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Firefox Nightly is Now Available for ARM64
Using Linux on a 64-bit ARM device and longing to use Firefox Nightly builds? Well, you’re in luck — Mozilla has finally made ARM64 Linux builds available to download. As I understand it most Linux distributions that support ARM64/AArch64 offer a native ARM version of Firefox in their repos (in Ubuntu that’s via snap) though…
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AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta is Out
The server-centric, open-source Linux distribution’s latest beta is available with plenty of updates, and it could be your new favorite desktop operating system. Here’s why. Written by Jack Wallen, Contributing Writer During my decades with the Linux operating system, I’ve often wondered why server distributions are so rarely considered for the desktop. Okay, okay… I…
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Linus Torvalds on Security, AI, Open Source and Trust
Torvalds retains his lifelong love of open source development even in a world filled with upstream security issues, overhyped AI, and other people’s hardware bugs. SEATTLE–Linux creator Linus Torvalds sat down Wednesday for a “keynote interview” at the Linux Foundation‘s Open Source Summit North America in Seattle. Torvalds was interviewed by Dirk Hohndel, an early…
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Ubuntu outperforms, faster than Windows 11
Written by Aaron Klotz, Freelance News Writer for Tom’s Hardware.Ubuntu beats Windows 11 once again on another Ryzen-powered machine. Phoronix tested the Framework Laptop 16 in Ubuntu to see if the Linux OS can outperform Windows 11 on the most modular portable rig around. In testing — with Ubuntu 23.10 and 24.04, Phoronix discovered that…
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Ubuntu Studio in beta: Easiest Creative Distro
Ubuntu Studio remains the quickest one-shot way to get at Linux and free software for music, sound, video, media, and 3D. And they deserve some extra love now, especially since Apple Silicon has slightly deflated desktop Linux attention. Here’s a look at the long-term support version that just hit beta, due later this month. Ubuntu…
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Linux 6.10 Preps Kernel ‘Panic Screen’ – like BSOD
Written by Michael Larabel in Linux Kernel on 19 April 2024 While systemd 255 last year introduced a “blue screen of death” inspired solution with systemd-bsod for presenting logged error messages full-screen, it’s not appropriate for all errors. Systemd-bsod can work out for presenting full-screen messages in case of boot failures and other problems where…
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