Open-source News

Linux patches bugs that could sidestep Spectre mitigations  Techradar

While Qt 6.1 is aiming to release around the end of April, for now the Qt 6.0 series continues marching forward and is out today with the Qt 6.0.3 point release providing another few dozen bug fixes...

Google Chrome on Linux is getting an important security upgrade  TechRadar

Google Chrome on Linux is getting an important security upgrade  Techradar

Google Chrome on Linux is getting an important security upgrade  TechRadar

Google Chrome on Linux is getting an important security upgrade  Techradar

Google Chrome on Linux is getting an important security upgrade  TechRadar

[Solved] Wrong Time in Windows 10 After Dual Boot With Linux  It's FOSS

It's now easier to switch to Linux and play your PC games with an Nvidia GeForce GPU  PC Gamer

Along with our Intel Core i5 11600K + Core i9 11900K Linux review from yesterday with 22 pages of benchmarks, even more performance data is now published and continues to flow in via OpenBenchmarking.org for looking at the Intel Rocket Lake performance across hundreds of benchmarks and compared to many other processors we have tested and that of the community...

GNOME 41 this autumn will be shipping with libadwaita, the successor and GTK4 port to GNOME's libhandy that will help to define the visual language and user experience for GNOME applications...

Well known GNOME developer Georges Stavracas has been working to make OBS Studio fully-working under Wayland and today that reality has been achieved with native Wayland support and the ability to capture monitors and windows on Wayland compositors...

This new Linux distro wants to 'fill the void' left by CentOS  TechRadar

This new Linux distro wants to 'fill the void' left by CentOS  Techradar

This new Linux distro wants to 'fill the void' left by CentOS  TechRadar

This new Linux distro wants to 'fill the void' left by CentOS  TechRadar

This new Linux distro wants to 'fill the void' left by CentOS  TechRadar

Google Chrome for Linux is getting DNS-over-HTTPS, but there's a catch  BleepingComputer

Finding your way around a version control system can be tricky. It can be massively overwhelming for a newbie, but being well-versed with the terminology and the basics of a version control system like Git is one of the baby steps to start contributing to open source.

Being familiar with Git can also help you out of sticky situations in your open source journey. Git is powerful and makes you feel in control—there is not a single way in which you cannot revert to a working version.

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When debugging code, you're often faced with figuring out when a variable changes. Without any advanced tools, you have the option of using print statements to announce the variables when you expect them to change. However, this is a very ineffective way because the variables could change in many places, and constantly printing them to a terminal is noisy, while printing them to a log file becomes unwieldy.

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