The development of the Linux kernel moves fast, and the 7.0 release is no exception. Around the same time as this release, a patch queued for Linux 7.1 has kicked off what will eventually be the end of i486 CPU support in
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Linux Mint is known for being simple and beginner friendly. It works out of the box with most essential features ready to use, so you don’t have to spend time setting things up. One such basic task is taking screenshots, and Mint
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If you care about privacy and don’t take too well to governments and Big Tech companies snooping on your messages, then Session has probably come up at some point. It’s a free, open source, end-to-end encrypted messaging app that doesn’t ask for
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France’s national digital directorate, DINUM, has announced (in French) it is moving its workstations from Windows to Linux. The announcement came out of an interministerial seminar held on April 8, organised jointly by the Directorate General for Enterprise (DGE), the National Agency
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With the rise of AI and humanoid robots, the word “Clanker” is being used to describe such solutions, and rightly so. In their current state, these are quite primitive, and while they can act like something resembling human intelligence, they still can’t
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Microsoft has had a complicated relationship with the open source world. VSCode, TypeScript, and .NET are all projects it created, and its acquisition of GitHub put it in charge of the world’s largest code hosting platform. But it is also the same
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Linus Torvalds created two of the most widely used tools in modern computing: the Linux kernel and Git. Git, of course, is a version control system primarily used by programmers. But Theena makes a strong case that Git and plain text are
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APT, or Advanced Package Tool, is the package manager on Debian and its derivatives like Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and elementary OS. On these, if you want to install something, remove it, or update the whole system, you do it via APT. It
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Anthropic has handed the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) a $1.5 million donation. The money is earmarked for build and security infrastructure, project services, and community support. If you have used the internet today, you have almost certainly touched something the ASF maintains.
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The PyTorch Foundation has taken on two new projects: Helion, a tool for writing machine learning kernels contributed by Meta, and Safetensors, a secure model file format contributed by Hugging Face. Both were announced at PyTorch Conference Europe in Paris, and the
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