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3 reasons Windows 11 is the best advertisement Linux ever had  XDA

Archinstall 3.0.5 is now available as the latest update to this easy-to-use, text-based Arch Linux OS installer...

Arch Linux Installer Adds Labwc & Niri Wayland Compositor Options  Phoronix

The post Midori: Lightweight, Fast, and Privacy-Focused Web Browser for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Midori is an open-source, lightweight, and fast web browser designed for people who want a simple but efficient way to

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Linux Swap Table Code Shows The Potential For Huge Performance Gains  Phoronix

Following recent discussions by Linux kernel developers around integrating swap cache and swap maps functionality with the swap allocator, Swap Table was born. With Swap Tables the hope is for lower memory use, higher performance, dynamic swap allocation and growth, greater extensibility, and other improvements over the existing swap code within the Linux kernel...

7 Linux Commands to Help You with Disk Management  TechRepublic

5 reasons you might want to run Linux on a Chromebook  About Chromebooks

Linux Security Essentials - Protecting Servers from Supply Chain Attacks  CybersecurityNews

Released last week was the Vulkan 1.4.315 spec update and with it comes the new VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory extension for allowing device memory allocations to be zero-initialized...

The post OpenSnitch: The Must-Have Application Firewall for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

When it comes to protecting your Linux system from unwanted network connections, having a good firewall is essential. While most

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For those interested in making use of GPU-accelerated AV1 video decoding with Intel graphics hardware using the Vulkan Video API, some important fixes were merged to Mesa 25.2-devel and will presumably be backported soon to existing Mesa releases...

Nobara 42: SteamOS alternative updated with better driver manager, custom app store, and new Linux kernel  Notebookcheck

The post BleachBit – A Free Disk Space Cleaner and Privacy Guard for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

When you browse the internet, install or uninstall software, or just use your computer regularly, you leave behind lots of

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Llamafile continues pushing forward as the interesting Mozilla project to allow easily distributing and running AI large language models (LLMs) from a single file and in a cross-platform and cross-vendor hardware manner. Llamafile 0.9.3 is out today with more enhancements to this Mozilla Ocho project...

Mediatek DRM Driver Prepares For HDMI 2.0 With MT8195/MT8188  Phoronix

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates have been submitted for the Mediatek driver in advance of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window...

You Can Now Upgrade Ubuntu 24.10 to Ubuntu 25.04, Here’s How  9to5Linux

RHEL 10 quietly leaks ahead of Red Hat Summit  theregister.com

Mesa 25.0.6 released with AMD GPU fixes for DOOM: The Dark Ages on Linux  GamingOnLinux