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The Document Foundation released today two security updates for its popular LibreOffice open-source office suite, 7.6.2 and 7.5.7, to address a recently disclosed vulnerability in the WebP codec.

With GNOME 45 out the door and already hitting the stable software repositories of some of the most popular rolling-release distributions, it’s time for the GNOME devs to focus their efforts on the next major release of this widely used Linux desktop environment, GNOME 46.

Here's a look back at (more than) 3 decades of Linux history: from the very beginning of Linus announcing Linux, to a few years ago. Every important event in Linux history. We created an infographic that shows every important event in the history of Linux in a fun visual way. It's just a reminder and a fun look back at what made Linux what it is today and how it came to be this way.

Keep your Debian system fresh and current by switching from Stable to Testing with our easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions.

Remember when the internet felt personal? Like a cool space for ourselves to discover really amazing things? The web allowed us to tell our stories in new ways, learn from others across the world and solve problems together. This extraordinary power is what sparked Mozilla’s commitment to a healthy internet, through activism and open source […]

Guide to install VSCodium on Linux Mint 21 for those preferring to use VSCode but without any proprietary components.

Big Red’s 'big announcement' strives to bring LLM technique to the business data arena. Oracle's efforts to bring natural language vector search capabilities to the relational data in business systems is being met with approval among analysts, with one placing it as an early leader in the field.…

The Mozilla Firefox 118 web browser is now available for download ahead of its official release on September 26th, when it will be rolling out to various of the supported platforms.

Been thinking about making the switch to Firefox, but worried about how well Google Workspace products will work? Well, we’ve got some good news for you. Google services have always worked great on Firefox, thanks to our collaboration with the G Workspace team, who want to make sure their products work on all major browsers. […]

USBImager is a small utility designed to offer users an extremely simple graphical tool to write compressed disk images to USB drives. It’s cross-platform software that runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows, although we only tested the software under Linux.

Gamerzilla is an open source game achievement system that stores and shares your game achievements. Games use libgamerzilla to easily add achievements. The Gamerzilla library is written in C but bindings exist for other languages. Two years ago I described how to setup a Gamerzilla server. In addition to the .net implementation, php and python […]

The 155th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on September 24th, 2023, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

It turned the software industry upside down regardless. Happy birthday to GNU. On September 27, there will be events in both the US and Switzerland to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the GNU Project.…

Apple Shortcuts (formerly Workflow) is a visual scripting application which allows users to create macros for executing specific tasks on their device(s).

LibreNMS is an open-source network monitoring tool constructed in PHP and MySQL, which utilizes the SNMP protocol. It is a community-derived branch of the Observium network monitoring tool. This instrument is also a user-friendly monitoring system; it is simple to comprehend and employ. It employs MySQL as its database backend and SNMP to detect remote clients. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install and configure LibreNMS on Ubuntu 22.04. For a previous version, check out our tutorial on how to install LibreNMS on Ubuntu 20.04.

Guide to Installing the Jellyfin Media Server on Linux Mint 21 with step-by-step instructions and also learn how to up a Reverse Proxy for your media server.

The Linux Foundation is planning to reduce the length of long-term support (LTS) for new versions of the Linux kernel from 6 years to just 2 years. This change comes as maintaining old kernel versions has become increasingly challenging. Greg Kroah-Hartman, the maintainer of the stable branch, says the reduction in LTS will allow kernel developers to focus their efforts on more recent versions. Keeping old kernel versions updated has become difficult as hardware and software advance rapidly. 

Can you blame it? Europe's Digital Markets Act, which goes into effect next year, will require that companies designated as gatekeepers provide users of most popular operating systems with browser choice screens that ask them to select a default browser.…

Discover how to get Linux filesystems information using dysk, a better alternative to the df command for inspecting and managing filesystems in Linux.

Xfce vs. GNOME. Discover these two desktops' performance, customization, and resource usage differences.