It is a matter of preference to use system cleanup utilities on a computer or smartphone. On Linux, we have many such tools that handle everything from clearing browser caches and old package archives to shredding files and wiping free space. They
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If you have not heard of LibrePlan before, then you wouldn’t be alone. When they sent us a press release, I was wondering what this project was for. Then I read up on it, and it turns out to be an open
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Someone has managed to make Adobe Lightroom CC run on Linux via Wine. Don’t get it confused with the other Adobe offerings though; this is the cloud-syncing desktop version of Lightroom. Sander Hilven, a developer, has put together a working recipe that
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What looked like a done deal for Fedora is now very much on hold. The Fedora AI Developer Desktop Initiative, a proposal to build an official platform for AI and machine learning workloads on Fedora, has been blocked after two Fedora Council
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Seeing that we are in a time when new Linux exploits seem to be popping up every few weeks, many projects have had to take preventive measures to tackle the growing threat. Red Hat looks like the latest to act on this
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As a gamer, if you have gamed on Linux with hardware that’s seen better days, there’s some work happening in the kernel that’s worth keeping an eye on. Linux kernel developer Peter Zijlstra has posted the second version of a patch series
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Dirty Frag has been the talk of the town (at least in Linux and open source circles) recently. The LPE was inadvertently exposed to the public, catching the Linux project and the various distros off guard. Thankfully, a proper patch is now
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Debian’s release team has made reproducible builds a hard requirement for the Debian 14 “Forky” cycle. Since May 9, the project’s migration software has blocked any package failing a reproducibility check from entering testing. If a package already in testing breaks reproducibility
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Sasha Levin, NVIDIA engineer and co-maintainer of the stable and long-term support kernel trees, has proposed a new patch that adds a mechanism called killswitch to the Linux kernel. It’s pitched as a way for system administrators to disable a vulnerable kernel
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It is getting harder for Linux distributions to stay neutral on AI. Between enterprise-grade solutions like RHEL AI and the steady rise of local inference tools, the pressure to take a position has been building for a while. Canonical recently made theirs
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