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Nowadays, if you value your privacy, then using a VPN is a must if you want to prevent Big Tech, governments, and ISPs from snooping about in your business. Those organizations have an insatiable need for user data, and they won't be stopping anytime soon.

Mature, stable – and can rescue rescue corrupt files. The second LibreOffice release of 2024 is here, with additional spreadsheet functions, improved presentation layouts, better searching, and more.

CrowdSupply recently announced the FlippyDrive campaign, described as an open-source optical disc drive emulator for the GameCube console designed to install without soldering. This product allows users to maintain their physical disc drive functionality while offering additional options for running backups and homebrew software.

In this tutorial, we will explain how to configure the Rsyslog server on an Ubuntu 24.04 server. Rsyslog is a powerful and secure system for log processing. The Rsyslog server receives logs over the network from several physical or virtualized servers and monitors the health of different services.

While Bcachefs and Btrfs capture much of the Linux file-system spotlight these days when it comes to exciting developments, there is no shortage of alternative open-source file-systems. One that's been around for a long time but not seeing as much adoption or major feature developments but still worthy of a shout-out is the log-structured NILFS2 file-system.

Repeat after me: Open source is not a business model. It is a programming model. Still businesses keep trying to make it one, and far more often than not, they fail.

It looks as though the long-awaited GIMP 3.0 release may be soon upon us, with the GNU Project announcing a string freeze for the latest developer preview build. Between overhauled colour management tools, a refined UI, and, finally, a simple stroke selection tool, GIMP 3.0 is looking to be a big release for the free, open-source Photoshop alternative.

WonderCMS is a lightweight, open-source content management system (CMS) designed for simplicity and ease of use. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install WonderCMS on a Debian 12 server with Apache web server and PHP 8.x.

Valve have begun the next round of testing for a new main version of Proton, the compatibility layer to run Windows games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux. Announced on the same day as Proton's 6th anniversary!

Google Chrome 128, released on Wednesday, does not function without intervention on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS "Bionic Beaver," and Google initially had no plans to fix it. But following community complaints and The Register's inquiry about the situation, Google says there's been a change of plan.

In the ever-evolving world of data science, data visualization has emerged as a crucial tool for transforming raw data into actionable insights. As we navigate through 2024, the landscape of data visualization continues to shift, driven by advancements in technology and changes in user expectations.

With the exception of critical security issues/bugs, Canonical will be skipping over shipping stable release updates for the Linux kernel in Ubuntu until early October.

DeskPi RackMate T1 is a U8 desktop rack especially suited to SBC users with support for Raspberry Pi SBCs, NVIDIA Jetson developer kits, Raxa ROCK 5B pico-ITX SBC, mini-ITX motherboards, and more.

As if Linux users weren't disappointed enough with Microsoft Windows...

Google has rolled out security fixes to address a high-severity security flaw in its Chrome browser that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild.

Milk-V has released preliminary specifications for the RuyiBook, a compact laptop built around the ‘XiangShan Nanhu’ CPU. The RuyiBook includes features such as dual 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet ports and an AMD RX 550 GPU for graphics.

As part of Intel's Scalable Video Technology (SVT) initiative they had been developing SVT-HEVC as a BSD-licensed high performance H.265/HEVC video encoder optimized for Xeon Scalable and Xeon D processors.

LXer Feature: 23-Aug-2024

Hi there it’s me Scott, in my previous article I wrote about How I Turned My Chromebook Into A Mintbook and all the fun entailed in doing it. Well, its been two months and a few friends and others have asked me, “So how’s it going with your Mintbook”? Or “My Mintbox” as my friend Donny kids me.

At long last, we bring you the final development version before GIMP 3! While the release of 2.99.18 is a bit behind our intended schedule, there are a number of new features and improvements that we’re very excited to share with you.

Mozilla is excited about today’s new definition of open source AI, and we endorse it as an important step forward. This past year has been marked by more and more people recognizing the societal benefits of open source AI.