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GNU Nano 9. 0 Command-Line Text Editor Improves Horizontal Scrolling
10+ hour, 34+ min ago (277+ words) GNU Nano 9. 0 command-line text editor delivers smoother side scrolling, rebindable Meta arrow keys, improved macro handling, and more. GNU Nano, the widely used terminal text editor, has reached version 9. 0, with the most visible change being a reworked horizontal scrolling behavior....
Alma Linux Gets CUDA Parity With Ubuntu, RHEL, and RLC
4+ week, 2+ day ago (262+ words) This is important for enterprises running " or planning to run " AI workloads on Nvidia GPUs, since CUDA is Nvidia's go-to accelerated computing platform and programming model. It includes optimized libraries and development tools for developing and deploying accelerated workloads for…...
Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious"
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (657+ words) The latest project to start talking about using LLMs to assist in development is experimental Linux copy-on-write file system bcachefs. Proof Of Concept (POC) is a new blog with just five posts so far. What makes it different is that…...
GNU Octave 11 Open-Source Scientific Programming Language Officially Released
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (382+ words) GNU Octave 11 has been officially announced today for this open-source, free, and cross-platform high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. This release also introduces an _Exit function makes it possible to use a fork/_Exit sequence to perform work in parallel child…...
Stop Living in the Browser: Run Your Favorite LLMs on Linux with Cherry Studio
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (789+ words) AI's a touchy subject that makes some get a bit twitchy. I won't get into the reason why some love AI while others despise it. But with tools like Cherry Studio, it's possible to shrug off some of the concerns…...
How to make a local open source AI chatbot who has access to Fedora documentation
2+ mon, 2+ day ago (772+ words) Background image by Google Gemini A powerful and popular technique to give a body of knowledge to an AI is known as RAG, Retrieval Augmented Generation. It works like this: "What color is my ball?" "Your ball is the color…...
GParted 1. 8 Open-Source Partition Editor Released with Many Enhancements
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (325+ words) GParted 1. 8 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source partition editor software, which addresses several bugs to improve support for various filesystems. Coming almost two years after GParted 1. 6, the GParted 1. 8 release is here to improve support…...
Claude credited as co-creator of programming language Elo
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (981+ words) feature Bernard Lambeau, a Belgium-based software developer and founder of several technology companies, created a programming language called Elo with the help of Anthropic's Claude Code. Starting on December 25, 2025, he published a series of posts about the project. The first…...
Arch-Based Omarchy 3. 3 Brings AI Dictation Hibernation and Hyprland Fixes
3+ mon, 19+ hour ago (404+ words) Arch-based Omarchy 3. 3 introduces local AI dictation with Voxtype, hibernation support, dynamic themes, and more. Omarchy, a preconfigured Arch Linux setup packaged as a distro that ships with a Hyprland tiling window manager and a curated set of defaults and developer…...
Creating Data Analysis Pipelines using Duck DB and RStudio
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (846+ words) The core motivation behind data analysis pipelines, and the focus of this article, is the need to establish a clear path from unprocessed data to actionable insights for contributor engagement and impact. The key question is "what are we trying…...