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Unoptimized images are one of the most common causes for a slow website. With slow load times comes a negative impact on search engine rankings and user experience. Fortunately, optimizing images for web performance is a crucial step in ensuring fast-loading websites. Read on to find out how you can optimize images for web and improve your website’s page performance.

Creator of the Hacker Diet and sponsor of pre-Web hypermedia system Xanadu. Obit Polymath, pioneering developer of software and hardware, a prolific writer, and true old-school hacker John Walker has passed away.…

In partnership with SemiDrive, Forlinx Embedded has introduced the FET-D9360-C System on Module (SoM), featuring the D9-Pro high-performance industrial processor. This SoM is designed for industrial applications demanding multi-display capabilities with resolutions up to 2K@60Hz. The SoM utilizes the SemiDrive D9 Pro processor, which includes six ARM Cortex-A55 high-performance cores and one ARM Cortex-R5 real-time […]

IBM's LinuxONE 4 Express is a user-friendly, budget mainframe designed to offer cybersecurity solutions to small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). IBM's GDPS software and DS8000 series storage with HyperSwap are used in LinuxONE 4 Express to deliver 99.999999% availability when running Red Hat's Kubernetes OpenShift Container Platform.

Last week Mozilla’s $7 million dollar CEO Mitchell Baker announced that she was stepping away from the C-suite, although she’ll remain onboard as chairperson of both Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation.

SparkyLinux 2024.02 has been released today as another snapshot in the semi-rolling series of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution leveraging the Debian Testing repositories.

Rhino Linux development is on hold to address burnout and improve sustainability - a step towards a healthier team environment.

The 174th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on February 11th, 2024, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

A detailed step-by-step guide on how to set up LanguageTool in LibreOffice to check spelling and grammar, with additional details.

Moving your Linux workloads from a x86 server to this amazingly inexpensive mainframe can save 52% TCO over five years, IBM claims.

The speedier computing cake is a lie... so we got software bloat instead. FOSDEM 2024 The computer industry faces a number of serious problems, some imposed by physics, some by legacy technology, and some by inertia. There may be solutions to some of these, but they're going to hurt.…

Converseen 0.12.1.0, The open-source image processor for Linux: Ensure precise image resolution & PDF conversions. It also features a new icon for Linux and other operative systems.

In this detailed tutorial, we will explore what Podman Desktop is, its features, and how to install Podman Desktop across various Linux distributions.

Tortoise TTS is a multi-voice text-to-speech system trained with an emphasis on quality. It seeks to provide strong multi-voice capabilities, and highly realistic prosody and intonation.

Sparky Linux 2024.02: New kernels, Pipewire 1.0.3, and improved CLI installer for better file system compatibility. Here's more on that!

The UBports Foundation announced that they plan to switch to a fixed-release model for future OTA (Over-the-Air) updates for their Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system.

CSI Linux is a Linux distribution focused on digital forensics and cybersecurity with an intense focus on user education. The platform offers robust capabilities for investigations, analysis, and response and the flexibility required to meet the demands of modern digital investigations.

Imagine your most sensitive and critical information being made accessible to threat actors without your permission or knowledge. This is exactly what a new information disclosure flaw discovered in the Linux kernel up to 5.17 could result in. As a Linux admin, staying up-to-date on vulnerabilities like this one is crucial to keeping your critical systems and confidential data secure. To help you understand and protect against this kernel bug, we'll explore its implications for security practitioners and the long-term consequences it may bring. We'll also explain how to secure your systems against this dangerous kernel flaw.

When managing an Ubuntu 24.04 system, it’s essential to understand the security and administrative practices that come with it. By default, Ubuntu does not set a root password and encourages the use of the sudo command for administrative tasks. This approach enhances security by limiting the use of the root account. However, there are scenarios where having a root password is necessary.

This article provides insight on SQLite’s support for JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) and the latest addition, JSONB. It explains how SQLite facilitates handling JSON and JSONB data and what the differences are between JSON and JSONB. Additionally, the article provides practical “hello world” examples. What is JSON JSON is a format for structuring data in […]