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I'm an ardent KDE Plasma Desktop user, but at work I happily use GNOME. Without getting into the question of which desktop I'd take to a desert island (that happens to have a power outlet), I see the merits of both desktops, and I'd rather use either of them than non-open source desktop alternatives.

The May 2022 issue of my exclusive “Xfce’s Apps Update” monthly roundup is here and it’s packed with news about the latest release of your favorite Xfce applications, plugins, and tools.

horcrux is an open source tool that’s designed to split files and keep them secure with encryption. This encryption doesn’t require remembering a passphrase or retaining a private key. Instead, the utility uses the Shamir Secret Sharing Scheme to break an encryption key into parts that can be recombined to create the original key, but only requiring a certain threshold to do so.

This guide explains what is a conditional statement and how to use the when conditional statements in Ansible playbooks to evaluate conditions and run tasks based on the outcome.

An editorial about the GNOME Shell and components for mobile phones in terms of the current state, progress and future.

Linux Lite is a Linux distro based on Ubuntu that includes the ultra-lightweight Xfce desktop environment. The new major version Linux Light 6.0, is now available for download and usage, based on the newest Ubuntu 22.04 LTS release. Here’s what is new.

Flatseal creator Martín Abente Lahaye announced today the release of Flatseal 1.8 as the latest stable release of this open-source application that lets you manage permissions of Flatpak apps on your GNU/Linux distribution.

The SCSI passthrough over multipath is very commonly used in virtualization environments. The SCSI IO commands are forwarded from the virtual machine to the KVM hypervisor side storage via SG_IO. The KVM hypervisor side storage is always provied in a multipath configuration in order to facilitate high availability. Therefore, the developers may require a solution that allows them to quickly and efficiently setup an environment to diagnose and observe the behavior of virtio-scsi + QEMU + SG_IO + multipath + SCSI, e.g., how the path error is propagated to the virtual machine.

While allowing public access to the sensitive behind-the-scenes operation of a program sounds risky, open-source software actually has the potential to be even more secure than a program with hidden code. However, as with any type of software, vulnerabilities still exist and can present a serious security risk if they remain unidentified and unpatched. Open-source is software with publicly accessible code that anyone can view and contribute to, and forms the foundation of the Internet we use today. The popularity of open-source code is rising–not only are more programs using open-source code but a larger portion of the average software comes from open-source resources than ever.

Murena's first smartphone release, the /e/OS-powered Murena One, tries to free you from Google.

Linux Lite developer Jerry Bezencon announced today the general availability for download of the Ubuntu-based Linux Lite 6.0 distribution, a major release that introduces new and updated apps, as well as new features and improvements.

Today we’ll be showing the story of Eyupsultan municipality, which successfully migrated to Linux and open source with a project on-going since 2015.

The Fintech Open Source Foundation (FINOS), the financial services umbrella of the Linux Foundation, announced today the addition of six new corporate members, including Google Cloud, Société Générale, American Express, Point72, Mirantis, and The Digital Dollar Project. Building upon its 19 new Members in 2021 and its recent addition of Wellington Management Company to its Governing Board, FINOS now has 57 corporate members ushering a new era in open collaboration across the global financial services industry.

NVIDIA today released the NVIDIA 515.48.07 graphics driver for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems as the first stable version in the 515 series that brings open-source kernel modules.

Deepin is probably the Linux distribution to which the definition of “gorgeous” most fully applies. Deepin 20.6 arrives precisely two months after the previous version’s release, bringing a new set of changes and improvements.

Chuwi has recently revealed a mini-PC that features the AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (3.2GHz – 4.4GHz) integrated with the Radeon RX Vega 8-core GPU (up to 170MHz). Unlike other mini-PCs for light use, the RZBOX 2022 was designed to run modern games, entertainment systems, etc. Price starts at $639 available at Chuwi’s website.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Skype on Rocky Linux 8 using the official repository to install the latest version.

Sendmail is a opensource Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) which is used to route email using server or by using shell commands. You can also configure SMTP using Sendmail. In this guide you are going to learn how to install and setup Sendmail on Ubuntu. Also you will setup SMTP and configure it with PHP.

When you write an application using the C programming language, your code usually has multiple source files. Ultimately, these files must be compiled into a single executable. You can do this by creating either static or dynamic libraries (the latter are also referred to as shared libraries). These two types of libraries vary in how they are created and linked. Both have advantages and disadvantages, depending on your use case.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that all operating systems suck. Some just suck less than others. It is also a comment under pretty much every Reg article on Linux that there are too many to choose from and that it's impossible to know which one to try. So we thought we'd simplify things for you by listing how and in which ways the different options suck.