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Ubuntu 24.10 was released on October 10th, 2024, and will be supported for a couple more months, until July 2025. Since this isn’t an LTS (Long Term Support) release, users might want to consider upgrading to Ubuntu 25.04 as soon as possible.

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Microsoft Loop is an online collaborative workspace offering a variety of features to help users gather, organize, and build notes, ideas, and projects.

Loop is proprietary software and not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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Ubuntu maker Canonical now donates $10K monthly via thanks.dev to support smaller open source projects powering its work, giving back to the developer community.

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Mastering one-liner commands in the terminal can significantly boost your efficiency, whether you’re managing systems or just organizing your files. These compact, clever snippets can automate repetitive tasks and save valuable time. If you’re interested in enhancing your productivity even further, check out these 20 powerful find command oneliners that can be added to your toolkit.

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Archinstall 3.0.5, a guided user-friendly TUI installer for Arch Linux, brings user credential encryption, password hashing, new window managers, and more.

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While privacy-focused distributions like Tails 6.14.2 continue to make headlines for their specialized use cases, there’s also a need to spotlight desktop Linux options that focus on performance, ease of use, and hardware compatibility.

One such project that consistently flies under the radar is Nobara Linux — a Fedora-based distro that aims to work perfectly out of the box. With its recent version 42 release, Nobara continues to deliver a polished and powerful experience for gamers, content creators, and everyday users alike.

At its foundation, Nobara is Fedora — enhanced. It ships with proprietary drivers, multimedia codecs, and gaming-related packages that Fedora typically excludes. This approach simplifies the setup process for users who want a ready-to-use system without compromising on performance or compatibility.

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Imagine you’re happily working on your Linux system, maybe compiling a package, running updates, or just browsing and suddenly, your screen freezes, and a wall of cryptic text appears: “Kernel panic – not syncing: Attempted to kill init!”

Now, before you start sweating, let’s slow down and learn how to understand, simulate, and fix a kernel panic. As someone who’s broken and fixed more Linux machines than I can count in 15+ years, I’ll help you learn this the fun and safe way.

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We recommend the best FOSS mailing list tools.

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Microsoft is open-sourcing its Linux Integration Services Automation image-testing service for everyone.

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Grafana 12 observability platform lands with Drilldown GA, dynamic dashboards, Git Sync, SCIM support, blazing-fast tables, new theming options, and more.

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Nmap, short for Network Mapper, is an open-source and highly versatile tool used by Linux system and network administrators. It is commonly employed for network exploration, security scanning, auditing, and detecting open ports on remote machines.

Nmap can identify live hosts, determine operating systems, detect packet filters, and reveal open ports running on remote systems.

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Linux is one of the most widely used operating systems in both personal and enterprise environments. Whether you’re aiming to become a system administrator, DevOps engineer, software developer, or IT professional, having a solid foundation in Linux is essential.

To support your learning and interview preparation, we’re excited to introduce a dedicated Linux Interview section on Tecmint, which will feature carefully selected Linux interview questions, along with detailed answers to help you prepare with confidence.

Every weekend, we’ll publish a new article in this section, starting from basic Linux questions and gradually moving toward more advanced topics. This initiative is one of the first of its kind among Linux-focused websites, and we’re committed to delivering high-quality, useful, and unique content.

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The AlmaLinux Foundation rolls out AlmaLinux 9.6 on the same day that Red Hat officially releases RHEL 10.

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RHEL 10 introduces groundbreaking features such as “image mode” for an immutable operating system and pioneering FIPS compliance for post-quantum cryptography.

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See how the Raspberry Pi 5 compares to a few other mini PCs which cost considerably more (even taking into account the cost of the case, NVMe, and power supply).

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Fwupd 2.0.10 is here about two weeks after fwupd 2.0.9 with support for Lenovo Legion touchpad, Logitech MX Mechanical keyboard, as well as Poly Studio V72 and V12 video bars, and support for including the AGESA version as the summary of the AMD secure processor device.

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The upcoming Rocky Linux 10 is on track to officially support RISC-V, with builds for VisionFive 2, QEMU, and HiFive P550.

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Cerbos is an open-source solution designed to simplify and modernize access control for cloud-native, microservice-based applications. Instead of hardcoding authorization logic into your application, Cerbos lets you write flexible, context-aware access policies using a YAML syntax. These policies are managed separately from your app and evaluated via simple API requests to Cerbos’ Policy Decision Point (PDP).

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Learn how to resolve the “permission denied” and “missing binary” errors in LXD on Ubuntu or Debian-based distributions quickly with step-by-step instructions.

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Nobara Linux 42 adopts Brave as default, offers kernel 6.14, GNOME 48, KDE 6.3.4, and a new universal flatpak manager.

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