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Multimedia production distro AV Linux has a new release after about six months of silence to bring you an up-to-date installation medium with latest audio/video tools and other changes.

The open-source and cross-platform DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) software Ardour 6.7 has been released and it’s now available to download for all supported platforms, including Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Java was released in 1995, making it 26 years old as I'm writing this. It was proprietary at first, but in 2007, Java was released as open source under the GPL. To understand what makes Java important, you have to understand the problem it claims to solve. Then you can understand why and how it benefits developers and users.

The time has come to say goodbye to the Linux 5.11 kernel series as it now reached end of life and it will no longer receive maintenance updates.

Radxa has launched Rock Pi 4 Plus versions of its Model A and B SBCs that move to the 2GHz OP1 version of the RK3399. The Plus models also add eMMC without raising the price and pre-load the Armbian-based Twister OS. Radxa has upgraded its open-spec, community-backed Rock Pi 4A and 4B SBCs with eMMC […]

Want KRunner type search inside KDE Apps? KCommandBar Arrives!

Red Hat released today the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 update to its latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8 operating system series to bring stability improvements and other changes.

It's been 30 years since Linus Torvalds created Linux, way back in 1991, as a free alternative to Unix. In that time, it's grown from a niche project to a powerful, widely used operating system that sustains much of what's essential in modern computing—the cloud, the Internet of Things, supercomputers, the devices that kept students learning during a global pandemic, and much, much more.

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Qualcomm unveiled a “315 5G IoT Modem-RF” chipset designed for industrial IoT. The tiny chipset runs Linux on a 7nm Cortex-A7 core and offers global 5G NR sub-6GHz stand-alone support along with 4G LTE. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announced its first cellular modem chipset designed specifically for Internet of Things applications. The industrial-focused Qualcomm 315 5G […]

EQT, the Swedish-based private equity firm, spun SUSE Europe's leading Linux distributor out on the Frankfurt Exchange, but its price didn't budge much from its initial offering price.

WooCommerce is a free, open-source, and most popular eCommerce plugin to sell your product online. It is customizable and designed for small to large-sized online businesses. It makes it easier for creating and managing your online store with several features including, shipping integration, tax and inventory management, secure payment, etc. In this guide, we will show you how to install and deploy WooCommerce on the RoseHosting Cloud.

In this article, I will show you how to install and configure apt-fast to speed up the package update and download process in Ubuntu. We use Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for the description of the procedure mentioned in this article.

Patches to land in Linux 5.13. Linux maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman has sent in a pull request for Linux 5.13 aimed at dealing with grief caused by the antics of some students at the University of Minnesota.…

RVBoards has launched a $99 “Nezha” SBC that runs Linux on the 1GHz Allwinner D1 SoC with a 64-bit, RISC-V XuanTie C906 core. The SBC provides 1GB RAM, GbE, HDMI, 2x USB, 40-pin, and LCD, cam, and audio add-ons. RVBoards, a community project from PerXLab, has gone to Indiegogo to launch the first SBC built […]

It's hard to find a game that combines the difficulty of, say, Dark Souls with the elegance of Conway's Game of Life. In a 1962 paper, Hungarian mathematician Tibor Radó came up with just such a game, which he called the Busy Beaver Game (BBG). read more

Xfce is a modern, open-source, and lightweight desktop environment for Linux systems. It also works well on many other Unix-like systems such as Mac OS X, Solaris, *BSD plus several others. It is fast and also user-friendly with a simple and elegant user interface.

UK-based Linux hardware vendor Entroware unveiled today the Proteus Linux laptop powered by the Ubuntu operating system and 11th Gen Intel Core processors.

This is the tenth in a series of articles about features that first appeared in a version of Python 3.x. Some of these versions have been out for a while. Python 3.9 was first released in 2020 with cool new features that are still underused. Here are three of them. Adding dictionaries Say you have a dictionary with "defaults," and you want to update it with parameters. Before Python 3.9, the best option was to copy the defaults dictionary and then use the .update() method. read more

This series looks at emulating home computers. We start the series looking at the ZX81, a home computer produced by Sinclair Research from 1981.