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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.

The PCLinuxOS Magazine staff is pleased to announce the release of the September 2021 issue.

Today, we bring you 20 different useful GNOME extensions for GNOME 40. So that it becomes perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

Bruce Dubbs has announced the release of Linux From Scratch (LFS) 11.0, the latest version of the project's book that provides step-by-step instructions of building a Linux system from source code.

This guide explains how to access files and notifications from Android devices using KDE Connect on Linux operating systems.

Free and open source software (FOSS) is essential to much of the tech we use every day — from cars to phones to planes to the cloud. While traditionally, it was developed by an army of volunteer developers and given away for free, companies are increasingly taking a more active role in its development. But as companies buy up open source companies, bring development in house, and spin off their own for-profit versions of FOSS products, they could be endangering the future of this essential software.

In this tutorial you will learn how to install Flatpak on various Linux distros.

When it comes to using the MySQL/MariaDB Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), not all of us are nerds of the Linux terminal environment. Okay, we could all be command-line environment nerds, however, the feeling of knowing more than one way of achieving something on a Linux environment is a supreme upgrade.

No, not the 1980s TV show where Lionel Blair attempted to mime data abstraction to Una Stubbs. Retro fans, rejoice! A bit of digital archaeology has turned up a working early version of the CLU programming language and the files needed to create it uploaded to GitHub.…

Obviously you can split your videos in two or three different volumes and store them on the drive manually. This certainly is not a good idea, it is an exhaustive work which requires manual intervention and a lots of your time.

One of the more popular reverse proxy tools at the moment is Nginx. Although Nginx itself is a web server, it does an outstanding job of serving as a reverse proxy. This step-by-step tutorial is going to show you how you can easily set up a reverse proxy with Nginx to improve security and performance.

WordPress continuous and growing worldwide popularity has made it the go-to content management system. It is now the center of the universe for all individuals that want to create, edit, and publish their contemplated ideas. However, all the attention that WordPress has brought on itself comes at a price.

phpMyAdmin is a free, open-source, and web-based application used for managing MySQL and MariaDB databases from the web interface. In this post, we will show you how to install and secure phpMyAdmin on Debian 11.

UrBackup is a client/server backup tool that supports image backups as well as file backups.In this guide, we will take a look at the installation procedure of UrBackup on an Ubuntu 20.04 system.