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Linux Kernel 6.19 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 7.0

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Mozilla Thunderbird 150 Brings Support for Generating Unobtrusive Signatures

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Framework Announces Framework Laptop 13 Pro with Touchscreen Display

Framework Laptop 13 Pro features a 13.5-inch 2.8K touchscreen matte anti-glare display with a 3:2 aspect ratio, 2880×1920 pixels resolution, 700nits brightness, 1800:1 contrast, 100% sRGB color gamut, per-panel color calibration, and up to 120Hz refresh rate, Dolby Atmos audio, and Ubuntu Linux pre-loaded in a partnership with Ubuntu maker Canonical.

Colorado Age Attestation Bill May Exclude Open Source OSes and Apps

As you may know, several US states are discussing a Digital Age Assurance Act law that mandates that operating system providers and application developers implement age verification measures to protect minors online, which may require users to input their birth date during the initial setup.

VirtualBox 7.2.8 Released with Support for Linux 7.0, Guest Time Accounting

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Archinstall 4.3 Arch Linux Installer Adds Support for Installing Additional Fonts

Coming only a few days after Archinstall 4.2, the Archinstall 4.3 release introduces a new “Additional fonts” section in the Applications menu that lets you search for and select additional fonts for your new Arch Linux systems (see it in action in the screenshot above).

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Climate and Environmental Sustainability Within the IETF and IRTF

As we celebrate Earth Day 2026, what is the technical community—the people who actually build and operate the Internet—doing about climate and environmental sustainability?

VirtualBox 7.0.8 Adds Initial Support for Linux Kernel 6.3, Many Improvements

posted by Marius Nestor on Apr 18, 2023

Coming three months after VirtualBox 7.0.6, the VirtualBox 7.0.8 release is here to introduce initial support for the upcoming Linux 6.3 kernel series, due out next week on April 23rd, as well as improved support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 kernels.

In fact, this new VirtualBox release brings many Linux goodies, such as the ability to bypass kernel modules signature verification by specifying the VBOX_BYPASS_MODULES_SIGNATURE_CHECK="1" parameter in /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg for Linux hosts or in /etc/virtualbox-guest-additions.conf for Linux guests.

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