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Some staff are worried – can't think why. Mutterings of alarm are emerging from the cloisters of Red Hat after the world's largest management consultancy was hired to help the IBM subsidiary focus engineers on their highest-value work.…

Redis is only the last in a line of companies that have lately dropped open-source licenses in favor of proprietary open-source lookalike licenses. In this case, a fork has already happened that just might end up being real competition for Redis.

Tails 6.1 has been released as the latest version of the renowned Linux distribution focused on privacy and anonymity. This critical analysis will delve into the release's key updates and improvements, discuss the implications for security practitioners, and explore potential long-term consequences.

Resilio Sync is a proprietary peer-to-peer file synchronization tool for Linux, FreeBSD, Mac, Windows, Android, iOS, Amazon Kindle Fire, and NAS devices. It is a reliable file-sharing and syncing tool developed by Resilio, Inc.

The 30-year-old ext2 filesystem is marked as deprecated in the upcoming Linux kernel 6.9 for lacking dates support beyond 2038.

An open standard challenger appears The UXL Foundation is readying its open standard accelerator programming model, touted by some as an alternative to Nvidia's CUDA platform, for "a spec release in Q4."…

The Tails 6.1 amnesic incognito live system, a portable operating system that protects you against surveillance and censorship, is now available for download as the first update to the latest Tails 6.0 series.

Plausible is an open-source web analytics alternative to Google Analytics. It's lightweight and privacy-focused web analytics that can be used for multiple industries such as startups, freelancers, and bloggers.

This article benchmarks the FIREBAT T8 Plus Mini PC. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite unless otherwise stated. We compare the FIREBAT’s benchmarks with a couple of other tiny computers.

Article delves into the reasons for utilizing your custom Test Farm images and explores potential automation methods with Hashicorp Packer.

Removing snapd from Ubuntu can be an essential step for users who prefer a leaner system or wish to rely exclusively on traditional package management tools like APT. Snap packages and the Snap package manager offer a convenient way to distribute and install applications across various Linux distributions. However, not everyone finds the additional layer beneficial, leading some to opt for its removal. This guide provides a comprehensive walkthrough for safely removing snapd and its associated packages from your Ubuntu system.

Canonical announces 12-year support for Ubuntu LTS, including 14.04 LTS, with the Legacy Support add-on for Ubuntu Pro. Here's more on that!

USENET is the oldest social media network still accessible today. Learn some of the best readers for browsing USENET in Linux today.

KDE Plasma 6.0.3 streamlines the desktop experience with critical bug fixes in the system monitor, SDK, and startup sound settings.

The Blender Foundation released today Blender 4.1 as a new update to its powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform 3D graphics computer software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

Blender 4.1 3D creation suite releases with game-changing performance boosts and quality-of-life improvements. Here's more on that!

Two weeks after KDE Plasma 6.0.2, the KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.0.3 as the third of five planned maintenance updates for the latest KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment series addressing more of those pesky regressions, crashes, and bugs.

In the vast and evolving landscape of technology, embedded systems stand as silent yet powerful pillars supporting an array of applications, from the simplicity of a digital watch to the complexity of autonomous vehicles. These dedicated computing behemoths often operate within constrained environments, necessitating an operating system that is not just robust but also refined in its minimalism. Enter Ubuntu, a versatile and widely acclaimed Linux distribution, which emerges as an unexpected yet fitting candidate for this purpose.

DNF5 can replace the current package manager in Fedora 41, as the proposal has been made and is pending approval.

The Fedora Project announced today the release and general availability for download of the beta version of the upcoming Fedora Linux 40 operating system featuring some of the latest GNU/Linux technologies.