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Passwords are one of the most important aspects of computing. They keep our bank accounts, user profiles and computers safe (as long as we don’t reuse passwords). Just to log into our computers, most of us need a password and, for Linux, this is even more important.

Just over a week ago the Linux community celebrated the release of Slackware Linux 15.0. This new version of the world's oldest surviving Linux distribution is the first to come out of the Slackware project in over five years. What has changed, what has stayed the same, and how does Slackware compare to other distributions these days? Our Feature Story shares observations on setting up, using, and maintaining Slackware's new release. The Slackware Linux distribution has been around for a long time. When did you first get to run Slackware? Let us know when you got your first taste of Slackware in this week's Opinion Poll.

For a while now Daniel Van Vugt of Canonical has been working on GNOME triple buffering support that would be dynamically enabled when the GPU rendering performance is falling behind. It's looking like that dynamic triple buffering may be close to mainlining and is leading big speed-ups for Intel graphics and the Raspberry Pi Broadcom graphics too while the other drivers ultimately should benefit too if falling behind in their desktop rendering performance.

Switching to Linux is a great way to breathe life into an aging machine, but it's also a lot of work! Need to lighten the load on your Linux-powered machine? Try these apps!

This article describes how to create Jenkins agent images that can build Open Container Initiative (OCI)-compliant images when run with a rootless user on OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) or OKD. You can extrapolate many of these details and use them with other continuous integration (CI) tools and Kubernetes distributions.

After five years of making, root file operation finally lands in the Dolphin file manager of KDE Plasma desktop. Here's how to use Dolphin with root access.

LVM Logical Volume Management is a storage Management solution in Linux. It provides users with an extensible and highly flexible storage Management model.

ffmpeg is an excellent tool. It's a complete video editor via the command line. ffmpeg was created by Fabrice Bellard the same creator as QEMU and QuickJS, the engine behind JSLinux. In addition to the conventional conversion commands that we use on a daily basis, let’s see 15 more utilities that can be good for you in many cases.

The seventy-two installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on February 13th, 2022, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

The KDE Project released today KDE Frameworks 5.91 as a new monthly update to their open-source software suite containing a collection of more than 80 add-on libraries to Qt providing a wide range of commonly needed functionality for the Plasma desktop environment and related apps.

MariaDB 10.7 is an evolution of MariaDB 10.6 with several entirely new features not found anywhere else. Here's what's new!

The server and mobile industries know open source well. But open source isn't just about the technology. First and foremost, open source is about sharing, and if there's one thing people love to share more than anything, it's self-expression in the form of art. Whether you consider yourself an artist or not, you can foster your own creativity with open source applications, and possibly end up with something you're proud to share with others. Here are 26 applications in seven different artistic categories to help you act on your every inspiration.

After about four months of development, OBS Studio 27.2 is here as the latest stable release of this popular and powerful open-source screen recording and live streaming software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

zsh (Z Shell) is a very popular and highly customizable shell for Linux and Unix-like operating systems. In this tutorial we’ll explain how to install zsh on Debian-based and RHEL-based distros, set it as the default shell, and go through the initial configuration.

As a Linux user, I am passionate about technology, which is a trait that most Linux users share with me. This passion drives me to try and use different operating systems. Moreover, new immigrants to Linux land need to visit their previous operating system from time to time. In such cases, we frequently need certain system utilities and software to maintain, optimize and secure our secondary systems...

As beloved Unix pioneer Brian Kernighan approaches his 80th birthday, he made a special appearance at this year’s Linux Conference Australia. At the traditional January event — held virtually for the second year in a row — Kernighan reminisced on the 1970s and “The early days of Unix at Bell Labs,” always careful to acknowledge the contributions of others, and of those developers who’d preceded him.

The Simula One headset from SimulaVR is about to go up for preorder. If you’re willing to spend the large sum required to lock one in, you can save yourself a bit of money in the long run. Either way, this isn’t a budget-friendly VR headset, but one designed for enthusiasts.

After three months of hard work and several releases, the Kalendar app has reached maturity with version 1.0, a major release that brings you a full-featured and dedicated calendar client for your KDE Plasma desktop environment.

As a desktop environment, KDE Plasma is marketed with unique features, including visually-rich desktop computing fully packed with nifty utilities. Many in-demand Linux distros available in the market offer a KDE flavor variant for users.

When the PlayStation 3 first launched, one of its most lauded features was its ability to officially run full Linux distributions. This was of course famously and permanently borked by Sony with a software update after a few years, presumably since the console was priced too low to make a profit and Sony didn’t want to indirectly fund server farms made out of relatively inexpensive hardware.