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As we approach the new year, the Kdenlive team shared a preview of one of its most highly requested features: a modern background removal tool. Here’s more on that!

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The terminal emulator landscape is undergoing a transformation, with developers reimagining the console to take advantage of modern hardware, GPU acceleration, containerized workflows, and even AI/LLMs in some cases.

One of the latest entrants to this space is Ghostty, an open-source and cross-platform terminal emulator created by Mitchell Hashimoto, the co-founder of HashiCorp.

Hashimoto’s goal with Ghostty was clear: to build a terminal emulator that is fast, feature-rich, and provides a platform-native GUI, all while remaining cross-platform.

The first public release, which arrived around Christmas, introduced us to a promising new tool that hints at the future of terminal emulation.

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Chimera Linux enters beta! It’s a non-GNU, rolling release, systemd-free distro that embraces FreeBSD’s essence and the KISS philosophy.

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As the holiday break continues, this week we only got a few distro releases including the alpha version of the up-and-coming Serpent OS independent distro, 4MLinux mini distro, Debian-based siduction Linux, and Alpine Linux-based postmarket OS for mobile devices.

In addition, we got a couple of major open-source software releases, namely Amarok 3.2 and Mixxx 2.5. Below, you can check out this week’s hottest news and access all the distro and package downloads released this past week in the 9to5Linux weekly roundup for December 29th, 2024.

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Coming almost five months after Amarok 3.1, the Amarok 3.2 release introduces initial porting to the latest Qt 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 technologies. This means that the application can now be compiled from sources against these technologies if integrators want to offer their users a more modern interface.

The post Amarok 3.2 “Punkadiddle” Music Player Officially Released, Now Ported to Qt 6 appeared first on Linux Today.

Looking for the best Linux distro of 2024? Well, I have news for you. There is no such thing! Here’s why.

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The new Zenwalk Linux 2024 “Santa Claus” edition: a stable Slackware-based ISO with Xfce 4.20, system upgrades, and the latest kernel.

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If you’re working with text files on a Linux system, you may need to modify the contents of those files. One useful tool for this task is sed, which stands for stream editor, which allows you to perform various text manipulations, such as replacing text, deleting lines, and adding new lines.

In this article, we’ll show you how to use sed to add a new line after a specific string in a file.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving fields in technology today. With AI, machines are able to perform tasks that once required human intelligence, such as image recognition, natural language processing, and decision-making.

If you’re a beginner and want to dive into AI development, Linux is an excellent choice of operating system, as it is powerful, flexible, and widely used in the AI community.

In this guide, we’ll walk you through the process of setting up an AI development environment on your Ubuntu system.

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The sed command, short for Stream Editor, is a powerful text processing tool in Linux, which is widely used for text manipulation tasks, including searching, finding and replacing text, and even performing advanced scripting.

This article will guide you through the basics of sed, explain how to use it for dynamic number replacement, and provide practical examples for beginners.

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Meet Ghostty 1.0: The GPU-accelerated terminal emulator exits beta after two years, challenging Kitty and Alacritty with its speed and features.

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Wiki.js is a powerful and extensible open source wiki software to create the perfect wiki and knowledge base documentation.

The post An Introduction To Wiki.js, a Modern, Lightweight and Powerful Wiki Software Built on NodeJS appeared first on Linux Today.

Here are our favorite TypeScript-based web content management systems. They are all free and open source software.

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Learn how to install FreshRSS, a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator, with Docker in just a few easy steps and centralize your news feed experience.

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Stacklok’s new CodeGate software removes many of the pain points and security traps for those developing using AI tools.

The post StackLok Is Making Security ‘Boring’ for Open-Source AI-Assisted Devs appeared first on Linux Today.

Discover the biggest Linux updates, top FOSS breakthroughs, and community-driven innovations shaping the open-source landscape in 2024.

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awk is a scripting language designed for text processing and data extraction, which reads input line by line, splits each line into fields, and allows you to perform operations on those fields. It’s commonly used for tasks like pattern matching, arithmetic calculations, and generating formatted reports.

The post How to Use awk to Perform Arithmetic Operations in Loops appeared first on Linux Today.

Parabolic is a Qt and GTK-based utility which is a frontend for yt-dlp, a feature-rich audio/video downloader. For this article we evaluated Parabolic using Manjaro, an Arch-based distro, as well as the wonderful Ubuntu 24.10 distro.

The post Parabolic – Tool To Download Web Video And Audio appeared first on Linux Today.

Let’s find out which is better for running apps or games on Linux: wine and its wrappers or virtual machine’s compatibility?

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