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Debian-based MX-23.6 refreshes the MX-23 series with new kernels, UI enhancements, and fixes for Xfce, NVIDIA, UEFI tools, and more.

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Linux has a good selection of versatile open source screenshot programs, both graphical and console based. This roundup focuses on command-line tools.

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A software synthesizer, also known as a softsynth, is computer software which creates digital audio. We feature the best free synthesizers.

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Almost a year in the works, Pinta 3.0 has been ported to the latest GTK4 and libadwaita technologies to provide users with a more modern UI/UX experience. Due to API changes in GTK4, the “New Screenshot” option in the File menu now invokes platform-specific tools like the XDG screenshot portal on Linux and macOS’s screenshot tool.

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Find out if a swap partition is still necessary on modern Linux systems and how it influences system performance.

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This roundup focuses on screen magnification accessibility tools.

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Tangram is a different type of browser. This software is designed to organise and run web applications with each tab being persistent and independent.

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Have you ever wondered why a given binary or package installed on your system does not work according to your expectations, meaning it does not function correctly as it is supposed to, or perhaps it cannot even start at all?

While downloading packages, you may face challenges such as unsteady network connections or unexpected power blackouts. This can result in the installation of a corrupted package.

Considering this an important factor in maintaining uncorrupted packages on your system, it is therefore a vital step to verify the files on the file system against the information stored in the package.

In this article, we will explain how to verify the MD5 checksums of installed packages on Debian-based distributions such as Ubuntu and Mint.

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Initially developed for Oracle Linux, this version brings many useful enhancements to this open-source framework for in-place migrations.

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Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform used for building real-time data pipelines and applications. Originally developed by LinkedIn and now part of the Apache Software Foundation, Kafka is designed for high-throughput, low-latency, and fault-tolerant data processing across systems.

In this tutorial, we will show you the complete steps to install Apache Kafka on Ubuntu 24.04 OS.

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openSUSE’s new Agama installer v13 is here, bringing hostname configuration, LVM support, and more.

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The GStreamer project has recently released version 1.26, and once again, Collabora has made numerous contributions including improved hardware efficiency, the MPEG-5 LCEVC codec and improved support for analytics and machine learning.

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Another small but well-maintained distro with a dedicated following reaches the end of the trail.

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A mail notification tool lets you know when new emails are received. A prominent feature of these tools is the non-obtrusive passive notification about important emails which will let you concentrate on your work and avoid unnecessary interruptions.

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ArcoLinux announces its closure, transitioning users to Arch + Chaotic-AUR while keeping tools, code, and tutorials online for the future.

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The periodic table, also known as the periodic table of the elements, is a rows and columns arrangement of the chemical elements.

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The new Proxmox Backup Server 3.4 boosts performance with optimized garbage collection, better offsite sync filters, and improved tape backup throughput.

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PinePods is a Rust-based podcast management system that supports multiple users and relies on a central database with clients to connect to it.

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If you want to convert a PDF to Markdown format (while keeping the images), this guide will show you how to do it using poppler-utils and pandoc, two powerful open-source tools used for document processing.

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Highlights of PipeWire 1.4.2 include extra checks for MIDI to avoid 100% CPU usage on older kernels, support for using header metadata by default in the videoadapter, improved pw-cat verbose sndfile format debug, improved handling of set_format results from v4l2, and the addition of the missing –channel-map long option for pw-loopback.

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