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Mario Limonciello announced today the release of fwupd 1.7.3 as the third maintenance update in the latest fwupd 1.7 series of this powerful firmware update utility for Linux-based operating systems.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Discord client on Rocky Linux 8 using three different methods.

2DayGeeK: In this tutorial, you will learn the different ways to remove multiple files at once in Linux efficiently.

Looking forward to 5.16, you can expect improved support for Apple’s M1 chip, while gamers can expect the already available Nintendo Switch Pro driver to be merged into the mainline kernel.

The Linux Foundation (LF) will spend over $180m in 2021, 20 per cent up on last year, and highlights the role of its new LFX platform in its just-published annual report.

Many people have long spoken about GitHub's ties to ICE; few have paid attention to intelligence ties, including the NSA and Nat Friedman’s proximity to people from Palantir

Open access is the equivalent of open source in the scientific community. Come learn what it is, and why it is important for society.

The sixty-third installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on December 12th, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Canonical announced that their Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) release will reach end of life next month on January 20th, 2022, urging users to upgrade to the latest Ubuntu release.

The effort to bring Rust to the Linux kernel marches on this week, with an update from Rust for Linux project maintainer Miguel Ojeda put out this week serving as cause for renewed excitement. While the update cautions that Rust support is “still to be considered experimental,” it notes that the project has moved on from using the beta Rust compiler to use stable releases, starting with Rust 1.57.0, which was just released last Thursday.

Apart from Chrome OS, there are other web-based operating systems available for Chromebook users, and Ubuntu Web is one of them. Ubuntu Web is a free, privacy-focused alternative to Chrome OS. You can use this community-developed Ubuntu Remix to create a Chrome OS-like web experience on any computer.

Building models with Goxel is a lot of fun, like the best part of Lego without the sharp edges and like Minecraft without the Creepers.

The KDE Prooject released today KDE Frameworks 5.89 as the monthly update for this open-source software suite containing more than 80 add-on libraries to Qt that provide a wide range of commonly needed functionality for the KDE Plasma desktop environment and related apps.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to import the XanMod repository and install the latest Linux Kernel on your Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS operating system.

Mozilla’s decade old technology has become a major force, offering the same level of flexibility afforded by classic compiled languages, while offering interoperability with c.

Got a deb file download from the web? There are several ways to install deb files in Ubuntu. Here I’ll show you the two easiest ways, closely following best practices.

Digital painting is an art form all its own. It obviously emulates the discipline it's named for, but painting in the physical world and a digital environment is unique. Krita is a digital paint application that's seen use at major film production houses, book publishers, and art studios. It specializes in materials emulation, allowing the artist to adjust and fine-tune their tools through a brush engine so that they can achieve exactly the look and drawing feel they need. Krita won't make you a great painter, but if you love to paint, Krita can help you make sure your artwork looks its best.

As expected, Red Hat is ending CentOS Linux 8's support on December 31, 2021. Now what?

Ventoy is a free tool that turns any USB key into a multi-boot wonder. Even if you're not a distro-hopping FOSS fundie, having a few bootable USB keys around is handy. You can often revive a sickly PC by just booting Windows and running CHKDSK /F on it, or boot Linux to retrieve some files off a computer if a PEBCAK error occurred and someone's forgotten their password.

Back in 2002, if you were a hip PC gamer you were probably playing Grand Theft Auto Vice City on your brand new ATI Radeon R300 graphics card and listening to Avril Lavigne's "Sk8r Boi." Now that sk8r boi is probably a sk8r grandpa, the R300 is getting a new driver with a long-awaited bug fix.