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Local activists help pen letter to government requesting - in very stern language - reasons why it's been targeted. Developers of the open source VideoLAN media player have challenged India’s government to explain why the project’s web site has been blocked.…

Adaptable Linux Platform v0.01 shows that the future of SLE is containerized. As we reported back in July, the future direction of SUSE Linux Enterprise is starting to take shape, and it's containers all the way down.…

Fedora and openSUSE are removing H.264, H.265, and VC-1 VA-API video codecs support from Mesa to avoid potential license issues.

Microsoft Teams is a proprietary business communication platform. The service integrates with the company’s Office 365 subscription office productivity suite.

NVM, also called "Node Version Manager" used for installing and managing multiple Node.js versions in Linux. It provides a command line utility that helps developers to install multiple Node versions and switch between multiple versions as per their project requirements.

Want to build your first Linux app using Flutter? Check out this guide that teaches you the basics you need to know.

The Linux Foundation expresses gratitude, upfront, to only one company: Microsoft

Apache ShardingSphere, a powerful distributed database, recently released a major update to optimize and enhance its features, performance, testing, documentation, and examples. In short, the project continues to work hard at development to make it easier for you to manage your organization's data.

Matrix is a free, open-source, and web-based solution used for messaging and VoIP services. It is an open standard VOIP protocol that allows you to communicate with other users on a different service provider via voice-over-IP and chat.

The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model is a standard for how computers, servers, and people communicate within a system. It was the first standard model for network communications and was adopted in the early 1980s by all major computer and telecommunications companies. The OSI model provides a universal language for describing networks and thinking about them in discrete chunks, or layers.

Beelink announced their latest mini PC which is based on a 12th Gen i5 Core processor from Intel. The SEi12 offers up to 32GB of RAM, 500GB of SSD storage, dual 4K displays and dual fans for efficient cooling. As of now, the SEi12 mini PC only supports the following Alder Lake-U processor: i5-1235U  — […]

Say hello to NVK, a brand new, open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, written almost entirely from scratch using the new official headers from NVIDIA.

System 76’s engineers picked Iced, a Rust-based cross-platform GUI toolkit, over GTK for their in-house developed COSMIC Desktop.

Slackware has been one of my favorite GNU/Linux distributions for a very long time, especially since Version 8.0 came out, many moons back. The reason is that it embodies the "KISS" method of designing a distribution. Sadly, Slackware didn't include OpenOffice.org back then, and it doesn't include LibreOffice now. Fortunately, there is a way to install a fully-functional, latest-greatest, LibreOffice on our Slackware 15.0 computers and use it. T

Instead of being made entirely of free software, the next release of Debian Linux, Bookworm, will include proprietary drivers and firmware.

Alexandre Oliva announced today the release and general availability of the GNU Linux-libre 6.0 kernel for those who seek 100% freedom for their GNU/Linux computers.

Red Hat ups its security and developer game in its RHEL 8.7 and 9.1 betas.

Vote result good news for new users, but might be bad for remixes The next major release of Debian will ship installation images that are not 100 percent free open source software.…

MERGE means more code can be copied from earlier installation, because let's be real – that's how it's happening. PostgreSQL, the popular open source relational database, is getting support for MERGE statements, a move which is intended to make migration from SQL Server and Oracle-based systems easier.…

The 105th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on October 2nd, 2022, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.