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With Firefox 130 rolling out today to all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 131, to the beta channel for public testing. So it’s time to take a closer look at the new features and improvements.

I've used Linux extensively for around 15 years. It may not be my daily driver for the moment, but it's so easy to switch back to at any time. So many quirks and issues from back in the day have simply been solved. Using Linux today is as easy as anything else, and here are some of the specific ways.

The creator of the popular open-source network protocol analyzer talks about what’s new in Wireshark 4.4, how governance has changed, and what to expect next.

Kdenlive 24.08 open-source video editor is here with a revamped UI, improved transcoding, and new easing modes.

Another fresh month and so we have the latest operating system market share details from Statcounter, and it's another impressive showing for Linux from August 2024.

With the start of the new month comes the Steam Survey results for the month prior. The August 2024 data is in and it points to the Steam on Linux statistics dipping back below 2%.

The Zen Browser is a new effort to modernize web browsing by bringing tiling, workspaces, and so on – and it's blissfully free of Google code. Zen is a new web browser that's still in the relatively early stages of development. Since we have been testing it, it's gone from alpha 27 to 1.0.0-a.32, and during that time, it's already noticeably improved in stability.

A snapshot is an image of a filesystem state at a specific point in time. Snapshots are really useful to “turn back time” and bring the system to a known good state if something goes wrong. At the time of writing, there are two main native ways we can create atomic snapshots on Linux: by using LVM (Logical Volume Manager) or by creating a BTRFS filesystem, which has snapshots as a built-in feature.

The OrangePi RV is a development board based on the open-source RISC-V architecture, designed to offer high performance with low power consumption. This single-board computer features a JH7110 quad-core RISC-V processor, an M.2 M-key 2280 PCIe slot for SSD expansion, and supports up to 8GB of RAM.

The 203rd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on September 1st, 2024, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

The vast majority of sticky notes apps we’ve previously explored sport a graphical user interface. NoteSH is different. This Python-based open source tool is designed to run from the terminal.

Systemd-free distro Nitrux 3.6.1 is now available for download with the latest software, bug fixes, and more.

After a long resting period, I’m back with more Cool Apps to try in flatpak format. This article introduces projects available in Flathub with installation instructions. Flathub is the place to get and distribute apps for all of Linux. It is powered by Flatpak, allowing Flathub apps to run on almost any Linux distribution.

Arm engineer Mihail Atanassov proposed a set of "request for comments" patches this week for adding user submission support to the Panthor DRM driver that is used for handling newer Arm Mali graphics under Linux.

Efforts to add Rust code to the Linux kernel suffered a setback last Thursday when one of the maintainers of the Rust for Linux project stepped down – citing frustration with "nontechnical nonsense."

This post describes in details sequence of steps proposed by Stephan Raabe in his the most recent video. Synchronizing of databases on Manjaro during setup is mentioned as well .

An application server is software which provides the business logic for an application program. Here’s our recommended servers for Python.

Rather than handing more censorship powers to moderators, Bluesky devs are looking to make design changes to encourage its users to be civil.

Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 3.6.1 as the latest ISO snapshot of this rolling-release, immutable, and systemd-free distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux.

Ubuntu-based Rhino Linux 2024.2 brings a sparkling new theme, an upgraded Wiki, and advanced containerization.