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This is a step by step guide shows how to set the priority of certain packages, launchpad PPAs, and/or other apt repositories in Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint, and their based systems.

Mullvad is Firefox, but enhanced for privacy, pretty interesting take as a cross-platform private browser app.

We see many 16-bit retrocomputers around here based on Intel and Intel-like chips such as the 8086, 8088, V20, and similar. While they don’t seem very powerful by today’s standards, they were perfectly capable machines and, thanks to Elks (Embeddedable Linux Kernel Subset), you can run something fairly Linux-like on these devices.

A quick glance into the new features of Xfce 4.20 desktop environment.

The 221st installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on January 5th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

For fans of the Xubuntu derivative of Ubuntu Linux, the upcoming Xubuntu 25.04 release will feature the Xfce 4.20 desktop...

The new ProtonUp-Qt v2.11 enhanced gaming on Linux with proton-ge-rtsp, WineZGUI, and key bug fixes.

Two years, 57k lines of C++, now 75k lines of Rust. Fish Shell 4.0 beta has been entirely rewritten in the Rust programming language.

With the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle Google is poised to have its ChromeOS UCSI driver upstreamed...

DB-Engines publishes the 2024 database popularity stats. See the leading platforms in data management for the past year.

history is a command which displays or manipulates the history list. We recommend alternatives to this command.

The lightweight Linux distro Sparky 7.6 rolls out with kernel 6.1 LTS, KDE Plasma 5.27.5, Xfce 4.18, LibreOffice 7.4.7, and more.

The languages are sometimes being blamed for shoddy coding practices

LLVM development has peaked in recent years at around 37k commits per year for this huge, innovative open-source compiler stack. It was another very exciting year for this leading open-source compiler stack.

If network troubleshooting leads you to believe there's an issue with IPv6, you may need to shut down that protocol on your Linux machines.

Is your computer going to sleep in the middle of downloads or updates? Meet Keep-Alive, a lightweight tool designed to keep your system awake.

A somewhat savvy hardware move may have hurt street cred of an important language. Feature A generation of gray-haired IT folks learned computing using BASIC on 1980s home computers. Every pro since then holds it in disdain. What happened?

Want to run virtual machines on Linux Mint 22? Learn how to install VirtualBox 7.1 with our step-by-step guide, and start creating VMs with ease today.

While predominantly covering Linux-related news and Linux benchmarking at Phoronix, the BSDs hold a special spot. Here's a look back at some of the most exciting BSD milestones and FreeBSD / NetBSD / OpenBSD / DragonFlyBSD project news of 2024.

Gaming on Linux has taken off in a big way over the last decade, with Microsoft taking its position as the leading member of the market for gaming on PC for granted.