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In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring the availability and performance of applications is paramount. Modern infrastructures require robust solutions to distribute traffic efficiently and maintain service availability even in the face of server failures.

Multiple decade-old security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the needrestart package installed by default in Ubuntu Server (since version 21.04) that could allow a local attacker to gain root privileges without requiring user interaction.

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, has announced that its security team has released updates that fix vulnerabilities in the needrestart and libmodule-scandeps-perl packages found by Qualys.

System76 recently launched the Thelio Astra which is a specialized desktop engineered for autonomous vehicle development, robotics, and native ARM64 applications.

Both Debian and Ubuntu are often considered outstanding choices to meet your desktop and server needs. But what are the differences and similarities, and which is right for you?

This tutorial shows how to install Microsoft .NET software development framework (9.0, 8.0, or even 6.0, 7.0) in current Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04, and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.

A sure-fire way to tell that development has moved up a gear: Ubuntu 25.04 daily builds are now available to download.

Over the past year we have seen Canonical engineers focus more on optimizing the performance potential of Ubuntu Linux. With Ubuntu 25.04 they are now using the -O3 compiler optimization level by default and there has been other efforts like better performance tooling on Ubuntu and frame pointers by default.

Now that Canonical officially opened the development of Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin), it has published the first daily build ISO images for early adopters, application developers, and general public testing.

I’ve written about how to change lock screen background in Ubuntu with default GNOME desktop. Here’s now a new choice to do the job when you’re at the lock screen.

This tutorial gives you a step-by-step guide on how to install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or Ubuntu 24.10 on a MacBook Air (13-inch) and get the Broadcom wireless card to work without a hassle.

Nginx or NGINX is a widely used web server with many features, including load balancing, reverse proxying, content caching, mail proxying, and more. It’s a flexible and robust solution known for its high performance and efficient use of resources.

Zabbix is a free and open-source monitoring solution for IT infrastructure. It allows you to monitor networks, servers, virtual machines, and cloud services.

Ubuntu Server is very popular, thanks to containers and the cloud. This resource guide about Ubuntu Server covers why the platform matters, how to use it, and more.

The lightest mainstream Linux desktop joins the tiny handful that support X.org replacement. LXQt 2.1 is the latest release of the lightweight Qt-based desktop used in Lubuntu – but this version has a significant edge over its rivals.

Graylog is a free and open-source log-management platform for capturing, storing, and enabling real-time analysis of your data and logs. It's written in Java and built on top of other open-source software like MongoDB and Elasticsearch.

The Meerkat mini-desktop is a compact, versatile solution for professional and personal use, supporting multitasking on up to four displays with seamless media, email, and web browsing on Pop!_OS or Ubuntu.

Apple last week released their latest iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro products powered by their fourth-generation M-series Apple Silicon. The new Mac Mini in particular is interesting for under $600 starting out with the all re-designed Mac Mini with 10-core M4 and now the base model having 16GB of memory.

The company provides Android 13, Buildroot+QT, Ubuntu, and Debian OS images for the module and development board. You’ll find some documentation on the product page, but accessing it requires leaving a query with your email, and the company should reply with the documentation within a few hours or days.

Want to do performance test on your graphics card? Here I’m going to introduce some for you that work on Linux desktop. Benchmark or stress test is a way to measure your hardware performance, tell if it’s working the way it should be, and compare with other devices.