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Kali Linux 2022.1 is packed with new themes as well as enhancements to existing features, such as improved usability for visually impaired users. Here's what's new!

KDE is well-suited for terminal-based calendaring on Linux. The konsolekalendar command lets you view and manage an iCal calendar from the terminal.

Linux is an ever-evolving family of operating systems. Here are some of the desktop advancements you can expect to see in Linux in 2022.

R is a programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modeling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis, classification, clustering) and graphical techniques.

The Podman team has added many cool new features to Podman that you might not be aware of. So, this is the first in a series of articles that cover some of the large and small features that make Podman great.

The OpenMandriva project last week released a new version: OpenMandriva LX 4.3 for x86-64 and ARM64 hardware. OpenMandriva is a continuation of the Mandriva Linux distro, but not the only one. The Register rounds up the siblings.

AWS S3 event notification helps us to receive notifications when certain events take place in an S3 Bucket. In this article, we will see how to get notified on Email when certain events take place on our S3 Bucket.

The KDE-focused desktop platform KaOS Linux has got a new update. Just over a month after the last release, KaOS 2022.02 has emerged with the latest KDE Plasma. Here's what's new!

The developers behind the multimedia production distro AV Linux announced today the release and general availability of a new major version derived from the latest MX Linux release, AV Linux MX-21.

SlickStack is essentially a collection of scripts for quickly and easily installing WordPress, with Nginx as a web server, on Ubuntu LTS. In this article, we’ll go over how to use SlickStack to install WordPress on a server running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, as well as give you a basic overview of some of its options.

LibreOffice.org is my preferred productivity suite, and I've covered how I use it both as a graphical office suite as well as a terminal command in the past. In this article, I want to focus on how LibreOffice supports people using assistive technology.

WordPress is a free, open-source, and one of the best content management systems around the world. It is based on PHP and uses MySQL/MariaDB as a database backend.

This guide explains how to use date command in Bash scripting, how to work with date and time using date in shell scripts, how to manipulate them and do various operations with it in Linux.

This article describes step-by-step how to install PHP versions 5.6, 8.0, and 8.1 on your Ubuntu. After installing the two versions, it also explains how you can disable one version and enable another version as the default version for the system.

The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is a tiny powerhouse of a computer that punches far, far above its weight and cost. The latest Raspberry Pi is suitable for running some desktop applications, let down only by its 512MB of RAM. Keep within that limitation, however, and it’s a very capable basis for projects such as handheld computers, epitomised by this excellent retro-style sub-notebook cooked up by GitHub user Penk.

Good news for Kubuntu 21.10 users as they can now update their installations to the latest KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS desktop environment series. Check out the details below to see how to update.

dd is an important command in Linux, used when you back up your hard disks and partitions. Here we show you how to put the dd command to good use

You can use a TeX/LaTeX editor for a variety of documents. Not just limited to scientific research, you can also add your code, start writing a book (academic/creative), or draft articles. An interactive solution with the option for preview, and several features, should come in handy if you regularly work with LaTeX documents. Kile is one such option by KDE, available for Linux and other platforms. In fact, it is one of the best LaTeX editors available for Linux, which we decided to highlight separately.

The bug hunters at Google's Project Zero team have released their latest time-to-fix data and Linux is smashing the opposition. Between 2019 and 2021 open-source developers fixed Linux issues in an average of 25 days, compared to 83 for Microsoft and Oracle pulling last place at 109 days, albeit from a very low number of cases. Furthermore Linux is showing consistent improvement in response times, from 32 days in 2019 to just 15 last year, and that improvement is being mirrored (mostly) across the industry.

Intel’s plans for software-defined silicon (SDSi) will begin to fall into place with the next version of the Linux kernel, it has emerged. The company has remained tight-lipped about the SDSi initiative, whereby customers will pay an additional fee to activate certain features built into their processors. Although Intel has acknowledged the existence of the scheme, it has so far offered no specifics as to which capabilities can be toggled on or off and which CPUs will be compatible.