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Say Goodbye to the dd command! The latest pv (Pipe Viewer) utility can now write ISOs directly to USB disks in Linux!!

CockroachDB is a highly resilient and scalable distributed SQL database designed to handle large-scale data workloads easily. In this guide, we’ll show you how to install the CockroachDB cluster on Ubuntu 24.04 servers.

Canonical will offer customized Docker Linux container images with a dozen years of long-term support.

A review of the official M.2 HAT+ for the Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computer that lets you have a stable and faster internal storage drive.

The SLG47910V ForgeFPGA is an FPGA that offers a robust feature set, low power consumption, and affordability, complemented by free, easy-to-use development software. It is designed for applications in sensor data aggregation, consumer electronics, and portable computing devices such as notebooks and tablets.

Removing all files and directories owned by a specific user or group on a Linux system can be crucial for maintaining system integrity and ensuring proper management of user data. Whether you need to clean up resources after removing a user, enforce security policies, or simply free up disk space, understanding the steps to perform this task efficiently and safely is important.

Distance is a name I've not heard for a while. A really good fun sci-fi racing platformer from developer Refract that released in 2018, and they're bringing it back for v1.5: The Kinetic Update. More about it: "Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.

I've been pointing out Windows security bugs since Windows for Workgroups showed up in 1992 and I showed how you could steal data from your coworker's spreadsheets using Object Linking and Embedding (OLE). You'd think Microsoft would have figured security out by now. But no. It's only gotten worse – much worse.

Does it seem like I’m a bit obsessed with Tiling Shell, the super-charged window snapping extension for GNOME Shell, which works beautifully on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and above? It might do since this is my 3rd article about the extension in less than a fortnight! But the updates and new features are coming thick and fast; I can’t not cover them. Progress marches ever on!

Following below is an attempt to reproduce sample described in https://www.phoronix.com/news/Archinstall-2.8.1-Released in virtual environment . To perform the testing first of all . . . .

Sent in as the sole patch for this week's Linux power management subsystem updates is an important fix for Intel Core hybrid systems with buggy firmware. The Intel P-State driver fix can address as much as a 50% performance hit seen with existing Linux kernel versions on affected Intel hybrid platforms.

This article will show you how to set up a web server, Tor, and then serve your localhost on the dark web with a custom V3 onion web address.

The NVIDIA 555.58 video driver with explicit sync support is officially released, promising a new era in the Wayland experience for Linux users.

UrBackup is a backup application for a system admin to back up a device to a remote server. Learn how to install UrBackup on Ubuntu and use it on Windows and Linux.

PipeWire 1.2 has been released today as the latest stable version of this acclaimed open-source server for handling audio, video streams, and hardware on Linux systems.

The WebDAQ series from Digilent consists of stand-alone data loggers designed for universal input applications, enabling remote system monitoring and control. This series includes three models: WebDAQ 904, WebDAQ 504, and WebDAQ 316, each engineered to cater to specific monitoring needs without the necessity of a personal computer.

A new version of SoftMaker FreeOffice has been released. SoftMaker FreeOffice 2024 is a free (as in beer) version of SoftMaker Office 2024, a paid-for cross-platform office suite developed by German software company SoftMaker. The paid version was first released in 1994, and came to Linux in 2003.

IBM likes to be secretive about Db2, the 41-year-old database still used by some of the world's largest banks and retailers, but occasionally something leaks out.

Last year a new kernel feature merged in Linux 6.6 was multi-grain(ed) timestamps for file-systems as a means of better timestamp handling originally for NFS compared to the existing coarse-grained timestamps with the once per jiffy timestamps being used for invalidating NFS caches.

Ever feel like the internet is always… yelling? From pop-up windows and ads that autoplay to the sheer size of the internet, a lot of things scream for our attention. This makes it difficult to get things done.