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Pining for Windows XP? Update to the last major release can do that Zorin OS 16.2 is a friendlier and more feature-rich distro than its parent Ubuntu 20.04, with a lot of updates and bundled apps.…

Wiki.js is an open-source, lightweight wiki software. It is built on the Node.js JavaScript framework. In this tutorial, you will learn to install Wiki.js on a Rocky Linux 9 server using the PostgreSQL database and Nginx server for proxying.

Gaming is often synonymous with guzzling electricity. We explore ways to minimise your energy footprint while still having great fun.

The OBS Studio project released today OBS Studio 28.1 as the first major update to the latest 28.x series of this powerful, widely-used, free, open-source, and cross-platform live streaming and screen recording software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Sometimes you need to transfer files over a network. There are lots of file sharing services out there, but most require that you send your file to the Internet. This seems like a long way to go (not to mention the privacy concerns) when two computers are right beside each other, or at least in the same building...

Fuelling Microsoft-affiliated and sometimes Microsoft-funded “news” (noise) sites, Red Hat — and to a lesser extent Fedora — exaggerated the severity of bugs a week before their details’ release (long and purposeless suspense); it’s a case of a boy who cries “wolf!” to get “likes” in Twitter and media coverage that relies on nothing but lousy (inaccurate) "tweets", where fact-checking is impeded by NDAs/embargo

Highly anticipated OpenSSL 3.0.7 is now out with two critical CVE fixes that impact the entire OpenSSL 3.0.0 series.

Copying text now works without issue, so naturally pasting is getting iffy. Windows 11 and Firefox users who have experienced months of browser freezes when copying text, rejoice: there's finally a patch that eliminates the problem, which has been persistent since May.…

One of the more popular Ubuntu-based flavors for new migrants from Windows. Linux Lite 6.2 is the latest version of this increasingly inaccurately named distro. In effect, it's a niftily customized remix of Xubuntu 22.04.1.…

Arch Linux 2022.11.01 was released today as Arch Linux’s first ISO snapshot to be powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.0 kernel series for those of you who planned a fresh installation of the lightweight, flexible, and rolling-release GNU/Linux distribution.

Get started with Parseable, an open source log storage and observability platform. Log data is one of the fastest-growing segments across data storage. It's also one of the most complicated spaces. There are several products and solutions with overlapping use cases and confusing marketing. This article looks at Parseable, a log storage and observability platform. Parseable is geared towards a better user experience, with an easy-to-deploy and use interface and a simple, cloud-native architecture. I'll also show how to set up Parseable with FluentBit to store logs.

Uri Herrera announced today the general availability of Nitrux 2.5 as the newest, freshest, and most advanced ISO release of this Debian-based distribution built around the KDE Plasma-based NX Desktop environment.

A list of the best and latest remote desktop clients for Ubuntu and other Linux distributions with their features, and install instructions.

The MEAN stack is a free and open-source JavaScript-based framework used for developing web applications. The MEAN is made from four key technologies MongoDB, Express, Angular, and Node.

Jupyter Notebook is a free, open-source, and web-based interactive computing platform that allows users to edit and run documents via a web browser. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Jupyter Notebook on Ubuntu 22.04.

This is a personal post mostly representing anecdotal information sharing my personal experience with the ASUS NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti graphics card tested exclusively under Ubuntu 22.10. It captures issues I’ve experienced, together with a few workarounds.

I'm writing about my point of view on writing a code review. In this article, I'll share some helpful tips and tricks. I'll show you a few questions you should ask yourself and a few ideas of what to look for when doing a code review...

Jerry Bezencon, Linux Lite lead developer and maintainer, announced today the final release of the Ubuntu-based Linux Lite 6.2 distribution targeted at Windows users who want to switch to Linux.

DokuWiki is a simple, easy-to-use, and highly versatile wiki software written in PHP. It is free, open-source, and uses a simple file format to store its data instead of using any database system. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install DokuWiki with Apache and the Let's Encrypt SSL certificate on Ubuntu 22.04.

Detachment from users' lived reality is how corporates shoot themselves in the foot. Opinion Last week, one fundamental problem for IT cropped up in three very different stories. One story was Google's parent Alphabet doing an internal audit of all its products on the back of falling profits. One was a highly critical look at Meta's efforts to put business into VR. And one was Linus Torvalds getting cranky that the i486 architecture was still in Linux's first-class lounge when it should be packed off to the Old Codes' Home.…