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The time has come to say goodbye to the Linux 5.19 kernel series as it is now marked as EOL (End-of-Life) on the kernel.org website, and users are now urged to upgrade to a newer kernel branch.

With a little work, full 3D acceleration, and hardware decoding and encoding are fully functional.

GNOME Web completes its porting to GTK4 and is now merged in the main branch. Here's how it looks with its new features.

By the time a kid turns 13, more than 72 million pieces of personal data have been collected about them on the internet, according to a 2018 report. These can include name, date of birth, address, family members, where they hang out, the people they interact with, what they do in the classroom, and which […]

The git log command offers many opportunities to learn more about the commits made by contributors. One way you might consume such information is by date. To view commits in a Git repository created on a specific date or range of dates, use the git log command with the options --since or --until, or both.

KDE Neon’s package base has been migrated from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS, and the upgraded ISO images are now available for download. Users will receive the recently released Plasma 5.26, keeping with the KDE Neon tradition of giving the desktop environment the most up-to-date version.

If you type "What is a PWA" in your favorite search engine, you'll probably get a stock response similar to "PWAs are designed to be fast, reliable, and engaging, with the ability to work offline and be installed on a device's home screen." While this is partly true, it's just the tip of the iceberg for what a PWA has the potential to be and what it's evolving into, even as I write this article.

The i486 microprocessor was created by Intel in 1989, 33 years ago, as a successor to the i386. And, believe it or not, these CPUs continue to have full Linux kernel support. But it looks like that may soon change.

DebugPoint Weekly Roundup #22.10: Ubuntu 22.10, Linux 6.1 release candidate 1, Firefox 106 and more updates.

This article delves deeply into the Arch vs. Manjaro topic and helps you choose which one is the best option for you.

That was fast! The latest and greatest KDE Plasma 5.26 desktop environment is now available for users of the Kubuntu 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) release via the Kubuntu Backports PPA repository.

This brief tutorial will explain how to find and remove unused packages in CentOS and Ubuntu Linux distributions using Deborphan, Gtkorphan, and Rpmorphan utilities.

Corel PDF Document Writer lets users convert documents, emails, images and other file types into a PDF for viewing and sharing. This is proprietary software. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

A tutorial on upgrading your Kubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu with the latest KDE Plasma 5.26 desktop environment.

PowerDNS is a free and open-source authoritative DNS server that can be used in place of the standard BIND DNS server. Improved LUA records, LMDB backend improvements, and support for Catalog Zones are among the new features in PowerDNS 4.7.

Of course, I use open source editors to write my pieces. Here are the four open source editors that I have used.

If you are a fan of the Linux OS, you must be happy as I am with the news of the releases of Linux devices. Today's article is one of that news. StarLabs, the British company whose laptops we've reviewed in several articles on this humble blog, has announced a bunch of brief detail about their upcoming laptop, the StarFighter, which will be available to pre-order in the next few days.

Assorted list of customization and tips for Ubuntu 22.10 Kinetic Kudu installation which would make your new install journey even better.

When you launch an application on an operating system, there are certain code libraries and utility applications that your OS needs to use for that app to run. Your OS knows how to find these libraries and utilities because it has a system path, a map to common shared data that lots of apps need. Every OS has this, but users aren’t usually aware of it because they don’t usually need to care about it. However, when you start coding or using special network utilities or commands, you might care about your own PATH variable.

CPU-X was first released in 2014, and can be easily downloaded from their Github repository. Written in C, CPU-X can be run on the desktop with a GTK interface similar to that of CPU-Z, or from the command line using ncurses.