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2024 Recap: Linux & FOSS Ecosystem’s Highlights
Discover the biggest Linux updates, top FOSS breakthroughs, and community-driven innovations shaping the open-source landscape in 2024.
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How to Use awk to Perform Arithmetic Operations in Loops
awk is a scripting language designed for text processing and data extraction, which reads input line by line, splits each line into fields, and allows you to perform operations on those fields. It’s commonly used for tasks like pattern matching, arithmetic calculations, and generating formatted reports.
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Parabolic – Tool To Download Web Video And Audio
Parabolic is a Qt and GTK-based utility which is a frontend for yt-dlp, a feature-rich audio/video downloader. For this article we evaluated Parabolic using Manjaro, an Arch-based distro, as well as the wonderful Ubuntu 24.10 distro.
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Wine vs. VMs: Which Is Better for Running Windows Apps on Linux?
Let's find out which is better for running apps or games on Linux: wine and its wrappers or virtual machine's compatibility?
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Mixxx 2.5 Open-Source DJ App Released with Qt 6 Port, Improved Controller Support
Coming just a month after Mixxx 2.4.2, which was the last update in the 2.4 series, Mixxx 2.5 is here to port the application to the latest Qt 6 open-source application framework to provide users with a more modern and stylish graphical user interface, improved performance, and enhanced compatibility on modern systems.
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CodeGate: Open Source Tool Secures AI Coding Assistants
AI-generated code is vulnerable to attack. Craig McLuckie, co-creator of Kubernetes, shared news about his company's newly open sourced project, a locally hosted layer of security for AI workflows.
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4MLinux 47.0 Released with Installation Support for Virtual (KVM) Block Devices
4MLinux 47.0 is here almost four months after 4MLinux 46.0 with support for installing the distro on virtual KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) block devices (e.g. /dev/vda1, /dev/vda2, etc.), as well as support for hundreds of old image formats via RECOIL (Retro Computer Image Library) with its GIMP plugin.
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DietPi released a new version 9.9
DietPi is a lightweight Debian based Linux distribution for SBCs and server systems, with the option to install desktop environments, too. The project released the new version DietPi v9.9 on December 23th, 2024.
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FreshRSS 1.25: Enhanced UI, Improved Search, and Better Database Support
FreshRSS 1.25 self-hosted RSS feed aggregator, now requiring PHP 8.1+, brings advanced regex searches, new article policies, UI updates, and more.
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siduction Linux 2024.1.0 Released with Xfce 4.20, KDE Plasma 6.2, and LXQt 2.1
Dubbed “Shine on…”, powered by the latest Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, and synced with the Debian Sid (Unstable) repositories as of December 23rd, 2024, siduction 2024.1.0 ships with the KDE Plasma 6.2, the recently released Xfce 4.20, and the LXQt 2.1 desktop environments.
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