Blogs
Off the Beat: Bruce Byfield's Blog
Off the Beat is a selection of news, reviews, and commentary about what's happening in the free and open source software community. Events, legal issues, developer profiles, attempts at innovation – all these and more are potential subjects. Bruce wrote the book Designing with LibreOffice, which was released under a Creative Commons License in March 2016. You can buy or download his book at http://designingwithlibreoffice.com/download-buy/. Contact Bruce at bbyfield AT linuxpromagazine DOT com.
Productivity Sauce
Want to make your daily computing more productive and efficient using open source applications and tools? Dmitri Popov's Productivity Sauce provides you with tips, tricks, and ideas on how to get the job done. Contact the author at sauce AT linuxpromagazine DOT com.
Paw Prints: Writings of the maddog
Observations, news, and musings on the Free and Open Source Community around the world by Jon “maddog” Hall, President of Linux International™. Jon has been working with computers since 1969, Unix since 1980, and Linux since May 1994, when he first met Linus Torvalds and facilitated the port of Linux to a 64-bit system.
Email may be sent to pawprints AT linuxpromagazine DOT com.
ROSE Blog: Rikki's Open Source Exchange
Stop by Rikki's Open Source Exchange for dispatches from the world of women in open source. Rikki Endsley examines the experience of women across the spectrum of open source – the people, projects, organizations, events, articles, issues, and news.
Beagleblog
An editor's field report on the BeagleBoard which is a very tiny (2.5x2.5 inches) developer board with a low-power OMAP3530 CPU by Texas Instruments, featuring an ARM core and an additional DSP (digital signal processor) for multimedia applications.
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News
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Linux Hits an Important Milestone
If you pay attention to the news in the Linux-sphere, you've probably heard that the open source operating system recently crashed through a ceiling no one thought possible.
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Plasma Bigscreen Returns
A developer discovered that the Plasma Bigscreen feature had been sitting untouched, so he decided to do something about it.
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CachyOS Now Lets Users Choose Their Shell
Imagine getting the opportunity to select which shell you want during the installation of your favorite Linux distribution. That's now a thing.
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Wayland 1.24 Released with Fixes and New Features
Wayland continues to move forward, while X11 slowly vanishes into the shadows, and the latest release includes plenty of improvements.
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Bugs Found in sudo
Two critical flaws allow users to gain access to root privileges.
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Fedora Continues 32-Bit Support
In a move that should come as a relief to some portions of the Linux community, Fedora will continue supporting 32-bit architecture.
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Linux Kernel 6.17 Drops bcachefs
After a clash over some late fixes and disagreements between bcachefs's lead developer and Linus Torvalds, bachefs is out.
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ONLYOFFICE v9 Embraces AI
Like nearly all office suites on the market (except LibreOffice), ONLYOFFICE has decided to go the AI route.
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Two Local Privilege Escalation Flaws Discovered in Linux
Qualys researchers have discovered two local privilege escalation vulnerabilities that allow hackers to gain root privileges on major Linux distributions.
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New TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro Powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300
The TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 14 Gen10 offers serious power that is ready for your business, development, or entertainment needs.