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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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AI Fixes Linux Bottlenecks Using “Hideous” Code
A Linux developer used AI to fix bottlenecks that caused problems when building the kernel. The resulting AI-generated code needed a lot of work.
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Advanced Video Coding Still Under Patent
Brazilian patent BRPI0109962B1 has expired, which means that DivX and Xvid are no longer problematic for Linux, but it doesn’t mean that video is all of a sudden fully unleashed.
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2,000 Vulnerabilities per Linux Release
Thanks to AI bug hunters, the Linux kernel is seeing record numbers of vulnerabilities, and it's overwhelming developers.
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Linux Exempt from California’s Age Verification Law
So long as Linux is distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses, the OS is exempt from being required to verify the age of its users in California.
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Roll Out the Cake: Linux Turns 35
35 years ago, a Finnish student began a humble project that would forever change the course of technology.
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China Switching from Windows to Linux
China has ordered several government agencies to drop a Chinese-developed version of Windows 10 in favor of either KylinOS or UOS.
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Pine64 Halts Production of Linux Devices
With continued DRAM and eMMC shortages, Pine64 has decided to discontinue production of Linux devices.
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The Bullet-Proof KDE Software Initiative Is Coming
KDE, Techpaladin, and Kubuntu Focus have announced a new initiative that will provide at least three years of support for KDE Plasma 6.6 LTS and related software.
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Linux Mint Shares a Possible Kernel Cleanup Solution
For those on Linux Mint who like to keep multiple kernels around but don't want them to take up too much space, you might be getting a new automated tool.
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CachyOS Gets an Update
CachyOS August 2026 release is now available with the latest version of KDE, some new features, and plenty of improvements.