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PG Back Web 0.2 PostgreSQL automatic backup solution features streamed backups, local storage options without needing S3, and one-click data restoration.

Analgesic Productions have opened up the full source code for their 2D-3D action-adventure game Anodyne 2: Return to Dust.

The past few months have seen patches for updating the XZ (de)compression code within the Linux kernel that's been a lengthy process in part due to the XZ backdoor situation earlier this year and the reputable XZ developers in turn being busy cleaning up that mess.

When it comes to the Linux kernel, staying up to date with a recent LTS release is generally a good idea, if you take security and stability into consideration. For older hardware, things can be different.

Follow these four steps to proactively identify and eliminate risks from problematic open source packages.

Emacs is one of the aged text editor with ongoing development, providing rich and powerful features that can be more extended using plugins.

Andreas Kling announces Swift as Ladybird's future language for better safety and ergonomics. Full transition awaits Swift 6.

The WP-CLI is the command-line tool for interacting with and managing your WordPress sites. With WP-CLI, you can install and update plugins, and themes, and configure multisite installations without using a web browser. It is a handy tool for debugging issues when the WordPress front end doesn’t work.

It's been one year since Canonical desktop engineer Daniel van Vugt, who is known for his upstream GNOME contributions, touched his patch-set implementing dynamic deadline evasion support.

Discover a new GameBar Overlay GNOME extension for the GNOME DE that offers a similar experience to Microsoft's Game Bar, but for Linux.

Super reaKtor is a unique bullet hell where you absorb various orbs using your laser beam, and while the idea is great it really did annihilate my brain.

PowerShell expert Brien Posey demonstrates a technique for managing long-running scripts.

The 200th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 11th, 2024, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Calligraphy is a small utility which converts short texts into large, imposing banners made up of ASCII characters. Calligraphy uses pyfiglet to turn the text into banners.

Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.11-rc3 a few minutes ago as the latest weekly release candidate.

The latest Wine 9.15 release brings key updates, including MSHTML enhancements and stronger ODBC driver support.

In the Thunderbird 130 beta release notes the ‘what’s new’ section lists “added Linux system tray icon”, and what’s mind-blowing about the addition is that it developers a feature request first filed on the Mozilla bug tracker a staggering 25 years ago!

Dust is a simple program written in Rust to make convention du command easier for beginners by displaying disk usage in a tree-like structure.

While Open Source Initiative continues its work developing an open-source AI definition, LF has taken AI-based Open Model Initiative under its wings.

Canonical has finally given up and changed its policy for kernel version selection on Ubuntu releases, finally delivering the latest and greatest Linux kernel series starting with Ubuntu 24.10 in October 2024.