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Fancy rubbing shoulders with the great and the good in the Ubuntu community, learning new things, seeing cool demos, and perhaps getting a bit merry with your fellow geeks? If so, make a date to attend the Ubuntu Summit, which this year is being held in The Hague, the Netherlands, from October 25-27th. As always, the Ubuntu Summit is free to attend, though you do need to register.

DeepComputing and Framework have collaborated to introduce the first partner-developed Mainboard that features a RISC-V processor, marking a significant step in diversifying the Framework ecosystem and enhancing the accessibility of the RISC-V architecture.

If you absolutely love action-heavy dungeon crawlers like The Binding of Isaac, and the chaos from Vampire Survivors you're going to need to take a look at Heroes Of Loot: Gauntlet Of Power from Orangepixel.

Crafty criminals are targeting thousands of orgs around the world in social-engineering attacks that use phony error messages to trick users into running malicious PowerShell scripts.

On National FreeBSD Day, we honor the open-source OS, a tech cornerstone since 1993. Happy 31st Birthday, FreeBSD!

A simple step-by-step tutorial on how to install Void Linux in physical and virtual machine.

When it comes to web development, there are many Clojure frameworks to choose. The choice depends on finding the right tool for the job at hand.

Can Free software bridge the economic gap? Well, it certainly can help. Removing financial barriers can help a lot. That can also help people from underprivileged communities or developing (poor) countries get involved, either as developers or something else.

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee has approved of Fedora 41 switching from power-profiles-daemon to "Tuned" as the default power profile management daemon on Fedora Workstation as well as the KDE Plasma and Budgie desktop spins.

Facing CentOS 7 end-of-life? SUSE provides a lifeline with a Liberty Linux Lite subscription, ensuring the OS stays secure beyond June 30, 2024.

Is such a thing possible for an industry that never respected people's wishes? Mozilla this week said it has acquired ad metrics firm Anonym, touting the deal as a way to help the online advertising industry support user privacy while delivering effective adverts. Essentially, Moz has bought an outfit, founded in 2022 by former Meta executives, that among other things helps advertisers and ad networks measure how well adverts are performing and that they are being seen by the right audiences, in a way that ideally preserves people's privacy.

The Sipeed Lichee Book 4A is a cost-effective laptop utilizing RISC-V architecture, designed primarily for developers interested in exploring this platform. It merges standard laptop features with functionalities tailored to RISC-V, offering a practical tool for both software development and general use.

The KDE Project announced today the general availability of KDE Plasma 6.1 as the latest version of their acclaimed desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions.

Crystal Dock is a cool desktop panel with parabolic zooming effect for KDE Plasma 6.

Your Docker container is not confined to only a single place. Learn how you can move your Docker container and data volumes to another host.

KDE Plasma 6.1 desktop environment is here as a game-changer for all NVIDIA users, bringing Explicit Sync and Triple Buffering support.

Last week marked the inaugural release of the X.Org Testing Ground Toolkit to make it easier to compile the X.Org Server. That v0.0.1 release was limited to supporting Debian/Apt-based Linux distributions while now this helper toolkit has been extended to support FreeBSD and NetBSD too...

It's not every tech conference that has story-reading sessions… but maybe they should. DEVCONF.CZ Free Software Foundation Europe president Matthias Kirshner's picture book Ada and Zangemann explains the concepts of FOSS to school kids… and managers, marketing people, and victims of Windows-induced Stockholm Syndrome.

Tails 6.4 amnesic incognito live system has been released today as the latest stable version of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution that protects against surveillance and censorship.

Dynamic parameters in PowerShell allow a single function to handle different types of input, such as servers and clients, by defining parameters on the fly.