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Compressor is a video and audio media compression and encoding application for use with Final Cut Studio and Motion. The application supports HDR, HEVC, 360° video, and MXF output. Sadly it’s proprietary software and not available for Linux. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

And better compatibility with some more proprietary word processors. Six months after LibreOffice 7.2, version 7.3 is out with faster and more accurate file importing and rendering for improved compatibility with Microsoft Office.

Learning to use the AWK utility in Linux is a skill that most Linux users yearn to have. It can save you time and energy, as well as help you better understand the inner workings of your computer. While it may seem hard at first, you will become well-versed with this command-line utility with the right guide and frequent practice.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced today the general availability of a full 64-bit version of the official Raspberry Pi OS distribution for all 64-bit Raspberry Pi devices.

A Load Balancer is used to evenly distribute the load on the backend servers. It acts as the single point of contact for client connections. In this article, we will create a Public Load Balancer and add a Virtual Machine to its Backend Pool. This Virtual Machine will have Apache running on it.

CyberPanel is a free and open-source web hosting panel that uses OpenLiteSpeed as a web server. In this tutorial we’ll cover installing CyberPanel on an Ubuntu 20.04 remote server, we will configure some of CyberPanel’s options, and we’ll finally use it to set up a WordPress website.

In this quick tutorial, we will see how to easily convert EBooks from PDF to EPUB format (and vice versa) in Linux using Calibre software suite.

Tiny Core Linux has been updated to v13.0, following its recently established annual cadence. This veteran ultra light Linux distribution is remarkably compact by today's standards, requiring a mere 22MB download. However, it installs and presents the user with a fully graphical UI, with a modern Linux kernel, and allows you to install and run modern applications (but keep it simple if you install this OS due to your PC being ancient).

Very few Linux distros have the privilege of being endorsed by the Free Software Foundation (FSF). One of those distros is Trisquel GNU/Linux. The Trisquel team released Trisquel GNU/Linux 10.0 “Nabia” and we’re going to take a look at it today.

We are delighted to note that a version of the word game the New York Times bought for seven figures can now be played via a 50-line Bash script.

Another month, another Arch Linux ISO snapshot is being released, this time for February 2022, bringing the latest and greatest Linux 5.16 kernel and other updated components.

OpenNMS is a free, open-source, and one of the most powerful network monitoring and network management platforms used for monitoring remote devices from a central location. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install OpenNMS on Debian 11.

How do you sell a product like Maria? How do you cash out within the cloud? MariaDB Corporation Ab, which sells the popular open source database by the same name, said on Tuesday that it intends to become a public company with the help of Angel Pond Holdings Corporation.

In the last year and a half, one cybersecurity mess after another -- the SolarWinds software supply chain attack, the log4j vulnerability, the npm bad code injection -- have made it clear that we must clean up our software supply chain. That's impossible to do with proprietary software, since its creators won't let you know what's inside a program. But with open-source programs, it can be done.

Ubuntu-based Trisquel GNU/Linux 10.0 has been released today as a major version of this distribution targeted at those who want 100% freedom for their PCs.

Switched to Linux and found things aren’t working out as you’d hoped? Considering reinstalling Windows? Stop! Getting to grips with a new operating system is not always easy, but there are many reasons to stick with Linux. Perhaps more importantly, most of the reasons people give when they quit Linux are either wrong, ill-considered, or outdated. Before you download that Windows installer and copy it to a USB stick, here’s why you should stick with Linux.

AMD recently launched the Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card for the $199 USD price point. While built on the current-generation RDNA2 architecture, this graphics card was widely panned for its price while only offering 4GB of video memory, limited to PCIe x4 bandwidth, and performance similar to the years-old Polaris GPUs. While all the major benchmarks online to this point have been under Windows, here is a look at how the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is performing under Linux.

Remember all those funkily named bugs of recent memory, such as Spectre, Meltdown, F**CKWIT and RAMbleed? Very loosely speaking, these types of bug – perhaps they’re better described as “performance costs” – are a side effect of the ever-increasing demand for ever-faster CPUs, especially now that the average computer or mobile phone has multiple processor chips, typically with multiple cores, or processing subunits, built into each chip.

Rather than going with a public cloud provider, a division of the government of India went with Apache CloudStack to bring services to millions of citizens.

NVIDIA released today the 510.47.03 proprietary graphics driver for Linux, BSD, and Solaris platform, a major release that brings support for the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies and many improvements.