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Oracle Linux 8.7, released less than two weeks following RHEL 8.7, is now available for download and upgrading for users of previous versions of the 8.x series. The new release includes numerous updates for software developers and security and system tool improvements.

Valve released today Proton 7.0-5 as the fifth maintenance update in the latest Proton 7.0 series of this open-source compatibility tool for Steam Play based on Wine and additional components to let you play Windows games on GNU/Linux systems.

For several years, I worked in the TV online and video-on-demand (VOD) industry. While working on a scheduler web application, I realized that there were no good solutions for electronic program guides (EPG) and scheduling. Admittedly, this is a niche feature for most web developers, but it's a common requirement for TV applications. I've seen and analyzed a number of websites that have implemented their own EPG or timeline, and I often wondered why everyone seemed to be inventing their own solutions instead of working on a shared solution everyone could use. And that's when I started developing Planby.

Not a month had passed since I wrote about the first version of the TUXEDO OS until the company announced the availability of the TUXEDO OS 2 preview version, which comes with several updates. So what are these updates? And what will we get in the final version?

Mastodon is a free, decentralized, and open-source social network. It was created as an alternative to Twitter. Just like Twitter people can follow each other, and post messages, images, and videos. This tutorial will teach you how to set up your instance of Mastodon on a server with Rocky Linux 9 using Docker.

Earlier this month, Digi International launched the compact Digi XBee RR embedded platform which supports Zigbee 3.0, 802.15.4, DigiMesh and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). The company is also offering the Digi IX15 IoT gateway/router to simplify IoT management.  There are two variants of this new IoT module, they are the Digi XBee RR and the […]

EFLOW makes the open source OS a full partner of Windows at the far reaches of the cloud. Microsoft is rolling out the latest iteration of a tool that lets anyone using a Windows IoT device in Azure to also run containerized Linux workloads.…

Natanael Copa announced today the release and general availability of Alpine Linux 3.17 as the latest stable release of this security-focused Linux distribution based on musl, BusyBox, and OpenRC.

Focused on security, Tails 5.7 comes with an updated Tor browser and Metadata Cleaner, a tool to view and clean metadata in files.

Privacy-focused and Debian-based Tails 5.7 amnesic live system is now available for download with various enhancements, new tools, updated components, and bug fixes.

Remember that one time the Linux kernel couldn't cope for a moment? That sort of thing should be behind us now. The Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM) has made a decision, and declared that the world can do without leap seconds.…

NVIDIA released today NVIDIA 515.86.01 as a new version of its graphics driver for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems in the production branch.

Based on a quad-core Cortex-A55 RK3568 chip, the LinkStar H68K is a portable pocket WiFi router that can also function as a media player.

VideoLAN’s popular VLC Media Player software has been updated to version 3.0.18, a maintenance and feature release in the 3.0 series of the application that brings various enhancements and bug fixes.

A collection of 20+ Linux-related deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Why call C functions from Rust? The short answer is software libraries. A longer answer touches on where C stands among programming languages in general and towards Rust in particular...

Apple VoiceOver is a screen-reader that tells you exactly what’s happening on your device. VoiceOver is proprietary software and not available for Linux. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

Have you ever found a bug in code and needed to know when it was first introduced? Chances are, whoever committed the bug didn't declare it in their Git commit message. In some cases, it might have been present for weeks, months, or even years, meaning you would need to search through hundreds or thousands of commits to find when the problem was introduced. This is the problem that git bisect was built to solve!

We are excited to announce the first public preview image of the new Anaconda web interface!  Our vision is to reimagine and modernize our installer’s user experience (see our blog post “Anaconda is getting a new suit”). We are doing this by redesigning the user experience on all fronts to make it more easy and […]

In this tutorial, we are going to learn about Linux Volume Management. We will see what is LVM in Linux, advantages of LVM, how to create Volume group and Logical volumes in Linux with examples.