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System76’s COSMIC Alpha 7 desktop lands with workspace pinning, better drag-and-drop, file manager improvements, and bug fixes galore.

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DietPi 9.12, a Debian-based Linux distro for SBCs, adds support for Fish Shell, Amiberry v7, Amiberry-Lite, and more.

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A few days ago, I came across a CentOS 8 32-bit distro and decided to test it on an old 32-bit machine. After booting up, I realized there was a bug causing the network connection to drop. Every time I rebooted, I had to manually bring the network back up, which led me to wonder: How can I automate this process with a script that runs every time the system boots?

The solution is straightforward, and today, I’ll show you how to do this using systemd service units, but before we jump into that, let’s first take a quick look at what a service unit is and how it works.

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Debian GNU/Linux is the backbone of several popular Linux distributions like Knoppix, Kali, Ubuntu, Mint, and more. One of its strongest features is its robust package management system, which makes installing, removing, and managing software a breeze.

Debian and its derivatives use a variety of package managers such as dpkg, apt, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, tasksel, dselect, dpkg-deb, and dpkg-split. each serving a different purpose.

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Fedora 43 may drop GNOME X11 under a new proposal that aligns with upstream efforts to focus entirely on Wayland from now on.

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Corel Font Viewer is a standalone application bundled with CorelDRAW Graphics Suite and Corel PHOTO-PAINT that helps users manage their font libraries. Corel Font Viewer is proprietary software and is not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Whether you’ve heard it thrown around in a meeting, stumbled across it while setting up your Wi-Fi, or are just trying to figure out why your printer won’t connect to the network, subnet masks are all around you. We’re going to break this down together. By the end, you’ll know what a subnet mask is and why it matters to your everyday life—whether you’re a business owner or just someone who uses the Internet to work.

Here’s the quick version: a subnet mask is like a filter that helps your devices figure out who’s on the same network as the device. That’s it in a nutshell.

The long version is that a subnet mask defines the local network that isn’t part of the internet. These devices on the same network and subnet mask are able to communicate directly with one another without communicating to the gateway (internet). This has great privacy and performance benefits.

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Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) has been a reliable and solid operating system for many users. However, as we move toward the end-of-life (EOL) for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, it’s time to think about upgrading to the next Long-Term Support (LTS) release. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS will no longer receive standard updates after May 31, 2025.

Luckily, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) has already been released and is ready for users to upgrade to. But here’s the catch: upgrades between Ubuntu versions are sequential, which means you cannot directly upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Instead, you need to go through Ubuntu 22.04 LTS first.

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Discover how xclip can supercharge your workflow by letting you copy file content to your clipboard – no mouse required.

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Learn how to set temporary and permanent environment variables in ZSH to customize system behavior and streamline your workflow.

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Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.14 kernel series, OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 (codename Vanadium) is here about a year and a half after OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 as the latest fixed point release in the OpenMandriva Lx ROCK series for those who prefer stability over bleeding-edge features.

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QEMU 10 open-source machine emulator brings new CPU features, better device support, and performance improvements.

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Corel PHOTO-PAINT is a raster graphics editor, or photo editing software. Edit, enhance, and retouch photographs, as well as create bitmap illustrations and paintings. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

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

Recently, Kernel 6.12.24 has been released, coming with a few changes only. Linux Kernel 6.12.24 is another stable update in the 6.12 series, aimed at fixing bugs, improving device compatibility, and maintaining system security. While this release focuses on under-the-hood improvements rather than new features, it includes important patches that enhance the overall reliability of the kernel.

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MySQL 9.3 introduces logical user account dumps, improved JavaScript support, and new Group Replication election features.

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Since Linux kernel 6.13 is not a long-term support (LTS) branch, it has reached end of life with the 6.13.12 release published today by renowned Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman, who marked the Linux 6.13 branch as EOL (End of Life) on the kernel.org website, urging users to move to the latest Linux 6.14 kernel series as soon as possible.

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restic is a backup program that is fast, efficient and secure. We recommend the best free and open source wrapper tools for restic.

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Canonical released Ubuntu 25.04, codenamed “Plucky Puffin” a few days ago. Here’s the top 10 Features I liked in Ubuntu 25.04..

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Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8 debuts in Oracle Linux (9.5) with advanced memory management, improved I/O, better networking, and more.

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DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. It ships as minimal image but allows to install complete and ready-to-use software stacks with a set of console based shell dialogs and scripts.

The source code is hosted on GitHub: https://github.com/MichaIng/DietPi
The main website can be found at: https://dietpi.com/
Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DietPi

The project released the new version DietPi v9.12 on April 18th, 2025.

The highlights of this version are:
fish: New software package, an alternative shell
DietPi-Backup: Support for SSHFS added
Amiberry: Updated to Amiberry v7
WiringPi: Added support for Orange Pi boards
Spotifyd: Added support for ARMv8 and x86_64 Bookworm/Trixie systems
Pi-hole: Additionally listen on TCP port 8489 for HTTPS requests
RPi.GPIO: Moved to the usage of python3-rpi-lgpio
Fixes for O!MPD, FreshRSS, DietPi-Config
The full release notes can be found at: https://dietpi.com/docs/releases/v9_12/

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