News
I Gave Desktop Email Clients Another Shot and This New App Delivered
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (817+ words) 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…...
Fedora Hummingbird Debuts As a Super Hardened Linux Distro
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (432+ words) 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…...
Heavy Community Backlash Blocks Fedora's AI Developer Desktop Initiative
2+ day, 19+ hour ago (514+ words) 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…...
Can You Run LLMs Locally Without a GPU? I Tested 8 Models on Linux
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (1797+ words) 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…...
FOSS Weekly #26. 20: Killswitch in Linux, Fedora's AI Move, Rat in Terminal, KDE Dolphine Tweaks and More
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (678+ words) Hot on the heels of Copy Fail comes Dirty Frag, another Linux kernel privilege escalation with a working exploit already public. It chains two flaws, neither of which can work alone. Luckily, fixes have arrived for it in the Linux…...
This New Terminal is Absurd (But Totally Fun)
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (1085+ words) There is no dearth of terminal emulators for Linux users. Most people stick with the default terminal, while some have their own preferred ones. I like Kitty and I am pretty happy with it. But then I came across a…...
Your Old Potato PC Might Game Better With This Linux Kernel Patch
4+ day, 16+ hour ago (499+ words) 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…...
Linux is Getting a Kill Switch!
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (636+ words) 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…...
In a Big Move to Linux Security, Debian Makes Reproducible Builds Mandatory
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (445+ words) 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…...
Restriced by the West, Huawei's Open Source Harmony OS Now Powers 55 Million Devices
1+ week, 34+ min ago (460+ words) In recent times, Huawei has been China's best-standing answer to Apple's monopoly over the personal tech market. Smartphones, laptops, tablets, they do it all and they do it at a level on-par with the best companies currently working. This is…...