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Richard Hughes, the original creator and current maintainer of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) service, announced today the release of fwupd 1.7.1 as the first point release to the latest stable fwupd 1.7 series of this open-source system daemon for updating firmware on Linux systems.

A quiet "Halloween" release yet impactful Linux Kernel 5.15 is here improving Processors, Storage, Graphics and other components. Here's a release recap and how to download and install for Ubuntu.

The fifty-seven installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on October 31st (Halloween Edition), keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

The developers of the antiX Linux distribution announced today the release of antiX 21, a new major version of their lightweight Debian-based distro without the systemd init system.

Linus Torvalds announced today the release and general availability of Linux 5.15 as the next long-term support (LTS) kernel series featuring new functionality and improvements.

Learn how to install a package from the AUR on Arch Linux and Manjaro. Also see how to use AUR helpers to install from command line or GUI.

The Trinity Desktop Environment as a decade-old project that forked from the KDE 3.5 desktop continues persevering bit-by-bit to improve this once widely enjoyed desktop environment.

Happy Halloween Open SOURCE-rers! Here's a tale as old as epoch time. Since there has been C and Unix, and (later on) Linux, we've had zombies. Specifically, there are processes that get marked as a zombie process. Misunderstood by some, ignored by others, and immune to the efforts of so many of us trying to kill these processes without much success. Why is that? read more

Nitrux 1.7 release brings fresh Plasma desktop, the latest kernel and applications. We round up the release with a quick review.

This video showing step by step how to customize your Xfce 4.16 desktop Xfce Desktop Look Like macOS Big Sur. This setup using Xfce Desktop 4.16 series. You can apply this setup on most popular Linux Distributions with Xfce Desktop 4.16 series as default desktop such as Manjaro Xfce, Endevaour OS, Xubuntu, Linux Mint Xfce, Linux Lite, MX Linux Xfce Edition, OpenSUSE Leap Xfce, Fedora Spins Xfce, Debian with Xfce Desktop. I hope you enjoy the video

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install ImageMagick on Rocky Linux 8 using the DNF or Source installation method.

There are a ton of dependable Chromebook options, whether you’re a casual user browsing the web or a serious professional that demands the best hardware. And while Chromebooks have a reputation for being cheap, that doesn’t mean there can’t be powerhouse Chromebooks.

The Firefox browser, which has been experiencing declining use for more than a decade, is the only open source brand included in Fact Company’s ‘Brands that Matter.’

Having launched the Raspberry Pi Zero W in 2017 as an upgrade to 2015’s Raspberry Pi Zero, Raspberry Pi Foundation has now unveiled its latest offering, the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. In this article, we will compare the specifications of the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W against its predecessor, the Pi Zero W. If that’s something you are interested in, read on to learn the differences between Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W vs Raspberry Pi Zero W.

Social networking provider Mastodon is threatening to sue Donald Trump’s upcoming social media platform for allegedly misusing Mastodon’s open-source computer code. On Friday, Mastodon announced it had sent a formal letter to Trump’s “Truth Social” platform, demanding it comply with the open-source license for Mastodon’s computer code within 30 days. If Truth Social doesn’t, then Mastodon could sue the platform for copyright infringement, according to Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko.

Mozilla Firefox 94 will begin using its EGL back-end on the Linux desktop in conjunction with supported graphics drivers in order to provide better performance, lower power usage, and other benefits.

Version 3.4 of The Yocto Project has been released. Yocto provides a system for building embedded Linux distributions. This release comes with "Linux kernel 5.14, glibc 2.34 and ~280 other recipe upgrades", support for building and cross-compiling Rust code, tons of new recipes, a way to create a SPDX bill of materials (BoM), overlayfs and seccomp support, optimizations, bug fixes, and more. The full release notes have further information.

The Elive team have published a new beta snapshot of their Debian-based distribution featuring the Enlightenment desktop. The project's new snapshot is Elive 3.8.24 Beta.

Ubuntu Online 21.10 has been released today as a Web based Ubuntu 21.10 desktop remake that lets you try the latest Ubuntu Desktop edition in a web browser.

The Open Practice Library is a community-driven collection of practices for teams to use in support of working together. A "practice" is a behavior or "trick" that teams use to improve how they achieve their goals. Sometimes those goals are technical, like programming and IT, but all teams can use help defining their practices. Whether you're a teacher, event planner, salesperson, or artist, the process is important.