Even after all these years, some people still have a strong dislike for systemd. My colleague, Umair, stopped hating systemd after realizing its automation capabilities. He has created two courses on systemd: Systemd playbook: A hands-on, text-based course to turn you into a confident systemd user. Systemd automation: Learn to schedule, monitor, sandbox, and optimize…
Valve just rolled out the red carpet for the latest mainline stable update to their compatibility layer with Proton 11.0-2 now available. It’s a rather long list of fixes for running Windows games on Linux / SteamOS, Steam Deck and Steam Machine. It will show up as an update in your Steam Downloads for Proton…
Linux command line has a lot of fun around itself and many tedious task can be performed very easily yet with perfection. Playing with words and characters, their frequency in a text file, etc is what we are going to see in this article. Almost every word-frequency one-liner floating around the web has the same…
20.04 LTS focal linux-image-5.4.0-1066-iot – 5.4.0-1066.69 Ubuntu Pro Fix available with Ubuntu Pro. linux-image-5.4.0-1080-xilinx-zynqmp – 5.4.0-1080.84 Ubuntu Pro Fix available with Ubuntu Pro. linux-image-5.4.0-1108-ibm – 5.4.0-1108.113 Ubuntu Pro Fix available with Ubuntu Pro. linux-image-5.4.0-1121-bluefield – 5.4.0-1121.128 Ubuntu Pro Fix available with Ubuntu Pro. linux-image-5.4.0-1136-fips – 5.4.0-1136.146 FIPS Updates FIPS-140 certified package with security fixes. Available…
The GNOME Extensions ecosystem is packed with tools that let you customize almost every part of the desktop. Whether it’s changing the appearance of the top panel, replacing the app launcher, adding visual effects, or making the interface behave exactly the way you want. We have covered extensions in the past: Since there are so…
In early 2025 it was being discussed to potentially drop the HFS and HFS+ file-system support with the code having been orphaned over a decade and becoming a maintenance burden. But that dismal outlook quickly turned around with some developers stepping up to maintain the old Apple file-system support. Over a year later, fortunately, it’s…
DistroWatch.com: RuscaLinux Last Update: 2026-08-21 14:11 UTC RuscaLinux is a desktop Linux distribution based on Debian’s “Stable” branch and featuring the GNOME desktop. The project’s goal is to provide a complete, ready-to-go desktop with a curated software set, but without any update mechanisms. This is the distribution’s deliberate design choice; it provides no live repositories…
Apprise 1.13 has been released as the final update in the 1.x series of the open-source notification framework, adding new notification services, feature improvements, and bug fixes while preparing users for the upcoming 2.x branch. The release introduces support for three additional notification services: Pinglet, Trigv, and Pingram. The latter replaces the previously supported NotificationApi…
Canonical has committed funding to a three-year PhD project focused on building a system that can automatically translate large C codebases into Rust. And they are not alone; UK Research and Innovation is matching their funding for the project, which is set to run through the University of Bristol’s Programming Languages Research Group. The PhD…
After years of technical research and foundational work, the Fedora Badges application service has been rebuilt from the ground up, and it is heading to production. Whether you have been collecting badges for years or you are brand new to the Fedora Project community, here is what is waiting for you there. Completely modernized user interface The archaic server rendered pages are now gone. The Fedora Badges application service…
