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The fifty-nine installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on November 14th, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

The two-week merge window for Linux kernel 5.16, the next major Linux kernel release, closes today, and, as expected, it ends with the availability for public testing of the first Release Candidate.

A dozen years ago, the notion of Microsoft doing anything to make it easier for Windows users to find and install open source software would’ve been unthinkable.

PeaZip 8.3 open-source and cross-platform archive manager is now available to download for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms with various new features and improvements for Linux users.

GarageBand is a fully equipped music creation studio inside your Mac — with a complete sound library that includes instruments, presets for guitar and voice, and an incredible selection of session drummers and percussionists. Unfortunately the program is proprietary and not available for Linux. What are the best free and open source alternatives?

Nginx is the most popular web server due to its performance and ease of use. This guide will help you install Nginx on various Linux distros and you’ll learn about important Nginx configuration files and directories.

The source reports that the first enablement patches for Intel's next-gen Raptor Lake CPU family will begin to roll out in the coming weeks. The first patch that rolled out yesterday only adds the Raptor Lake ID (ID 183) to the Linux OS and while it is not that exciting, more patches are going to roll out in the coming weeks.

Newly surfaced malware that is difficult to detect and written in Google’s open-source programming language has the potential to exploit millions of routers and IoT devices, researchers have found.

With the Steam Deck delayed until February 2022, Valve has produced new developer documentation giving a helping hand to devs interested in testing ready for it using Linux. They're not quite ready to put out SteamOS 3 Linux just yet (which is what the Steam Deck uses), or even an official developer image to install but "soon" something should be available in that way. Until then, they've come up with a way for developers to test everything on Linux a little easier.

Researchers from Qihoo 360's Netlab security team have released details of a new evolving botnet called "Abcbot" that has been observed in the wild with worm-like propagation features to infect Linux systems and launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets.

The KDE Project announced today the release and general availability of KDE Frameworks 5.88 as the monthly update to this open-source software suite for October 2021.

Hi everyone. In this video I am going to show you how to customize GNOME desktop with nord Color Pallete. This setup using Arch Linux with GNOME Desktop Environment 40. You can apply this setup on most popular Linux Distributions with GNOME Shell 40/41 as default desktop such as Manjaro GNOME Edition,Fedora Workstations, Ubuntu, Debian GNOME Edition, Solus GNOME Edition, Pop!_OS, OpenSUSE GNOME Edition.

It has become commonplace in the software industry for programmers of all flavors to build careers writing code that releases to the commons with open source licenses. Industry headhunters often demand access to the code to vet future employees. Those that focus their career on open source development get rewarded. According to payscale.com, Linux sysadmins earn more than their Windows counterparts, indicating better pay and job security for jobs in open source software. There's also a good feeling (maybe even karma) that comes with sharing your work.

In the following guide, you will know how to install Chromium Web Browser on your Fedora 35 Workstation desktop.

Fedora 35 released a while back. And we feel this is the right time to have a quick review of the Fedora 35 Workstation edition. 

Future Chromium-based browsers under administrative control will be able to prevent users from viewing webpage source code for specific URLs, a capability that remained unavailable to enterprise customers for the past three years until a bug fix landed earlier this week.

RHEL 8.5, the newest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), is out. As Joe Brockmeier, Red Hat Blogs' Editorial Director, said, "Whether you're deploying RHEL on-prem, in the public cloud, at the edge -- or all of the above -- RHEL 8.5 has improvements that users will be eager to dig into." He's not wrong.

Valve today held their Steam Deck Development live stream on YouTube today to share more details on the upcoming Steam Deck gaming handheld and the SteamOS 3.0 operating system it’s running.

Users can download now for on-premises and edge installations. Images for AWS, Azure, GCP and other clouds will be available soon.

Red Hat announced a few days ago the release of the new version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5. It brings new features and improvements to help deployments, optimize performance and help risk mitigation. Here's what's new.