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May be about to join systemd as the new tech for graybeards to scorn... but adopt anyway It has taken about 15 years to get there, but there is mounting evidence that the Wayland display server may soon topple X11 as the most common way to get a GUI on Linux.…

StatCounter says it does, but a closer look reveals old-school Linux desktops are still stuck at a lower number. If you take a broader view, however, Linux is the most popular end-user operating system of all.

BeagleBoard.org launched today the open-source BeagleV-Ahead. This new open-source RISC-V Single Board Computer is powered by the Alibaba T-head System-on-Chip which combines a quad-core RISC-V CPU, 4 TOPS NPU and 50 GFLOPS Imagination BXM-4 GPU. As previously mentioned, the BeagleV-Ahead accommodates the Alibaba-T-Head TH1520 SoC with the following features: TH1520 — quad-core 64-bit RISC-V 64GCV […]

TYPO3 is a free and open-source Enterprise-grade content management system. In this guide, I'll show you how to install TYPO3 CMS on an AlmaLinux 9 step-by-step. We will install TYPO3 CMS with the Nginx web server, MariaDB database server, and PHP-FPM.

LibreNMS is a monitoring tool that supports auto-discovery with multiple protocols, including SNMP, ARP, OSPF, and BGP. In this guide, I will show you how to install LibreNMS Monitoring Tool on your AlmaLinux 9 server. I will run LibreNMS with PHP-FPM, Nginx web server, and the MariaDB database.

Now, it's Oracle's turn to jump into the Red Hat open-source Linux code kerfuffle.

Big Blue is just a gold digger, says avid auditor of software licenses. Oracle claims IBM is trying to kill open source competition among Linux distributions to boost its bottom line, and has pledged to keep distributing Oracle Linux source code for free.…

In our previous article we have demonstrated a working prototype of Host Identity Based Virtual Private Service or HIP-VPLS. Back then we used the Mininet framework. Here we are going to demonstrate how to deploy this system on a real hardware. We are going to use NanoPi R2S as the platform for HIP-VPLS.

First came AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux. Then Oracle. Now SUSE is coming after Red Hat for changing the rules on RHEL source code. What's next? Microsoft RHEL!?

Expect this saga to stretch out a bit over northern summer Linux kernel overseer Linus Torvalds has delivered the first release candidate for version 6.5 of the kernel, but warned this release may not go smoothly.…

Presumably Red Hat feels it hasn't alienated enough people recently. The Fedora Project is considering a proposal to introduce some limited usage telemetry in a future release. Predictably, quite a few users are not delighted with this development.…

The CBx3 and CBx3-7 are two compact devices based on a Celeron processor from the 7000 Series and an i7-1355U 13th Gen processor respectively. These compact devices offer an array of features including Gigabit ethernet, Wi-Fi6E/BT5.3, dual HDMI ports, etc. As mentioned above, the CBx3 Chromebox is equipped with a Celeron P7305 processor while the […]

Sipeed recently launched new variants of the Lichee Pi 4A with more RAM and eMMC storage. This RISC-V based SBC comes with 2x Gigabit Ethernet ports, 4K display output and support for wireless networking. At the heart of the Lichee Pi 4A is the TH1520 System-on-Chip, built on a 12nm process and featuring the RISC-V […]

The MicroGEA STM32MP13 is a small embedded product based on one of the latest STM32 processors designed for wearables and low-powered consumer applications. Additionally, the device is industrial qualified and supports Linux operating systems. According to the product brief, the MicroGEA STM32MP13 integrates the following microcontroller: STM32MP135 — 32-bit Arm Cortex-A7 (Up to 1.0GHz); L1 […]

Ubuntu vendor takes its toys… back into the crib? Canonical's LXD tool, previously maintained in public under the auspices of the Canonical-sponsored Linux Containers project, is being taken in-house.…

OpenEMR is an open-source electronic health record and medical practice management tool. It is Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) certified. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install OpenEMR software on a server running Ubuntu 22.04.

The latest version of the Linux kernel is ready for brave users to give it a try.

It's certainly not the country's 'first homegrown open source desktop operating system'. Version 1.0 of the openKylin Linux distro for the domestic Chinese market is here – and it works pretty well in English, too.…

Graylog is a free and open-source log-management platform for capturing, storing, and enabling real-time analysis of your data and logs. In this guide, we'll go over the installation of Graylog as a Centralized Log Management System on AlmaLinux 9 server.

Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a desktop sharing protocol allowing you to remotely control a computer using VNC client software. VNC is working on GUI (Graphical User Interface) environments. It transmits movements of your mouse and keyboard input over the network using the Remote Frame Buffer (RFB) protocol.