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An update that fixes 14 vulnerabilities is now available.

The Linux Foundation and Harvard's Lab for Innovation Science list the most important open-source application libraries.

The Linux kernel has spawned an entire family of operating systems known as Linux distributions. There are close to a thousand (or maybe more) distributions that you can install on your computer for free. But when it comes to ease of use and beginner-friendliness, Ubuntu is the name that pops up the most. Why is this so? And why do people recommend Ubuntu as the first distro to Linux beginners? Let's find out.

Developer Hakan Dündar informs 9to5Linux.com about his new open-source and free app that lets you monitor the performance and usage of your Linux desktop, System Monitoring Center.

The rapidly gaining popularity GNOME extension Just Perfection now has added support for the upcoming release of GNOME Shell 42.

Are you prepping up for an interview where you may face Linux-related questions? Then read through. This article takes you through 17 important Linux questions with answers that will make you interview-ready. So, let’s begin!

MangoPi has opened $39 preorders for a 40 x 40mm “MangoPi-Nezha MQ” SBC that runs Linux or RT-Smart on a 1GHz, RISC-V based Allwinner F133-A SoC with 64MB DDR2. The SBC supplies 2x Type-C, WiFi, MIPI-DSI, RGB touch, DVP camera, GPIO, and audio I/O.

Philip Rebohle released today DXVK 1.10 as the latest stable release of this open-source Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 that lets you play Windows games on your Linux desktop via Wine.

It’s not every day that an open-source, portable Linux handheld computer gets announced, so I couldn’t resist placing an order for the DevTerm by ClockworkPi back when we first learned about the stylish little terminal, which includes a 1280 x 480 screen (double-wide VGA) and a modular little thermal printer.

In our recent review of the Steam Deck portable console from Valve, we noted that continued updates to the company's Proton compatibility layer would help many games designed for Windows run well on the system's Linux-based SteamOS. For a handful of popular online multiplayer games, though, inherent limitations to anti-cheat support on Linux may prevent compatibility with SteamOS (and the vanilla Steam Deck) indefinitely.

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Rusty Aquarium is a utility that’s billed as a “monitoring visualization as an aquarium” software. This open source utility is written in Rust.

Oracle has created an additional version of the Solaris operating system it acquired in 2009, when it bought Sun Microsystems. The new cut of the OS is called a Common Build Environment (CBE). As explained by Oracle senior software engineer Darren Moffat this week, a CBE is akin to a beta because it includes prerelease builds of a forthcoming Solaris release.

Qcow2 is the default virtual disk storage format used by Qemu (qcow stands for qemu copy-on-write). This image format makes use of thin provisioning, so, after we initially set the maximum virtual size of a disk, space is actually allocated only when used, but not made available back to the host when freed.In this article we see how to “sparsify” a qcow2 disk image to reclaim available space, how to expand it or shrink it, and how to manage the partitions layout on it from the host system, connecting it by using the NBD protocol.

Keep your Linux desktop clean and tidy by installing these five system cleaning apps today.

Open source empowers learners of all ages to gain the foundational knowledge and skills necessary to create a career in computer science.

Ending the war should be a priority; boycotting Nginx, boycotting hardware support, banning developers, banning users, and even banning gamers isn’t going to accomplish this

The g++ compiler offers a variety of functions for you to compile C++ files. Here we show you how to get started with g++ compiler on Linux.

Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, along with software consultancies Bocoup and Igalia, have agreed to work together to make web design technologies perform in a more consistent way across different platforms.

Renesas announced a headless, 1GHz “RZ/Five” IoT SoC that runs Linux on Andes’ AX45MP RISC-V core with support for up to 4GB DDR4-1600, 1x or 2x GbE ports, 2x CAN, and 2x USB. A SMARC module is in the works. Renesas has begun sampling the first commercial system-on-chip based on Andes Technology’s 64-bit RISC-V cores. […]