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Sequent Microsystems has gone to Kickstarter to launch an $18 “Beagle-Pi” emulator board that enables HATs for the hard-to-find Raspberry Pi to run on the Cape expansion interface for the more widely available BeagleBone Black.

In general, most programs you’ll ever run on your Linux system will work flawlessly, and your shell will not present any errors at the time of their execution. However, there may be times when you might want to quickly run custom scripts or programs from non-standard directories on your Linux system.

CWP - Control WebPanel recently introduced CWP Secure CentOS Kernel for wide usage on CWP WebHosting Servers. CWP secure kernel when in use provides the highest security possible on the market for the shared hosting, no other control panel has something similar integrated to compare with. It can be only compared with Cloudlinux/CageFS.

This tutorial will take you through updating a server managed by ISPConfig from Debian 10 (buster) to Debian 11 (bullseye). This guide works for both single- and multiserver setups.

OSS is a growing phenomenon, and every journey to open source best practices is unique. At the same time, there’s a whole lot of room to grow some more. Many organizations use Open Source Program Offices to align their open source efforts under a management system and policies designed to create a positive experience for internal developers and external participants to the communities they participate in and contribute.

I love a good game that you can immerse yourself in for hours, but I don't always have the luxury of ignoring daily tasks to disappear into a video game. Still, I do love a fun challenge from time to time, and two of my favourite applications to launch when my computer gets busy doing something that I need to wait on are games from the KDE Games package: KBlocks and Kolf.

This guide explains how to configure the Task Switcher in the KDE Plasma desktop.

I hadn’t heard of DahliaOS until about 20 minutes ago when a tweet talking up the latest development pre-release flew past my eyes. Naturally I was intrigued. DahliaOS has nothing to do with Ubuntu of course and thus no real tangible reason to be featured on this blog. But hey: new Linux distros and desktop environments are interesting, and unless I want to kick the bees nest that is the Firefox deb to Snap transition (the no-more-apt-build package hit Jammy today) I’ve not got much else to talk about. So what is dahliaOS?

CentOS replacement AlmaLinux on Friday released a new ISO for a version of it’s operating system that supports IBM’s open source Power processor.

Intel launched its Alder Lake-P and -U Core CPUs with claims that the P-series is 70 percent faster than Tiger Lake-U, and unveiled some new Xeon chips and an improved OpenVINO. Meanwhile, Intel acquired Linutronix, and there were leaks about an upcoming 1.8nm Lunar Lake CPU.

The AlmaLinux OS Foundation announced today the general availability of the AlmaLinux OS 8.5 distribution for the PowerPC architecture.

Ubuntu has put out the latest point release of its stable version, or the fourth bugfix of 20.04. The main difference will be visible in new installs: a clean install of 20.04.4 – for example on some new hardware – will get kernel version 5.13 from 21.10 "Impish Indri", which came out after 20.04.3 last August. However, if you already have "Focal Fossa" installed and just run a normal update, you'll get 20.04.4.

GPU-Accelerated terminal emulators offloads rendering to the GPU for lower system load and buttery smooth scrolling. They are faster at outputting and refreshing vast amounts of information.

Valve today officially launched its Steam Deck gaming handheld device powered by an Arch Linux-based distribution and featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment.

GNU C++ is a compiler for the C++ programming language from the GNU Compiler Collection. It runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. In this guide, we will show you how to install G++ compiler on an Ubuntu 20.04 system.

Learn why these IT professionals say the Accelerator program is more beneficial to them than a typical ambassador program.

Looking for a little more desktop responsiveness? Liquorix provides current, easy-to-install desktop-performance-optimised kernels for Ubuntu, Mint, Debian and derivatives… and Arch and Red Hat users can get it, too.

Mario Limonciello announced today the release and general availability of fwupd 1.7.6 as the latest stable update in the fwupd 1.7 series of this powerful and open-source firmware update utility for GNU/Linux systems.

Rockarrolla is a music player that seeks to emulate a music jukebox. It’s written in the Vala programming language and published under an open source license.

The Raspberry Pi single-board computer debuted February 29, 2012. Since then, it’s become a worldwide phenomenon, powering a wide range of hobbyist projects and commercial products alike. Let’s take a look at what makes the Raspberry Pi series special—then and now.