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Openbox has always been my favorite floating window manager. It holds a special place in my heart due it being the first window manager that I used when I switched to Linux. And I still find it so darn comfy to use!

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Given this week's launch of Chrome 89 and the recent Firefox 86 debut, here are some quick benchmarks for those curious about the current performance when using Ubuntu Linux with a AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Radeon graphics.

Some new laptops come with built-in integrated light sensor. Operating systems use this sensor to measure the ambient light conditions and change the screen brightness automatically. This helps in reducing eye strain.





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Canonical choose Google's Flutter UI SDK (software development kit) to build future apps for its popular Ubuntu Linux operating system.

In August 2020, a set of security vulnerabilities in GRUB2 (the GRand Unified Bootloader version 2) collectively known as BootHole were disclosed. Today, another set of vulnerabilities in GRUB2 were disclosed, with similar implications. Because GRUB2 is a…

croc is a free and open source command line tool for secure file transfers between computers.

Phoronix is the leading technology website for Linux hardware reviews, open-source news, Linux benchmarks, open-source benchmarks, and computer hardware tests.

Mageia is a GNU/Linux distribution that is a community project begin life as Mandrake, which then became Mandriva, which then became Mageia. This is a rpm-based distro that uses a static release model and is known for stability.

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The LibreOffice 7.1 open-source office suite series gets its first point release to fix more than 90 bugs discovered in various core components.

Future Ubuntu apps made by Canonical will use Flutter, Google's open-source UI framework. We ask whether this news will help or harm the Ubuntu experience.

Please, please don't use cowboy kernels in production—especially not this one!

The next major NVIDIA driver series, the 470 release series, is slated to be 'even more Wayland-friendly' but what all that encompasses remains to be seen.

ytfzf is a noscript to search, download and play YouTube videos by making use of mpv and youtube-dl under the hood. It works on Linux and macOS.

Raspberry Pi Pico is selling like hotcakes, and at about the same price as them too.

SystemRescue 8.00 live system rescue and recovery distro adds support for Linux kernel 5.10 LTS, the latest Xfce 4.16 desktop environment, and more.

Remote control a PC, even if it can’t boot to an OS.

For a number of years it has been known that the Btrfs RAID5 and RAID6 code is potentially unsafe and not nearly as mature as the native RAID support found in this Linux file-system for other levels

We're not monkeying around.

A comprehensive step-by-step guide to fix the failed to start Light Display Manager (lightdm) error - seen mostly in Arch-based distributions.

‘Subtle and very nasty bug’ meant 5.12 rc1 could trash entire filesystems