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A set of four cool new window opening and closing animations got added to gaudy GNOME Shell extension Burn My Windows this weekend.

Remember the classic headline from the 1970s: “Ford to city — drop dead”? Well, this is how it looks, transcribed to itty-bitty open source in the 21st century. It’s a different scale, but…

Sailfish OS 5.0, originally released late last year as part of the new Jolla C2 Community Phone, will now be pushed to all Sailfish OS devices. There have been several other minor releases since the original release, so if you’re running Sailfish OS on something other than the C2, you’re getting a release with some more bugfixes and improvements.

RSS feeds are classic. And surprisingly, they are still relevant in 2025.

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Ubuntu 24.04.2, Plasma 6.3.1, COSMIC Alpha 6, Pi-hole 6, NVIDIA vs AMD, Docker Hub drops pull consumption fees, and more.

In addition to announcing the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P processors along with the Xeon 6 SoC (Granite Rapids D), the Xeon 6300 series are also making a quiet debut today. The Xeon 6300 series is in effect the continuation of the Xeon E series but with little change over the existing Xeon E-2400 processors.

The joy of using Linux is that there are so many choices. I'm someone who takes advantage of that choice, testing different Linux distros out there. However, when it comes to daily driving, I went with the flow and stuck with Ubuntu. I don't regret it.

As everybody from The Linux Foundation to Open Source Initiative to Facebook can tell you, figuring out how to make artificial intelligence platforms fit the four freedoms has been no easy task.

Today, the Armbian community announced the release and general availability of Armbian 25.2 as a major update aimed at enhancing functionality and expanding hardware support of this Debian and Ubuntu-based distribution targeting ARM devices.

What is dead may never die. After a heroic effort, the oldest machine-readable copy of Unix version 2 is running again. The recovered code runs on a PDP-11 simulator and contains a version of Unix that's later than V1 from 1972, but doesn't contain V2 API calls; a sort of Unix V2 beta.

Jan is a ChatGPT-alternative that runs 100% offline on your desktop. The aim of the project is to make it easy for anyone to run LLMs and use AI yet retain full control and privacy.

Libinput as the open-source input handling library used by the modern Linux desktop both by Wayland compositors and the X.Org Server now has support for three-finger dragging...

IceWM 3.7 window manager for the X Window System brings new theming options, improved keybinding support, and bug fixes.

Ntopng is an open-source network traffic monitoring tool for traffic analysis and real-time visualization. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install the Ntopng Network Monitoring Tool on the Debian 12 server.

KiCad 9.0 is now available as the newest version of this leading open-source Electronics Design Automation (EDA) suite that can rival some proprietary solutions for designing PCBs and other electronic hardware...

This article recommends the finest free and open source software that lets you dive into responsive design using CSS.

The 228th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on February 23rd, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

The first PhotoPrism update for 2025 brings a sleek UI, hybrid photo-video viewer, and 3D Earth view for Places—plus some usability and performance enhancements.

Inquiring minds want to know if a potential candidate’s opposition to OSI’s Open Source AI Definition is the reason it pulled a previously unknown time zone rule out of a magic hat to deny his nomination.

FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 3 is out this weekend in being the newest weekly development version leading towards next month's stable release to cap off the FreeBSD 13 series.