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Last month with the launch of Intel Battlemage with the Arc B580 graphics card, there was fairly nice open-source GPU compute performance but with some outliers...

Enlightenment 0.27, released this week, brings a wealth of incremental improvements to users of this unique desktop environment.

ClamAV or Clam Anti-Virus is an open-source anti-virus and anti-malware toolkit for multiple operating systems. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install ClamAV on Debian 12 server. You'll also learn how to use 'freshclam' to update your database signatures, how to use 'clamscan' to scan files and directories on a Linux system, and also learn how to use 'clamav-daemon' for automatic scanning.

Linux distros that don't exist, but we wish did. Analysis In an overcrowded field full of distributions, there are still many empty gaps. The Register would like to point in the direction of a few.

Oracle today announced the Oracle Linux Enhanced Diagnostics (OLED) as their newest project that aims to enhance the debugability of the Linux kernel.

IT leaders and industry insiders share their open source trends and predictions for 2025.

Tinc is an open-source Virtual Private Network (VPN) adapter that provides a simple way to create a private peer-to-peer (P2P) mesh network in Linux, Windows, and macOS. Similar to OpenVPN and Wireguard, it can link together multiple computers across different network topologies into a single virtual LAN.

Microsoft can’t be happy about the Steam Deck. After all, PC gaming has long been about Windows. For decades! Yet now one of the hottest PC gaming systems is… a portable Linux PC that runs Windows games? That’s right. The Steam Deck has really taken off.

Last year an AMD engineer proposed the notion of "Attack Vector Controls" for the Linux kernel to re-think how the CPU security mitigation handling is done and making it easier for system administrators/users to toggle the mitigations they are concerned about or not.

WordPress co-founder Matthew Mullenweg on Saturday deactivated the WordPress.org accounts of five members of the WordPress community, and justified his actions by saying it will encourage them to fork the open source content management system.

Tired of the constant updates, bloat, and resource demands of Windows 11? Aren't we all? MX Linux could be the perfect solution to your woes, and thanks to its lightweight nature -- especially compared to Windows -- it could make your PC run even faster!

I haven’t wasted a single word on the ongoing WordPress drama yet, but the longer Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s CEO and thus owner of WordPress, keeps losing his mind, I can’t really ignore the matter any more. OSNews runs, after all, on WordPress – self-hosted, at least, so not on Mullenweg’s WordPress.com – and if things keep going the way they are, I simply don’t know if WordPress remains a viable, safe, and future-proof CMS for OSNews.

Enlightenment, the extremely lightweight window manager and minimal desktop, released new 0.27.0 few days ago.

In today's data-driven world, statistical analysis plays a critical role in uncovering insights, validating hypotheses, and driving decision-making across industries. R, a powerful programming language for statistical computing, has become a staple in data analysis due to its extensive library of tools and visualizations.

A change to the Linux 6.13 kernel contributed by a Microsoft engineer ended up changing Linux x86_64 code without proper authorization and in turn causing troubles for users and now set to be disabled ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable release expected next Sunday.

NonSteamLaunchers gained popularity as one of the go-to solutions for installing more stores directly on Steam Deck, and the latest release has begun to improve how it works on normal Desktop Linux too.

Watch this video tutorial to learn how to install, configure, and manage AppArmor for enhanced Linux security.

I never knew expanding wildcars in UNIX shells was once done by a separate program, but if you stop and think about the original UNIX philosophy, it kind of makes sense.

Radxa recently launched the Cubie A5E, a compact single-board computer measuring just 56 mm x 69 mm. Designed for both consumer and industrial use, it combines 4K video support, AI vision capabilities, and efficient processing in a portable form factor.

Red Hat announced the achievement of functional safety certification of mixed criticality for key subsystems within the Red Hat In-Vehicle Operating System.