Canonical expands Ubuntu Pro to minimal cloud images available on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.

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In my previous article in this series I looked at a specific BIOS option that lets you set the AMD Configurable TDP (cTDP). There are a lot more options available in the BIOS. Before exploring them, let’s first recap what the term BIOS means.

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Ubuntu derives from the South African philosophy of “humanity to others”. With the hope that the Ubuntu operating system would connect people across the globe. Today, Ubuntu is a popular operating system due to its ease of installation and use. This is true for both desktops and servers. In a Linux environment, there is a default user named root. This has the highest level of authority on the system. Therefore, when you install Ubuntu desktop, your access is restricted since you are not utilizing root as the default user. The word root also has several additional meanings when combined with other terms. This is one of the sources of confusion for people new to using GNU/Linux-based operating systems. In this article, we will show you how to add user to sudoers in Ubuntu 24.04.

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Firefox 148 promises improved support for screen readers accessing mathematical formulas embedded in PDF documents, support for viewer local weather on the New Tab page, and a new “Suggestions from Firefox” option in Search > Address bar settings to get suggestions from the Web related to your search.

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KDE Plasma 6.5.5 is now available as the January 2026 bugfix release, delivering fixes across Wayland, KWin, Discover, and core desktop components.

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NVIDIA 580.126.09 is a small update in the NVIDIA 580 series, improving compatibility with recent Linux kernels, adding support for FP16 DRM formats by updating libnvidia-egl-gbm, and fixing a bug that prevented certain display modes that require YUV 4:2:0 subsampling from working.

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Relational databases continued to dominate enterprise and cloud workloads in 2025, according to DB-Engines’ popularity trends.

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Coming a year after Wine 10, the Wine 11 release introduces support for the NTSync driver for fast synchronization, Vulkan H.264 decoding, clipboard support in the Wayland driver, initial Vulkan video decoder support in WineD3D, and support for larger page sizes on ARM64 (AArch64).

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KDE Plasma 6.6 is packed with lots of goodies, including a new “Plasma Login Manager” display manager, OCR support in Spectacle, the ability to adjust the visual “sharpness” of all content on the screen on distros running Linux kernel 6.19, support for XRandr emulation in KWin, and support for per-DRM-plane color pipelines.

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According to our writer, three small, easy-to-miss plugins were all it took for Joplin to live up to its Evernote-killer reputation.

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