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Ubuntu-based Trisquel GNU/Linux 10.0 has been released today as a major version of this distribution targeted at those who want 100% freedom for their PCs.

Switched to Linux and found things aren’t working out as you’d hoped? Considering reinstalling Windows? Stop! Getting to grips with a new operating system is not always easy, but there are many reasons to stick with Linux. Perhaps more importantly, most of the reasons people give when they quit Linux are either wrong, ill-considered, or outdated. Before you download that Windows installer and copy it to a USB stick, here’s why you should stick with Linux.

AMD recently launched the Radeon RX 6500 XT graphics card for the $199 USD price point. While built on the current-generation RDNA2 architecture, this graphics card was widely panned for its price while only offering 4GB of video memory, limited to PCIe x4 bandwidth, and performance similar to the years-old Polaris GPUs. While all the major benchmarks online to this point have been under Windows, here is a look at how the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT is performing under Linux.

Remember all those funkily named bugs of recent memory, such as Spectre, Meltdown, F**CKWIT and RAMbleed? Very loosely speaking, these types of bug – perhaps they’re better described as “performance costs” – are a side effect of the ever-increasing demand for ever-faster CPUs, especially now that the average computer or mobile phone has multiple processor chips, typically with multiple cores, or processing subunits, built into each chip.

Rather than going with a public cloud provider, a division of the government of India went with Apache CloudStack to bring services to millions of citizens.

NVIDIA released today the 510.47.03 proprietary graphics driver for Linux, BSD, and Solaris platform, a major release that brings support for the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies and many improvements.

Apache ActiveMQ is an open-source message broker written in Java. It supports several cross-language clients and protocols.

The patsplit function was introduced in version 4.0 of GNU AWK. It's a string splitter, and it allows you to dissect a string more flexibly than you can with AWK's substr function.

At Mozilla, online privacy has always been one of our top priorities. Recently we announced Total Cookie Protection on Firefox Focus to combat cross-site tracking, and last year we introduced Firefox Relay, a privacy-first product that hides your real email address to help protect your identity.

Linux Lite 5.8 is now available for download and upgrade. Here's a summary of the new changes and quick review of this release.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to configure and increase your DNF package manager speed on Fedora Linux 35 Workstation or Server.

There is only drama in the open source community when the day has a "y" in it, and sure enough a trio of members have decided to step back from the Rust Core Team, including a nine-year veteran of the language.

Linux hardware vendor System76 announced today the launch of their newest Linux laptop, Kudu, designed for expert multi-taskers and powered by AMD.

In this tutorial, we are going to explain step-by-step how to install and customize Suricata on Debian 11. Suricata is a Network Security Monitoring tool that processes and controls network traffic. It is used also for generating alerts, logs, and detecting suspicious packets or requests on any service coming to your server. Suricata can be deployed on a server host to scan the incoming and outgoing network traffic or it can be used locally on any compatible machine.

I shared some important first steps to help manage your personal Linux server in a previous article. I briefly mentioned monitoring network connections for listening ports, and I want to expand on this by using the netstat command for Linux systems.

Today, Mozilla, the maker of Firefox, and Shaw Communications Inc. have announced that Shaw is the first Internet Service Provider (ISP) in Canada to provide Firefox users with encrypted Domain Name System (DNS) services through Mozilla’s Trusted Recursive Resolver (TRR) Program.

The January 2022 issue of my exclusive “Xfce’s Apps Update” monthly roundup is out now and it’s packed with news about some of your favorite Xfce applications, plugins, and tools.

SSH (Secure Shell) is a protocol that enables you to create a verified and private connection, securing the channel using cryptographic keys, to launch a remote shell on another machine. Using this connection, you can execute remote commands, initiate secure file transfers, forward sockets and displays and services, and much more.

Swap space can help machines with a small amount of RAM. In case you choose a VM instance with 600 MB RAM, then your memory will get exhausted and you will get cannot allocate memory.

Jerry Bezencon has announced the release of Linux Lite 5.8, a lightweight desktop distribution based on Ubuntu. Here's what's new!