Having run of fingers and toes, Linus Torvalds adds that the next version of Linux will be 7.0.

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Imagine that Patrick Swayze is writing an SDK. He’s haunted by memories of ripping out a man’s throat for a nil pointer deference. To recoop, he sits down in his home office and begins writing a function to issue a new HTTP request to the API, applying authentication and common headers. Before he even writes the NewRequest logic, he introduces the Roadhouse pattern. The idea is that he wants to fail fast before any work begins, return specific sentinel errors so he knows where it all went wrong, and declare invariants where the guard clauses ARE the documentation for what to accept. Take a look at this function:

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After being in development for more than a year, the MythTV 36.0 release introduces support for the latest and greatest FFmpeg 8 open-source multimedia framework, which introduces major advancements in hardware acceleration and codec support for next-generation video management.

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CIQ brings NIST‑approved post‑quantum crypto into Rocky Linux, turning quantum risk into a practical planning issue for sysadmins and regulated Linux shops.

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NoctaVox recently caught my attention. It’s billed as a lightweight, plug and play TUI music player for local music.

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In this guide, you’ll learn five practical commands for discovering quick information about any binary command: its purpose, location, and type.

Linux systems come with thousands of commands and programs installed by default, but when you encounter an unfamiliar command in a tutorial, script, or colleague’s workflow, knowing how to quickly identify what it does and where it lives on your system becomes essential.

Understanding these basics helps you master Linux commands faster and makes you more confident when deciding which tools to use for specific tasks, whether working from the command line or writing scripts.

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Ntfy 2.17, a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service, adds priority field templating, UI enhancements, and stability improvements.

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Go 1.26 now lets you use expression-based initialization with new(expr) and includes updates to the runtime and developer tools.

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Fix the “Cannot connect to Docker daemon” error with simple checks, context fixes, and permission updates to get Docker running smoothly.

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Redis 8.6 in-memory data store is out with performance and latency improvements, alongside reduced memory usage across core data structures.

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Firefox has always had a special place in the Linux ecosystem. It’s open-source, deeply integrated into many distributions, and often the default browser for privacy-conscious users. However, installing the right Firefox version — official, up to date, and without breaking system stability — isn’t always as straightforward as it seems, especially on RPM-based distributions.

In this guide, I’ll walk you through all modern, recommended ways to install Firefox on Fedora, openSUSE, Rocky Linux, and AlmaLinux. This is a skyscraper-style article, meaning it goes deeper than most tutorials, explains the trade-offs, and helps you choose the best method for your setup.

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For years, gaming and Linux were seen as two parallel worlds that rarely met. That perception has changed dramatically, and not just because of Proton, Steam Deck, or better GPU drivers. Even browsers are starting to adapt to gamers’ needs. Opera GX is probably the most visible example of this trend.

What makes Opera GX especially interesting right now is that it’s no longer ignoring Linux. A native Linux version has been confirmed and is actively being worked on, which instantly puts it on the radar for Linux gamers, streamers, and power users. In this article, I’ll break down what Opera GX is, how it differs from regular Opera, why its Linux support matters, and whether there are any real alternatives in the “gaming browser” space.

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Based on the recently released Linux 6.19 kernel series, the GNU Linux-libre 6.19 kernel is here to clean up newly-added firmware loading support in SDCA sound, clean up multiple new dts files, and remove the cleaning up of the STM C8SECTPFE DVB driver, which was removed upstream.

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GNU Binutils 2.46 adds support for AMD Zen 6 processors and Arm v9.7, expanding toolchain readiness for upcoming CPU architectures.

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The software featured in this roundup helps developers create TUI programs. There is a diverse range of programs included, mostly best described as frameworks. Haskell is a powerful, purely functional programming language known for its strong type system, lazy evaluation, and mathematical elegance, enabling developers to write concise, robust, and highly reliable code for complex systems in finance, big data, and academia.

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In this article, you will learn how to use the Linux column command to format text into tables, handle CSV files, and generate clean, structured output, with 15+ practical examples for data formatting.

Working with CSV files or unstructured data often requires converting messy output into readable tabular format.

The column command is a simple but powerful utility that transforms raw data into properly formatted columns and tables, making data verification and analysis significantly easier.

The column command is part of the util-linux package and formats input into columns based on your source file structure.

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The pearOS 26.2 release doubles down on the liquid gel design to offer users a fluid, cohesive look and feel along with redesigned dock and launchpad, an “arc” effect to the Downloads folder, smoother animations, cleaner feedback, and a more consistent feel across the system.

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Kdenlive 25.12.2 open-source video editor, is now available with new stability fixes, better monitor performance, and workflow improvements.

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If you’ve been using Linux seriously for any amount of time, you’ve already interacted with systemd, whether you wanted to or not. From booting your system, starting services, managing logs, or controlling background processes, systemd sits at the very core of most modern Linux distributions.

As an advanced Linux user, you probably rely on tools like locate to instantly find files across your system or use bat as a smarter replacement for cat when inspecting configuration files and logs. systemd fits naturally into this workflow: once you know where things are and how to read them efficiently, systemd gives you full control over when and how everything runs.

As an advanced Linux user or sysadmin, understanding systemd is not optional anymore — it’s a productivity multiplier. Once it clicks, troubleshooting becomes faster, automation cleaner, and systems far more predictable.

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If you’ve spent any time in a Linux or Ubuntu terminal, you’ve already met mkdir. It’s usually one of the first commands people learn, right after ls and cd. Most tutorials stop at “mkdir folder_name” and move on — but mkdir can do a lot more.

In this article, I want to go deeper and show you how to use mkdir like a pro. This is a practical, hands-on guide, written from daily Linux usage, not just theory. We’ll start with the basics and then move into advanced usage, including permissions, modes, regex-style expansions, and building entire directory trees with a single command.

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