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Here’s our survey of tools which help integrate AppImages into your desktop. Only free and open source software is included.

Tails 5.22 brings new file-saving features in Tor Browser, persistent storage repair, and updated Tor Browser to 13.0.9.

Maintaining accurate system time is crucial for various network operations and synchronization tasks. In Ubuntu 24.04, setting up the Network Time Protocol (NTP) ensures your system clock remains synchronized with internet time servers. This guide provides a detailed walkthrough on configuring NTP on Ubuntu 24.04, ensuring your system’s timekeeping is precise and reliable.

2023 was a great year for the Wayland driver for Wine. The goal was to move forward from the experimental phase and make the driver a proper upstream component. A year later, after several merge requests, many people are now already able to use the latest Wine release to enjoy some of their favorite Windows applications in a completely X11-free environment! Here's a quick look at what's to come in 2024.

Collabora shares with us today a brief review and a look ahead to the ongoing work on the Wayland driver for Wine, as well as a look at some of the features that would be great to have eventually.

The KDE SIG is working on final integration for Plasma 6. This version was just recently released, and will arrive soon in Fedora Linux 40. As a result, the KDE SIG and QA teams have organized a test week from Monday, January 29, 2024 to Monday, February 05, 2024. The wiki page in this article […]

Regardless of whether you’re a website owner or just a visitor, seeing WordPress stuck in maintenance mode is a problem. The good news is that this issue is common and is easily fixed. Let’s go over how to get WordPress out of maintenance mode, as well as how to prevent this from happening again.

In our guide, we will quickly cover how to install Audacious on Manjaro utilizing the command-terminal along with some first-time tips.

Legacy OS and app holdouts get three more years of paid support, also on versions 10.0 and 11.3 Oracle has quietly extended paid support and upgrades for Solaris 11.4 to 2037 – three years past its previous deadline – and did the same for earlier versions of the OS last year.…

Both stable and rolling releases, Pi versions, and some very unusual customizations SparkyLinux is a lightweight distro based on Debian, but it offers some choices that few if any others do.…

This article focuses on the finest graphical tools. All of the tools are free and open source software.

The first stable Niri v0.1.0 release offers scrollable tiling, independent workspaces, and advanced monitor management for Wayland users.

Exclusive insights into Thunderbird's 2024 roadmaps - major update on the Global Message Database and Exchange support via Rust.

Linuxia, a popular open-source operating system , has gained popularity recently due to its robustness, flexibility, and security. These benefits have made it an attractive choice for individuals, businesses, and even governments. We'll explore these benefits, as well as Linuxia's use in server systems, embedded systems, scientific research, and desktop computing, to help you decide if you want to give the OS a try.

Kernel 6.8-rc2 debuts after very robust discussion about 'inodes'. Linus Torvalds has dished up one of his most strongly worded Linux kernel mailing list posts in years, lashing a contributor from Google for his suggestions regarding filesystems.…

The Nautilus (Files) file manager has received more new features ahead of the GNOME 46 desktop environment release in late March 2024 as the devs published a new alpha build over the weekend.

At last count, W3Techs reported that 43.1% of all websites operating on the Internet today rely on the WordPress CMS. And of those, an overwhelming majority run on Linux servers. That immense popularity makes Linux servers running WordPress a prime target of hackers and other bad actors. As a result, such servers face an estimated 90,000 attacks every minute, every day.

Dusk Player is software that’s billed as a minimalistic music player. It uses Electron, a framework designed to create desktop applications using web technologies that are rendered using the Chromium browser engine.

We review the latest major release of Parrot OS 6, which brings several updates for its users.

Ubuntu, a popular Linux distribution, is widely used for its stability, security, and user-friendly interface. As you manage users on your Ubuntu 24.04 system, you might encounter situations where you need to grant administrative privileges to certain users. This guide focuses on how to add a user to the sudoers list in Ubuntu 24.04, a crucial step in managing user permissions and system security.