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The OpenMandriva project last week released a new version: OpenMandriva LX 4.3 for x86-64 and ARM64 hardware. OpenMandriva is a continuation of the Mandriva Linux distro, but not the only one. The Register rounds up the siblings.

AWS S3 event notification helps us to receive notifications when certain events take place in an S3 Bucket. In this article, we will see how to get notified on Email when certain events take place on our S3 Bucket.

LibreOffice.org is my preferred productivity suite, and I've covered how I use it both as a graphical office suite as well as a terminal command in the past. In this article, I want to focus on how LibreOffice supports people using assistive technology.

The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is a tiny powerhouse of a computer that punches far, far above its weight and cost. The latest Raspberry Pi is suitable for running some desktop applications, let down only by its 512MB of RAM. Keep within that limitation, however, and it’s a very capable basis for projects such as handheld computers, epitomised by this excellent retro-style sub-notebook cooked up by GitHub user Penk.

You can use a TeX/LaTeX editor for a variety of documents. Not just limited to scientific research, you can also add your code, start writing a book (academic/creative), or draft articles. An interactive solution with the option for preview, and several features, should come in handy if you regularly work with LaTeX documents. Kile is one such option by KDE, available for Linux and other platforms. In fact, it is one of the best LaTeX editors available for Linux, which we decided to highlight separately.

The bug hunters at Google's Project Zero team have released their latest time-to-fix data and Linux is smashing the opposition. Between 2019 and 2021 open-source developers fixed Linux issues in an average of 25 days, compared to 83 for Microsoft and Oracle pulling last place at 109 days, albeit from a very low number of cases. Furthermore Linux is showing consistent improvement in response times, from 32 days in 2019 to just 15 last year, and that improvement is being mirrored (mostly) across the industry.

Intel’s plans for software-defined silicon (SDSi) will begin to fall into place with the next version of the Linux kernel, it has emerged. The company has remained tight-lipped about the SDSi initiative, whereby customers will pay an additional fee to activate certain features built into their processors. Although Intel has acknowledged the existence of the scheme, it has so far offered no specifics as to which capabilities can be toggled on or off and which CPUs will be compatible.

Last October, reports that AMD's Rembrandt series APUs would begin to offer USB4 support, established on the Thunderbolt 3 protocol surfaced. AMD is creating numerous Linux driver modifications to improve their devices' USB4/Thunderbolt support in light of this new utilization.

While PowerTOP was immensely helpful when the Intel open-source project started out in 2007 for reporting untuned kernel parameters and noting what's keeping the CPU from reaching its deeper sleep states, over the past decade Linux has greatly improved when it comes to power management and better behavior out-of-the-box.

As an Android user who runs Linux on their desktop, you have several options for transferring files between your Android phone and Linux computer. Using a USB cable or Bluetooth are two such methods.

The first Android 13 developer preview may have felt a bit underwhelming, but there’s a hidden gem with full virtualization possible on hardware such as the Google Pixel 6 smartphone. What that means is that it is now possible to run virtually any operating system including Windows 11, Linux distributions such as Ubuntu or Arch Linux Arm on the Google Tensor-powered phone, and do so at near-native speed.

There are plenty of web browsers available for Linux. A lot of them are based on Chromium but we also have a list of browsers that are not based on Chromium. Recently, a reader asked for a lightweight web browsers recommendation and hence I took the responsibility of doing some quick experimentation. Here’s what I found.

The latest Linux kernel 5.16 update brings scheduling and hybrid handling improvements that give Linux a significant advantage over Windows 11 in Alder Lake systems. The current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS uses the 5.15 kernel and suffers from performance regressions on Alder Lake as a result.

FriendlyElec launched a $48 “NanoPi R2C Plus” router, an case-only variant of the RK3328-based NanoPi R2C SBC that adds 8GB eMMC, among other minor changes. Meanwhile, there is now a $9 metal case for the similar Orange Pi R1 Plus LTS SBC.

If you try to pipe the output from one Linux command into another, you may run into errors where the command fails because its argument list is too long. Fortunately, there's a command on Linux systems that properly formats arguments to commands. It's called xargs and here's how to use it.

Learn how the different components of Kubernetes architecture fit together so you can be better equipped to diagnose problems, maintain a healthy cluster, and optimize your own workflow.

In a market with so many proprietary devices and one-function machines, it can be a big help to have something versatile like a Raspberry Pi on hand. No one knows that better than Gary Croft who’s using a Raspberry Pi 4 with a Raspberry Pi HQ Camera to capture impressive footage from his trinocular microscope.

TShark is designed as a CLI or command-line interface of Wireshark for capturing and analyzing packets right from the CLI. In this tutorial, we will explain to you about TShark and present you with some basic use cases. Let’s dive in with TShark.

The Linux Bash (Bourne Again Shell) is a shell and command language that is known to most Linux users, since it's the default shell in most Linux distributions. A beginner Linux user may find the Linux terminal usage a bit hard to grasp, especially because it relies heavily on using your arrow keys to move around. Additionally, constantly re-typing the commands, each with a slight variation, can be annoying.

I have used Linux for about 25 years and Unix for a few years before that. During that time, I have developed preferences for some tools that I use daily. One of the most important tools I use is the Vim editor.