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We test-drive the development version of GNOME Files version 43 and give you details about its looks, features and performance.

Zig is an open-source, imperative, statically typed, compiled programming language designed by Andrew Kelley in 2016. Zig’s programming language has made some big claims by its designer that Zig utilizes C libraries better than C itself.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 1, 2022, The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) a cross-industry organization hosted at the Linux Foundation that brings together the world’s most important open source security initiatives, today announced 20 new organizations have joined OpenSSF to help identify and fix security vulnerabilities in open source software and develop improved tooling, training, research, best practices, and vulnerability disclosure practices.

The Flatpak 1.14 Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework has entered development with several new features and improvements.

Virtually impenetrable BLOBs (Binary Large Objects) in firmware mean it's difficult to be sure exactly what the computer is doing. Assuming the BLOBs are unencrypted, and they usually are, you'll have to break out a disassembler to figure out what the code does, which requires skills and knowledge, and is tedious – especially if the binary is obfuscated.

This article shows how to configure and use the org-mode provided by Emacs to produce pretty documents. org is a multi-purpose structured text file format and Emacs can translate it to LaTeX files which, in turn, can be translated into pretty PDF documents, taking advantage of all the typesetting facilities provided by LaTeX. This is a compendium of tricks evolved out of the experience of working with Emacs, org-mode and LaTeX.

Valve's new Steam Deck comes with a new release of SteamOS, a specialized Linux distribution for gaming devices, which Valve and Collabora have been working on together for several years. Based on Arch Linux, a rolling-release distribution which includes the latest Mesa release for open-source accelerated graphics support, SteamOS 3 also comes with a brand new A/B design for seamless system updates.

Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 2.0.1 as the latest stable ISO snapshot of this Debian-based and systemd-free GNU/Linux distribution built on top of the KDE Plasma desktop environment and featuring some of the latest GNU/Linux technologies.

I have several scripts that auto-increment a number in a data table. That's not hard to do on the command line. But what if I wanted to have version letters at the end of mixed letter-number codes, like 101a, 101b, 101c etc? And also wanted to increment version numbers after a letter cycle, like 101c, 101d, 102a, 102b...? As is usually the case with command-line operations, there's more than one way to do it. This post looks at a couple of solutions to this particular problem, namely incrementing (single) version letters and version numbers on a fixed letter cycle.

Collabora’s Simon McVittie published a blog post today to detail how the SteamOS 3.0 operating system works on Valve’s recently launched Steam Deck gaming handheld.

LF Edge furthers innovation at the open source edge across a unified ecosystem, with induction of Edge Gallery —an open-source MEC edge computing project —and adds leading innovator American Tower as Premiere member and Ritsumeikan University as new Associate member

MongoDB is a widely used and very scalable NoSQL database server. In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps required to install MongoDB on an AlmaLinux 8 server.

Drupal is open-source software that has many features, like easy content authoring, reliable performance, and excellent security.

Create your own edge by running a DNS caching service on your home or business network. If you've been hearing a lot of talk about "the cloud" over the past several years, then you may also have heard rumblings about something called "the edge."

This error is known in the recent versions of WordPress, more precisely from WordPress 5.4 to the latest WordPress 5.7.

The Linux Mint team announced the beta availability of Linux Mint Debian Edition LMDE 5 "Elsie". Here are what's new and the download details.

Lynis is a free and open-source security checker released under the GPL license and available for Linux and Unix-based operating systems such as MacOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, etc. In this article, we will explore how to install  Lynis and conduct an audit of a Kali Linux system.

Several people feel like the founder of the FSF (and GNU) is being marginalised by the FSF, but nobody wants to say it out loud

In this Linux quick tip we will discuss the different methods that can be used to find the date and time of a Linux installation.

Ansible-lint goes beyond regular YAML linters by checking Ansible tasks themselves, potentially saving you from execution errors and many hours of debugging.