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Particle introduced the Tachyon on Kickstarter today, a 5G-connected single-board computer designed to embed intelligence into various devices.

Learn a step-by-step guide to installing and using the Dolphin emulator on Ubuntu 24.04 to play your favorite GameCube and Wii console games.

Vanilla OS is an experimental distro testing out new implementations of immutability, cross-distro packaging, A/B failover, and more. Vanilla OS 2 Orchid appeared earlier this week. It's a very different OS from version 1, which came out 18 months ago and that we tried out in January 2023, but the same overall goals remain.

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 13 proficient dedicated comic book viewers. Hopefully, there will be something of interest here for younger readers or older readers who want to recapture their misspent youth.

Learn how to install and use the screen command in Linux to manage multiple shell sessions during an SSH connection, with practical examples.

After seeing how the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 Zen 5 Strix Point performance is under Linux against a range of other Intel/AMD laptops, the next obvious question is... how does this compare to Windows?

Links, a text-based web browser originally developed in 1999, allows users to navigate the Internet without the need for graphical content. It recently rolled out its new 2.30 version after sixteen months without a new release.

Learn the details of the read command, its options, and how to use it in the Linux terminal to capture user input and store it in a variable.

NTFS-3G is an open-source implementation that enables Linux and other Unix-like operating systems to read from and write to Windows NTFS partitions.

Daniel Robbins, creator of both Gentoo and Funtoo, has announced that Funtoo is expected to be fully discontinued by August 2024.

Impression is a small utility designed to offer users an extremely simple graphical tool to create bootable drives.

Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a powerful security module that provides mechanisms for supporting access control security policies. When managing files and directories on a SELinux-enabled system, it’s crucial to preserve their SELinux context to maintain their security properties. This article will guide you through the steps to copy files and directories while preserving their SELinux context on a Linux system.

Alongside the notification that Polaris Catalog has been made open source, Dremio announced that it was sharing Project Nessie’s capabilities with Polaris.

Git 2.46 distributed revision control system brings better error handling, enhanced color parsing, new global options, updates to symbolic refs, and more.

MediaWiki is a free and open-source software with robust, scalable, and extensible wiki software offering feature-rich wiki implementations. The MediaWiki powers the biggest wiki sites on the internet, such as Wikipedia and Wikimedia.

The UBports Foundation announced today the release and general availability of Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 as the latest stable version of this Ubuntu-based privacy and freedom-respecting mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets.

If you are currently using Proxmox 7.4, note that it will reach end-of-life (EOL) on July 31, 2024. It is time to upgrade your Proxmox server. This detailed post will guide you through the steps to upgrade to Proxmox 8.2 from Proxmox 7.

Ubuntu maker Canonical (Canonical Group Limited) recently filed their financial statements with UK's Companies House that offers a fresh look at their financial performance.

While it was already playable with Proton, the developer of Please, Touch The Artwork 2 has added a Native Linux version.

Last May, Canonical announced that a hardware-accelerated version of the Chromium snap was available for testing on Intel (7th-gen and later) hardware. And that news was welcome. Hardware acceleration + the modern web = a good time had by all.