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With the release of the latest KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS desktop environment arriving in the stable repositories of many popular GNU/Linux distributions, it’s time to have a look at the new features and improvements coming to the next major version, KDE Plasma 5.19.

In this edition of our open source news roundup, GNOME beautifies the GTK website, the Linux Foundation’s released a report on security vulnerabilities, the FSF announces a new code-hosting site and the OSI board of directors is decided next week! 

The upcoming release of GNOME 3.36 is set to be a big one. The open source desktop environment has been kitted out with own features, and features several major enhancements — all of which we roundup in this article.

In this tutorial, we’ll be covering how you can install WordPress in a subdirectory and at the same time leave the parent domain name or WordPress instance unaffected.

In a twitter exchange about ethical licenses, my friend Stephen O'Grady said something that I thought was sharp:  the energy cost is only part of the issue. maybe it's significant over the long term, maybe not. the collateral damage of the process to individuals and institutions with no other goal than protecting open source, however, is material IMO. read more

The Arch Linux March 2020 ISO snapshot has been released today for those who want to install the powerful and customizable GNU/Linux distribution.

Winmate’s “IP70” is an industrial thin Mini-ITX board with an Apollo Lake Pentium N4200 plus up to 8GB DDR3L, 2x GbE, 2x SATA, 2x M.2, 4x USB 3.0, DP, HDMI, and -20 to 60°C support. Winmate has posted details on a “new” low-profile Mini-ITX board with an Intel Apollo Lake SoC and a -20 to […]

Do you make videos? Livestream? Well, you probably know of or use the cross-platform open source OBS Studio and how it's basically the go-to for such things and they just gained another huge sponsor.

Nvidia released today a new version of its long-lived graphics driver for UNIX (Linux, BSD, and Solaris) systems, Nvidia 440.64, adding support for some recent Nvidia GPUs and the upcoming Linux 5.6 kernel series.

Two scripts are included in this tutorial, which helps you to identify how long the high CPU/memory consumption processes are running on Linux. The script will show you the process ID, the owner of the process, the name of the process and how long the processes are running.

The next FSF award may be given to Richard Stallman himself; but it might also be given to a person largely responsible for ‘ousting’ Stallman, which would be catastrophic

Performance appraisal has been done via attempt to set up Manjaro 19.0 Guest as KVM virtualization host installing Qemu && Libvirt via native command `pacman -S`.

Aries’ “M100PFS” module runs Linux on Microchip’s RISC-V based PolarFire SoC with FPGAs up to 265K LE. Features include up to 8GB LPDDR4, up to 64GB eMMC, and support for up to 16x SERDES lanes. Aries Embedded announced one of the first compute modules equipped with the PolarFire SoC, a Linux-powered, FPGA-enabled RISC-V SoC from […]

The pkill command is used to send signals to running programs based on different criteria.

Git outta here – has it been that long? The Apache Software Foundation has decreed this week to be the 20th anniversary of the source code management system, Subversion. So, happy birthday SVN!…

With the KDE Plasma 5.18 LTS out in the world, I decided to compile a list of the top 5 GNU/Linux distributions that offer the latest desktop environment series, for those who want to use it right now, out-of-the-box.

The MATE community edition of the latest Manjaro Linux 19.0 "Kyria" operating system is now available for download, featuring the recently released MATE 1.24 desktop environment.

Recently, Metro Exodus ended its Epic Store exclusivity and Deep Silver (the publisher) confirmed it was heading to Linux. In a recent Reddit AMA (Ask me anything), the developer 4A Games mentioned the Linux port too.

Psst. Word on the web is that RSS died in 2013. That's when Google pulled the plug on Google Reader. Don't believe everything that you hear. RSS is alive. It's well. It's still a great way to choose the information you want to read without algorithms making the decision for you. All you need is the right feed reader.

There are 38 different desktops or window managers in Fedora 31. You could try a different one every day for a month, and still have some left over. Some have very few features. Some have so many features they are called a desktop environment. This article can’t go into detail on each, but it’s interesting […]