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Geany 2.1, a lightweight and user-friendly IDE, introduces new themes, enhanced session handling, modern file dialogs, and more.

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Nginx Proxy Manager 2.12.4 lands with API schema fixes, performance improvements, and a batch of new DNS providers for Certbot plugin support.

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Your USB Flash drive can get corrupted easily. If you are having a faulty USB drive, learn how to repair a corrupted USB drive in Linux.

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The Steam Client update for June 30th, 2025, enables Proton by default for games that don’t have a native Linux build, which is equivalent to setting the “Enable SteamPlay for other titles” option to the enabled state. Also for Linux gamers, this release improves the installation speed of Steam Client updates.

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If you’re a DevOps engineer, system administrator, or a seasoned Linux user, chances are most of your work revolves around the terminal, whether it’s debugging, scripting, or managing systems. Now imagine combining that terminal power with AI. That’s exactly what Gemini CLI brings to the table: an AI-driven experience, right inside your terminal.

With AI tools evolving rapidly, Google has emerged as a major player with its Gemini model, offering powerful capabilities in various domains. Recently, Google released the open-source Gemini CLI, a command-line interface that integrates Gemini’s AI power directly into your terminal workflow.

That means you can now run interactive AI prompts, get help with code, automate tasks, and much more, all without leaving the command line.

In this guide, we’ll walk you through setting up and using Gemini CLI, with practical examples and real-world use cases tailored for Linux professionals and power users.

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Cavil-Qwen3-4B is an open-source Large Language Model (LLM) designed by SUSE to automate legal compliance within the open-source community.

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This blog post will show you how to install PostgreSQL on Debian 13 OS. PostgreSQL, or Postgres, is a free and open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) for storing data. It is also supported on operating systems such as Windows, macOS, OpenBSD, and Linux. PostgreSQL offers many features, such as consistency, isolation, durability, and atomicity. This tutorial will cover the installation, service management, and some basic PostgreSQL commands in the Postgres terminal.

Installing PostgreSQL is a straightforward procedure that takes a few minutes. Let’s get started!

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Fedora Linux 43 may replace the aging X.Org Xserver with XLibre, a new, maintained fork offering new features while preserving user experience.

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Fedora targets Fedora 44 to remove i686 packages and multilib support, impacting Wine, Steam, and any remaining 32-bit dependencies on 64-bit installations.

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For this article in the series, I’ll focus on the power consumption of the Orange Pi RV2. I’ll see how the Orange Pi RV2 compares to a few other mini PCs which cost considerably more (even taking into account the cost of a case and power supply).

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Coming only a week after KDE Plasma 6.4, the KDE Plasma 6.4.1 release improves text contrast for labels used in subtitles or other secondary roles throughout the Plasma desktop, improves the text readability of list items in KRunner and Discover when their are pressed or clicked, and improves the readability of graph axis labels throughout the Plasma desktop to meet the WCAG AA standard.

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GNOME is dropping its X11 session support in the upcoming version 49—here’s what this means for the X11 users.

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Still powered by the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, the Clonezilla Live 3.2.2-15 release adds the dhcpcd-base package in the live system as a replacement for the deprecated dhclient package, adds krb5-user and libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit in the live packages list, and adds the ldap-utils package in the live system.

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How much were you paying attention to open-source news this week? Test your open-source news IQ by taking our quiz !

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When open source met Microsoft: a historic photo of Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates standing side by side for the very first time.

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GIMP 3.2 promises new features like theme colors for Brush, Font, and Palette, a new paint blend mode called Overwrite that lets you directly replace the pixels over the area you paint, a new setting in the text tool to control the direction of the text outline, and automatic match of Linux and Windows OS themes.

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Last month in Nice, the largest Linux Media Summit to date brought together active media developers to share insights and tackle ongoing challenges in the media subsystem. Here’s a brief summary of the key discussions, and upcoming areas of focus.

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Catch up on the latest Linux news: KDE Plasma 6.4, Git 2.50, Arch shifts to pure WoW64 builds, XLibre Xserver 25.0, a historic photo of Torvalds and Gates together, upgrade to AlmaLinux 10 from 9, and more.

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Based on Alpine Linux 3.22, postmarketOS 25.06 comes with support for the systemd init system, the GNOME 48, KDE Plasma Mobile 6.3.5, Phosh 0.47.0, and Sxmo 1.17.1 graphical interfaces, and a new os-installer UI to make installing postmarketOS a lot easier from a computer.

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Hashing is the process of passing data through a formula to produce a condensed fixed-value representation, called a hash value.

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