Showing all newswire headlines

Mozilla’s Firefox 92 open-source and cross-platform web browser is now available for download a day ahead of the official release on September 7th, 2021.

For Windows users, installing an antivirus software on their system has become one of the first steps over the years. But for a Linux system, the choice is not as clear. There are some situations when running an antivirus on Linux makes sense, but the average Linux desktop isn’t one of them.

This brief guide explains how to solve initramfs error in Fedora Linux by manually repairing the file systems using fsck command.

In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to connect ONLYOFFICE to Sharepoint using WOPI, a Web Application Open Platform Interface protocol intended to standardize the integration process.

We explore different desktop environments you can try without installing a different flavour of Ubuntu. There’s KDE, XFCE, MATE, and Budgie.

This guide lists out all the top most used basic Linux commands every day on your Linux system. You can use the following commands on any Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, RedHat, ArcLinux.

I like history, and I like computers, so I enjoy hearing stories about computing before computers were an everyday household appliance, much less a personal accessory. One tale I hear often is about how the computers of long ago (in computer years, anyway) were pleasantly basic. They were so basic, in fact, that it was relatively trivial for a curious user to figure out how to program one.

ImageMagick is a handy multipurpose command-line tool for all your image needs. ImageMagick supports a variety of image types, including JPG photos and PNG graphics.

There are several reasons why you would want to have a new WordPress Admin user to manage and customize your site in relation to privileged actions related to the site’s layout, appearance, and content.

Adobe Lightroom is a non-destructive photo editing software. It's part of the Adobe ecosystem and comes with great photo editing features. However, it doesn't come cheap. Its price tag is a bit off-putting if you're looking for affordable editing software, but don't worry. There are several free, open source alternatives that you can use to edit your images.

Moodle is a free, feature rich, open source learning management system (LMS). The platform is used by many online school and universities as well as private educators.

When IBM agreed to pay $34 billion for Red Hat in late 2018, the deal marked a watershed moment for open-source software, proving that companies could package free tools into highly valuable products. That purchase price may soon look like a quaint relic of the past.

The forty-ninth installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on September 5th, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

The MX Linux team announced today the general availability for public testing of the second beta release of the upcoming MX Linux 21 distribution for all supported flavors.

OpenWrt is a free, open-source project for creating custom embedded operating systems for routers. Yesterday the OpenWrt community announced the first stable release of the OpenWrt 21.02 stable version series. The new release brings Linux kernel 5.4, gcc 8.4, glibc 2.33, and binutils 2.34, among many other updates and improvements.

In this tutorial you will learn how to install snap on Linux Mint 20.1 Ulyssa.

ImageMagick is the "Swiss Army knife" of manipulating images on the command line. While you could use a desktop graphics program like GIMP or GLIMPSE to adjust or combine photos and graphics, sometimes it's just easier to use one of the almost dozen tools from ImageMagick.

Fedora test days are events where anyone can help make sure changes in Fedora Linux work well in an upcoming release. Fedora community members often participate, and the public is welcome at these events. If you’ve never contributed to Fedora Linux before, this is a perfect way to get started.

Barry Kauler has announced the release of EasyOS 2.9, an updated build of the project's minimalist Linux distribution with roots in Puppy Linux.

As an academic open source programs office (OSPO), Open?@RIT's mission is to assist faculty, staff, and students at the Rochester Institute of Technology in creating and maintaining communities for their open projects. We accomplish this by offering consultation and documents that teach our clients the best ways to operate their communities and projects. None of this would be feasible, however, if not for the systems of digital infrastructure we have created and adopted to facilitate these interactions.