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Everyone gets excited when the Linux market share goes up. The interwebs were abuzz that desktop Linux hit 4% (see News, page 6), never mind the 3% for ChromeOS (which is Linux) and whatever makes up the 6% of “unknown” operating systems – Haiku, is

PostmarketOS (abbreviated as pmOS) is an operating system primarily for smartphones, based on Alpine Linux. One of the project’s ultimate aims is to support the mainline Linux kernel on all phones. In early March, pmOS took a step further towards t

Why does MySQL not support vectors in its community edition? Generative AI is the hot topic in tech. GenAI relies on vector data. Yet Oracle has no plans to support vectors in the community edition of MySQL. If you want to try out vector data with ot

Since late February 2024, the first Framework 16 laptops have made it into customers’ hands. The manufacturer’s claims are bold: from just $499 for the bare-bones model, you can have your very own customisable, repairable and upgradable laptop. Fra

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), the independent authority for the protection of personal data and privacy within EU institutions and offices, has issued a press release stating that the use of Office 365 violates rules in the GDPR, in

As more and more applications rely on the combination of Nvidia and CUDA, it was inevitable that third-parties would try to build on their success. There’s already examples of this, such as ZLUDA, a drop-in replacement for CUDA. The implications of

2023 was a great year for the Wayland driver for Wine. The goal was to move forward from the experimental phase and make the driver a proper upstream component. A year later, after several merge requests, many people are now already able to use the l

Canonical (the company that sponsors Ubuntu) just turned 20. Can you believe it? The Linux distro began life as ‘no name yet’ and there were rumours of secret meetings in Oxford to kick it off back in early 2004. I attended the first ever Ubuntu conf

Linus Torvalds announced Linux 6.8, noting that the development cycle had been calm over the trailing couple of weeks, “just as it should be”. The new kernel includes many performance enhancements under the bonnet. Among these are support for variabl

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TimeSlotTracker can add custom attributes to a task or a time slot in the form of key/value pairs, so you can attach almost any type of info to a task or activity. Timewarrior has integration features with Taskwarrior, a command-line text-mode task a

TimeSlotTracker has activity monitoring and this includes an optional facility to take screenshots and T place them in a user-defined directory. However, this isn’t the type of intricate user monitoring that some of the other options offer. Idle dete

The origins of WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) lies in Microsoft’s Project Astoria, a tool originally designed to port Android apps to Windows 10 Mobile. The project was killed in 2016 but the code formed the basis of WSL, which was released in bet

As I write this, we have just celebrated 12 years (or three if you follow leap years) of Raspberry Pi. It is hard to think of a time when there wasn’t a lowcost, credit-card-sized computer for our projects. In those 12 years, Raspberry Pi has sold 61

ISSUE 313 April 2024 Product code: LXFDB0313 In the magazine Discover how to use the ultimate hacker’s toolkit, staying out of trouble while doing so. And join us as we take the Puppy Linux developer’s new distro for a run and explore its container

Credit: http://openscad.org Tam Hanna’s minimal creative capability makes him ideally suited to teaching all kinds of workarounds for problems that require the use of creativity. Catch up by ordering back issues on page 58! The experiments performed

Credit: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/ Neil Mohr still can’t pry his Steam Deck from his six-year old’s hands. There’s no doubt Valve Software has done more to propel Linux gaming forward than T almost anything else in recent years. The Steam De

Matt Holder is an IT professional of 15 years, Linux user for over 20 years, homeautomation fan and selfprofessed geek. The full source code can be downloaded from https://github.com/mattmole/LXF-Countdown-Word-Solver We are going to create a program

I think that as devices such as the Steam Deck become more popular, Linux usage will increase without the user even knowing about it. Other areas of growth will be as immutable distros become more and more popular and provide a more rock-solid, appli

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Noble Numbat is currently scheduled for release on 25th April. At the time of writing, we’re working with a daily build and expect a full review next issue. Nevertheless, we discovered that Canonical has announced this LTS release wi