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Kernel 6.12 is now LTS
It’s Official: Linux Kernel 6.12 Will Be LTS, Supported for “Multiple Years”The Linux 6.12 kernel series will receive maintenance updates with bug and security fixes at least until December 2026! Renowned Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced today that the Linux 6.12 kernel series has been officially marked as LTS (Long Term Support) on the Read more
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Open Source Usage Trends and Security Report
SAN FRANCISCO – December 4, 2024 — The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, today announced the release of “Census III of Free and Open Source Software – Application Libraries” (Census III) in collaboration with the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard. The study identifies the most widely-used free and Read more
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Better Experience with Fedora on WSL
Fedora 42 Aims To Enhance The Windows Subsystem For Linux Experience Written by Michael Larabel in Fedora on 3 December 2024 at 02:37 PM EST. A new feature proposal seeks to improve the Fedora Linux experience when running under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows 11. The change proposal for Fedora 42 seeks to Read more
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Test 71 Distros On Your Web Browser
You can test all the best Linux distros right in your web browser with this site!If you’ve ever wanted to see what Linux was all about but didn’t want to go through the steps of installing it, this site offers a great option. Want to give Linux a try but don’t have the spare hardware Read more
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KDE and GNOME to offer official distros
KDE and GNOME have decided that because they’re not big and complicated enough already, they might work better if they have their own custom distributions underneath. What’s the worst that could happen? A talk from this year’s KDE conference, Akademy 2024, looks like it’s going to become real. The talk, by KDE developer Harald Sitter, Read more
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Install Snap Apps in Linux Mint
Snap is Canonical’s universal package format for Linux. It lets developers build their software once for users on multiple Linux distributions to use. At least, that’s the theory. In reality, few Linux distributions outside of the Ubuntu ecosphere support Snap out of the box. Most carry the underlying Snap daemon package (snapd) in the repositories, Read more
