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From my independent monitoring, Ubuntu Linux had a pretty great year. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS shipped and has been well received across enterprises, Canonical engineers have been focusing more on performance optimizations for Ubuntu, and there has been other interesting changes like their new commitment to always ship the latest upstream Linux kernel version as of Ubuntu release time.

2024 has come to an end. To sum up, we highlight some defining moments of this year along with the best Linux apps, and best FOSS Android apps for 2024. You should check them all out after reading through this one.

You may have noticed (or not) that if an app is pinned to the Ubuntu Dock you don’t see a shortcut for it in the applications grid.

Serpent OS is an interesting release to look forward to in 2025. The Linux ecosystem is a genuinely innovative space, where we have countless distributions. We have the popular ones like Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux, and their derivatives.

Sigil is a popular free and open-source ePub ebook editor that works in Windows, Linux, and macOS. However, it does not provide official packages for Linux.

Installing WordPress with the LEMP stack on Ubuntu 24.04 is straightforward and may take up to 15 minutes. Let’s get things done!

Ubuntu Pro is an optional security feature that Ubuntu LTS users can enroll in to get critical updates for more than 25,000 packages that would otherwise sit unpatched.

Exwm is a lightweight tiling window manager for Linux that turns Emacs into a complete graphical environment. In this article, I will go through the benefits of using Exwm, install it on Ubuntu 24.10, and show some of what you can do with this fascinating window manager.

This tutorial shows how to share either the Public or certain user folder for local network access in Ubuntu 24.04 or Ubuntu 24.10 with default GNOME desktop.

An IP address is like your physical mailing address. Once you connect a Linux distribution like Ubuntu to the Internet or a router, your system gets assigned two IP addresses. There's the private one, which is used to identify your device on an internal network, and the public IP address, which is what websites see when you connect.

Following the recent Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks I wanted to expand the testing to look at how well other Linux distributions as well were performing on this new 24-core Arrow Lake desktop processor.

The Luckfox Lyra series introduces the Rockchip RK3506G2 processor, a triple-core 32-bit design with three Cortex-A7 cores and one Cortex-M0 core. These boards target IoT devices, smart audio, smart displays, and industrial control, supporting Buildroot and Ubuntu 22.04 for flexible software deployment.

One of the areas for benchmarking exploration that I had been meaning to dive into since the launch of the Intel Arrow Lake processors back in October was checking out the Microsoft Windows 11 vs. Linux performance for the new Core Ultra 9 285K flagship processor.

Intel and Canonical have been collaborating to provide an early "Graphics Preview" stack for Ubuntu 24.10 to provide better support for the new Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" and Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics...

A paint splatter, super-tired face, and a harp are among new emoji users of Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 LTS will be able to see and type after installing an update to the Noto Color Emoji font.

How to install TeamSpeak on Ubuntu 24.04. Learn everything you need to know using our latest step-by-step guide.

Learn how to use the htop command to monitor system processes and resource usage using our latest step-by-step guide

A step-by-step guide to install VMware Workstation on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, ensuring a seamless virtualization experience from start to finish.

pgAdmin4 is an easy-to-use free and open-source graphical administration tool for PostgreSQL. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to install pgAdmin4 server mode on Ubuntu 24.04.

Like many Linux distributions, Windows, and macOS, Ubuntu has a firewall. This security feature can prevent connections from unwanted sources on your system. Sometimes, though, you might want to disable it (or at least configure the firewall with port-forwarding rules) if you want to let network traffic through.