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A friend convinced me to install Slackware on a spare PC to learn about Linux. I then decided to share the pain of dial-up internet across multiple devices – imagine the speed shared between three machines! I haven’t looked back or stopped learning s

I recently expanded my home server’s RAID to 20TB, adding a fifth 4TB drive. It’s an ongoing upgrade process that’s probably been going on for a decade in one form or another, and running Linux ensures it’s always supersmooth. The only recent hiccup

“You can read about HashiCorp’s licence rug-pull below-left. The community, after a few warning shots, forked Terraform as OpenTF. At the Open Source Summit Europe, the Linux Foundation (LF) validated and endorsed the project by putting it under the

Back in August, HashiCorp, the vendor of deployment-automation tool Terraform, changed its software licence from MPL (Mozilla Public Licence) to BUSL (Business Source Licence). This means it is technically no longer FOSS. Crucially, the new licence f

“Released in August, Linux kernel 6.5 brought 22 patches that enabled support for the AV1 uAPI and for two stateless video decoders: one for the Rockchip RK3588 and one for MT8195, a MediaTek SoC. This is the result of several years of efforts by our

“The Document Foundation is releasing LibreOffice 7.6.2 Community and LibreOffice 7.5.7 Community ahead of schedule to address a security issue known as CVE 2023-4863, which originates in a widely used code library known as libwebp, created by Google

Linux Format is the home of open source, including alternative -nix operating systems, such as FreeBSD. Although the OS is a popular choice for servers, it supports a number of desktop environments and window managers for those willing to manually in

Linus Torvalds announced Linux 6.6-rc4, noting that the latest set of fixes were small and predicting larger sets of updates before the final 6.6 release. Thorsten Leemhuis’s Regzbot regression tracking efforts say “there’s not much to report wrt [wi

“I’ve started digging into the Asahi Linux port to Apple silicon. This is a multi-year effort to bring Linux to M-series Macs. They can already boot Linux kernels, support most of the hardware, and provide a good desktop experience. The underlying ha

RISC-V patches include an updated (version 9) series adding support for future AIA (Advanced Interrupt Architecture) interrupt controllers, and SCS (Shadow Call Stack, similar to the x86 and Arm features). A number of posted patches implement support

Do you have a burning Linuxrelated issue that you want to discuss? Write to us at Linux Format, Future Publishing, Quay House, The Ambury, Bath, BA1 1UA or email letters@ linuxformat.com. I give up. I’ve been using computers since the late ’60s, when

Hark back to the early days of social media, and you’ll recall just how wild it was. While we’re now used to the standard uniformity of Twitter/X and Facebook, it’s easy to forget how pioneers such as MySpace sold themselves on how crazy you could ma

To run a successful social media empire, you need a service that looks good on the go, and allows users to access their feed in comfort and doom scroll on the train, in class or while on a first date in a fancy restaurant. Fortunately, there are offi

Once Jellyfin is set up, you’re taken to your home screen, which offers a variety of ways to view your media library: at the top are shortcuts to individual libraries, followed by the Next Up section, which helps you track your progress through TV sh

While it’s possible to create libraries in Jellyfin to stream your personal photos and home videos to the big screen, the question remains of how easy it is to transfer said content from your phone to your server. Taking its cue from your cloud provi

One often overlooked component of a media server is audiobooks. In the past, we’ve recommended Booksonic, but in 2021 a new arrival quickly swept all before it to provide a serious alternative to Audible. Audiobookshelf (www. audiobookshelf.org) is y

Over the 11 years that the Raspberry Pi has been with us, there have been countless contenders for its crown: Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Libre Computer, Asus Tinkerboard, Khadas and LattePanda, to name but a few. These boards vary in price from as little

Credit: https://kornelix.net Nick Peers may fancy himself as a wannabe photographer, but the sad truth is that without his vintage Panasonic bridge camera’s intelligent auto setting, he’d be screwed. One of Fotoxx’s strengths is that it supports the

As night follows day, a new kernel release has dropped. The 6.5 kernel seems to be general fixes for various bugs (for the x86/64 platform). There is also word that, separately, there is going to be a new version of the Vulkan graphics drivers for In

Linux malware isn’t something any careful Linux user encounters very often. That makes it all the more shocking when it comes to light that there has been a Linux application in plain sight that wasn’t all that it appeared. Freedownloadmanager.org wa

Searching for files in a command-line Linux environment can sometimes be a non-trivial task, especially when dealing with numerous directories and large data sets. Being able to perform these tasks via the Linux command line pays massive dividends, h

Networking is one of those magical areas of technology where complex processes are made beautifully simple for the end user. Operations such as downloading a web page or backing up a file to a NAS appliance take just a few clicks or taps. Behind the

Version: 2.0.9 Web: https://github. com/JoseExposito/touche If you use a laptop or touchscreen, you can increase your productivity by installing Touché. It’s a multi-touch gesture configurator that helps you use the touchpad more efficiently. Touché

Credit: www.lazarus-ide.org David Bolton has 30 years of Pascal programming experience under his belt, so knows a thing or two about developing GUI programming applications on Linux and other platforms. The source code for this example is zipped up i

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