The Linux job market has reached unprecedented heights in 2025, with demand for professionals who possess Linux expertise continuing to surge across multiple technology sectors. Organizations worldwide are prioritizing candidates who can leverage Linux systems in cloud-native environments, AI operations, and DevOps workflows.

To avoid jumping into the directory to execute your local program or script, you can add their paths to the $PATH variable to access them from anywhere.

Preliminary proposal is already provoking debateThe Python community is chewing over a new idea: allowing the C-based reference implementation, CPython, to incorporate Rust. It's only at the "pre-PEP" stage, but it's already sparked lively debate.…

The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.5.3 as the third maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop environment series with more improvements and bug fixes.

Last week's Vulkan 1.4.333 brought a new ray-tracing extension with VK_EXT_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder that was derived from a prior NVIDIA vendor extension (VK_NV_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder). This new extension for Shader Execution Reordering "SER" is showing to deliver some nice performance potential for Vulkan ray-tracing performance...

Systemd 259 RC1 previews the removal of SysV init script support and introduces major compatibility changes ahead of the v260 transition.

ClamAV will retire outdated signatures on December 16, reducing both databases by about 50% to improve performance and trim update costs.

Make Application and Active Window Application be transparent on KDE Plasma

Thought it was the victim of a ‘hyper-scale DDoS attack’ before finding the fixCloudflare CEO Matthew Prince has admitted that the cause of its massive Tuesday outage was a change to database permissions, and that the company initially thought the symptoms of that adjustment indicated it was the target of a “hyper-scale DDoS attack,” before figuring out the real problem.…

Discover a step-by-step guide to install the latest version of Slack on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions with practical examples.

In the past we have seen Llama.cpp with Vulkan outperforming AMD's ROCm compute stack in some of the large language model (LLM) AI benchmarks. Curious if anything has changed given the recent ROCm 7.1 release, I ran some benchmarks of an up-to-date Llama.cpp using the AMD ROCm back-end compared to the Vulkan back-end with the latest RADV driver. For this round of testing the Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card was used.

The Debian Project released today a new project called Debian Libre Live Images that allows you to run and install the Debian GNU/Linux operating system without non-free software.

A proposal has been raised by two CPython core developers to introduce the Rust programming language to CPython. Initially the focus is on allowing Rust to be used for developing optional extension modules for CPython but ultimately their goal is for Rust to become a hard dependency of CPython and used throughout its codebase...

The first Release Candidate of the highly anticipated GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) 3.2 release is now available for public testing with more new features and dozens of improvements.

The Debian Project released the second update for Debian 13 trixie. Here's what's new and how to upgrade to the Debian 13.2 release.

Blender 5.0, a free and open-source 3D computer graphics software, is now available for download as a major update that introduces numerous new features and improvements.

At the start of the year developers behind the Budgie desktop environment hoped for shipping Budgie 10.10 in Q1-2025. We are now in Q4 without a stable release but at long last a preview version is at least available. Budgie 10.10 is the point at which Budgie is going all-in on Wayland in leaving behind the X11 desktop session support...

Life online seems to be returning to normal after a major outage centered on Cloudflare’s WARP service. Sporadic outages still possible for the next few hours.

The source is a built-in command-line tool that reads and executes the commands from the specified file as its argument in the current shell.

GIMP 3.2 RC1 introduces native SVG export and a redesigned rasterize workflow for text, vector, and link layers, giving a clear picture of what we can expect from the final stable 3.2 release.