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In this article, you'll learn how to install and use MediaWiki on Ubuntu 24.04 with a step-by-step guide from installation to configuration.

Armbian 24.8 Yelt has been released, featuring a variety of enhancements, new hardware support, and important upgrades. This version aims to improve stability and performance across a range of supported devices, continuing Armbian’s focus on providing a reliable operating system for diverse hardware platforms.

That's a bigger increase than we expected, more so given vandalism by Microsoft.

Discover two favorite sysadmin commands, known as acct and psacct, that allow them to track the activity of users on the system.

Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. It’s been another busy month.

RawTherapee 5.11, a raw image processing program, adds new HiDPI support, advanced zoom, and better color profiles for photographers.

August was a very busy month with the first AMD Ryzen 9000 series "Zen 5" desktop processors going on sale, finally having AmpereOne 192-core Arm processors in the lab, Linux kernel development continuing to advance at a brisk pace, and a variety of other interesting software and hardware milestones.

What do you get when you cross Minesweeper with a sort-of dungeon crawler? Well Dungeon Divers is pretty much the answer to that. Available with Native Linux support on Steam.

The Linux desktop is a more fluid concept than it is with Windows or macOS. Budgie takes an approach to the desktop that is both eminently customizable and refreshingly familiar. Learn what makes Budgie special, and whether it’s the right desktop for you.

The Banana Pi BPI-CanMV-K230D-Zero is an upcoming single-board computer for AIoT applications, developed in collaboration with Canaan Technology. Featuring the Kendryte K230D chip, it provides local AI inference capabilities, making it useful for DIY projects and embedded systems.

The Armbian community informs 9to5Linux.com today about the general availability of Armbian 24.8 (codename Yelt) as the latest stable release of this Debian and Ubuntu-based distribution for ARM devices.

To provide an insight into the quality of software that is available, we have compiled a list of 5 useful Crystal static site generators. All of these tools are released under a freely distributable license

Learn about the best new features of the GNOME 47 desktop environment, which brings a considerable set of new features and updates.

Jonas Ådahl released Wayland-Protocols 1.37 as the newest update to this defined set of Wayland protocols. With the new release there are three new protocols added plus various other maintenance items addressed within the Wayland-Protocols repository.

Bazzite, the Fedora-based version of Linux that's designed for the "next generation of Linux gaming" has a fresh release out with some great improvements, especially for gaming handhelds like the Steam Deck OLED, Lenovo Legion Go, ASUS ROG Ally and others.

Stable Debian 12 (Bookworm) is getting its seventh update, shipping with 51 bug fixes and 55 security updates. Upgrade now!

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 was released last month with a Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller equipped with two Arm Cortex-M33 cores and two 32-bit RISC-V “Hazard3” cores with up to two cores usable at any time. So in this guide, we’ll show how to use the RISC-V cores on the RP2350 MCU, compare their performance against the Arm Cortex-M33 cores, and even build Linux for RISC-V for RP2350 boards that have PSRAM.

The ASUS IoT EBS-P300 is a compact, lightweight embedded computer designed for industrial applications. It features an Intel Celeron J6412 processor and is optimized for use in harsh environments, with reliable performance across a temperature range of -20°C to 60°C.

Docker creates packaged applications called containers. Each container provides an isolated environment similar to a virtual machine (VM). Unlike VMs, Docker containers don't run a full operating system. They share your host's kernel and virtualize at a software level.

While all of the focus recently when it comes to Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver has been around getting Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics ready, there is an important last-minute fix that is also needed for ensuring Arrow Lake graphics support is ready for Linux users.