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This is a list of Linux desktop environments that appeared following GNOME’s 3.x release because of design decision disagreements, or the ones which were forked from a working GNOME codebase.

Carl Richell, Founder and CEO of System76, has announced that the first alpha release of Pop!_OS 24.04 with COSMIC DE will launch on August 8th.

NVIDIA released today the beta version of the upcoming NVIDIA 560 graphics driver series for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems, the first release to default to the open-source GPU kernel modules.

This article focuses on useful Flatpak tools. Only free and open source software is eligible for inclusion.

AAEON has expanded its product range with the launch of two innovative All-in-One Panel PCs: the ACP-1075 and ACP-1078.

Ever since my Windows-equipped gaming PC broke down, not due to Windoze, but due to a blown power supply unit (PSU), I have been gaming on my Ubuntu-equipped laptop for the past few weeks.

I am a tab maximalist. On any given day, you can find me with 50+ tabs open across multiple windows on Firefox. Having this many tabs open can seem chaotic, but rest assured there is a method to the madness.

After years of playing second fiddle to chilled air, it appears that direct-to-chip liquid cooling is finally going uptown.

Learn how to lock user accounts, disable user accounts, and expire user accounts in Linux using a command-line tool or manual method.

Learn how to use the free command to display RAM memory, swap memory consumption, and the total size of the buffer/cache in Linux.

LZ4 1.10 compression algorithm released with multithreading, dramatically improving compression speeds by up to 8 times.

In light of the CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage/disaster that has been wreaking havoc on corporate Windows systems around the world since Friday, systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering pointed out how such a situation on Linux systems could be averted by leveraging systemd's Automatic Boot Assessment functionality.

To provide an insight into the quality of software available, we have compiled a list of 8 free and open source student information systems. Hopefully there will be something of interest for any educational establishment that needs to manage student data.

Zed is a high-performance, “multiplayer”, free and open source code editor written in Rust and developed in the open on GitHub. It was created by the same authors as the Atom text editor, and although it has IDE features, it is very responsive. In this tutorial, we learn how to install Zed on some of the most used Linux distributions.

While WebM is a great format for web video, there may be times when you need to convert WebM to other formats. Let's explore various methods to do so.

Mozilla's Thunderbird team has fixed a 24-year-old feature bug, bringing system tray mail notifications to GNOME and KDE desktop environments for Linux users.

Can we trust the Linux Foundation to look after anything at all? Look what it turned this once-thriving site into.

This detailed guide explains what ExifTool is, how to install ExifTool on Linux, and how to use it to manage image metadata information with practical examples.

Audacity 3.6.1 update fixes critical bugs, including crashes with multichannel audio exports and clip pasting. Here's more on that!

All of the "perf" performance events feature updates were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 6.11 merge window.