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There are many great synthesizers for Linux, and like synthesizers in real life, most of them can be controlled using the MIDI protocol.

In a first-time ruling by Italian courts on open source licensing, a software vendor has lost a civil case for failing to comply with open source license requirements.

Shasheen Ediriweera released today Rescuezilla 2.3 as a new major update to this Ubuntu-based “Swiss Army Knife of System Recovery” distribution for system recovery and rescue, as well as disk cloning and imaging tasks.

Merry Christmas everyone! In this holiday season, are you looking forward to trying out new distributions on your Linux system? Fret not, we have you covered. Here, I shall be listing some of the latest Linux distribution releases.

In this tutorial, we'll show you how to upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 with step-by-step, beginner-friendly instructions.

The Raspberry Pi is one of the most popular brands of single-board computers. Part of the reason for this popularity is the massive number of unique and interesting projects that people have built using Raspberry Pi. Several Opensource.com authors have used Raspberry Pi in various projects and provided instructions so others can recreate their projects. Here are the ten most popular Raspberry Pi articles published by Opensource.com in 2021. I hope they inspire you as you tinker with your own Raspberry Pi.

CodeWeavers CrossOver is one of the most popular ways to run Windows applications on other operating systems. It combines the excellent work of the open-source Wine project (of which CrossOver’s developers contribute code to) with an easier-to-use interface and front end. CodeWeavers released CrossOver 21 back in August, and now the company has shared details about its work to bring modern game support to Linux and Mac.

Threat actors now exploit the critical Apache Log4j vulnerability named Log4Shell to infect vulnerable devices with the notorious Dridex banking trojan or Meterpreter.

Recently I looked at the macOS 12 performance against Linux when it comes to the Intel-based Macs. Stemming from reader requests and curiosity how Windows would perform in the mix, here are such benchmark results with macOS 12.1, Windows 10, Clear Linux, and Ubuntu 21.10.

If you are looking to develop a website or a piece of software, you’ll need an app to write and preview your code. That’s where code editors and Integrated Development Environments, or IDE for short, come into play. Luckily, Linux has plenty of options for you in these categories. We have compiled two separate lists of apps so you can choose the one you like.

Ferdinand Thommes announced today the release of siduction 2021.3 as the third and last major update in 2021 to this desktop-oriented GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian Unstable (Sid).

The widely popular free and open-source painting program comes as a Christmas present for all digital artists and art lovers. Without doubt Krita 5.0 is a big release, with a lot of new features and improvements. With their latest version, it should get more exciting for all the users across multiple platforms.

In this article, we are going to see how to use GitHub Pages and Jekyll to create a static web site or blog on Fedora. Whether you are a developer, administrator, or technical writer you can use GitHub pages and Jekyll to create your blog or site.

Just when you thought one Raspberry Pi was enough, Skynet Network stepped up with this awesome Raspberry Pi cluster project. According to Skynet Network, it’s dubbed the Raspberry Pi Mega Cluster and costs more than £4,000 (approximately $5,372) to build. The best Raspberry Pi projects typically have at least one Pi but this one has 83.

If you are really conscious about security and don’t want to spend your money on expensive software, then Qubes OS is the answer to all your security woes. Qubes, as an operating system, works in isolation. It creates isolated compartments, all of them based on Xen-based virtualization technology.

Pascal Obry announced today the release of Darktable 3.8 as a massive update to this open-source, free, and cross-platform RAW image editor.

A wall of synth. That's what I dream of. Given the chance, on one wall of my office, I'd have a modular synthesizer that only Bob Moog himself could truly ever understand. Until I realize this dream, I make do with a very good approximation: Zyn-Fusion.

One way of staying alert regarding your financial position is to use a stock ticker. This is software that provides live updates of stock prices and enables you to easily monitor your investments.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install the latest XanMod Kernel on your Fedora operating system.

Opensource.com published well over 150 articles about Linux in 2021. From articles about small utilities for desktop Linux users to tutorials about working with Linux as a server operating system and everything in between, these articles have covered many facets of the Linux ecosystem. It is well worth your time to check out all of them, but here are ten great articles published this year to get you started.