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KaOS Linux 2025.05 drops Qt5 by default, embraces Qt6 across the board, and ships with Plasma 6.3.5, KDE Gear 25.04.1, and Frameworks 6.14.

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Fedora 43 moves to a Wayland-only GNOME experience, officially removing support for the X11 session due to a lack of upstream maintenance.

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The upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 (Questing Quokka) brings GNOME 49, VRR, and new default apps like Loupe image viewer and Ptyxis terminal.

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Windows Journal is a note-taking application that allows users to create and organize handwritten notes and drawings and save them. Journal is proprietary software and not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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For Linux gamers, the new Steam Client update adds support for automatically installing the Proton Voice Files speech synthesis data when necessary, improves support for game recordings that contain a green bar on the right side of the image when using HEVC encoding on AMD systems if the game window width isn’t a multiple of 64, and improves Game Recording and Remote Play video streams that show green frames when capturing Vulkan games on Intel GPUs.

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The open source ISA RISC-V has long been making inroads into Linux distributions, but this week Enterprise Linux distros got on board en masse.

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Mule ESB (Mule Enterprise Service Bus) is a lightweight, Java-based platform that helps the integration of various applications and systems. It acts as an integration platform, allowing developers to connect applications quickly and easily, enabling them to exchange data and collaborate seamlessly.

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Arriving about five weeks after PipeWire 1.4.2, the PipeWire 1.4.3 release brings many netJACK2 improvements, including fixes for the driver/manager roles, better error handling, support for sending custom commands, support for using the default value of filters, and support for correctly writing MIDI streams.

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In this second article of a three-part series, I look at how Matt Godbolt uses modern C++ features to try to protect against misusing an API that deals with destructive state transition based on a talk he gave on making code easy to use and hard to misuse.

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Fwupd 2.0.10 brings AGESA version summaries, UEFI PK key ID reporting, and support for popular peripherals from Lenovo, Logitech, and Poly.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 highlights include Red Hat Enterprise Linux Lightspeed for integrating generative AI directly within the platform to provide users with context-aware guidance and actionable recommendations through a natural language interface.

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Microsoft has officially open-sourced the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), closing the very first issue ever filed on the Microsoft/WSL GitHub repository: “Will this be open source?”

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Welcome back to our ongoing journey through the world of powerful but often overlooked Linux commands. If you’ve been following along, you already know there are lots of handy tools hidden in the terminal, just waiting to make your life easier.

In this fourth installment, we’re bringing you yet another batch of underrated Linux commands that pack a punch. These are tools that many users, especially beginners, might not stumble upon during regular use, but once discovered, they quickly become indispensable.

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Our Marco Fioretti shares his thoughts on Google’s (and others’) bad boy behavior against Nextcloud (and others).

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Authelia open-source authentication and authorization server passes OpenID Connect certification, confirming full conformance with implemented profiles.

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The Linux Foundation, in collaboration with OpenSSF and Linux Foundation Education, has released the Cybersecurity Skills Framework, a global reference guide that helps organizations identify and address critical cybersecurity competencies across a broad range of IT job families.

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MySQL is one of the world’s most popular and widely used relational database management systems (RDBMS). Developed in 1995 by MySQL AB, the software is now under the auspices of Oracle Corporation. MySQL is known for its efficient data management capabilities, flexibility, and compatibility with various platforms and programming languages. This article will show you how to install MySQL server on AlmaLinux 10.

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Learn how to use the Linux cd command to navigate file directories easily, from basics to shortcuts, aliases, and handling hidden folders.

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CIQ is now offering Rocky Linux especially purposed for large-scale AI deployments.

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KDE Plasma 6.4 promises a major UI revamp for the Spectacle screenshot utility, support for per-virtual-desktop custom tile layouts, KWin-X11 easy to use, but flexible X window manager, and the Aurorae theme engine for KWin window decorations.

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