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Learn how to use Bash aliases to shorten commands, reduce errors, speed up tasks, and improve your productivity in the Terminal.

KDE Plasma 6.6 is now available to download, adding text extraction to screenshots, per-app volume control in the taskbar and the ability to create your ...

Like any other AI company, Microsoft is ravenous for training data, and has leveraged its ownership of GitHub (which it acquired in 2018, not without controversy) to feed that hunger, training its ...

Creating your own programs might seem daunting. It’s a lot easier than you think.

Linux might be the better choice after all.

Developed without accreditation from Sid Meir, the game struggled for legitimacy, taking on a hulking scope and, crucially ...

PostmarketOS is a Linux distribution specifically designed for those who wish to repurpose old smartphones as general-use computers, to a degree. This can be a great way to reuse old hardware.

Ripple effect: Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux and Git, has quietly joined the ranks of developers using generative AI to write code – though only as part of a small personal project. His recent ...

Linus Torvalds, best known globally as the creator of the Linux kernel and Git, has acknowledged using Google Antigravity, in the development of parts of his new GitHub project, AudioNoise. The ...

There seems to be no stopping vibe coding, and some of the world’s most celebrated coders are getting on board. Linus Torvalds, the legendary creator of Linux and Git, has openly embraced AI-assisted ...