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openKylin project is latest chapter in Beijing's love-hate relationship with Redmond China’s efforts to end its reliance on Microsoft Windows got a boost with the launch of the openKylin project.…

The situation of Windows' "share" (however subjective any measure would be) is grim; despite a "new" release of Windows, as recently as several months ago, "market share" decreases fast

Fwupd is a daemon to help to manage the installation of firmware on Linux. Fwupd is configured by default to download firmware from LVFS.

The darktable team announced today the release and general availability of darktable 4.0 in celebration of the project’s 10th anniversary, a major release that brings numerous new features and enhancements.

On June 30, 2022, Debian 9 (Stretch) reached the End of Life (EOL). If you are still using it, you should immediately upgrade to a newer version. But first, let’s recall some of the highlights from this release.

The Debian LTS (Long Term Support) team announced today that Debian GNU/Linux 9 “Stretch” operating system series has now officially reached its end of life (EOL) after being supported for more than five years.

The eDM-SBC-iMX8Mm is a Single Board Computer (SBC) which comes in a small Pico-ITX form factor and it’s powered by NXP’s i.MX8M Mini System on Chip (SoC). This compact device was designed to run 24/7 to suit applications such as kiosks , digital signage displays, smart home appliances etc.

Microservices allow software developers to design highly scalable, highly fault-tolerant internet-based applications. But how do the microservices of a platform actually communicate? How do they coordinate their activities or know who to work with in the first place? Here we present the main answers to these questions, and their most important features and drawbacks. Before digging into this topic, you may want to first read the earlier pieces in this series, Microservices: Definition and Main Applications, APIs in Microservices, and Introduction to Microservices Security.

Work on the next major release of the popular GNOME desktop environment, GNOME 43, is underway and we’re getting closer to the first alpha development release with lots of new features like support for web apps in Software, a new device security info panel in Settings, and support for WebExtensions in Web.

Cloud data lake vendor Cloudera has announced the general availability of Apache Iceberg in its data platform. Developed through the Apache Software Foundation, Iceberg offers an open table format, designed for high-performance on big data workloads while supporting query engines including Spark, Trino, Flink, Presto, Hive and Impala.

For me, a good tabletop role-playing game (RPG), sometimes called a pen-and-paper RPG, is the perfect hobby for getting away from my computer. The classic editions of Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), for example, were released well before PDFs and eBooks existed, so I bring hardcover books and paper character sheets to my gaming table.

UK-based Linux hardware vendor Star Labs is teasing us with a new Linux-powered laptop called StarFighter that promises to be their first notebook shipping with a 4K display.

ONLYOFFICE Docs is an open-source office suite which comprises collaborative editors for text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and forms along with PDF viewer. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to connect the ONLYOFFICE Docs and WordPress instances using an integration plugin (connector).

Collabora has released CODE 22.05, the new Developer Edition of its web-based corporate version of LibreOffice. CODE is the Collabora Online Development Edition of Collabora Office, which we took a quick look at recently. The new version 22.05 offers a number of fresh features and performance improvements.

This tutorial explains what is Ventoy, and how to easily create multiboot USB drives using Ventoy CLI, GUI and Web UI in Linux.

Zabbix is an open-source monitoring tool for network services, network hardware, servers and applications. In this tutorial, we show you how to install Zabbix 4.4 on the Ubuntu 18.04 server. We will install Zabbix with Apache web server, PHP and MariaDB server on the current Ubuntu 18.04 server.

In this tutorial, we are going to explain how to configure the popular WordPress plugin W3 Total Cache with Redis on a WordPress website on Ubuntu 22.04 OS.

How to try and use the Firefox add-ons on the new web extension support in GNOME Web 43 (Epiphany) web browser.

One day earlier this year, I looked up a song in my Mac's music library that's been there since 2001. I received an error message, "This song is not currently available in your country or region." I thought this might be just a glitch on my iPhone, so I tried the desktop app. No go. I opened up my media drive, and there was the music file. To check if it played, I hit the spacebar, and it began to play immediately. Hrmph. I have the file, I thought. Why won't the Music app play it?

Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. For this month, we have hugely expanded our features on games. But there are also new articles in the areas of coding, audio, utilities, and documents.