Systemd-Free Nitrux 5.0 Officially Released with Hyprland Desktop, Linux 6.17
Nitrux 5.0 is the first release to drop the KDE Plasma desktop environment and ship with Hyprland by default, a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor, using…
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Docker Engine 29: Containerd Becomes Default, Experimental nftables Support
Docker Engine 29 sets containerd as the default image store and introduces experimental nftables support for modern Linux networking. The post Docker Engine 29: Containerd…
Sparky Linux 8.1 Update Rolls Out with Plasma 6.3.6, LXQt 2.1, and Xfce 4.20
Sparky Linux 8.1 delivers updated kernels, refreshed desktops, and all Debian 13 “Trixie” stable patches as of November 2025. The post Sparky Linux 8.1 Update…
Radxa Cubie A7Z Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption
For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Radxa Cubie A7Z. The post Radxa Cubie A7Z Single Board Computer…
How to Install Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Discord on Linux Desktop
Gone are the days when Skype was the go-to VoIP tool for every chat, call, or meeting. While Skype once dominated the Linux communication space,…
New Linux Kernel Patch Lets You Cancel Hibernation Mid-Process
A new Linux kernel patch lets you cancel the process of your machine going into hibernation, but the bigger context of the work may be…
Collabora Launches Desktop Office Suite for Linux
Collabora Productivity is well-known for two of its flagship offerings, Collabora Online, their web-based document editor that powers many organizations, and their LibreOffice-based enterprise suite.…
Rocky Linux 10.1 Arrives with Soft Reboots, XFS Enhancements, and More
Rocky Linux 10.1 Linux distribution is now available for download as a free alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1. Here’s what’s new! The post…
Open Source Never Dies: 11 of My Favorite Linux Apps That Refused to Stay Dead
One of the greatest things about open-source software is that anyone can pick up where a project left off and bring it back to life,…
Black Friday Deals for Linux Users 2025 [Continually Updated With New Entries]
Thanksgiving is around the corner, and the market is flooded with Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals on everything from gadgets to software subscriptions. For…
The Laptop That Wasn’t: TUXEDO Computers Shelves Linux ARM Notebook Plans
TUXEDO Computers specializes in Linux-first hardware, recently launching the InfinityBook Max 15 (Gen10) with AMD Ryzen AI 300 processors. The German manufacturer has built a…
ProxyBridge: Open-source Proxy Routing for Windows Applications
ProxyBridge is a lightweight, open-source tool that lets Windows users route network traffic from specific applications through SOCKS5 or HTTP proxies. It can redirect both…
Podman 5.7 Adds Full TLS and mTLS Encryption for Remote Connections
Podman 5.7 container management tool introduces encrypted client–server communication, while Quadlet gains new keys, templates, and artifact support. The post Podman 5.7 Adds Full TLS…
Font Recognition Reimagined with FasterViT-2
Collabora extended the AdobeVFR dataset and trained a FasterViT-2 font recognition model on millions of samples. The result is a state-of-the-art model for fine-grained font…
Proposed Patches Make Upstream Linux Kernel Usable For The OpenWrt One Router
Sjoerd Simons of Collabora posted a set of 15 patches for making the OpenWrt One AP functional with the upstream Linux kernel. As Sjoerd puts…