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Paul McKenney has put together a series of articles on how to improve one's ability to give a good talk at a technical conference.

On the other hand, (1) presentation skills stay with you through life, and (2) small improvements in presentation skills over months or years can provide you with great advantages longer term. An old saying credited to Thomas Edison claims a breakdown of 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. However, my own experience with RCU has instead been 0.1% inspiration, 9.9% perspiration, and 90% communication. Had I been unable to communicate effectively, others would have extreme difficulty using RCU, as in even more difficulty than they do now.

There is a lot of speaking experience distilled into this set of posts.

Version 4.0 of the Fish shell has been released. Improvements include a better key-binding mechanism, the ability to tie abbreviations to a specific command, selective ignoring of commands in the history, some scripting improvements, and more. See the release notes for details.

Zotero is an open-source reference management tool designed for collecting, organizing, and citing research materials. It is particularly useful for those writing research papers, theses, or books that require a bibliography in standard formats like APA Style, Chicago Style, or MLA Format. Zotero stores bibliographic metadata, annotations, and user data and integrates with word processors like LibreOffice, Microsoft Word, and Google Docs to produce in-text citations and bibliographies. The core features of Zotero include metadata extraction, tagging, full-text indexing, and cloud synchronization for multi-device access, and Zotero has a plugin system to allow anyone to expand its capabilities. The most recent major release, Zotero 7, added support for reading EPUBs, brought user-interface improvements including a dark mode, performance improvements, and more.

Serge is a chat interface crafted with LLaMA for running GGUF models.

The post Machine Learning in Linux: Serge – Web Interface for Chatting appeared first on Linux Today.

When working with PostgreSQL, there are scenarios where you need to provide access to a database without granting modification rights. This is particularly useful for reporting, analytics, or when you want to expose data securely to external users or applications.

In this article, we’ll walk through the process of creating a read-only user in PostgreSQL. We’ll also explain each command to ensure you understand what’s happening at each step.

The post How to Create a Read-Only User in PostgreSQL appeared first on Linux Today.

Learn how to create desktop shortcuts for AppImage, files, scripts, or applications using Menu Editor, AppImageLauncher, and a custom method.

The post Create Desktop Shortcut for AppImage in Linux (3 Methods) appeared first on Linux Today.

OpenRazer 3.10 now supports DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed, Basilisk V3 Pro 35K, and Blade 18 (2024), along with key bug fixes and improvements.

The post OpenRazer 3.10 Brings Support for Latest Razer Peripherals appeared first on Linux Today.

Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is now officially available, featuring critical security updates, bug fixes, and improved desktop stability.

The post Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Released with Many Bug Fixes and Security Updates appeared first on Linux Today.

Want to view 24-bit high definition images in your terminal? We recommend our favourite terminal-based image viewers.

The post 14 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Image Viewers appeared first on Linux Today.

Collabora is proud to announce that Whisper is now available in Hindi! With 2,500 hours of Hindi speech data and innovative techniques like Indic Normalization, this model sets a new benchmark for Hindi ASR.

The post Breaking Language Barriers: Fine-Tuning Whisper for Hindi appeared first on Linux Today.

Intel's indirect branch tracking (IBT) is a hardware-implemented control-flow-integrity mechanism that makes it harder for an attacker to gain control of the system by way of a corrupted indirect branch. FineIBT is a software extension to IBT that is meant to improve its protection. Recently, though, Jennifer Miller reported a novel way to bypass FineIBT by taking advantage of how the kernel's system-call entry point is constructed. In response, Peter Zijlstra is working on some FineIBT enhancements to close that hole and make IBT more secure in general.

Genymotion is a powerful Android emulator used by developers and testers to simulate Android devices on their computers. It allows users to test apps, games, and other software in a virtual environment without needing physical devices.

In this article, we will guide you step-by-step on how to install Genymotion Desktop on Ubuntu 24.04.

The post How to Run Android Apps on Ubuntu with Genymotion Android Emulator appeared first on Linux Today.

Console screencast software (also known as terminal recorder) lets you capture your terminal. Here’s our verdict.

The post 15 Best Free and Open Source Terminal Session Recording appeared first on Linux Today.

Kunai is an open-source tool that provides deep and precise event monitoring for Linux environments. What sets Kunai apart is its ability to go beyond simple event generation. While most security monitoring tools rely on syscalls or kernel function hooking, Kunai takes a more advanced approach by correlating events on the host and providing enriched insights. This means fewer but more meaningful events, reducing noise and the strain on log ingestion while delivering deeper visibility into system activity.

The post Kunai: Open-Source Threat Hunting Tool for Linux appeared first on Linux Today.

Christoph Hellwig, a Kernel maintainer, has revealed that Linus Torvalds privately expressed his intention to merge Rust code into the Linux kernel.

The post Linus Torvalds Reportedly Plans To Merge Rust Code Into Linux Kernel appeared first on Linux Today.

Learn how to find system information like RAM size, CPU, GPU, storage, and more from the command line in the Ubuntu Linux distribution.

The post How to Find System Information on Ubuntu (for Beginners) appeared first on Linux Today.

This article provides various tools that give your terminal a voice and discover a whole new way to interact with your Linux system.

The post 5 Ways to Get Speech Output From Your Linux Terminal appeared first on Linux Today.

The 6.13.5, 6.12.17, and 6.6.80 stable kernels have been released. As usual, they contain important fixes all over the kernel tree; users of those series should upgrade.

Ubuntu-based Rhino Linux 2025.2 brings bug fixes, improved stability, and a smoother Unicorn Desktop experience.

The post Rhino Linux 2025.2 Brings Stability and Performance Enhancements appeared first on Linux Today.

Should you go with NVIDIA or AMD on Linux? Find the answer by understanding the pros and cons of each, and make an informed decision.

The post NVIDIA vs AMD on Linux: Which GPU Should You Choose? appeared first on Linux Today.