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15 Best Starter Apps for Ubuntu Users in 2025

Tecmint - Mon, 05/05/2025 - 16:51
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Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distributions for new users, offering an easy-to-use interface and a smooth transition

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Immich: Your Private, Self-Hosted Alternative to Google Photos

Tecmint - Mon, 05/05/2025 - 14:00
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Immich is an open-source, self-hosted solution designed to help you back up and manage your photos and videos with ease.

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Learning Shell Scripting: A Guide from Newbies to System Administrator

Tecmint - Mon, 05/05/2025 - 12:00
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If you’re starting your journey in the world of system administration or want to automate your tasks on Linux, then

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Linux 6.15-rc5 Released: "Most Of It Looks Very Nice & Small"

Phoronix - Mon, 05/05/2025 - 05:13
The fifth weekly release candidate of the Linux 6.15 kernel is now available for testing...

Sensor Monitoring For The ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA Coming For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Sun, 05/04/2025 - 20:38
For those that happen to have the ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA or are shopping for a higher-end Intel Alder Lake / Raptor Lake desktop motherboard for Linux use, the ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA is the latest motherboard seeing hardware sensor monitoring support under Linux with the next version of the kernel...

EXT2 DAX Being Deprecated & For Removal At Year's End

Phoronix - Sun, 05/04/2025 - 19:02
The EXT2 file-system's direct access "DAX" mode is being deprecated and expected for removal at the end of 2025, after this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version...

Bcachefs Patches Aim For Faster Snapshot Deletion But With Another On-Disk Format Update

Phoronix - Sun, 05/04/2025 - 18:27
In addition to Bcachefs working on better self-healing / automatic repair capabilities, this modern copy-on-write file-system is also working on faster snapshot deletion performance. A patch series was posted this week to speed-up the deletion of snapshots though it comes with another bump to the on-disk format of the file-system...

Andes Voyager RISC-V Micro-ATX Board Seeing Patches For Mainline Linux Support

Phoronix - Sun, 05/04/2025 - 18:11
As another alternative to the likes of the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V developer board, the Andes Voyager is in the process of seeing patches reviewed for mainline Linux kernel support...

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