At the Open Source Summit this week, Microsoft announced a range of open source-focused updates, ranging from new Linux distro releases to agentic AI tooling. Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes and Corporate VP for Azure OSS and Cloud Native at Microsoft, delivered
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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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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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If you are someone who has to tackle many emails throughout the day, an email client is most likely part of your workflow. For the uninitiated, these desktop applications let you manage one or more email accounts from a single place without
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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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For the longest time, I assumed running LLMs locally needed a decent GPU. That’s what most guides implied, and honestly, that’s how the ecosystem felt not too long ago. But after digging into recent tools and actually trying things out on CPU-only
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