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The post How to Detect Bad Sectors or Bad Blocks on Linux Hard Drives first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Let’s start by defining a bad sector/bad block, it is a section on a disk drive or flash memory that

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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 13th, 2025  9to5Linux

The post How to Delete All Files in a Folder Except Certain Extensions first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Sometimes, you may find yourself in a situation where you need to delete all files in a directory or simply

The post How to Delete All Files in a Folder Except Certain Extensions first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 15 (Apr 7 – 13, 2025)  LXer: Linux News

ArcoLinux Sails Into the Sunset  LXer: Linux News

GoboLinux: A Distro With a Different Approach to Files  How-To Geek

Rnote 0.12 Released with Improved Linux Note-Taking Features  OMG! Ubuntu

One week after the Linux 6.15 merge window was capped off, the Linux 6.15-rc2 release is now available in rolling up all of the early fixes that were collected over the past week...

Linux 6.15-rc2 Released With An Assortment Of Fixes  Phoronix

5 awesome Linux features that will blow the mind of a Windows user  XDA

10 Docker Containers Every Homelabber Should Run  How-To Geek

Jim Zemlin on taking a ‘portfolio approach’ to Linux Foundation projects  TechCrunch

HelloKitty Ransomware Resurafced Targeting Windows, Linux, & ESXi Environments  CybersecurityNews

I Made My Partner Use Linux for a Week–Here’s How It Went  How-To Geek

5 of the Most Unconventional Linux Distributions  How-To Geek

5 of the Most Unconventional Linux Distributions  How-To Geek

Last year work on KDE's Amarok music player was resurrected after a six year development hiatus. With the return to Amarok development it was ported to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 5. At the end of last year Amarok 3.2 released with initial Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6 support while retaining Qt5/KF5 support. Now out today is the Amarok 3.3 beta to drop that prior-generation support...

While the Linux 6.15 merge window ended just one week ago and there is a month and a half until it will debut as stable, a notable feature has already been queued into a "next" branch for the follow-on Linux 6.16 cycle. For those making use of modern Intel Xeon processors with virtualization, the Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) support for KVM virtualization looks like it will finally be mainlined...

One month after GIMP 3.0 was finally released for this popular image editor ported to GTK3 and many other changes, Pinta 3.0 has now been released. Pinta as a reminder is the open-source image editing program inspired by Paint.NET. With the Pinta 3.0 release the image editor has been ported to GTK4 and libadwaita...

It's been a while since having any exciting feature development to talk about with DragonFlyBSD but merged this past week was dm_target_crypt_ng, a next-generation implementation of their DM-crypt code for disk encryption...