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If you want to get the most out of your system while keeping it clean, free of junk, and running smoothly, Stacer is the tool for you.

Songs of Syx is a deep and engrossing colony-building sim from Gamatron AB that has steadily improved with new updates since the 2020 release into Early Access but the 1.0 release is finally approaching. Songs of Syx has full Native Linux support.

Powered by kernel 6.8 and based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, Linux Mint 22.1 "Xia" is now available for download, offering a Cinnamon 6.4 desktop environment.

The modern GNOME desktop hasn't had a core application to playback audio files although many different audio/multimedia players exist. But now for the upcoming GNOME 48 desktop release, there is now a promoted core app for audio playback: Decibels.

osTicket is an open-source help desk and ticketing solution written in PHP. In this guide, you'll learn how to install the osTicket open-source ticketing system on Ubuntu 24.04 server.

OSNews Sponsor OS-SCi is educating the next generation FOSS engineers, and as part of their coursework, they’re looking for worthy open source projects to which they can contribute their time and effort.

The wait is finally over as the Linux Mint team has published the final ISO images of the Linux Mint 22.1 “Xia” release, which are available for download from the official mirrors.

Flatpak 1.16.0 is the first stable release in the new 1.16.x series, coming more than two years after the Flatpak 1.14.x cycle began and containing features, fixes, and other work undertaken from the 1.15.x development releases.

Here at Mozilla, we are the first to admit the internet isn’t perfect, but we know the internet is pretty darn magical. The internet opens up doors and opportunities, allows for human connection, and lets everyone find where they belong — their corners of the internet.

Rsync 3.4 is out today for this widely-used utility for incrementally transferring and synchronizing files between systems. Rsync is widely-used especially for backing up Linux servers in an incremental manner and unfortunately this v3.4 release isn't some cheery news...

There's already TPM in Ubuntu 24.10 (the latest Ubuntu release) and TPM pushers seem to really be eager to silence critics, just like UEFI 'secure' boot pushers - to the point of filing totally frivolous lawsuits against critics!

Linux Mint 22.x is based on Ubuntu 24.04 with long term support until 2029! The first point release features Cinnamon Desktop 6.4, that includes new default theme with rounder design and flat style buttons.

Rsyslog is an open-source logging system daemon that is used to collect, filter, store, and forward log messages of operating systems and applications. This guide will show you how to install rsyslog and set up remote logging on the Debian 12 server.

A system profiler is a utility that presents information about the hardware attached to a computer. Having access to hard information about your hardware can be indispensable when you need to establish exactly what hardware is installed in your machine.

VLC media player amazes at CES2025 with real-time subtitle generation, enabling multilingual captions automatically.

38-year veteran Edward Screven led technology and architecture decisions since Sun merger. One of Oracle's longest-serving senior team members, chief corporate architect Edward Screven, has announced plans to retire on a comfortable sum.

These steps walk you through the process of setting up an SFTP server on Linux for the secure transfer of files for specialized file transfer-only users.

The IPEM PiHat is a HAT (Hardware Attached on Top) board for the Raspberry Pi that turns the single-board computer into a mains power energy monitor with four CT clamps. It provides an accurate way to track energy usage in home, office, and solar energy systems and is compatible with single-phase, two-phase, and three-phase electrical systems.

Last month with the launch of Intel Battlemage with the Arc B580 graphics card, there was fairly nice open-source GPU compute performance but with some outliers...

Enlightenment 0.27, released this week, brings a wealth of incremental improvements to users of this unique desktop environment.