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It’s not every day that an open-source, portable Linux handheld computer gets announced, so I couldn’t resist placing an order for the DevTerm by ClockworkPi back when we first learned about the stylish little terminal, which includes a 1280 x 480 screen (double-wide VGA) and a modular little thermal printer.

In our recent review of the Steam Deck portable console from Valve, we noted that continued updates to the company's Proton compatibility layer would help many games designed for Windows run well on the system's Linux-based SteamOS. For a handful of popular online multiplayer games, though, inherent limitations to anti-cheat support on Linux may prevent compatibility with SteamOS (and the vanilla Steam Deck) indefinitely.

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Rusty Aquarium is a utility that’s billed as a “monitoring visualization as an aquarium” software. This open source utility is written in Rust.

Oracle has created an additional version of the Solaris operating system it acquired in 2009, when it bought Sun Microsystems. The new cut of the OS is called a Common Build Environment (CBE). As explained by Oracle senior software engineer Darren Moffat this week, a CBE is akin to a beta because it includes prerelease builds of a forthcoming Solaris release.

Qcow2 is the default virtual disk storage format used by Qemu (qcow stands for qemu copy-on-write). This image format makes use of thin provisioning, so, after we initially set the maximum virtual size of a disk, space is actually allocated only when used, but not made available back to the host when freed.In this article we see how to “sparsify” a qcow2 disk image to reclaim available space, how to expand it or shrink it, and how to manage the partitions layout on it from the host system, connecting it by using the NBD protocol.

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Open source empowers learners of all ages to gain the foundational knowledge and skills necessary to create a career in computer science.

Ending the war should be a priority; boycotting Nginx, boycotting hardware support, banning developers, banning users, and even banning gamers isn’t going to accomplish this

The g++ compiler offers a variety of functions for you to compile C++ files. Here we show you how to get started with g++ compiler on Linux.

Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, along with software consultancies Bocoup and Igalia, have agreed to work together to make web design technologies perform in a more consistent way across different platforms.

Renesas announced a headless, 1GHz “RZ/Five” IoT SoC that runs Linux on Andes’ AX45MP RISC-V core with support for up to 4GB DDR4-1600, 1x or 2x GbE ports, 2x CAN, and 2x USB. A SMARC module is in the works. Renesas has begun sampling the first commercial system-on-chip based on Andes Technology’s 64-bit RISC-V cores. […]

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The Document Foundation announced today the release general availability of LibreOffice 7.3.1 as the first point release to the latest and greatest LibreOffice 7.3 open-source, free and cross-platform office suite.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to upgrade or install Mesa Drivers on Linux Mint with two PPA option methods.

This guide explains what is PuTTY, how to install PuTTY on Linux and how to access and manage the remote Linux servers using PuTTY.

AWS CloudFormation is a service that enables system administrators to set up and manage an entire collection of AWS resources - including their configurations, dependencies, and inter-relationships between them - in a single statement.

The latest update to Armbian brings a mainline-kernel based Ubuntu- and Debian-compatible environment to dozens of small single-board computers. This includes both Arm and x86-based hardware UEFI booting – and 64-bit builds for Raspberry Pi hardware.

Getting Things GNOME 0.6 open-source personal tasks and TODO-list items organizer software for the GNOME desktop has been officially released today a major update that introduces new features and numerous improvements.

F-Droid is an open source Google Play alternative that only hosts open source apps in its app catalog.