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Objection from open source community heralded as 'great victory for the ecosystem'. The WordPress Foundation's effort to trademark the terms HOSTED WORDPRESS and MANAGED WORDPRESS has been thwarted, for now, following a petition from a dissenting member of the open source WordPress community.

Since writing my initial thoughts on Garuda Linux, I left and spent years hopping from one Linux distro to another. I've now returned to Garuda Linux, my beloved, as a daily driver and was surprised by a few things I saw.

SELinux replaces AppArmor as the default Mandatory Access Control system in openSUSE Tumbleweed, with enforcing mode enabled on new installations.

SUSE/openSUSE has a long history with the AppArmor Linux security module going back to the Novell days and when AppArmor was originally known as SubDomain. OpenSUSE/SUSE and Ubuntu Linux have been big proponents of AppArmor for Linux security but now moving forward on new installations of openSUSE Tumbleweed it will be defaulting to Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux).

Electronic circuit simulation uses mathematical models to replicate the behavior of an actual electronic device or circuit. We feature the best GUI tools.

Xedge32 brings Lua-based development to the ESP32, allowing direct hardware control without C coding. Streamline your workflow and focus on building embedded applications more efficiently.

Waveshare recently launched the ESP32-S3 IR Thermal Imaging Camera Module which is a wireless infrared thermal imaging device based on the ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 chip. Designed with a compact form factor of 29 × 29mm, this module is intended for applications such as thermal monitoring, security surveillance, and industrial diagnostics.

Standard FOSS office suite continues to evolve in interesting new directions. LibreOffice is a big, mature chunk of code now, but that doesn't make it impossible to teach it impressive new tricks. Some of them could make it more important than ever.

Disk space is allocated in clusters of a certain size. When a file is written to disk and the file size is smaller than the cluster(s) allocated for it, there is an unused portion of varying size between the end of the file’s data and the end of the allocated clusters. This unused space is the slack space, it’s perfectly normal, and [Zachary Parish] had an idea to write a tool to hide data in it.

Darktable 5.0.1, an open-source raw photo editing tool, brings key bug fixes, UI tweaks, and improved performance.

Sequent Microsystems’ “Eight 24-bit ADC 8-layer Stackable HAT” is a Raspberry Pi expansion board designed for home automation projects. It is compatible with all Raspberry Pi models with a 40-pin GPIO header and features a stackable design that provides scalability for more complex setups.

Along with the recently reviewed ARCTIC Freezer 4U-M for Ampere Altra, ARCTIC Cooling had also recently sent over their ARCTIC Freezer 4U-SP5 heatsink for cooling AMD EPYC 9004/9005 server processors within 4U rackmount height requirements. This cooler does a very good job at keeping even 400 Watt processors running well.

Plank Reloaded aims to refine what the classic Plank dock offered by staying simple but with a modern take on it.

The NetCard 3 is an add-on network expansion card designed exclusively for the ODROID-H3 and H4 series, offering four high-speed 5GbE Ethernet ports. Maintaining the same size and mounting method as previous NetCard versions, it integrates seamlessly with compatible ODROID boards while delivering improved network performance.

HandBrake 1.9.1 was released today as the first maintenance update to the latest HandBrake 1.9 series of this free and open-source transcoder application for digital video files.

Systemd is a powerful and highly versatile init system for Linux distros. It can run programs, manage system resources, and even control the state of your computer. In this article, I’ll demonstrate how you can use Systemd to control your apps by creating a custom service unit in Ubuntu.

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. We all have an internet story worth sharing.

Arch Linux users can now upgrade to the new, sleek KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment just 24 hours after its release.

Given the recent patch proposal to raise the Linux kernel's default timer frequency from 250Hz to 1000Hz, I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at the 250Hz vs. 1000Hz comparison on some modern desktop hardware.

The co-founder of top-shelf ergonomic keyboard maker ZSA Technologies talks about open source, the company’s user community, its relationships with its competition, and more.