Got a headless Raspberry Pi and want to connect to it? You don’t need to use your computer for that. You can do that with your smartphone itself. TechxArtisan’s latest gadget turns your smartphone into a keyboard, mouse, gamepad and even a SSH terminal. These folks gave us KVM-over-USB gadgets like Openterface Mini-KVM and Openterface…
Patches sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today can provide much more efficient Zstd compression and decompression by addressing a very unfortunate oversight in the existing code. Linux developer Usama Arif noted that the in-kernel Zstd code decides at run-time when creating a context for compression or decompression whether to pick the generic…
Last night was the Gamescom Opening Night Live event and there was quite a number of interesting games being announced and shown off. The full event is available on YouTube but below I’ve rounded-up the main interesting stuff to save you some time. In my opinion, this is one of the best events they’ve done…
Shadowfetch Linux has announced version 3.0 of its Debian Testing-based distribution built around KDE Plasma 6, combining a traditional desktop environment with local AI tooling and Btrfs-based recovery features, introducing a major new focus on running autonomous coding agents in a more controlled, reversible environment. With the new 3.0 “Umbra” release, Shadowfetch is leaning much…
It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled the QUIC server incomingchannel queue. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to causeOpenSSL to use excessive resources, leading to a denial of service. Thisissue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-14456) It was discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly handled signature algorithmselection when using Raw Public Keys. A remote…
Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed ‘Stonking Stingray’, entered feature freeze on 20 August – though the formal announcement arrive later than usual. From this point onwards, development focus shifts from landing major changes to improving them, along with the rest of the package set, ahead of the final, stable Ubuntu 26.10 release in October. “Ideally, you should…
89 Liam’s Desktop UX Brief: I have spent countless hours jumping between GNOME and KDE on every distro I can get my hands on. If you are new to Linux, the desktop environment choice feels overwhelming. I get it. You open a forum and see people arguing about GTK versus Qt like it is a…
DistroWatch.com: PorteuX Last Update: 2026-08-24 00:43 UTC OS Type: Linux Based on: Slackware Origin: Global Architecture: x86_64 Desktop: Cinnamon, COSMIC, GNOME, KDE Plasma, labwc, LXDE, LXQt, MATE, Xfce Category: Desktop, Immutable, Live Medium Status: Active Popularity: 106 (132 hits per day) PorteuX is a Linux distribution based on Slackware Linux, inspired by Slax and Porteus…
When a new disk appears in lsblk, it is visible to Linux but still has nowhere to store files. The disk needs a partition table and at least one partition before you create a filesystem and mount it. The parted command manages those boundaries from the terminal, works with both GPT and MBR tables, and…
Built around servers people can host, TeamSpeak has been around since 2001, serving as a reliable communication tool that has gained a reputation for running light and reliably over inconsistent networks. It has gone through many iterations that have seen it grow from a simple client-server voice tool into something that has a modern interface,…
