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Catch up on the latest Linux news: Plasma 6.3, Endeavour OS Mercury, GNOME’s new website, Tumbleweed’s move to SELinux, Serpent OS’s change to AerynOS, and more.

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Learn how to move a VirtualBox VM to another instance, ensuring a smooth migration without data loss (GUI & CLI approach).

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When it comes to web development, there are a wide range of PHP frameworks to choose. The choice depends on finding the right tool for the job at hand. Here’s our pick of the finest PHP web frameworks.

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The beta version of GNOME 48 is here with Adwaita fonts, new default wallpaper, improved screen time limit support, a new GNOME Display Control (gdctl) utility, support for configuring HDR via the DisplayConfig D-Bus API, support for updating cursors via the frame clock in virtual monitors, and the ability to track screen time history with no limit set.

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Coming almost a month after GNOME 47.3, the GNOME 47.4 release is here to speed up batch file deletions and simple recursive search through mount monitors in the Nautilus (Files) file manager, and support synchronization of the enabled state for devices when adding a new device in the input-mapper of Mutter.

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The still-in-development Chimera Linux released updated ISO images with new apk-tools, kernel 6.13, Plasma 6.3, GNOME 47, and more.

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Ikey Doherty, the leader of the Serpent OS project, announces that the Linux distro rebrands to AerynOS to better reflects its vision.

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Amarok 3.2.2 open-source music player lands with bug fixes and non-UNIX support, marking the final Qt5/KF5 release before the Qt6 transition.

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Pi-hole 6 network-wide ad blocker is a major release that brings an embedded web server, REST API, native HTTPS support, overhauled UI, and more.

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Magnifier is a screen magnifier app intended for visually impaired people to use when running Microsoft Windows.

Magnifier is proprietary software and is not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Postfix 3.10 MTA is out with key updates include OpenSSL 3.5 support, TLSRPT protocol, enhanced logging, and privacy improvements.

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The ongoing effort to integrate Rust into the Linux kernel has seen setbacks and advancements in recent weeks.

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Highlights of Mesa 25.0 include Vulkan 1.4 support for the RADV (AMD), ANV (Intel), NVK (NVIDIA), Turnip (Qualcomm), Asahi (Apple), and Lavapipe (software) drivers, support for Vulkan 1.1, shaderInt16, shaderInt64, imageCubeArray, depthClamp, depthBiasClamp, drawIndirectFirstInstance, sampleRateShading, and occlusionQueryPrecise for the PanVK (Mali) driver, and initial GFX12 (RDNA4) support for the RADV driver.

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The Eclipse Foundation enhances security with SBOM integration and improved vulnerability management, backed by a €515K investment from the Sovereign Tech Fund.

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In this tutorial, we will explain everything about the most known Redis error in WordPress, known as Error establishing a Redis connection error, and the possible solutions to fix it. This issue may be caused by improperly installed and configured Redis service, misconfiguration in the wp-config.php file, network issues, plugin conflicts in WordPress, etc. In the next paragraphs, we will first explain Redis and how to fix the problems so your website is accessible again. We will use Ubuntu 24.04 OS and assume you already have a working WordPress installation. Let’s get started!

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Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is here six months after Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS as an up-to-date installation media for those who wish to deploy the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system on new computers without having to download hundreds of updated packages from the repositories after the installation.

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Apiiro security researchers have released open source tools that can help organizations detect malicious code as part of their software development lifecycle: PRevent (a scanner for pull requests), and a malicious code detection ruleset for Semgrep and Opengrep static code analysis tools.

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Greg Kroah-Hartman, a major Linux kernel developer, supports the integration of Rust into the Linux kernel, especially for new code and drivers.

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multiClock is software that lets you track the current time in major financial centres around the globe. It’s free and open source software.

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MongoDB is a NoSQL database that stores data in a flexible, document-oriented format. This makes it different from traditional relational databases like MySQL or PostgreSQL. It is a powerful, scalable, and flexible database commonly used for applications that need to manage large volumes of diverse data. This article will show you how to install MongoDB on Ubuntu 24.04, manage its services, and allow remote connections on an Ubuntu VPS.

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