Category: Linux Updates

Screenshot by sjvn/ZDNET The Linux Mint community has once again released a top-tier Linux desktop: Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia. I’ve used more Linux distributions than most people, and Mint is

The result? Well, as Darrick Wong, the former maintainer of the XFS file system, put it in his recent resignation note, “I burned out years ago trying to juggle the

The introduction of KSMBD does pose a question: “Why put an SMB server in the kernel when we’ve had Samba for decades?” There are two answers to this question. The

This code base contains all the necessary packages for building a derivative Enterprise Linux operating system. While the initial focus is on EL8 and EL9, clones of RHEL 8 and

At Ubuntu Summit 2023 in Riga, Latvia, Canonical product manager Oliver Smith and engineering manager Ken VanDine introduced the Ubuntu Core Desktop. It’s not shipping yet, but it’s getting closer

The second option adds MicroShift for dynamic environments that require advanced container orchestration and Kubernetes integration. My quick rule of thumb for when you’d want to use this take on

Why? Because since the core system is read-only, it’s far less vulnerable to malware and tampering. If you can’t add anything to the operating system, you can’t corrupt it. In

Specifically, as Alex Gaynor and Geoffrey Thomas explained at the 2019 Linux Security Summit, almost two-thirds of Linux kernel security holes come from memory safety issues. And where do those

They’re also all designed to simplify life for high-performance software developers. With them, programmers can gain continuous integration, turnkey software stacks, and performance testing. This will make their lives much

AI toolchain operator does this by automatically provisioning the necessary GPU nodes and setting up the associated inference server as an endpoint server to your AI models. An inference server,

Specifically for containers, Red Hat is recommending Podman, its daemonless tool for deploying, running, building, and sharing Linux containers. Now, Podman has been around for some time, but with RHEL

Robert A. Heinlein would have been appalled it would have taken us so long.  Much of Artemis I’s success can be attributed to the meticulous preparation and testing of the

Why? Well, the idea, as Wang wryly put it, “is not to put Linux kernel engineers out of business.” No, the goal is “to liberate human engineers from tuning performance

Linux 6.7 will also include numerous new features, such as the bcachefs file system, which is a new robust copy-on-write (COW) file system that boasts fresh attributes while maintaining high

ALSA is an essential tool for all Linux audio work. PulseAudio is aimed more at consumers. When you’re listening to YouTube Music, Spotify, or Pandora on your Linux desktop, you’re