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VLC 3.0.21 is now available as the latest stable version of this popular, cross-platform, free, and versatile media player for GNU/Linux, Android, macOS, Windows, and other platforms.

With yesterday marking the 20th birthday of Phoronix, I was curious what the most popular news articles were over these past two decades. There's a lot of compiler fodder, news from the early days of AMD Ryzen, Linus Torvalds commentary, and more.

Checking the headers of a website can provide valuable information about the server, security policies, and other metadata. This is particularly useful for web developers, system administrators, and security professionals. The Linux command line offers several tools that allow users to inspect website headers easily and efficiently.

Learn how to install Nginx (either stable or mainline) on Ubuntu using the package manager, Launchpad PPA, official repository, and source file.

blendOS developer Rudra Saraswat today announced the general availability of blendOS 4 as another major update to this Arch Linux-based immutable Linux distribution with some unique features.

OpenLiteSpeed is a lightweight and open-source version of the LiteSpeed Server developed by LiteSpeed Technologies. It supports Apache Rewrite rules, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, and TLS v1.3 and QUIC protocols. This tutorial will show you how to install an OpenLiteSpeed Server on Ubuntu 24.04.

For those typically waiting until the first point release of a new Mesa3D driver series before upgrading, today it's your chance to upgrade! Mesa 24.1.1 is now available with the first round of Mesa 24.1

Parrot OS 6.1, a Debian-based Linux distro focused on security and privacy, rolls out with enhanced security and performance features.

Learn how to install and use Morphosis on Linux to convert one file format to another using this GUI application with practical examples.

Data compression is the process of storing data in a format that uses less space than the original representation would use. Compressing data can be very useful particularly in the field of communications as it enables devices to transmit or store data in fewer bits. Besides reducing transmission bandwidth, compression increases the amount of information that can be stored on a hard disk drive or other storage device.

Offensive Security today announced the release of Kali Linux 2024.2 as the latest ISO snapshot of this popular Debian-based rolling distribution for ethical hacking and penetration testing.

For anyone who’s considering Debian as a server option, if you’ve used Ubuntu Server, you already have a leg up on making the transition. But don’t think once you’ve installed Debian that you’re ready to send it into development or production. There are a few steps you need to take to ensure the distribution is ready.

DuckDB 1.0, a SQL OLAP database management system, has launched with enhanced stability and new features.

A few weeks ago NVIDIA introduced their much anticipated R555 beta driver with NVIDIA 555.42.02 for Linux bringing Wayland explicit sync support, the GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware being used by default, and a variety of Wayland improvements. Today the NVIDIA 555.52.04 beta driver is out that offers additional fixes for the R555 series.

Learn how to install VirtualBox and the Extension Pack on the latest Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble Numbat) with practical examples.

In this post, I’m going to show you how to use Google Drive on a Linux distro. The best options to use Google Drive via the graphical user interface (GUI) or command-line interface (CLI).

Need to know how many CPU cores your Linux system has? Learn how to use the nproc command to find number of processing units in Linux.

Parrot Security released today Parrot OS 6.1 as the latest stable version of their Debian-based security-oriented distro for ethical hacking and penetration testing with updated tools and improvements.

Kali Linux 2024.2 is now available for download. It features GNOME 46, enhanced Xfce, 18 new security tools, and 64-bit time_t transition.

KDE's Lydia Pintscher has published the request for feedback on what KDE should focus on over the next 2~3 years. Via the KDE Phabricator, ideas can be submitted over the next month. The selected goals they will focus on over the next few years will be announced at their Akademy conference in September.