It’s official! Linux founder Linus Torvalds announced the official release of the long-expected Linux 5.4 “Kleptomaniac Octopus” kernel on Sunday evening. FOSS Linux alerted readers to the impending release late in September.
Travis Rose
Travis Rose
Hi, I'm M Travis Rose, a contributor to FOSS Linux. I have over thirty years of experience in the IT arena, at least fifteen of which has been working with Linux. I enjoy converting existing Windows users to the wonderful world of Linux. I guess you could call me a Linux-evangelist. Long live Linux!
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System76 recently announced that they are following up on the success of its popular Thelio desktop with their very own laptops. The famous Denver-based hardware manufacturer and Pop_OS! developer already offers a wide array of laptops for sale designed and …
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Yesterday, Zorin released Zorin OS 15 Lite, the slimmed-down version of its more robust big brother, Zorin OS 15. The latest lite version of the OS is custom-tailored toward older lower spec laptops and PCs.
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In today’s article, we’ll take an in-depth look at the zsh shell, as it is growing increasingly popular with the *Nix community. Earlier this year, Apple announced that starting with the macOS 10.15 Catalina, zsh should serve as the OS’s …
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Earlier today, UBports tweeted that Canonical had gifted them several Ubuntu Touch devices to use for further development. In the tweet, UBports offered to send the gifted devices to users willing to help develop Ubuntu Touch.
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Yesterday, KDE announced the release of KDE Frameworks 5.64.0. The October 2019 monthly release includes many changes and bug fixes. KDE Frameworks is 80 add-on libraries for coding applications with Qt, the free, open-source widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces …
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American multinational technology giant, Microsoft Corporation, recently announced plans to bring its Defender antivirus software to the Linux platform in 2020. A demonstration of how Linux security specialists, systems administrators, and users can utilize Defenders is slated for presentation this …
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Linux Mint dropped the October 2019 issue of their monthly newsletter today, and, as usual, it was chockful of tidbits sure to tantalize Linux Mint users eagerly awaiting news of their newest release, Linux Mint 19.3.
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Earlier this week, Google released the latest version of its web browser, Chrome 78, to its Stable desktop channel, and it is a beauty. The world’s most popular web browser is replete with new improvements along with new features and …
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The Fedora Project announced today the official release of the newest version of their long-awaited Fedora 31 Linux distro. Following six-months of development along with a week-long delay due to Installer and DNF bugs, the Red Hat-backed distribution is now…