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One area of computing that is rapidly evolving and becoming more and more popular is that of Virtual Reality and Augmented reality. Thanks to Valve there is full support for the HTC headsets under Linux, and thanks to community developers there is also work happening to support the Oculus headsets under Linux. In this interview Christian Schaller speaks with Jan Schmidt who is working on reverse engineering a driver for the Oculus Rift VR headset. They talk about the general state of VR under Linux, Jan’s use of Fedora Workstation, and his specific work on his driver.

Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 1.7 as the latest version of this Debian-based and systemd-free GNU/Linux distribution for fans of the KDE Plasma desktop environment.

CudaText is a free and open source native GUI text and source code editor. It’s a replacement for the discontinued SynWrite. CudaText is developed using Lazarus, a visual integrated development environment for rapid application development.

This guide explains how to download the latest openSUSE version and how to install openSUSE Leap 15.3 desktop edition with screenshots.

In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Java OpenJDK on the Rocky Linux system. I will show you different ways to install Java JDK and JRE and also how to set the Java default version for your development and production environment.

Security researchers are warning that a PHP-FPM local privilege escalation vulnerability impacting PHP could put millions of websites at risk. The vulnerability allows a low-privilege user to escalate his privileges to root using a bug in PHP-FPM.

Tor Tools is an application indicator and GUI frontend for the Tor proxy client service and other technologies to make your Linux system totally private.

ONCE UPON A TIME, if you wanted to install a piece of software, you just stuck an executable file on your hard drive somewhere and went on your merry way. But as computers became more complex, so did installation procedures, which led to problems like "dependency hell," as different applications dueled over conflicting system configurations.

Full-color ASCII art used to be quite popular on DOS, which could leverage the extended ASCII character set and its collection of drawing elements. You can add a little visual interest to your next FreeDOS program by adding ASCII art as a cool “welcome” screen or as a colorful “exit” screen with more information about the program.

Kovid Goyal released today Calibre 5.31 as the latest version of his ever popular ebook reader, manager, and organizer software for the Linux desktop.

You're likely already familiar with media queries. They're in widespread use for making websites responsive. The width and height properties contain the viewport's dimensions. You then use CSS to render different layouts at different dimensions.

China has told its finance sector to embrace free and open source software (FOSS). An opinion from the People's Bank of China and the nation's Central Cyberspace Administration essentially boils down to "go for it". The document instructs China's financial sector players to use FOSS whenever they feel it is apposite, to contribute to FOSS projects, and to respect the licences under which such software is published. Financial institutions are also encouraged to collaborate with tech companies, universities and other institutions on FOSS efforts.

What's really in that program? Codenotary can show your customers what's inside your software.

Python is a widely used multi-purpose programming language. Today’s tutorial will show you how to install Python 3.9 on a Rocky Linux 8 system.

Mozilla’s Firefox is thrilled to be named one of the nearly 100 brands within Fast Company Magazine’s inaugural and high-profile, Brands That Matter 2021 ranking and recognition program for companies and nonprofits that have had an undeniable impact on business and culture. Mozilla’s Firefox was recognized by Fast Company specifically for “continuing to do what […]

Managing authentication and authorization in a large-scale network is a challenge: the passwords need to be set and rotated every now and then, access to certain configuration settings needs to be controlled and, finally, users’ actions need to be logged somewhere.

An Application Load Balancer works at the seventh layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, the application layer. We can add and remove targets from our load balancer as per our needs without affecting the flow of requests to the application. In this article, we will see how to create an Application Load Balancer, register instances, and access the Load Balancer using its DNS.

GitHub Actions have new security based on OpenID, along with the ability to create reusable workflows, while usage has nearly doubled year on year, according to presentations at the Universe event.

Ruby on Rails is a free, open-source, and one of the most popular application stacks used for creating sites and web apps. It is written in Ruby programming language and follows the MVC concept.

Escuelas Linux team informs 9to5Linux today about the general availability of the Escuelas Linux 7.2 educational distribution for schools and other education related projects.