roles. Unfortunately, the OSU OSL risks closure this year...

How To Dual Boot Linux and Windows on any PC  Tom's Hardware

felix86 is a new open source Linux emulator to run x86-64 Linux programs on RISC-V processors  GamingOnLinux

KDE 3 lives to fight another day as Trinity Desktop 14.1.4 hits the shelves  theregister.com

FOSS Weekly #25.18: Linux Magazine, Modern Terminals, Muse Pi, apt Guide and More  It's FOSS

The post Calculating Mathematical Expressions in Shell Scripting – Part 5 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

By now, you must be feeling a bit more confident writing and understanding basic shell scripts. If you’ve followed the

The post Calculating Mathematical Expressions in Shell Scripting – Part 5 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

openSUSE Leap 16 Beta is here with Wayland and a modern Linux foundation  BetaNews

For fans of the DragonFlyBSD operating system, DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 has been released after two and a half years to ship various bug fixes for this popular BSD...

How to easily run your favorite local AI models on Linux with this handy app  ZDNET

Arch Linux Is Now in the Windows Subsystem for Linux  How-To Geek

This Open-Source Project Brings the Best Part of Linux to Windows  How-To Geek

Eric Engestrom with Igalia continues doing a superb job managing the Mesa releases with today bringing the timely Mesa 25.1-rc3 release candidate as well as the new Mesa 25.0.5 stable point release...

Want to run your favorite local AI models on Linux? This app makes it easy  ZDNET