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Microsoft unveils DocumentDB—an open-source NoSQL datastore built on PostgreSQL, now available under the MIT license.

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This year's edition of the Free and Open Source Software Developers' European Meeting (FOSDEM) begins on February 1 in Brussels. The event is widely regarded as one of the most important open-source conferences. One of the reasons that FOSDEM is held in high esteem by the community is its non-commercial nature. It does accept sponsors, but sponsorships come with few perks and no "pay-for-play" speaking slots. Thus, the scheduling of a keynote by Jack Dorsey⁠—⁠primarily known for his role in co-founding Twitter, and currently CEO and chairman of FOSDEM sponsor Block, Inc.⁠—⁠raised eyebrows and led to plans for a protest. The keynote has since been removed from the schedule, but there are still a number of lingering questions.

Security updates have been issued by Debian (git and openjpeg2), Mageia (virtualbox), SUSE (podman), and Ubuntu (clamav, frr, libreoffice, linux-xilinx-zynqmp, and quagga).

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The DistroWatch January 27 edition includes this interesting tidbit:

Starting on January 19, 2025 Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labeled groups associated with Linux as being "cybersecurity threats". Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed.

We've been hearing all week from readers who say they can no longer post about Linux on Facebook or share links to DistroWatch. Some people have reported their accounts have been locked or limited for posting about Linux.

One can only hope that this is a mistake that will be resolved soon.

The Go language is designed to make it easy for developers to import other Go packages and compile everything into a static binary for simple distribution. Unfortunately, this complicates things for those who package Go programs for Linux distributions, such as Fedora, that have guidelines which require dependencies to be packaged separately. Fedora's Go special interest group (SIG) is asking for relief and a loosening of the bundling guidelines to allow Go packagers to bundle dependencies into the packages that need them, otherwise known as vendoring. So far, the participants in the discussion have seemed largely in favor of the idea.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (git-lfs, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kernel, and python-jinja2), Debian (git and git-lfs), Fedora (buildah, chromium, containers-common, freeipa, glibc, golang, mediawiki, pam-u2f, podman, and rsync), Mageia (glibc, iperf, openssl, phpmyadmin, and poppler), Oracle (firefox, git-lfs, grafana, java-17-openjdk, java-21-openjdk, kernel, python-jinja2, and redis:6), and SUSE (chromium, go1.22-1.22.11-1.1, go1.23-1.23.5-1.1, go1.24-1.24rc2-1.1, java-11-openjdk, kernel, libopenssl-3-devel, libQt6Bluetooth6, nodejs18, nodejs20, python311-azure-storage-blob, qt6-connectivity, and ruby3.4-rubygem-nokogiri-1.18.2-1.1).

The functions command in Fish shell lets you manage and interact with Fish functions. This tutorial explains how to manage functions in Fish shell on Linux.

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Bun is a modern JavaScript runtime designed to simplify and accelerate the development of JavaScript and TypeScript applications. Unlike traditional runtimes, Bun combines multiple tools into a single, cohesive package, including a bundler, test runner, and a Node.js – compatible package manager.

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Live Raizo is a live distribution based on Debian to experiment with system administration on simulated networks and real devices. It contains simulators of networks and systems (GNS3, QEmu, Docker, VPCS) and also Debian virtual machines already integrated into GNS3. Live Raizo also includes tools to interact with real devices: minicom, Putty, Wireshark, as well as DHCP, DNS, FTP, TFTP and SSH servers. The project can optionally be installed to a hard drive.

Artificial Intelligence is a powerful tool that can do plenty of good things if used correctly and responsibly. AI-based chatbots are trained to assist you in content writing, image generation, data processing, programming, information analysis, etc., making it easier for you to perform various routine tasks.

Taking into consideration the endless capabilities of AI tools becoming more and more powerful every day, it is a good idea to combine them with software programs. When integrated into an application, artificial intelligence provides a better user experience, increases productivity, and offers access to new features.

In this article, you will learn how to enable AI-powered document editing on Ubuntu through the example of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, an open-source office package for Linux, and GPT4All, an open-source platform designed to run local AI models.

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Discover a step-by-step guide to install the latest version of NeoVim on your Ubuntu and other Linux distributions with multiple methods.

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In this guide, we will explain different methods to change directories and list files in one command using Fish Shell on Linux.

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Neo4j is a high-performance graph database management system for graph storage, data science, ML, analytics, and visualization. In this tutorial, we’ll show you step-by-step instructions on installing and using the Neo4j Graph Database on the Debian 12 server.

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Last year, LWN examined the changes lined up for Rust's 2024 edition. Now, with the edition ready to be stabilized in February, it's time to look back at the edition process and see what was successfully adopted, which new changes were added, and what still remains to work on. A surprising amount of new work was proposed, implemented, and stabilized during the year.

Odoo (formerly known as OpenERP) is a self-hosted suite of over 10,000 open Odoo is a free and open-source ERP solution for multiple types of businesses. In this tutorial, you will install the Odoo open-source ERP on the Ubuntu 24.04 server.

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Security updates have been issued by Debian (chromium and python-django), Fedora (git-lfs and pam-u2f), Mageia (golang), Red Hat (java-11-openjdk with Extended Lifecycle Support, java-17-openjdk, and java-21-openjdk), SUSE (cheat, dante, docker-stable, grafana, and kernel), and Ubuntu (cacti, cyrus-imapd, HTMLDOC, and PCL).

Learn about the /proc/cpuinfo file in Linux, the different sections inside it, more about its flags, and how to use it to write shell scripts.

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Discover a step-by-step guide to install Ryujinx Emuator on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions with practical usage examples.

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