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Slack is a cloud-based team communication platform designed to be businesses-to-business service, offering a central hub for messaging, tools, and files, enabling teams to collaborate and communicate.

While Slack is available for Linux, it’s proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

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In this tutorial, we will learn how to manage functions in Bash using declare command effectively in Linux.

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Ubuntu embraces a Rust-based approach, introducing oxidizer for safe experimentation with new system utilities in 25.10.

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This roundup highlights the finest IPTV streaming applications for Linux. The tools support live TV, movies, and series.

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In a Linux system, services (also called daemons) play a critical role in handling various tasks such as web hosting, database management, and networking. However, services can sometimes crash or stop due to errors, high resource usage, or unexpected system failures.

To prevent downtime and ensure smooth operations, system administrators can configure services to restart automatically whenever they fail, which is especially useful for web servers (Apache, Nginx), databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL), or other critical applications that need to be available at all times.

In this guide, we’ll explain how to use systemd to configure a Linux service to restart automatically if it stops.

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KDE has separated KWin X11 and KWin Wayland. Wayland takes priority, but X11 remains maintained until Plasma 7.

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This post explains CPU load, how it affects your Linux server, and how to deal with it in critical moments. We think about high CPU usage and CPU load when discussing essential moments. These are two different things, even though they sound similar. Besides this, we will explain the CPU as the most critical part of a server. What causes high CPU utilization, different commands to check the CPU utilization, and some suggestions to prevent high usage

In other words, how to manage your CPU resources rationally so your hosted websites are free of issues. Let’s get started!

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The Linux kernel is the core component of any Linux operating system, managing hardware resources and system processes.

The latest version available of the Kernel 6.14 branch is Kernel 6.14 RC6, which has been described by Linus Torvalds as a boring release.

• AMDXDNA Driver Introduction: The new AMDXDNA driver has been introduced to support Ryzen AI Neural Processing Units (NPUs), enhancing AI capabilities on AMD platforms.
• NTSYNC Driver Implementation: The NTSYNC driver has been implemented to emulate Windows NT synchronization primitives within the Linux kernel, potentially improving performance for Windows games running on Linux through Wine.
• Networking Enhancements: Updates include refactoring the networking core to reduce RTNL lock contention, optimizing XDP socket code, and improving ICMP rate-limiting scalability.
• Scheduler Improvements: Enhancements to the fair scheduler (SCHED_FAIR), deadline scheduler, and load-balancer have been made to improve performance and efficiency.
• Rust Language Support: The kernel now includes abstractions for developing PCI and platform device drivers using the Rust programming language, paving the way for more Rust-based drivers in the future.
• AMD CPU Feature Support: Support for new AMD CPU features, including Secure TSC and SRSO_USER_KERNEL_NO, has been added to enhance security and performance on AMD platforms.

In this guide we will be installing Kernel 6.14 RC6, which has been released a while go.

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Running Windows software and games on Linux has become increasingly accessible, thanks to tools like CrossOver 25, which is developed by CodeWeavers.

CrossOver is a commercial software solution that allows Linux users to run a wide range of Windows applications without the need for a Windows operating system license.

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XPipe is a desktop application designed for managing your entire server infrastructure directly from a local machine.

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As you may know, GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free and open-source image editing software used a lot on Linux systems, as a free alternative of Adobe Photoshop (that can be used hand-in-hand with Inkscape).

It is widely used by photographers, graphic designers, illustrators and digital artists, providing a set of tools for tasks like photo retouching, image composition, and graphic design. It also includes layer masking, color corection and digital painting, making the tool very powerful.

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The two biggest corporate open-source foundations are merging.

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As you may already know, Darktable is a free and open-source photography workflow application for image editing (that be used hand-in-hand with GIMP) with good support for Linux, Mac OSX, Solaris and Windows. It’s main purpose is to enhance a photographer’s workflow, permitting you to manage and adjust a large number of images efficient and easy.

Darktable operates in two modes: Lighttable (which allows you to export, sort and rename images) and Darkroom (which permits editing photos and raw files). The GUI looks very similar to Lightroom Classic, so if you have used that already, you might feel at home.

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PeerTube 7.1 open-source decentralized video platform released with improved podcast support, better playback stability, and more.

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There is a Linux client for Discord but it’s proprietary software.

For open source enthusiasts there are viable alternatives which we explore.

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Highlights of GIMP 3.0 include a much-refined interface written in GTK3 that allows the use of the mouse scroll wheel to flip through different dockable dialogue tabs, along with a new slash screen and logo, as well as improvements to the legacy icon theme to look great on HiDPI screens.

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IntelMQ is an open-source solution designed to help IT security teams (including CERTs, CSIRTs, SOCs, and abuse departments) streamline the collection and processing of security feeds using a message queuing protocol.

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Enlightenment 0.27.1 is the first point release in the Enlightenment 0.27 series improving the Battery module to limit charging to 100% and not over, adding the ability to use the mouse wheel on the Mixer module, and updating the client menu to no longer show the “Create Keyboard Shortcut” if the client has no desktop file associated.

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MuseScore Studio 4.5 open-source notation app brings faster dynamics input, a new percussion panel, engraving upgrades, and more.

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MangoHud is an open-source project available on GitHub, which was created to provide a simple and customizable way to monitor system performance while running Vulkan and OpenGL applications. The overlay is designed to be lightweight, meaning it doesn’t use much of your system’s resources, so it won’t interfere with your gaming or other tasks.

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