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The joy of using Linux is that there are so many choices. I'm someone who takes advantage of that choice, testing different Linux distros out there. However, when it comes to daily driving, I went with the flow and stuck with Ubuntu. I don't regret it.

As everybody from The Linux Foundation to Open Source Initiative to Facebook can tell you, figuring out how to make artificial intelligence platforms fit the four freedoms has been no easy task.

Today, the Armbian community announced the release and general availability of Armbian 25.2 as a major update aimed at enhancing functionality and expanding hardware support of this Debian and Ubuntu-based distribution targeting ARM devices.

What is dead may never die. After a heroic effort, the oldest machine-readable copy of Unix version 2 is running again. The recovered code runs on a PDP-11 simulator and contains a version of Unix that's later than V1 from 1972, but doesn't contain V2 API calls; a sort of Unix V2 beta.

Jan is a ChatGPT-alternative that runs 100% offline on your desktop. The aim of the project is to make it easy for anyone to run LLMs and use AI yet retain full control and privacy.

Libinput as the open-source input handling library used by the modern Linux desktop both by Wayland compositors and the X.Org Server now has support for three-finger dragging...

IceWM 3.7 window manager for the X Window System brings new theming options, improved keybinding support, and bug fixes.

Ntopng is an open-source network traffic monitoring tool for traffic analysis and real-time visualization. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install the Ntopng Network Monitoring Tool on the Debian 12 server.

KiCad 9.0 is now available as the newest version of this leading open-source Electronics Design Automation (EDA) suite that can rival some proprietary solutions for designing PCBs and other electronic hardware...

This article recommends the finest free and open source software that lets you dive into responsive design using CSS.

The 228th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on February 23rd, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

The first PhotoPrism update for 2025 brings a sleek UI, hybrid photo-video viewer, and 3D Earth view for Places—plus some usability and performance enhancements.

Inquiring minds want to know if a potential candidate’s opposition to OSI’s Open Source AI Definition is the reason it pulled a previously unknown time zone rule out of a magic hat to deny his nomination.

FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 3 is out this weekend in being the newest weekly development version leading towards next month's stable release to cap off the FreeBSD 13 series.

Graperain’s RK3568 single board computer is a compact platform for embedded applications, powered by a quad-core Cortex-A55 CPU at 2.0GHz. It supports Android 11, Linux, Ubuntu, and Debian, features an ARM G52 2EE GPU for 4K video decoding, and offers versatile connectivity for industrial, consumer, and commercial use.

This roundup explores the finest CLI-based file encryption tools. All free and open source goodness.

Lutris 0.5.19 open-source game manager for Linux improves Proton integration, refines DXVK handling, enhances Esync & Fsync settings, and more.

It’s not pretty when Trump’s personality starts to rub off onto tech billionaires who don’t really deserve their wealth, but will pay any price to hold onto it.

Gentoo announced new cloud-ready images in QCOW2 format, offering weekly updates, password-less root, and easy KVM acceleration.