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If omicron canceled your winter plans, watching the Beijing games may be the next best thing. Can’t snowboard? See star athletes shred. Closed ski resort? Leave the poles to the pros. And yes, it feels like we just put out the flames on the torch — less than six months ago to be exact. But what else can we do? Our jobs? It’s year three of the pandemic. We deserve a little screen-time distraction.

From the creator of Gamebuntu, here comes Una, a complete and full-featured MPR helper for Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu-based distributions to help you install more third-party packages.

When one thinks about open-source desktop OSes, the buck stops at Linux. The Linux kernel has spawned numerous use case-specific distros; Ubuntu and elementary OS continue to be some of the best options available in the Linux universe.

A new merge request for Linux's open-source Mesa graphics driver stack would provide a new 3dfx Glide API implementation that would work on modern GPUs backed by Mesa's Gallium3D drivers. This implementation of the 3dfx graphics API from the 1990s is implemented using the modern Rust programming language.

What is the Alpha-Omega Project? Its purpose is to "improve global open source software supply chain security by working with project maintainers to systematically look for new, as-yet-undiscovered vulnerabilities in open-source code" and then fix them. This is vital to improving open-source security.

Jenkins is a free and open-source automation server written in Java. It is one of the most popular open-source solutions for continuous integration and continuous delivery of software applications.

The Slackware Linux Project released today Slackware 15.0 after six years of development, bringing you a more modern and fresh operating system with some of the latest and greatest GNU/Linux technologies.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install CMake on Fedora Linux 35 Workstation or Server by installing the dnf version from Fedora's repository or compiling the source.

We give you the next set of 10 GNOME Apps that is going to supercharge your productivity while using GNOME Desktop.

When we think about SQL Server, we always think about it as running on Windows. Starting from SQL Server 2017, you can run it on Linux as well. In this tutorial, we are going to walk through all the steps on how to install Microsoft SQL Server and SQL Server command-line tools on Ubuntu.

The GStreamer team announced today the release and general availability of GStreamer 1.20 as the latest stable series of this powerful and widely-used open-source and cross-platform multimedia framework.

Crushing several rumors and predictions, Slackware 15.0 is now officially released for you to download and experience. We wrap up the iconic release in this post.

As the CEO and co-founder of Profian, a start-up security company, I've been part of our effort to hire developers to work on Enarx, a security project that deals with confidential computing, written almost exclusively in Rust (with a bit of Assembly). Profian has now found all the people it was looking for in this search, with a couple of developers due to start in the next few weeks.

Get started with DevOps by learning how to create infrastructure for application testing predictably and reliably.

We are always on the look out for easy, simple and secure ways to transfer files and folders. croc is such a tool. It's open source software written in Go and makes transfers really simple.

In this tutorial, we will what is a Pod in Kubernetes and how does a Pod work, types of Pods, how to create a new Pod, how to view the information of Pod and how to delete the Pod in Linux.

With five years and seven months in the making, I honestly have had some difficulty believing that this would eventually really happen, but yet here it is. Slackware Linux 15.0 hit the streets on February 3, 2022. Either way, the latest version of the legendary Linux distro led by Patrick Volkerding is available for download.

The Zorin OS team announced today the release and general availability of the Education and Education Lite editions of the latest and greatest Zorin OS 16 operating system series.

We remember when getting Linux on your average desktop computer was a tricky enough endeavor that only those with the most luxurious of graybeards would even attempt it. A “Linux box” in those heady days was more than likely an outdated machine salvaged from the dumpster, side panel forever removed, cranking away in a basement or garage.

Learn how to use the Terraform count meta-argument to efficiently deploy multiple resources, such as Linux virtual machines, using Terraform