The FOSS Force News Wire pulls mostly FOSS related news stories from a variety of sources and is updated every 30 minutes. The News Wire is also available as an RSS feed at http://fossforce.com/newswire.
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FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC Running Linux: Introduction
This is a multi-part blog looking at a FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC running Linux... Read more
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Palmsy is a device-only “social network” to satisfy your posting itch
When you sign up to a new social network, you have zero friend, zero follower, zero like. But as you start posting content, you might get more and more likes and comments. That could lead to new followers. And that dopamine boost will encourage you to post even more. A... Read more
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Canonical to manually approve new Snap package names
Part of the problem is that these apps look legitimate to casual inspection... Read more
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Ubuntu Team-Kodi PPA Officially Retired
The Linux world is shifting slowly to packaged deployments and containers... Read more
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Get 'Refactoring in Java' (worth $36.99) for FREE
Refactoring in Java serves as an indispensable guide to enhancing your codebase’s quality and maintainability. The book begins by helping you get to grips with refactoring fundamentals, including cultivating good coding habits and identifying red flags. You’ll explore testing methodologies, essential refactoring techniques, and metaprogramming, as well as designing a... Read more
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GNOME's Mutter Lands DRM Sync Obj v1 Support For Explicit Sync On Wayland
Merged on Thursday to GNOME's Mutter compositor is support for the linux-drm-syncobj-v1 Wayland protocol that is used to handle the global migration to explicit synchronization...... Read more
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Winlator 6 lets you play Windows PC games on your Android phone for free – gains external mouse support and a magnifier
If you want to play Android games on your PC, you can use third-party emulators such as Bluestacks or NoxPlayer. Winlator, which has just been updated to version 6, lets you do the opposite and play Windows games on your Android phone. The latest release is a major update and... Read more
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Intel Releases Its March 2024 Open-Source Linux GPU Compute Stack Update
Intel is ending out the month and quarter with the latest update to its open-source Compute Runtime and Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) code that enables OpenCL and Level Zero support on Linux systems and is also used by their Windows driver too...... Read more
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How to Install LibreNMS Monitoring Tool on Ubuntu 22.04
LibreNMS is a free and open-source monitoring tool written in PHP/MySQL/SNMP. This guide will teach you how to install and configure the LibreNMS monitoring tool on the latest Ubuntu 22.04 server. This tutorial will cover some additional configurations of the LEMP Stack for the LibreNMS installation.... Read more
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Updated Windows NT Sync Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel
CodeWeavers' Elizabeth Figura has been working on the NTSYNC driver to implement Windows NT synchronization primitives for the Linux kernel in order to help the performance of various Windows games running on Linux by the likes of Wine / Valve's Proton (Steam Play). The third iteration of that driver was... Read more