Today SUSE, the company behind SUSE Linux Enterprise (SLE), announced it will fork the publicly available Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and will develop and maintain a RHEL-compatible distribution available to all without restrictions. Over the next few years, SUSE plans to invest more than...
Category: Operating Systems
BlendOS 3 “Bhatura” released – Switch between 7 desktop environments!
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
July 8, 2023
BlendOS 3 Bhatura now supports 7 desktop environments, including GNOME, KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, XFCE, Deepin, MATE and LXQt. You can switch between desktop environments easily and instantaneously with system track. We could really call BlendOS a blend of Android including from Aurora Store or F-Droid...
Firefox 115 with Extended Support Released to keep Windows 7, 8 secure
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
July 6, 2023
Mozilla has released Firefox 115. This is an Extended Support Release (ESR) version of Firefox, which receives major updates on average every 42 weeks with minor updates such as crash fixes, security fixes and policy updates as needed, but at least every four weeks. Microsoft...
Red Hat restricts RHEL source code to only CentOS Stream
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
June 22, 2023
CentOS Stream will now be the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases. For Red Hat customers and partners, source code will remain available via the Red Hat Customer Portal. By limiting the RHEL public sources to CentOS Stream, it will now be more...
The Debian project today released its new stable version 12 (code name bookworm). The bookworm is coming with LTS support and will be supported for the next 5 years which includes Linux 6.1 LTS kernel. One of the biggest feature launched with Debian 12 is...
MSBuild 2023 is Microsoft’s annual affair like the Google I/O that just ended, where they announce the latest and the upcoming features in their products and hold in-depth sessions for the developers and the wider community audience. This year, the Microsoft Build 2023 keynote session...
Simply put, Windows Copilot is an AI assistant to Windows 11. Windows Copilot will be integrated directly into Windows 11 and available to open and use from the taskbar across all apps and programs. Once open, the Windows Copilot side bar stays consistent across your...
Now update linux offline with yum offline-upgrade
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
May 20, 2023
With the recent GA announcements of RedHat 8.8 as well as its upstream alternatives Rocky Linux 8.8 and AlmaLinux 8.8 one can now finally update Linux offline! With this enhancement, you can apply offline updates to RHEL by using the new yum offline-upgrade command. There...
Linux Kernel 6.3 Released with support for new Intel VPUs and AMD Automatic IBRS
posted by: Nishant Kaushal
April 25, 2023
Linux kernel 6.3 include a new DRM accelerated driver for Intel VPU (Versatile Processing Unit) that supports VPU IP 2.7 integrated into 14th Generation Intel “Meteor Lake” client CPUs, Rust code support for x86_64 user-mode Linux, AES-SHA2-based encryption for the NFS file system, and support...
Fedora 38 is now out of beta. It introduces two new spins, one with the Budgie desktop environment and one with the Sway tiling window manager. Its GNOME spin moves to GNOME 44. Fedora 38 also removes restrictions and whitelisting from its flatpak implementation. Fedora...