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Linux Kernel 5.16 RC1 is now available for download and testing. In this article, we touch-up the important features of this Kernel release.

In the following tutorial, you will learn how to install RPM Fusion on your Fedora 35 operating system.

The Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation proudly announced today the general availability of Rocky Linux 8.5 as yet another free and open-source CentOS alternative based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The bpytop tool is similar to other performance monitoring tools available for Linux systems like top, iotop, htop, bashtop etc. It’s a terminal-based resource monitor that works efficiently and is visually appealing.

After one year in preview, Edge for Linux has recently become stable, aiming to provide an alternative to Chrome and Firefox and support to legacy Web apps.

Generally, the term LEMP stack can be broken down to Linux, Nginx, MySQL/MariaDB, and PHP modules. All these listed components have a priceless contribution in mimicking the behavior of a production server. We have a hosting environment (Linux), a web server (Nginx), a database engine/server (MySQL/MariaDB), and a scripting language (PHP).

The popular GNOME Shell extension Just Perfection celebrates one year of successes with a brand new version. With Just Perfection you can change the visibility of almost all components of GNOME Shell, behavior tweaks and customize panels.

It's crazy to think it has already been ten years since Arm disclosed ARMv8 with 64-bit support. Given the success of ARMv8 (and Armv9 now on the way) and there not being much in the way of useful ARMv7 hardware in recent years and the like, Fedora has drafted plans for retiring its ARMv7 support.

Jazz Jackrabbit and Doom together? Can't say I ever expected that but Doom engine modders constantly surprise me. Jazz Jackrabbit Doom - Episode 1 is out now.

Notepad++ is a popular source-code editor among Windows users. It supports close to 78 different programming language syntaxes and includes a ton of features to improve the text editing experience.

A report from Phoronix has revealed that Intel's Alder Lake CPUs perform much better in a Windows 11 environment than with Linux-based operating systems. The problem is related to issues with Linux's cluster scheduler, which isn't optimized for Alder Lake's hybrid architecture. That means that Alder Lake, which are now the new Best CPUs for gaming, are better suited for Windows 11 than Linux. That's somewhat surprising given that Linux typically outperforms all flavors of Windows.

Linux 5.16-rc1 is coming out later today and already I'm seeing some fallout in the new kernel's performance... In particular, bad news for Alder Lake that is already seeing the Linux performance trailing Windows 11 seemingly due to the lack of Thread Director integration right now in the kernel and any other missing optimizations around Intel's hybrid architecture.

Raspberry Pi OS "Bullseye" (based on Debian 11 Bullseye) has been released recently, and this article covers the instructions for upgrading from the older Raspberry Pi OS Buster to this new Bullseye version. This should work with any Raspberry Pi model.

Using a proxy server as an internet access intermediary is a common business scenario. This guide will show you how to set proxy for APT package manger so that you may be able to install and update packages from remote repos.

Approximately every two years, Debian releases a new stable version of its operating system, and the time has come again. And since Raspberry Pi OS is based on Debian, the developers release a new version every time Debian gets an LTS release. The latest update is here and packed full of useful changes.

One of the great frustrations many Android and GNU/Linux users face is that it is difficult to get traditional desktop Linux applications running on Android and it's even less likely an Android application will run on Linux desktop distributions. There are a few projects which attempt to address this issue of applications built for different Linux-based ecosystems not being portable. One such project is called Waydroid.

Terraform is the "Infrastructure as Code (IaC)" tool. It is used to build, manage and change infrastructure in a safe and repeatable way. In this article we will see the steps to install Terraform on Ubuntu and use it to create a VPC on AWS cloud.

KDE developer Nate Graham, who is known for writing the 'This week in KDE" blog posts keeping us up to speed on all the latest changes has a fresh update about plans for taking over the world, and Graham has some interesting things to say.

In today’s article, we’ll be seeing 3 of the best open source math software in the market.

As you use Linux, you may come across references to "standard I/O," or "standard input," "standard output," and "standard error." What do these terms mean?