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April was full of exciting news in the world of open source. Keep reading for some of the more interesting tidbits, including Linux out of this world... on Mars. 12,000 open source contributors help a helicopter fly on Mars Linux had a big moment on April 19: The open source operating system powered Ingenuity, a NASA helicopter that was the first powered aircraft to fly on Mars. read more

A motherboard is the main printed circuit board (PCB) in general-purpose computers and other expandable systems. It holds and allows communication between many of the crucial electronic components of a system, such as the central processing unit (CPU) and memory, and provides connectors for other peripherals.

The thirty-first installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on May 2nd, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Apache NIFI is an open-source scalable tool to manage transformation, data routing, and system mediation logic. To put it in layman’s terms nifi simply automates the flow of data between two or more systems.

The first pre-release of Rocky Linux is here. It is immediately available for download and for you to test.

In this tutorial, we're going to show you how to install XWiki with Tomcat 9, MariaDB, Nginx as a reverse proxy, and Let's Encrypt.

The lives we led before we arrived where we are now sometimes feel like a distant land full of memories we can't quite recall. And sometimes we have lived experiences that we'll just never forget. Many times those experiences teach us and help us appreciate where we are today. We may even wish for those days as we recount our past lives. What did you do before tech? Tell us in the comments. read more

It’s that time of the year again, when Canonical kicks off the development cycle of the next major Ubuntu Linux release, in this case I’m talking about Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri), and now daily builds are available to download.

This absolute beginner's guide explains the steps required to install deb (*.deb) files in Ubuntu. This applies to all Ubuntu-based Linux distributions such as Linux Mint, elementary OS, etc.

This article explains how to install GNOME 40 on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) for testing purposes.

How to Secure WordPress Installation with Bedrock on Google Cloud Platform. Bedrock is a WordPress boilerplate with a different improved directory structure and easier configuration.

CrowdSec is an open-source & collaborative security solution built to secure Internet-exposed Linux services, servers, containers, or virtual machines with a server-side agent. It is a modernized version of Fail2ban which was a great source of inspiration to the project founders. In this article we’ll describe how to deploy CrowdSec in a multi-server setup with one server sharing signal.

Virtualbox Snapshots is a point-in-time copy that allows us to save the state of the machine and can restore the machine state whenever needed using these snapshots.

The upcoming major version of the elementary Linux operating system - elementary OS 6 Beta code-named "Odin" is now available for public download.

The Solus GNOME edition has been updated today to the GNOME 40 desktop environment, so here’s a first look at it on the popular distribution if you want to use the latest GNOME release on Solus.

Here in this guide, we try to give you a quick model on how to migrate to Fedora from the Ubuntu desktop.

Wallys’ “DR8072A” router board features a 2.2GHz, quad -A53 Qualcomm IPQ8072A SoC equipped with dual-band, 4×4 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) for 8x streams at up to 2475 Mbps plus 4x GbE, 2x 2.5GbE, 2x USB 3.0, and mini-PCIe. Wallys (or Wally’s) Communications manufactures router boards for Qualcomm’s growing roster of quad -A53 networking SoCs featuring 802.11b/g/n/ax […]

In this brief tutorial, we will see how to install multimedia codecs in Fedora 34 from RPM Fusion software repository.

Antmicro unveiled an open source, RPi CM4-compatible “ARVSOM” module that runs Linux on the RISC-V based StarFive 71×0 SoC. The ARVSOM can plug into Antmicro’s new Scalenode carrier in place of the CM4 for clustering projects. RISC-V software developer Antmicro has launched its first embedded Linux driven RISC-V product. Its ARVSOM compute module uses the […]

The April 2021 issue of my exclusive Xfce’s apps update roundup continues with new releases of Mousepad, Xfdashboard, Xfce Settings, and more.