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In Linux, mastering user and group management is not just sysadmin busywork — it’s the foundation of a secure, well-governed system. Every daemon, developer, and deployment depends on it. Whether you’re setting up a fresh Ubuntu server, hardening a production…
System76 has rolled out COSMIC 1.0.8, a small maintenance update delivered as part of its regular release cadence aimed at polishing the desktop and fixing issues promptly. Much of this release centers on improvements to the file manager. Users can…
Mabox Linux, a lightweight rolling-release distribution built on Manjaro and centered around the Openbox window manager, has introduced its new 26.02 release. One noticeable addition is an updated audio menu. Users can open it with the W-a shortcut or by…
The Apache NetBeans team has released version 29 of its cross-platform IDE, delivering improvements across Java, build tools, web development, and enterprise workflows. This release enhances Gradle by allowing classes from specific source sets to run within Gradle actions, resolving…
Over the past week, discussion has grown around the new Plasma Login Manager introduced with KDE Plasma 6.6, which now requires systemd. Shortly after its release, KaOS unexpectedly announced that it would move away from Plasma as its default desktop…
For those running Linux guests on Microsoft Hyper-V, the Linux kernel 7.0 cycle delivers several meaningful virtualization improvements. These updates land alongside continued enhancements to KVM, making 7.0 a strong release overall for hypervisor and cloud workloads. Integrated Scheduler Support…
Linus Torvalds has officially closed the merge window with the release of Linux kernel 7.0-rc1. Although the jump to version 7.0 follows Torvalds’ usual habit of incrementing the major version after x.19 releases, this cycle is packed with substantial changes…
Ladybird, the new browser currently under active development, has begun rewriting parts of its codebase in Rust. Founder Andreas Kling explained that the team had previously evaluated Swift as a potential successor to C++. However, Swift proved impractical due to…
One month after shipping version 147, Mozilla Firefox 148 has arrived, bringing a range of new features and improvements to the widely used open-source browser. Centralized AI Controls The headline addition is a new AI Controls section in Settings. This…
The oVirt 4.5.7 open-source virtualization management platform released this week after not seeing any new releases in two years. While Red Hat had started the oVirt open-source project for which their Red Hat Virtualization platform is based, since they shifted…
