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Today, the IPFire Project released IPFire 2.29 Core Update 190 as a new update to its hardened open-source GNU/Linux distribution, which primarily performs as a router or firewall.

Continuing our series on Anonym’s technology, this post focuses on the Transparency Portal, a critical tool designed to give our partners comprehensive visibility into the processes and algorithms that handle their data. As a reminder, Mozilla acquired Anonym over the summer of 2024, as a key pillar in its effort to raise the standards of privacy in the advertising industry.

Pimoroni has introduced the Presto Beta Edition, an RP2350-powered programmable desktop display designed for versatility and compact functionality. The device features a 4-inch square IPS touchscreen with a resolution of 480 x 480 pixels, housed in a black aluminum stand.

Along with the recent release of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 beta, the AlmaLinux crew released their AlmaLinux 10 beta as the latest wares for this popular community/free alternative to upstream RHEL.

Kdenlive 24.12 open-source video editor launches with Qt6 support, subtitle innovations, new effects, and a redesigned UI for ultimate editing precision.

Apple Clock helps you manage your time. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives for Linux.

Great news for developers! GitHub Copilot, the AI-powered coding assistant, is now free for all. Code Faster With Free GitHub Copilot!

Mozilla’s overall revenue saw a sizeable boost in 2023, despite a drop in income from its lucrative search engine deals.

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 24.8.4 as the fourth maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 24.8 office suite series to address more than 50 bugs.

Building off the release of NetBSD 10.0 that arrived for Easter this year and incorporated a half-decade of work, NetBSD 10.1 is out right before Christmas as the first update to this BSD operating system series.

The Orange Pi CM5 was launched as an alternative to Raspberry Pi CM4/CM5 last July with a Rockchip RK3588S octa-core Cortex-A76/A55 SoC, up to 16GB LPDDR4x, 256GB eMMC flash, and three board-to-board connectors maintaining partially compatibility with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4.

In the world of Linux and system administration, maintaining persistent connections is often crucial for managing remote servers. The Keep Alive mechanism serves as a vital tool to prevent disconnection from idle sessions, especially in SSH connections. This article will provide you with a straightforward Bash script example that keeps your session alive, ensuring you can manage your tasks without interruptions.

Computing is too pervasive and too important to leave up to the professionals. Linux is one of the computing phenomena that ordinary folks should understand better—and one that might improve their own lives directly.

Here are the best Linux apps we encountered in 2024. Try them out if you haven't yet!

Earlier this year, in May, VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro were made free, and thus, a license to download and install them was no longer necessary for personal users. A guide was also released by Broadcom, which walked through installation and switching.

If you're considering a migration from the soon sunsetting Windows 10 to Linux and you're looking for a way to test the open-source operating system, here are four options.

AMD today sent out a first batch of "new stuff" feature patches to DRM-Next of new code for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver of material for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle.

How often have you wished to have an instruction manual — or, at least, a Unix man page — for life? Well, your wait is over. Of course, you probably were hoping for instructions on how to navigate life, but [cve’s] mott program plays life inside a man page. That might not be as useful as a real manual for life, but it is still pretty cool.

Digital Clock 5 is billed as a very customizable and beautiful clock. It lives up to its billing and more besides.

Sublime Text 4 Build 4186 delivers refined syntax highlighting, faster theming, improved file detection, stable Git scans, and enhanced cache compression.