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This week’s “Flatpak App of the Week” is Minder, a powerful, open-source, and free mind mapping software that lets you easily create, develop and visualize your ideas.

Linux programmers do a better job of patching security holes than programmers at Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

The GNOME Project has announced that it's retiring the Clutter library, the tool that bought OpenGL-based hardware rendering to Linux in 2006. Clutter was originally written by now-Intel subsidiary OpenedHand and in its day was a widely used library, enabling GObject-based C code to draw user interfaces using OpenGL.

Sadly Samsung does not provide a universal desktop application to adjust the settings of these earbuds for users, and hence, they are stuck with the mobile application (Galaxy Wearables) if they wish to tune and adjust the settings of their earbuds. But luckily, there is an alternative for that.

The polls are closed and the results for the 2021 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards are in. Ubuntu, Firefox, MariaDB, KDE, and System76 are among the winners. The Members Choice Awards allow members of the Linux community to choose their favorite products/projects in a variety of categories including Programming Language of the Year, Desktop Distribution of the Year, Browser of the Year, and Linux Desktop Vendor of the Year.

ONLYOFFICE desktop app is an open-source office suite pack that comprises editors for text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and forms. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on Zorin OS, an Ubuntu-based distro.

McGovern will have been in the position well over five years by the time a replacement is found and put in place — the longest tenure of any executive director in the organization’s history.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install the 5.16 Linux Kernel on Debian 11 Bullseye for users that may require the kernel for various reasons such as hardware support along with how to use APT pinning to keep the kernel up to date.

When I finish with a project, I often like to take all the files I've created for the project and put them into an archive. It not only saves space, but it gets those files out of my way, and prevents them from turning up as results when I use find and grep to search through files I consider current. read more

Valve has today released Proton 7.0 – an open-source custom version of Wine that enables Linux users to run Windows games directly from Steam using Steam Play.

Discourse is an open-source community discussion platform built using the Ruby language. It is designed to work as a forum, chat software or mailing list. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Discourse Forum with the Nginx server on a Debian 11 based server.

A text editor is often a good example application to demonstrate what a programming framework is capable of producing. I myself have written at least three example text editors in articles about wxPython and PyQt, and Java. The reason they're seen as easy apps to create is because the frameworks provide so much of the code that's hardest to write. I think that's also the reason that most operating systems provide a simple desktop text editor. read more

Harmonoid is billed as an elegant music app to play local music and YouTube music. It’s written in the Dart programming language and published under an open source license.

The UBports Foundation released today the OTA-22 software update for their open-source and free Ubuntu Touch mobile operating system for all supported Linux smartphones and tablets.

Sharing a computer in a household is usually a pretty casual affair. When you need the computer, you pick it up and start using it. It's simple in theory, and mostly works. That is, until you accidentally grab the common computer and accidentally post screenshots of your server's uptime to your partner's cooking blog. Then it's time for separate user accounts. read more

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install the LAMP stack (Apache, MariaDB/MySQL, PHP) on AlmaLinux 8 Workstation or Server.

Open source is widely used by organizations for programming and development frameworks, and recent security concerns don't seem to be slowing adoption.

Varnish cache is a free and open-source cache accelerator used to speed up your website by caching the content in memory. In this tutorial, I will show you how to install Varnish 7 for Nginx on Rocky Linux 8.

OSS-Fuzz is a free service that continuously runs fuzzers for open source projects. This GitHub repository manages the service and enrolling in it is handled by pull requests. Once a project has integrated with OSS-Fuzz, the fuzzers affiliated with that project run daily—continuously and indefinitely. OSS-Fuzz emails maintainers when a bug is found and also has a dashboard with details about all issues found (stack traces, artifacts for reproducing issues, and so on).

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install Opera Browser stable, beta, or developer (nightly) on AlmaLinux 8 Workstation.