Arch Linux has disabled new account registrations on the Arch User Repository (AUR) as they work to contain a malware campaign that swept through the community package repository last week. The AUR is where Arch users look in for software that has
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CachyOS is a relatively new distribution that has gained mass popularity due to its cutting-edge software and features that focus on performance optimization, finding a very specific niche easily. In its recent updates, CachyOS has changed the default package management system to
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When KDE announced that Plasma 6.8 would be dropping the X11 session entirely, not everyone was happy about it. Wayland has been the default on most major distributions for a while now, but there’s still a significant chunk of users with reasons
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Pocket-sized computer tools are the definition of cool, recruiting many people over to the developer side of things, including your humble writer. A project like Flipper One, which is intended to be a device that features the full mainline Linux kernel in
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Following Linux 7.0 in April and the stable point releases since, Linux 7.1 is now available as a major feature release in the 7.x series. You get a bunch of upgrades with this, ranging from a new NTFS driver that landed after
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On May 27, Adam Williamson of the Fedora QA team sent a message to contributor Nathan Giovannini, CC’ing the project’s devel and test mailing lists so everyone could see what had been going on. Adam had been combing through Nathan’s Bugzilla history
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If you have been keeping an eye on the display server situation on Linux, you know where things are headed. Wayland is taking over as distros are dropping X11 sessions one by one. So naturally, someone went ahead and built a brand
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It’s FOSS turns 14 tomorrow. Incidentally, my son turns 1 tomorrow as well. Two milestones the same day call for celebration, right? But there is something important that I wanted to share with you and it relates to the future of It’s
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The LF AI & Data Foundation has announced the formation of the DocLang Specification Working Group, kicking off a collaborative effort to build an open, AI-native document format standard. The working group operates under the Joint Development Foundation’s vendor-neutral governance model, ensuring
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We are used to seeing systemd as the default init on most Linux distributions, but not everyone is a fan. Some users and developers take issue with its broad scope, preferring init systems that do one thing and do it well rather
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