Fedora 45 arrived about two weeks late, but it’s packed. You get Linux 7.2, GNOME 51, and Plasma 6.7, plus kmscon replacing the old text console and a QR code that now leads to a page for kernel panics. Could Ubuntu go
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Every Linux user has done the three-step dance at least once. You want to swap two files, so you move the first one to a temporary name, move the second one into its place, and then move the temporary file back. Ever
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systemd, the init system and service manager that most mainstream Linux distributions use, has merged support for writing its programs in Rust. It landed on the main branch through a pull request of 19 commits. The pull request replaces an earlier proposal
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Google is switching off Gemini, Gemini Notebook, Gemini in Classroom, and Search for K-12 student accounts by default. They stay off until a school admin turns them on, and each service can be manually enabled on its own. But Search is where
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The story starts when Linus Torvalds opened the Linux 7.4 merge window more than two weeks ago when he was headed out for his annual family vacation, resulting in some temporary disruptions to his work. He warned that his schedule would be
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Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, said it’s “quite terrible” that so much of the world’s limited DRAM sits in personal computers that use it maybe 5% of the time. In his view, it would do more work in a data center. My
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My homelab runs on 5 machines with around 30 Docker containers. For a long time, the way I reached them was a bookmarks folder full of entries like http://100.101.12.4:8096. Tailscale took care of getting me into my network from anywhere, but once
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Building a Fedora release means tracking an enormous amount of formal change proposals planned for each release cycle on a public Change Set page, where every entry carries an owner and a status. These proposals undergo community review and require approval from
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Personally, I have never owned an Apple device, mostly due to its pricey nature and how the brand loves to lock people in their walled garden. But that’s just me ranting there for a bit. There are many who do like what
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Adobe charges $60 a month. Microsoft 365 keeps raising its price. Salesforce will take $150 per user without blinking. These are not tools you own. They are subscriptions that expire the moment you stop paying, often taking your files and workflows with
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