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The developers of the Libreboot open-source and free BIOS/UEFI firmware announced support for a new laptop, namely the HP EliteBook 820 G2, which can even be ordered with Libreboot pre-installed.

Min 1.31 (Lightweight Browser) introduces the ability to select and manage multiple tabs seamlessly, improved userscript customization experience and more.

The highly anticipated Linux Mint 21.3 “Virginia" distribution is now available for download from the multitude of mirrors around the world of the Linux Mint project, ahead of the official unveiling later this week.

Quick guide to install Remmina Remote Desktop on Manjaro Linux with the command-line terminal and the AUR.

Originally released on November 12th, 2017, the long-term supported (LTS) Linux 4.14 kernel series has now reached its end of supported life after being maintained for more than six years.

2024 is here, and with it comes a brand new Linux kernel release. Collabora's kernel team made a number of key contributions including a new kselftest for verifying driver probe of Devicetree-based platforms, multiple improvements to further improve support for MediaTek SoCs found in Chromebooks, and more.

GNOME developer Georges Stavracas has merged today the PipeWire Camera support into the master branch of the popular OBS Studio open-source screencasting and streaming app.

DFRobot has announced the launch of the updated FireBeetle 2, now incorporating the latest ESP32-C6 System-on-Chip from Espressif Systems. This enhanced development board integrates standard I/Os, includes comprehensive battery support, and offers advanced connectivity options with Zigbee 3.0 and Thread 1.3. Unlike the FireBeetle 2 (ESP32-S3) launched in 2022, this new variant is equipped with […]

In this article, you will learn everything about file descriptors, like their uses in Linux, what a file descriptor table is, how to view the file descriptors under a specific process, and how to change the limit of a file descriptor in Linux.

Media Downloader is a Qt/C++ based GUI frontend to multiple CLI-based tools that deal with downloading online media.

A month and a half before the planned Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS point release for the long-term supported Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) series, Canonical updated today the kernel packages from Linux 6.2 to Linux 6.5.

OpenWrt One/AP-24 unveiled in celebration of OpenWrt's 20th year, offering an upstream-supported hardware solution. Here's more on that!

Star Labs, a UK-based manufacturer of Linux hardware, and the Qubes OS Project, the makers of the Qubes OS security-oriented distribution, announced today that Qubes OS 4 is now certified for the StarBook Mk VI Linux laptop.

Farewell IA64, hello snapshots and Rusty refinements The latest stable Linux kernel, 6.7, is out and finally includes the new next-gen copy-on-write (COW) bcachefs file system.…

Reddit's Linux community reaches 1M members, a significant marker of Linux's impact and the passionate community behind it. Here's more on that!

Kodi 20.3 "Nexus" debuts with bug fixes and backports; no new features, but essential updates included. Here's what's new!

Explore the latest Solus 4.5 release, featuring Calamares installer, upgraded default apps, Pipewire integration, ROCm support, and cutting-edge kernel advancements.

Crash course on using Textual Python on Linux has nice GUI (Graphic User Interface) development libraries like TkInter, but what if you cannot run graphical applications? Text terminals, are available on not just Linux but BSD and other great Unix-like operating systems. If you write code in Python, you should be using Textual to help you write […]

Learn how to change Bash prompt for a specific user group in Linux. Ditch the generic prompt, and set a custom Bash Prompt to distinguish users command line appearance based on group membership.

The 170th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on January 7th, 2024, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.