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TUXEDO Computers has announced a major change for its in-house Linux distribution, TUXEDO OS, revealing that Ubuntu will no longer serve as its foundation. Instead, future versions of the distro will be based on Debian Testing. According to the company, the decision arrives after several months of reduced update cadence, especially around KDE Plasma updates….
Flock to Fedora is more than a conference – it’s where the Fedora community comes alive. As part of the CommitHistory campaign, we sat down with confirmed Flock 2026 speakers to hear their stories: what brought them to Fedora, what Flock means to them personally, and what they’re hoping for in Prague this June. This…
Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 is available to download, the second of four snapshots planned for the ‘Stonking Stingray’ development cycle ahead of a stable release in October. As with the first snapshot, there’s not a lot “new” stuff to see or test out, so unless you’re a developer or an avid bug hunter there’s little…
209 Arjun’s Storage Brief: I have rebuilt striped arrays from corrupted superblocks, migrated entire production databases from spinning rust to NVMe-backed logical volumes, and watched ZFS scrub catch silent bit rot that would have destroyed a client’s archive. Storage is not the glamorous side of Linux, but it is the foundation everything else sits on….
Linux gives you two ways to make a file accessible under more than one name: hard links and symbolic links. They look similar in a directory listing, and both are created with the ln command, but they work in fundamentally different ways. Choosing the wrong one leads to surprises, such as a link that breaks…
For years, my default setup for Linux demos was simple. Spin up a virtual machine, configure the environment, take a snapshot, and hope nothing breaks during the presentation. In fact, my old demo setup was a collection of virtual machines I’d accumulated over the years. One for Docker demos, another for Kubernetes workshops, and a…
Hannah Montana Linux (HML) has become a conversation starter in the land of FOSS (aka FOSSLand?), and somehow, the year is 2026. The remaster, released by Noah Cagle, a developer/YouTuber, has taken us by surprise. This new avatar of HML is a combination of Debian Live tooling and the Calamares installer, with most of the…
Longtime AMD Linux graphics driver expert Marek Olšák, who joined Valve earlier this year and now focusing more on RADV rather than the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, has seen some of his latest work now merged for Mesa 26.2. Marek landed a big overhaul to the variable rate shading (VRS) code that in some cases can…
postmarketOS has released the latest development update for its Linux-based mobile operating system, with the most notable change being the introduction of Plasma 6.7 in both Alpine Linux and postmarketOS, bringing the latest KDE improvements to supported devices. Another key update is the addition of usb-signaller, a new Rust-based tool now integrated into postmarketOS edge,…
Peter Boy came to Fedora documentation the way many contributors do, by seeing a gap and deciding to fill it. As a researcher, writing is his daily work. When he looked at how he could meaningfully contribute to Fedora, documentation was the obvious answer. He started with Fedora Core 1, stepped away, and returned in…
