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Looking for a VPN solution for your devices? Explore our comparison of WireGuard vs OpenVPN to determine which one fits your personal needs.

The W55RP20-EVB-Pico evaluation board combines the W55RP20 MCU with the W5500 wired TCP/IP controller and the RP2040 from the Raspberry Pi Pico.

The PDF file format is one of the most common file formats in use today. This article recommends the best open source PDF viewers.

While Linus Torvalds stated in mid-June that he intended to merge sched_ext for Linux 6.11 as the exciting extensible scheduler code, it didn't end up happening...

Deploy your automation platform with Chef. Chef enables automation for both nurture and applications in development and production environments.

The exodus, which was already being much discussed in online forums such as Reddit, began in 2023 when Oracle made a major change in the way it prices Java. Under the new scheme, business users are charged based on the company’s size — specifically, on the number of employees, which includes part-time workers and contractors.

Hyprland tiling Wayland compositor has been accepted into Debian and is now part of its unstable repositories. Here's more on that!

Linus Torvalds, the principal developer of the Linux kernel, has announced the release of Linux Kernel version 6.11 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) on 28 July 2024.

Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers. This guide will walk you through the installation and configuration of a WebDAV server on Ubuntu and Debian using Apache2.

The other day, Dan Lorenc, CEO and co-founder of the software supply chain company Chainguard, wrote on LinkedIn that "open source is not a good strategy for startups." What? Do you think I was going to disagree because I'm a big open-source fan? Think again!

With this First Look, we will be taking a look at an open-source file transfer app called “LocalSend”, which allows you to securely share files and messages across devices.

Version 22 is based on Ubuntu 24.04, which appeared in late April. The beta version of Ubuntu Noble was delayed, and correspondingly the Mint blog said in June that "there are many bugs in this BETA," followed by a summary in the July post:

A lot of tools have appeared for sound creation since the recent developments in artificial intelligence. In this presentation, I will show how to create a sound using NAM files and some plugins available in Guitarix.

The Aeon team has announced the release of Aeon Desktop Release Candidate 3 (RC3), the first version with Full Disk Encryption by default.

This article benchmarks the DreamQuest N95 Mini PC. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite unless otherwise stated.

Wine 9.14 rolls out with enhanced Mailslots, better ODBC driver support, user32 updates, and bug fixes. Here's more on that!

But before we pop the cork on the champagne bottles and start the celebrations, perhaps we should consider that this good news for Linux might not be good news for those running BSD or one of the Unixes.

NodeBB is open-source forum software written in JavaScript and Node.js. It uses MongoDB as the default database and offers multiple features, such as real-time notifications via web socket, social media integration, and full REST APIs.

With the AMD Zen 5 generation, the timing is interesting where it's not the desktop processors launching first but happens to be in the form of AMD Ryzen AI 300 series laptops. With the last minute delay of the Ryzen 900 series by 1~2 weeks, the embargo lift for the Ryzen AI 300 series is timed for this Sunday morning where I can now present the first AMD Zen 5 Linux benchmark results.

The 198th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on July 28th, 2024, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.