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9 habits of the highly ineffective vibe coder
Is vibe coding really as easy as they say? Consider the butler, the meat-space equivalent of an AI. There are schools that specialize in teaching new butlers skills like how to serve breakfast or make a perfect martini. But did you know these same sch...
2025-08-04 09:00
Erasing the trust gap in AI-driven development
Software developers have never been more productive—or more anxious. The rise of AI coding assistants and generative models has fundamentally changed how software gets built, but there’s a catch. According to Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Surv...
2025-08-04 09:00
Bridging the trust gap in AI-driven development
Software developers have never been more productive—or more anxious. The rise of generative AI models and AI coding assistants has fundamentally changed how software gets built, but there’s a catch. According to Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer S...
2025-08-04 09:00
AppArmor For Linux 6.17 Set To Introduce AF_UNIX Mediation, Other Improvements
Canonical engineer John Johansen sent out the AppArmor pull request today for the Linux 6.17 merge window that is heavy on changes for this Linux kernel security module...
2025-08-04 08:45
Fedora for Architects: Open Source Tools for Architectural Design
Why Fedora for Architects Architects depend on digital tools for every stage of design, from sketching to modelling and documentation. But many popular tools are expensive, closed-source, or limited to specific platforms. Fedora offers a fast, stable, ...
2025-08-04 08:00
Google Preparing To Ship Chrome With "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" For Wayland
Google Chrome/Chromium is preparing to ship with "--ozone-platform-hint=auto" functionality by default so the web browser will play nicer out-of-the-box with Wayland...
2025-08-04 06:44
Linux 6.17 Making Kdump Crash Kernel More Reliable, Less Wasted Memory
In addition to the many MM changes merged this weekend for Linux 6.17, Andrew Morton on Sunday also sent out his "non-MM" pull request for this new kernel. Notable there is improving the Kdump code to allow for crash kernel reservation made from the co...
2025-08-04 06:30
GNOME Shell 49 Beta Brings Restart/Shutdown Support To The Lock Screen
Along with the release of the Mutter 49 beta, GNOME Shell 49 beta was released on Sunday in preparation for the imminent GNOME 49 beta release. Notable here is long sought after support for having the ability to restart or shutdown the computer from GN...
2025-08-04 06:15
NetBSD 11.0 Preparing For Release With Improved Linux Emulation, Better RISC-V Support
NetBSD 11.0 release preparations have begun. The NetBSD developers are hoping to officially release NetBSD 11.0 in October and for that to happen the release candidate would be out in September and daily beta builds can already be tested...
2025-08-04 05:54
Newelle, a ‘Virtual Assistant’ for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0
For most Ubuntu users, interacting with an AI chatbot means opening your web browser or (increasingly, your IDE). Newelle, a GTK4/libadwaita app, offers a different approach — and it just hit version 1.0. Newelle bills itself as a “virtual assistan...
2025-08-03 22:59
Newelle, an AI ‘Assistant’ for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0
Newelle is a desktop AI assistant for Linux, providing a native GTK front-end to cloud and local LLMs. It features voice chat, long-term memory and extensions. You're reading Newelle, an AI ‘Assistant’ for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0, a blog post from ...
2025-08-03 22:59
Newelle, an AI “Assistant” for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0
Newelle is a desktop AI assistant for Linux, providing a native GTK front-end to cloud and local LLMs. It features voice chat, long-term memory and extensions. You're reading Newelle, an AI “Assistant” for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0, a blog post from ...
2025-08-03 22:59
Newelle, AI “Assistant” for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0
Newelle is a desktop AI assistant for Linux, providing a native GTK front-end to cloud and local LLMs. It features voice chat, long-term memory and extensions. You're reading Newelle, AI “Assistant” for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0, a blog post from OMG...
2025-08-03 22:59
KDE Finally Gains Automatic Day/Night Theme Switching
KDE Plasma 6.5 will finally include automatic day/night theme switching, to change light/dark Global Themes based on the time of the day. You're reading KDE Finally Gains Automatic Day/Night Theme Switching, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reprodu...
2025-08-03 18:06
KDE Plasma Adding Auto Day/Night Theme Switching
KDE Plasma 6.5 will finally include automatic day/night theme switching, to change light/dark Global Themes based on the time of the day. You're reading KDE Plasma Adding Auto Day/Night Theme Switching, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce el...
2025-08-03 18:06
Orbitiny Desktop 1.0 Pilot 4 released
It’s not every day you stumble upon an X11 desktop environment you’ve never hard of, but today’s one of those days. The Orbitiny Desktop Environment is a one-person project, consisting of an entirely custom desktop environment written in Qt. Vers...
2025-08-03 15:33
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GNOME Mutter 49 Beta Released With Pointer Warp Protocol, Wayland Fixes
The GNOME 49 Mutter beta release is now available for testing ahead of the stable release of GNOME 49 coming up In September...
2025-08-03 15:30
Introduction to Qubes OS when you do not know what it is
Solène Rapenne, who writes a lot about and contributes to operating systems like OpenBSD and Qubes OS, has published a primer about what, exactly, Qubes OS is. I like to call Qubes OS a meta operating system, because it is not a Linux / BSD / Windows ...
2025-08-03 15:14
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 3rd, 2025
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for August 3rd, 2025, brings news about Audacious 4.5, GNU Linux-libre 6.16 kernel, 4MLinux 49.0, PorteuX 2.2, NetworkManager 1.54, and more. The post 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: August 3rd, 2025 appeared first on 9to5Linux ...
2025-08-03 14:21
A real PowerBook: the Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop
In October 1997 you could have bought a PowerBook 3400c running up to a 240MHz PowerPC 603e for $6500 , which was briefly billed as the world’s fastest laptop, or you could have bought this monster new to the market, the RDI PrecisionBook running up ...
2025-08-03 14:08
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