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We round up the top 10 Linux-related trends and best practices in 2024, covering topics like Linux security and the growing role of Linux in edge computing and quantum computing.

I'll share 12 new content, features or changes to It's FOSS platform during the holiday period.

Installing WordPress with the LEMP stack on Ubuntu 24.04 is straightforward and may take up to 15 minutes. Let’s get things done!

Learn how fat containers and the Multipass tool can help create cloud virtual machine stacks on your laptop, thus accelerating productivity while cutting cloud costs.

Meet Ghostty 1.0: The GPU-accelerated terminal emulator exits beta after two years, challenging Kitty and Alacritty with its speed and features.

Wiki.js is a powerful and extensible open source wiki software to create the perfect wiki and knowledge base documentation.

OneXPlayer maintains a line of handheld gaming consoles following in the success of the likes of Valve's Steam Deck, Lenovo Legion Go, and ASUS ROG Ally. These OneXPlayer devices ship with Microsoft Windows by default but the Linux support has been improving...

Over the festive period Valve released an update to Proton Experimental bringing in more game fixes for the likes of Marvel Rivals and other games on Steam Deck and Desktop Linux. There's also an update to the open source Xalia tool, which is used for getting gamepad input in launchers.

ADLINK’s I-Pi SMARC Amston Lake is a fanless development kit based on SMARC 2.1-compliant system-on-module with an Intel Atom X7433RE quad-core SoC, 8GB LPDRR5 memory, and up to 256GB eMMC flash, plus a carrier board with dual 2.5GbE with TSN, two Raspberry Pi-compatible GPIO headers, and a range of other interfaces.

Everyone likes something cheap, and when that cheap thing is a router that’s supported by OpenWRT, it sounds like a win. [Hennung Paul] ordered a Wavlink WL-WN586X3 for the princely sum of 39 Euros, but was disappointed to find his device a rev. 2 board rather than the rev.1 board supported by the Linux distribution.

Privacy and security have never been more important—or more under threat. With headlines constantly reporting data breaches, hacks, and the unchecked collection of sensitive personal information, it’s easy to feel like your digital life is always at risk.

Open AI models on the rise are shaking up the AI market, breaking a stranglehold of proprietary models running on proprietary hardware.

In addition to the exciting hardware launches this year particularly around Xeon 6 Granite Rapids, Lunar Lake processors, and the new low-cost Battlemage graphics cards, what remains particularly exciting and consistent are all of Intel's great investments around open-source and Linux.

Recently, two things happened. A friend of my gave me his old iPhone, so now I have it available for all sorts of testing. I wrote an article on how to copy local music, sans any cloud nonsense, to the iPhone, using VLC. And then, I wrote a second tutorial, on how to accomplish this with KDE Connect. Three things. Three.

Spend the holidays with some holiday themed puzzles, riddles and quizzes.

COBOL, your mother’s and grandmother’s programming language, is still in relatively wide use today, and with the initial batches of COBOL programmers retiring and, well, going away, there’s a market out there for younger people to learn COBOL and gain some serious job security in stable, but perhaps boring market segments. One of the things you would not associate with COBOL, however, is gaming – but it turns out it can be used for that, too.

Here are our favorite TypeScript-based web content management systems. They are all free and open source software.

If you're a fan of Windows PowerShell and you're using Windows 10, you'll be glad to know you can install and use that powerful command line tool on Linux.

This setup via Pamac GUI on CachyOS looks a bit different from the way proposed finally in https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/dotfiles/wiki/installation Pamac GUI makes steps of installation a bit more clear and brings some more light on what is going on behind the scene .

Linux 6.12 was recently promoted to being this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel with it being the last major kernel release of 2024. For those enterprise Linux users, hyperscalers, and others typically jumping from one annual LTS kernel to the next, in this holiday article are some benchmarks looking at the performance benefits of Linux 6.12 LTS compared to Linux 6.6 LTS while testing on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation.