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Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we are also quick to point out that the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for people to connect with others, and lets everyone find where they belong — their corners of the internet. […]

Mirantis, the cloud-native development company, is monetizing its Lens Kubernetes Integrated Development Environment with its new Lens 6 version.

Will the real CDE please stand up? If the real CDE is too much hard work for you or for your computer, there's a new version of the Not So Common Desktop Environment.…

This relatively new distro from an Indian founder is smart, capable, fast… and colorful. Garuda Linux brings an important feature to the Arch world: snapshots and rollback.…

CRob, with Intel and the OpenSSF, talks about open source software security education and training with Alan Shimel of TechStrong TV.

Unix has always excelled at processing text, and Linux is no different. And the tools to work with and transform text files still exist on all Linux systems. Like other computer systems, early Unix printed on paper, using a typewriter-style printing device. These printers provided limited formatting options, but with clever application of Unix tools, you could prepare professional-looking documents.

Managing files in a graphical desktop like GNOME or KDE is an exercise in point-and-click. To move a file into a folder, you click and drag the icon to its new home. To remove a file, you drag it into the “Trash” icon. The graphical interface makes desktop computing easy to use. But we don't always interact with Linux systems with a graphical interface. If you work on a server, you likely need to use the command line to get around.

A few weeks ago, HP joined the bandwagon of major laptop manufacturers releasing a Linux-based laptop, the HP Dev One. The brand joins others such as Lenovo and Dell, offering a laptop with a pre-installed distribution of Linux in the US market. HP joined forces with smaller Linux-based laptop brand System76 to pre-install Pop!_

Nowadays, Linux systems are considered fairly secure, as people think that Linux rarely gets infected with malware such as viruses, rootkits, worms, etc. You might also see that we hardly ever come across Antivirus software being sold for Linux, giving the illusion that Linux is an ultimately secure Operating System. Given that roughly 75 percent of the world's servers run on Linux, we can't truly believe that Linux is as secure as we think it is. Linux is only as secure as the person controlling and configuring it.

In a previous article, I showed you how to build your very own Nextcloud server. In this article, we're going to extend the storage for our Nextcloud instance by utilizing block storage. To follow along, you'll either need your own Nextcloud server to extend, or perhaps you can add block storage to a different type of server you may control, which would mean you'd need to update the paths accordingly as we go along. Block storage is incredibly useful, so we'll definitely want to take advantage of this.

For our new series Parental Control, we’re digging into the challenges technology poses for parents and exploring all the ways that can empower them. So we looked into digital platforms and found ourselves, as many parents do, in the parental control settings.  These settings, along with services that promise to shield young people away from […]

A staple in any office software suite is the word processor. Whether your needs are small or large, from jotting down a note to writing a book, the word processor gets the job done. Most Linux distributions include the LibreOffice suite, and I use LibreOffice Writer as my word processor. LibreOffice Writer provides lots of flexibility through its toolbar, keyboard shortcuts, and menus.

Joomla is a free, open-source, and one of the most popular Content Management systems. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Joomla CMS with Apache and Let's Encrypt SSL on Alma Linux 8.

Lack of patent rights waiver in CC0 cited as problematic. Fedora, the popular Linux distribution, will no longer incorporate software licensed under CC0, the Creative Commons "No Rights Reserved" license.…

The Bash command line is a great way to automate tasks. Whether you are running Linux on a server and need to manipulate log files or other data, or you're a desktop user who just wants to keep files tidy, you can use a few automation features in Bash to make your work easier.

Excluding HTML, PDF files are probably the most popular document format on the web. Unfortunately, they're not compact. For example, I like to download free eBooks. A quick glance at my eBook directory shows that its 75 PDF files consume about 500 megabytes. On average, that's over 6.6 MB for each PDF file. Couldn't I save some storage space by compressing those files?

Direction of future distros may be firming up, along with formidable system requirements. The Reg has collated information that points at the direction of the Adaptable Linux Platform – SUSE's future replacement for its conventional distros.…

With this combination, your business can manage and connect your development team's CI/CD pipeline all the way to your production cloud.

Digital security via processor design, hardware-enforced protection … and a friendly desktop. Wayland and the KDE Plasma desktop now run on CheriBSD, the special version of FreeBSD for Arm's experimental Morello hardware.…

If you use Putty, there's a good chance you've visited Chiark. There are some complexities involved in upgrading what the Reg FOSS desk suspects may be the world's oldest running Linux installation: an OS install dating back to 1993.…