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For the first time, TuxCare is offering support for Microsoft software that’s no longer supported. .NET 6.0 reached end of life last November.

Here’s our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart. All of the software featured here is free and open source.

Linux distros that don't exist, but we wish did. Analysis In an overcrowded field full of distributions, there are still many empty gaps. The Register would like to point in the direction of a few.

Oracle today announced the Oracle Linux Enhanced Diagnostics (OLED) as their newest project that aims to enhance the debugability of the Linux kernel.

IT leaders and industry insiders share their open source trends and predictions for 2025.

The openSUSE Project announced today that their openSUSE Tumbleweed rolling release distro now comes with Wayland support for those who want to install and use the latest LXQt desktop environment.

Tinc is an open-source Virtual Private Network (VPN) adapter that provides a simple way to create a private peer-to-peer (P2P) mesh network in Linux, Windows, and macOS. Similar to OpenVPN and Wireguard, it can link together multiple computers across different network topologies into a single virtual LAN.

Niri scrollable-tiling compositor adopts calendar versioning, with v25.1 bringing floating window enhancements and more Wayland fixes.

Welcome to our guide on setting up phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 24.04! Efficiently managing databases is critical. phpMyAdmin is a popular open-source tool that provides a user-friendly interface to manage MySQL or MariaDB databases with ease.

Microsoft can’t be happy about the Steam Deck. After all, PC gaming has long been about Windows. For decades! Yet now one of the hottest PC gaming systems is… a portable Linux PC that runs Windows games? That’s right. The Steam Deck has really taken off.

Last year an AMD engineer proposed the notion of "Attack Vector Controls" for the Linux kernel to re-think how the CPU security mitigation handling is done and making it easier for system administrators/users to toggle the mitigations they are concerned about or not.

WordPress co-founder Matthew Mullenweg on Saturday deactivated the WordPress.org accounts of five members of the WordPress community, and justified his actions by saying it will encourage them to fork the open source content management system.

Tired of the constant updates, bloat, and resource demands of Windows 11? Aren't we all? MX Linux could be the perfect solution to your woes, and thanks to its lightweight nature -- especially compared to Windows -- it could make your PC run even faster!

I haven’t wasted a single word on the ongoing WordPress drama yet, but the longer Matt Mullenweg, Automattic’s CEO and thus owner of WordPress, keeps losing his mind, I can’t really ignore the matter any more. OSNews runs, after all, on WordPress – self-hosted, at least, so not on Mullenweg’s WordPress.com – and if things keep going the way they are, I simply don’t know if WordPress remains a viable, safe, and future-proof CMS for OSNews.

MX Linux 23.5 introduces Xfce 4.20, kernel 6.1/6.12, improved Packageinstaller & persistence handling, and more.

Enlightenment, the extremely lightweight window manager and minimal desktop, released new 0.27.0 few days ago.

DXVK 2.5.3 is out today as the second maintenance update to the DXVK 2.5 series for this Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine.

In today's data-driven world, statistical analysis plays a critical role in uncovering insights, validating hypotheses, and driving decision-making across industries. R, a powerful programming language for statistical computing, has become a staple in data analysis due to its extensive library of tools and visualizations.

A change to the Linux 6.13 kernel contributed by a Microsoft engineer ended up changing Linux x86_64 code without proper authorization and in turn causing troubles for users and now set to be disabled ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable release expected next Sunday.

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