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Vulkan, the open standard and cross-platform modern 3D graphics API used by cutting-edge games and demanding applications, has been updated today to version 1.3, a major release that introduces new features and several improvements.

Working on Wayland and Weston color management and HDR support has been full of learning new concepts and terms. Many of them crucial for understanding how color works, and what the values in a pixel actually mean. With color knowledge being surprisingly scarce, Pekka Paalanen has written "A Pixel's Color", an introduction to people who are already familiar with computer graphics in general, images in memory, and maybe window systems, but never really thought what the values in a pixel actually mean or what they are doing wrong with them.

Azure Virtual Network is one of the most important resources to create a private network in Azure. It enables many types of Azure services to communicate with each other securely. In this article, we will see the steps to create a Virtual Network and how to add a subnet to it.

One of the primary functions of computers is to parse data. Some data is easier to parse than other data, and voice input continues to be a work in progress. There have been many improvements in the area in recent years, though, and one of them is in the form of DeepSpeech, a project by Mozilla, the foundation that maintains the Firefox web browser. DeepSpeech is a voice-to-text command and library, making it useful for users who need to transform voice input into text and developers who want to provide voice input for their applications.

Want a good-paying programming job? By ZipRecruiter's count, the average annual pay for an open-source developer in the United States is $123,411. That's not bad. There's also a lot of demand for Linux and open-source pros. The Linux Foundation and edX, the leading massive open online course (MOOC) provider, reported in their 2021 Open Source Jobs Report that the pair found more demand for top open-source workers than ever.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to import the Liquorix Kernel PPA and install the Kernel on Linux Mint 20.

Telnet can perform a few things that can be very helpful for Linux network administrators, like testing the open port over the remote system for troubleshooting, which is not possible in SSH protocol.

Apache Solr or Solr is a free and open-source search platform based on the Apache Lucene library. In this guide, you will learn how to install Apache Solr on the Rocky Linux system, enable Solr basic authentication, set up max open files limit and max processes limit for Solr deployment, and how to create the first Solr core from the command line.

I like the Groovy programming language a lot. I like it because, in the end, I like Java, even though Java sometimes feels clumsy. And because I like Java so much, I don't find many other JVM languages especially attractive. Kotlin, Scala, and Clojure, for example, don't feel much like Java, pursuing their own perspectives on what makes a good programming language.

The Vi application is the default text editor on most Linux systems, so it's the primary interface you will use when you need to edit a configuration file. If you're used to a graphical text editor, such as Notepad++ or VS Code, Vi can be confusing at first.

How to install the Zoom client on Ubuntu using the snap command, and alternatively how to install Zoom using the .deb file.

In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to install PHP on CentOS. Beginner-friendly, step-by-step instructions on how to install different versions of PHP on different versions of CentOS.

In this article, we will learn about Snowflake Role based Access Control (RBAC) and how to create custom roles and grant access to the roles.

Way back when in June of 2019, Linux Journal published one of its final issues of the digital magazine. The publications ceased its operations in the beginning of August. Anyway, some articles were not able to make it online and to the Linux Journal website. I just realized that two of those articles were mine.

Most distros haven't got to 5.15 yet, but openSUSE's downstream project GeckoLinux boasts 5.16 of the Linux kernel and the latest Cinnamon desktop environment.

DXVK developer Philip Rebohle announced today the release of DXVK 1.9.4 as the fourth maintenance update to the latest DXVK 1.9 stable series of this open-source Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux/Wine.

SimpleX is an open-source decentralized client-server network that uses disposable nodes to asynchronously pass the messages, providing receiver and sender anonymity.

Many people aspire to become contributors to open source projects. With a little effort, anyone can. This article shares how I got started with open source contributions and how doing so helped me land a job in an open source organization.

The first release candidate for version 5.17 of the Linux kernel has rolled off the production line – despite fears that working from a laptop might complicate matters.

Protect your Git repository from mistakes, automate manual processes, gather data about Git activity, and much more with Git hooks.