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Meet Reflector, the Arch Linux tool that optimizes your Pacman experience by selecting the fastest and most up-to-date mirrors. Here's how to use it.

Earlier this week was a proposal for creating a new Mesa legacy driver branch for clearing out older OpenGL drivers like the ATI R300, AMD R600, Lima, Nouveau NV30, and other older GPU drivers. However, other upstream Mesa developers aren't convinced by the proposal.

Mozilla backtracking on private window changes after uproar. Firefox remains the browser of choice for many, but the latest update has lost users' tabs and makes it much more apparent when they have private tabs open, missing the point of privacy.

We have plenty of note-taking applications for Android. Some might prefer to use the default apps by Samsung, Google or any other phone manufacturer, and others would look for open-source solutions like Standard Notes.

Here are the best free JavaScript runtimes with our verdict captured in a legendary LinuxLinks-style ratings chart.

A new version of ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors, a free, open-source, and cross-platform office suite, is now available to download. If you’ve not yet found a reason to try this productivity powerhouse out, this latest update could well change that. Last autumn’s ONLYOFFICE 7.5 release added a new PDF application to the suite. This could open/view PDF files, and handle basic PDF editing, like form filling, highlighting, simple annotations, and scribbling on documents with a pen tool.

Prestashop is a fully customizable and feature-rich e-commerce solution for building comprehensive e-commerce websites. In this guide, you’ll learn how to install Prestashop on the Ubuntu 24.04 server with the LAMP Stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP) and Composer.

Darktable 4.8 open-source raw image editor has been released today as a major update introducing new features, improvements, and enhanced camera support.

Launch your data science journey with Canonical's Data Science Stack (DSS). This open-source environment (built on MicroK8s, JupyterLab, MLflow) offers a ready-to-run platform for machine learning on Ubuntu workstations.

Or any other hypervisors that might hypothetically be acquired or suddenly get more costly. Moving a VM from one host machine to another is easy. Moving VMs from one hypervisor to another is less trivial – but help is at hand.

Newly merged patches for Mesa 24.2 slightly enhance the default out-of-the-box build experience for the open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers on POWER/PowerPC platforms.

Calamares Installer 3.3.7 debuts with fresh features, including better support for non-ASCII keyboard layouts and enhanced partition checks.

Tambourine Music Player is described as a music player for your local music library. It’s written in Kotlin and published under an open source license.

A reverse proxy server is a type of server that sits in front of web servers and forwards client (e.g., web browser) requests to those web servers. Reverse proxies are typically installed to increase security, performance, and reliability. This tutorial will guide you through the process of setting up Nginx, a high-performance and highly scalable web server, as a reverse proxy on a system running Ubuntu or Debian.

Forlinx Embedded has launched the FET3562J-C SoM, a versatile system on module with an optional 1 TOPS NPU, optimized for a broad range of applications including industrial automation, consumer electronics, smart healthcare, energy, and telecommunications.

Never underestimate the stickiness of legacy technology. It is 40 years since Robert W Scheifler ushered in the era of the X Window System, a windowing system that continues to stick around despite many distributions looking for alternatives.

Intel on Wednesday released version 1.5 of their Linux NPU driver, their user-space driver component for Linux systems in enabling the neural processing unit found with Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" processors and newer. This goes along with their upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for allowing a full open-source solution for AI workloads with the likes of OpenVINO.

Magento is an open-source e-commerce platform written in PHP. In this tutorial, we will install the Magento open-source community edition. It offers all the functionality you need to set up a professional online store. We will also install Elasticsearch to search through the product catalog, Redis for the session, and file cache, and serve it using the Nginx server.

Here's another interesting looking indie game for you to follow with Wax Heads, a cosy-punk slice-of-life narrative sim about managing a struggling record store. Developed by Patattie Games in Godot Engine, it's planned to release with Linux support and there's a demo available.

In the fast-evolving landscape of software development, containerization has emerged as a revolutionary technology. Containers encapsulate applications and their dependencies, ensuring consistent performance across various environments. This paradigm shift has addressed many challenges associated with traditional virtualization, such as bloated resource usage and cumbersome deployment processes.