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What Trump’s and Musk’s Public Divorce Tells Us About the State of Tech

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 09:02

So, why is Marco Fioretti’s column running on Friday instead of Monday? Because The Donald and Elon had a spat, and he couldn’t wait to tell you what he thinks about it.

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8 Best Free and Open Source Diary Software

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 08:58

This article identifies flexible and useful diary tools for the Linux desktop. With features like tag support, encryption, multiple journals, and live searches, Linux diary software makes it easier to keep track of events as they occur.

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XLibre Xserver: Banned by Red Hat Developer Plans Revival of X11

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 08:50

Banned and erased from freedesktop.org, Enrico Weigelt unveils Xlibre—a fork of Xorg aimed at revitalizing X11 outside corporate influence.

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End of Windows 10: Don’t Worry Be Happy

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 08:47

As Windows 10 nears end-of-life, should you upgrade or switch? Here’s a practical look at life after support—and how Linux compares.

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fiddleitm: Open-source mitmproxy add-on identifies malicious web traffic

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 08:45

fiddleitm is an open-source tool built on top of mitmproxy that helps find malicious web traffic. It works by checking HTTP requests and responses for known patterns that might point to malware, phishing, or other threats.

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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: PiGro – system configuration tool

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 08:43

PiGro is a free and open source system configuration tool that streamlines managing your Raspberry Pi settings from one convenient location.

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EndeavourOS: A Distro That’s All Things to All People

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 08:39

Our look at the popular Dutch Linux distribution EndeavourOS reveals an impressive distro that’s both easy to use and powerful enough for experienced users—thanks to its Arch Linux foundation.

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Wireshark 4.4.7 Network Protocol Analyzer Patches Security Flaw and Fixes Bugs

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 01:32

Wireshark 4.4.7 is here to patch a security vulnerability (CVE-2025-5601) that could allow a denial of service attack via packet injection or crafted capture file in Wireshark versions 4.4.0 to 4.4.6 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.12 due to a bug in the column utility module that leads to a dissection engine crash.

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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Benchmarking

Tue, 06/17/2025 - 00:29

We benchmark a Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB RAM) against a DreamQuest N100 Mini PC. The Pi 5 runs Raspberry Pi OS (Debian-based), whereas the N100 runs Ubuntu 25.04. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite.

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Linux Display Managers: Complete Beginner’s Guide

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 22:28

Learn all about Linux display managers – what they are, how they work, and how to install, change, or troubleshoot them

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Setting Up Graphical Uncomplicated Firewall (GUFW) on Ubuntu

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 20:26

Learn how to install, enable, and configure GUFW, a GUI firewall tool for Ubuntu, to manage and secure your network easily.

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Murena’s DeGoogled Android Alternative Upgraded to /e/OS 3.0

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 18:24

Murena is out with a new major release of its deGoogled and improved version of Android /e/OS 3.O.

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PeerTube 7.2 Rolls Out with Fresh UI and Smarter Video Management Tools

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 16:22

PeerTube 7.2, an open-source, decentralized video platform, rolls out with redesigned video management, enhanced filtering, and refined handling of sensitive content.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Process Explorer

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 14:20

Process Explorer is a task manager and system monitor. It provides the functionality of Windows Task Manager along with features for collecting information about processes running on the user’s system.

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Karton: KDE’s Libvirt-Powered Answer to GNOME Boxes and Virt-Manager

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 12:19

Karton is a new, still-in-development KDE-native virtual machine manager using libvirt, aiming to bring VM tools closer to the Plasma desktop experience.

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KDE Gear 25.04.2 Apps Collection Rolls Out, Here’s What’s New

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 10:45

KDE Gear 25.04.2 apps collection delivers updated translations and fixes across apps like Kdenlive, Kate, Akonadi, Konsole, and more.

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Raspberry Pi 5 Desktop Mini PC: Passive Cooling the Right Way

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 10:16

Passively cool the Raspberry Pi 5 the right way. Use the case as a heatsink. No fan noise to interrupt your concentration.  Here’s how to do it.

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Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.4 Adds UI Improvements, New Translations, and Bugfixes

Mon, 06/16/2025 - 08:02

Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.4 updates the OS Customisation panel with regex support to match SSH public keys and removes the ‘Show password’ checkbox, disables Wayland support for the AppImage bundle, hides system drives in the destination pop-up on Linux systems, and adds support for more archive formats via the libarchive library.

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The Kubuntu Focus Team Announces The M2 GEN 6

Sun, 06/15/2025 - 16:13
The Kubuntu Focus team has some exciting news to share. We have launched the sixth generation of the flagship M2 laptop, featuring the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU with 24 threads, Nvidia® GeForce® RTX 50-series GPUs, and many more upgrades. See more about this laptop in the press release, and see the press photos here!

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VirtualBox 7.1.10 Is Out with Initial Support for Linux 6.15 and 6.16 Kernels

Sun, 06/15/2025 - 10:30

While Oracle is working hard on the next major release of its powerful virtualization software, VirtualBox 7.2, which promises a revamped UI and improvements to ARM virtualization, VirtualBox 7.1.10 is here to introduce initial support for the latest and greatest Linux 6.15 kernel series for both Linux guests and hosts.

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