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ICOP announced that its x86 based Vortex86 SoC is automatically detected by Linux 5.16, thereby enabling new non-legacy applications. The company recently launched a 3.5-inch “VDX3-6726” SBC and “VDX3-ETX” module based on the up to dual-core, 1GHz Vortex86DX3.

Jordan Petridis of the GNOME Release Team announced today the general availability of GNOME 41.5 as the fifth update to the latest stable GNOME 41 series of the popular desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions.

A software bill of materials (SBOM) is a way of summarizing key facts about the software on a system. At the heart of it, it describes the set of software components and the dependency relationships between these components that are connected together to make up a system.

Banana Pi has posted specs for a “BPI-R3” router board that runs Linux on a quad -A53 Mediatek MT7986 and offers dual 4×4 WiFi 6 radios plus 2x 2.5GbE SFP, 4x GbE, WAN, USB 3.0, mini-PCIe, and M.2 M-key. Banana Pi has been ramping up its router board product line over the last year and […]

Firefox is about to let you in on a little known industry secret…did you know some of the leading visual effects studios including Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), utilize Firefox to help make movie magic?  Color calibration — the process of adjusting colors in order to display images consistently in color and brightness across monitors […]

Bigger changes are afoot in the next release, too. A significant rewrite of the Linux kernel's random-number generator is underway, making Linux-based cryptography more secure – especially when running in VMs.…

A programmer behind the popular open-source npm program node-ipc poisoned it with malware that erased the hard drives of computers located in Russia or Belarus.

Asahi Linux – the most prominent effort to create a Linux distribution for Apple's M1 silicon – has loosed what project lead Hector Martin has described as "a very early alpha release."

A quick overview is often all I need to determine what is going on with my Linux system. But there is so much more to the top command than meets the eye.

The seventy-seven installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on March 20th, 2022, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

In typical LibrePlanet fashion, even though forced online for the third year in a row by the pandemic, it remained true to its commitment to software freedom by streaming the event using only free and open source software.

Mabox Linux is a Manjaro Linux re-spin with a lightweight Openbox window manager, ready to use with pre-configured themes and utilities. We review the distribution in this post.

Applying mathematical concepts to FOSS deployments provides new and interesting ways of understanding the interrelated nature of open source software.

Good news for Ubuntu users as they can now install the latest and greatest Linux 5.17 kernel series on their distributions, or a derivative system. Here’s how!

The Snap package manager is a modern package manager in Linux that allows you to install Snap packages across a wide range of Linux distributions and versions. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install and use Snap Package Manager on Alma Linux 8.

Wireshark is a free and open-source packet analyzer. It allows the user to examine data from a live network, or from a capture file on disk. Wireshark can be used as a simple network troubleshooting tool, as well as for security analysis and software development.

Linux Kernel 5.17 is released with better hardware support and core module improvements. Here's a quick summary of the new features with download and installation details.

Google Keep is a note-taking service included as part of the free, web-based Google Docs Editors suite offered by Google. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

Chances are your code looks like crap, is hard to read, and hard to understand. There… I’ve said it. Sorry if that sounded harsh, but it’s the painful truth. Writing readable code is difficult. I’ve seen too much code in my career that was written so badly that I had to throw it away and redo the entire project. And the most painful fact is that this code was not written by beginners either! Writing nice, readable code takes time and effort, sure. But it’s also a matter of learning the right habits. With a few simple tools and some tweaks to your coding style, you can improve your code quality ten-fold without much effort.

Mosquitto is an open-source message broker that uses the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) Protocol. The protocol is designed to provide lightweight communication to the Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In this tutorial, you will install Mosquitto and set up the broker to use SSL to protect communications.