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:wq buddy Obit Dutch free software developer Bram Moolenaar has died. He was 62. His Vim text editor is probably one of the single most widely used Linux programs of all time.…

About a month after Canonical pulled LXD from Linux Containers, with the ‘LXD community experiment’ evidently being labeled internally as a ‘failure’ by Ubuntu, the code is forked and almost immediately accepted as a project at Linux Containers.

FAR out, man: first build for Apple Silicon Macs might make it out this month The Asahi Linux project, which is working on getting Linux working on Apple Silicon-based Macs, is partnering with the Fedora Project for its new flagship distro.…

Fedora Linux packages a suite of graphical software for content creators. This article introduces a use case and suggestions for creating tutorial videos with Kdenlive. Plan tutorial A question that you need to address is whether text and images are appropriate to share your knowledge. If you create resources for learners of graphical software, a […]

Powered by Linux kernel 6.1 LTS, Tails 5.16, a security-focused Linux distro, comes with the latest Tor browser and some bug fixes. Here's what's new!

The 149th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 6th, 2023, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Learn how to easily install Java on Debian 12 (Bookworm) with our step-by-step guide. Enhance your system for powerful Java applications!

Avalue launched this week a 3.5” Single Board Computer that supports both 12th Gen CPUs and Intel 13th Gen i5/i3 processors. The ECM-ADLS is also equipped with multiple peripherals including dual 2.5GbE ports and NVMe support.  Avalue indicates that “the S-series processors feature a new hybrid design that combines Performance-cores and Efficient-cores for multi-threaded performance”. […]

In response to Canonical’s takeover of LXD, the independent Incus project arose as a fork for this container and virtual machine manager.

It seems to me that when Red Hat took control of CentOS back in the day, gave CentOS devs space in its offices to work, and actually helped CentOS’s devs make clones of RHEL that would then be freely distributed to anyone who wanted to run RHEL without having to purchase a support subscription — that sent a message to enterprise users (and it was the enterprise that mainly used CentOS when it was a downstream clone of RHEL) that Red Hat was fine with folks using their technology as CentOS, that Red Hat essentially thought there was plenty enough to go around for everybody.

Learn essential APT Linux command examples to install, update, remove, and search for software packages on Debian and Ubuntu distributions.

Practical examples on how to use the pwd command in your Linux terminal.

As of today, NVK, the new Vulkan driver for Nvidia GPUs, has landed in the main Mesa branch and will be included as an experimental driver in the 23.3 release of Mesa. This is the culmination of over a year of work by Faith Ekstrand as well as Karol Herbst and Dave Airlie at Red Hat, and about a dozen community contributors.

Learn how to use the mv command in Linux with practical examples and scenarios.

Lead dev Graber quits Ubuntu maker, helps out this new project. SUSE developer Alexa Sarai has created Incus, a fork of Canonical's LXD code, with the backing of the now-former lead developer of the container-manager-cum-hypervisor.…

Wget is a tool created by the GNU Project to retrieve content from various locations over the Internet. Wget is programmed or created in C language and is used on any UNIX/Linux operating system. Also, wget is compatible with different OSes, such as MacOS and Windows, which make it compatible as a computer tool. In this blog post, we will install and provide you with some useful Wget commands.In this tutorial, we are going to explain in step-by-step detail how to install and use Wget on Ubuntu 22.04 OS. Let’s get started!

Nitrux developed Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 2.9.1 as a fresh installation media for this Debian-based, systemd-free immutable GNU/Linux distribution built around the KDE Plasma desktop environment and featuring its own graphical interface called NX Desktop.

Ollama is software in an early stage of development that lets you run and chat with Llama 2 and other models. It’s cross-platform software running under Linux, macOS and Windows. Unlike Llama 2, Ollama actually is open source software, published under the MIT license.

Even the most basic installation of any Linux distribution comes with a set of really useful utilities: “xargs” is undoubtedly one of those. By using xargs we can build and execute command lines using items from standard input as arguments of a command. This is especially useful when dealing with programs which don’t read standard input directly.

Microsoft is moving Windows to the cloud and Apple will be happy to have you run macOS on the cloud. Opinion If you count Android and Chrome OS as Linux, which I do, the Linux desktop accounts for 44.98 percent of the end user market. But if your idea of the "Linux desktop" has a front end of Cinnamon, GNOME or KDE, then it's more like 3.06 percent. Better than it has been at times, but it's no "Year of the Linux desktop." Maybe, though, it will be someday.…