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The DistroWatch news feed is brought to you by TUXEDO COMPUTERS. This week in DistroWatch Weekly: Review: StartOS 0.4.0 News: Ubuntu Unity calls for aid, Canonical offer Ubuntu credentials, Red Hat partners with NVIDIA to provide access to AI tools, SUSE plans to ship AI...
'Ubuntu's decision to switch to Rust-based coreutils in 25.10 hasn't been the smoothest ride,' writes the blog OMG Ubuntu, 'as the latest — albeit now resolved — bug underscores.' [Coreutils] are used by a number of processes, apps and scripts, including Ubuntu's own unattend...
'AI isn't just a tool anymore; it's an integral part of the development experience,' argues GitHub's blog. So 'Agents shouldn't be bolted on. They should work the way you already work...' So this week GitHub announced 'Agent HQ,' which CNBC describes as a 'mission control'...
PLUS: Cyber-exec admits selling secrets to Russia; LastPass isn't checking to see if you're dead; Nation-state backed Windows malware; and more Infosec in brief Australia’s Signals Directorate (ASD) last Friday warned that attackers are installing an implant named...
Linus has released 6.18-rc4 for testing. 'Last week in fact felt *so* calm that I was surprised to notice that rc4 isn't really smaller than usual: all the stats look very normal, both in number of changes and where the changes are.'
Sunday November 2, 2025. 11:52 PM
It seems like a number of Debian ports are going to face difficult times over the coming months. Debian developer Julian Andres Klode has sent a message to the Debian mailing lists that APT will very soon start requiring Rust. I plan to introduce hard Rust dependencies and...
Let’s take a look at how things are going at Microsoft, whose CEO claimed a few months ago that 30% of their code was generated by “AI”. After installing Windows Updates released on or after October 28, 2025 (KB5067036), you might encounter an issue where closing Task Manag...
TL;DR: Learn Excel from beginner to advanced with lifetime access to the 2025 Ultimate Excel Training Bundle for $29.97 using code TAKE10 until November 2 at 11:59pm Pacific. Excel is the superstar of spreadsheets, but let's be honest — it doesn't exactly roll out a red...
For those unfamiliar, cwm is the Calm Window Manager. It’s part of the OpenBSD base distribution as one of the native window managers, along with an old version of fvwm and the venerable twm. It’s pretty simple but surprisingly powerful, a floating window manager with...
OpenAI 'hasn't yet turned a profit,' notes Wall Street Journal business columnist Tim Higgins. 'Its annual revenue is 2% of Amazon.com's sales. 'Its future is uncertain beyond the hope of ushering in a godlike artificial intelligence that might help cure cancer and transform ...
Slashdot reader BrianFagioli summarizes some news from Nerds.xyz: Creative Technology has launched Sound Blaster Re:Imagine, a modular, Linux-powered audio hub that reimagines the classic PC sound card for the modern age. The device acts as both a high-end digital-to-analog...
San Francisco's local newscast ABC7 runs a consumer advocacy segment called '7 on Your Side'. They received a disturbing call for help from Dave Dornlas, treasurer of a nonprofit supporting a local library: GoFundMe has taken upon itself to create 'nonprofit pages' for 1.4...
'Amazon has deployed Rivian's electric delivery vans in Canada for the first time,' reports CleanTechnica, with 50 now deployed in the Vancouver area. Amazon's director of Global Fleet and Products says there's now over 35,000 electric vans deployed globally — and that they'v...
'People are creating 'dumb homes,'' the VP of research at the Global Wellness Institute, tells the web site Axios. Some are swapping NASA-style setups for old-fashioned buttons, switches and knobs. Others are designing digital detox corners — all part of a bigger 'analog...
TL;DR: Keep the holiday blues at bay with a MacBook Pro for just $429.97 (reg. $1,999). The holidays are right around the corner, and there are some exciting things up for grabs around here. This refurbished 2020 MacBook Pro may be a little too big to be a stocking stuffer,...
The relatively small 6.17.7, 6.12.57, and 6.6.116 stable kernels have been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
'It's been hard for me to understand why Atlas exists,' writes MIT Technology Review. ' Who is this browser for, exactly? Who is its customer? And the answer I have come to there is that Atlas is for OpenAI. The real customer, the true end user of Atlas, is not the person...
This is a conversion of the original V7 pwd program for use on POSIX systems (tested primarily on Linux). This is mostly of historical interest — modern systems have a library routine or system call for getting the current directory, and don’t need this. I’ve attempted to...
AMD is expanding its processor portfolio beyond the x86 architecture with its first ARM-based APU, internally known as “Sound Wave.” The chip’s existence was uncovered through customs import records, confirming several details about its design and purpose. Built with a ...
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