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Valve teased in their year in review 2020 post that they will have more coming for Linux gaming, like new ways for prospective users to get into Linux gaming.

Xfce 4.16 was released back in December, and it includes some important changes like a dark mode for the Xfce panel, fractional scaling support, and more.

With quantum computing on the horizon, take a look at which type of architect would be needed and what companies need to consider to build such complex systems

Alexander Larsson announced today the general availability of Flatpak 1.10, a major release of the popular Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework.

Haruna is a free and open source Qt / QML video player for Linux that makes use of mpv (libmpv) for video playback.

The world's favourite language has complex ecosystem in which build tools are now fundamental. The 2020 State of JavaScript report, a survey of over 23,000 developers globally, has revealed growing use of WebPack and Jest, continuing high use of React, Express and TypeScript, and that top of the wishlist is no longer better browser compatibility, but rather static typing.…

Security, lack of suitable hardware for testing makes full 32-bit support hard. Debian 11, codenamed "Bullseye", has entered the first freeze stage, meaning no large or disruptive changes, or new package transitions (merging, splitting, renaming or removing) are allowed. The 32-bit i386 architecture is part of the release but may not be in Debian 12, codenamed "Bookworm".…

The Linux date command is simple, yet powerful. This article shows you how to unleash the power of the date command.

The Wine development team released today the final Wine 6.0 series of the open-source compatibility layer for running Windows apps on GNU/Linux distributions and other UNIX systems.

Shells (shells.com), a new entrant in the virtual machine and cloud computing space, is excited to launch their new product which gives new users the freedom to code and create on nearly any device with an internet connection.  Flexibility, ease, and competitive pricing are a focus for Shells which makes it easy for a user to start-up their own virtual cloud computer in minutes.  

The Alpine Linux development team announced today the release and general availability of Alpine Linux 3.13, a new major series bringing numerous new features and enhancements.

In this article, we will create an EC2 instance with the latest Linux AMI using Cloudformation hence knowing the basics of cloud formation is required.

Samba is a way to share files across the different operating systems over a network. It let you access all your files from one PC to another without any 3rd party application. Today, we will install and set up Samba in our Linux system and share files over the network.

ASRock’s “IMB-V2000” Mini-ITX board is built around a Ryzen Embedded V2000 and supplies quad display support, GbE and 2.5GbE ports, 4x USB, 2x COM, 3x M.2, PCIe x8, and 12-28V power. ASRock Industrial has announced a 170 x 170mm Mini-ITX board for “versatile and wide-voltage Edge applications” powered by AMD’s Ryzen Embedded 2000. The IMB-V2000 […]

Collabora’s Mark Filion informs 9to5Linux today about their latest work on the Panfrost open-source graphics driver for Mali embedded GPUs, which received desktop OpenGL 3.1 support.

Cloudwatch provides Storage Metrics and Request Metrics for S3 Buckets. Storage Metrics come up with no extra cost and provided once a day whereas Request Metrics are available at 1-minute intervals and incur charges.

Managing open-source projects is an art just as difficult as developing open-source programs, and now, there is a set of classes to help you master it.

KeePassXC 2.6.3 has been released as a maintenance update to the popular open-source and cross-platform password manager for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms with new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

A walk-through on how to deploy a virtualized TripleO standalone system, including creating the components need to launch and connect to a VM. Also included is how to cleanup the deployment.

Why packaging is important ? Original code was pretty straight forward Java coding which looks and works quite smoothly . However, all compiled classes appear to be placed in one folder WEB-INF/classes/ and in some way this minor design issue hides a business logic of apps.