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A software bill of materials (SBOM) is a way of summarizing key facts about the software on a system. At the heart of it, it describes the set of software components and the dependency relationships between these components that are connected together to make up a system.

A new toy programming language that uses Hindi slang instead of typically sophisticated syntax which is written in TypeScript language.

A day before, people started using BhaiLang to create funny material and shared it over social media, getting a huge response in terms of engagement.

And I must say you should try once.

The Qt Project announced today the release and general availability of Qt Creator 7 as the latest stable version of this powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE) software for building modern Qt app on GNU/Linux, Android, macOS, iOS, and Windows systems.

Simon Steinbeiß released today a new version of Xubuntu’s default Xfce theme Greybird, versioned 3.23.0, which adds initial support for the GTK4 toolkit, paving the way for a more modern look and feel of Xubuntu and the Xfce desktop environment.

The Oracle Linux Sustaining team is tasked with identifying and fixing bugs in the Linux kernel. We rely on a rich ecosystem of debugging tools like crash and pykdump to help us pick up the remnants of a crashed kernel and figure out what led to its demise. But operating systems are complex, and sometimes our tools fail us. In these cases, we have to fall back on our understanding of the kernel subsystems and the target CPU architecture, since we find ourselves diving deep into hex dumps and assembly listings.

NVIDIA released today the NVIDIA 510.60.02 proprietary graphics driver for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems as the latest production version that introduces support for new GPUs.

Here's a list of 10 feature of GNOME 42 that makes it a great release.

Open source Java continues to improve, with a focus in Java 18 on supporting new developers.

Adlink unveiled an “EOS-JNX Series” of Jetson Xavier NX based edge AI vision systems with 4x PoE ports. The EOS-JNX-I has 10/100Mbps PoE ports that support Onvif surveillance cams plus a 1Gb NVR uplink; the EOS-JNX-G has GbE PoE ports with GigE camera support.

How was your weekend? Ours was spent trying to persuade the first Asahi Linux Alpha release to run on some Apple silicon. The Alpha turned up at the end of last week and, sacrificial M1 Mac Mini in hand, we had a crack at firing up the distribution. Our hopes were not high – the poor device has also put in service running Insider builds of Windows on Arm (via the Parallels Desktop) and its disk was bulging with all manner of experimental software. But it all seemed boringly reliable considering the "alpha" and "proceed at your own risk" labels plastered over the distribution.

In the following tutorial, you will learn to install the GIMP on AlmaLinux 8 workstation using two methods with appstream dnf package manager or the flatpak package manager.

The KeePassXC open-source and cross-platform password manager software has been updated today to version 2.7, a major release that adds numerous new features and a plethora of improvements.

Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) provide means for building Layer 2 communication on top of existing IP networks. VPLS can be built using various approaches. However, when building a production-grade VPLS solution one needs to have a clear picture of how such aspects as security, mobility, and L2 issues will be solved.

Last year’s election for board members at Open Source Initiative was “hacked,” which necessitated a re-vote. Fortunately, this year’s election was a smooth experience.

gron is a self-contained Go executable you can download from GitHub. In the UNIX tradition, gron does one thing well: it flattens JSON into a structure that's easily processed by shell tools, line by line.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install OpenRGB on Manjaro 21 Linux.

The Linux df command, also known as disk free, is used to display free and used disk space for each file system on Linux and Unix-like systems.By default it displays free and used space on all file systems that are currently mounted.

Sometimes you might have come across a situation where you want to rename a user name in a Linux system, for whatever reason. This brief guide will show you how to do it properly by using command-line tools.

Looking for a Ubuntu alternative? We offer a short walkthrough of several Debian-based distros for those looking for an Ubuntu alternative.

Canonical today released new major Linux kernel updates for all supported Ubuntu releases, including Ubuntu 21.10, 20.04 LTS, and 18.04 LTS, to address up to 22 security vulnerabilities in supported kernels.