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Review: Salvation Prophecy

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If you love a good space romp and shooty shooty lasers you owe it to yourself to try this one. First off It's best not to play the first half hour or so and judge the game right away. Yes, it's an indie game (made by pretty much one man, no less) and the graphics and animations won't impress anyone…

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KDE Plasma 6.2.2 Released with Bugfixes for KWin, Audio Volume, and More

KDE Plasma 6.2.2 desktop environment rolls out with new translations and fixes, including updates to KWin, Plasma Audio, and Workspace.

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KDE Plasma 6.2.2 Is Out Now to Improve Compatibility with Specific Hardware

KDE Plasma 6.2.2 is here only a week after KDE Plasma 6.2.1 to fix a regression that prevented HDR (High Dynamic Range) from working properly in video games that needed certain brightness levels, like a billion nits of brightness, a regression that could cause the cursor to misbehave in certain video games, and an issue […]

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Setting Up OpenLDAP and phpLDAPadmin in Ubuntu

OpenLDAP is an open-source implementation of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), which provides a way to manage and access directory information, making it particularly useful for authentication and centralized data storage. phpLDAPadmin is a web-based graphical user interface for managing OpenLDAP servers, which simplifies the administration of LDAP directories by providing an easy-to-use interface […]

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Red Hat reveals major enhancements to Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI

Only weeks after Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI, the company rolled out the next version: RHEL AI 1.2.

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How to Optimize Your Application Performance for Speed and Efficiency

How well your app works is crucial for its success and keeping users happy. If your app is slow or hard to use, people might get upset and leave, costing you money. This blog will give you easy tips to make your app faster and simpler to use so it meets users’ needs and works […]

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Aranya: Open-Source Toolkit to Accelerate Secure by Design Concepts

SpiderOak launched its core technology platform as an open-source project called Aranya. This release provides the same level of security as the company’s platform, which is already in use by the Department of Defense.

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Rsnapshot: A Powerful Backup Tool Based on Rsync

Rsnapshot is an open-source local/remote filesystem backup utility written in Perl, which leverages the power of Rsync and SSH to create scheduled incremental backups of Linux/Unix filesystems. Rsnapshot only takes up the space of a single full backup plus the differences, allowing you to store backups on a local drive, external USB stick, NFS-mounted drive, […]

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Snap in Linux: Features, History, Controversies, and Installation Guide

Learn the history and controversy surrounding Snap and how to install it on your preferred Linux system with practical examples of its usage.

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How to Install Discord on Ubuntu and Other Linux Distros

Discover a step-by-step guide to install the latest version of Discord on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions with practical examples.

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‘All Things Open’ Revives the OpenSource.com Community Abandoned by Red Hat

The All Things Open organization is picking up the baton abandoned by Red Hat when it quit publishing OpenSource.com.

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