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Fedora Slimbook Linux laptop now available with a choice of 14 or 16 inch displays

Last month the developers of the Fedora Linux operating system announced that they’d partnered with Spanish PC maker Slimbook to launch a notebook computer called the Fedora Slimbook that ships with Fedora pre-installed. At the time, the only option was a 16 inch model, but now there’s a new option that’s smaller and cheaper, while […]

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Fedora Slimbook 16 is a pricy but powerful laptop that ships with Fedora Linux

The Fedora Slimbook 16 is a 3.3 pound laptop with a 16 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel, 90 Hz display, an Intel Core i7-12700H processor, and NVIDIA RTX 3050 Ti discrete graphics. But what really makes it unlike most notebooks with those specs is the software: rather than Windows, the Fedora Slimbook ships with the […]

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Fedora Asahi Remix aims to bring a polished Linux experience to Macs with Apple Silicon

It used to be pretty easy to install a non-Apple operating system on Apple’s laptops and desktops. When the company was still selling Macs with Intel processors it even offered Boot Camp software that made it easy to dual-boot macOS and Windows (or other operating systems) on the same device. Since moving to Apple Silicon […]

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Lilbits: Fedora 37, Qualcomm’s next-gen chip for AR glasses, and Amazon layoffs

Qualcomm’s new solution for AR smart glasses is said to bring big performance improvements while reducing power consumption. It’s also a multi-chip solution rather than a single chip, which allows different bits of silicon to be placed in different parts of a pair of glasses. So you can expect glasses powered by the chips to […]

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Lilbits: MIPS pivots to RISC-V, Intel staggers desktop Arc graphics release, and Google releases I/O Pinball

Last year MIPS Technologies announced that it was going to stop designing MIPS processors. That might sound surprising given the company’s name, but maybe it was inevitable when looking at trends in the semiconductor industry. So MIPS pivoted to RISC-V architecture. And the company’s first chips based on that open instruction set are set to […]

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Fedora Linux 35 brings power management, audio, and other improvements

Fedora Linux 35 is now available for workstations (laptops or desktops), servers, or IoT devices. Among other things, the update brings Linux kernel 5.14 with improved hardware support, and the GNOME 41 and KDE Plasma 5.23 desktop environments. You can download the latest version of Fedora from the GetFedora website, or if you’re already running […]

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Fedora Linux 34 brings big changes to the desktop, audio, and more

The folks behind the Fedora Project have released a major update to the popular, long-running Linux distribution. Among other things, the default desktop environment for Fedora 34 is GNOME 40, which brings a new look, redesigned apps, and other improvements. Pipewire replaces PulseAudio for all audio applications. And the Btrfs file system now supports transparent compression, […]