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How to Manage Your Linux Clipboard Effectively Using CopyQ  MUO - MakeUseOf

How to Manage Your Linux Clipboard Effectively Using CopyQ  MakeUseOf

Stop Edge from opening Bing links in new Tab on Windows, macOS, Linux  TWCN Tech News

As noted last week there were Linux developers discussing the idea of removing the ReiserFS file-system given that it hasn't been really relevant in more than a decade and is very unlikely to be used still in production use-cases with modern kernels. It looks like the deprecation will move forward but the actual removal from the mainline kernel won't happen until 2025...

While free software developer Con Kolivas is known for his work on the Linux kernel to improve desktop responsiveness and efforts like BFS and MuQSS, there is also user-space software he has developed. One of those user-space programs under is belt is LRZIP, the Long Range ZIP format, that is focused on providing speedy compression of large files and to do so with lower amounts of memory...

Coreboot 4.16 is out this weekend as the newest quarterly release for this project striving for open-source system firmware / BIOS replacements...

The Cairo graphics library that is used by GNOME/GTK, Mozilla Gecko, and many other projects for vector-based 2D graphics drawing has decided to remove a number of its old drawing back-ends...

Cairo Graphics Library Drops Many Old Backends  Phoronix

Anonymous hacks Russian website, Linux terminal, and nearly ignites gas control system  Taiwan News

2 ways to Install MyPaint on Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04 LTS Linux  Linux Shout

How to Set Environment Variables in Linux  groovyPost

If you spent your high school years gazing at TI-80 series calculators but lost track of the device somewhere along the way, then you might sometimes yearn to relive those thrilling years of algebra and calculus. Somebody on the Linux KDE project must have felt that way, too, because one of the KDE Framework libraries, Analitza, provides syntax and widgets to enable you to perform advanced math functions with K apps like the graphing calculator KAlgebra.

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Flatpak App of the Week: Foliate – Simple and Modern eBook Viewer  9to5Linux

The 4 Best ARM Linux Laptops You Can Buy Now  MUO - MakeUseOf

The 10 Best Instant Messaging Apps for Linux  MUO - MakeUseOf

According to the Coreboot camp, future Intel systems with FSP 3.0 and Universal Scalable Firmware (USF) will be even less friendly for open-source system firmware...

12 Simple Tools to Protect Your Privacy  It's FOSS

Already for the upcoming Linux 5.18 kernel cycle on the AMDGPU driver side has been preparations for new hardware blocks presumably coming with RDNA3 GPUs, FreeSync Video Mode by default, and other changes. As likely the last "feature" pull of AMDGPU material for Linux 5.18, another pull request to DRM-Next was submitted on Friday...

Install Google Cloud SQL Proxy on Ubuntu 22.04 | 20.04  Linux Shout

NVIDIA's Orin SoC with twelve Cortex-A78AE CPU cores and Ampere graphics should be quite a strong offering when it's more broadly available later this year. This "Tegra234" SoC has been seeing work on enabling it with the mainline Linux kernel and the latest fruit of that work is a new HDA audio driver set for introduction with Linux 5.18...