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Delve into the ongoing X.Org vs Wayland debate and the complexities of the balancing act to drop a two-decade-old software.

Significant changes for the GNOME! Merge requests opened to end X.Org (X11) session support, moving to a Wayland-only environment. Learn more about it here!

Should still work for the foreseeable future, but rely on it at your own risk. Still using Python 3.7? Even Microsoft thinks it is time to move on after the Windows behemoth finally deprecated support for the language in the October 2023 release of its extension for Visual Studio Code.…

In this article we benchmark the NUC 13 Pro. The tests are run using the Phoronix Test Suite, unless otherwise stated. Together with the NUC 13 Pro, we’ve run the benchmarks on two fairly recent desktop machines hosting a 10th generation and 12th generation Intel processor.

Ardour 8.0 has been released today as a major update to this powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

Effective October 10, only users with active Red Hat subscriptions can access Red Hat Product Security announcements. Here's more on that!

The 157th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on October 8th, 2023, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

The popular VLC Media Player open-source media player software has been updated to version 3.0.19, a release that comes almost a year after VLC 3.0.18 with numerous improvements and bug fixes.

Follow our step-by-step guide to installing Jellyfin Media Server using Docker Compose. Enjoy a free, open-source streaming solution today!

The Debian Project announced today the release and general availability of Debian 12.2 as the second ISO update to the latest Debian GNU/Linux 12 “Bookworm” operating system series.

Also included in this week’s FOSS Week in Review: OpenPubkey goes to Linux Foundation, adding vector support to MySQL for AI, and the results of last week’s rolling release poll.

Fail2ban is a free and open source software we can use to mitigate brute force and DoS/DDoS attacks: it scans log files for multiple failed authentication attempts and bans related IP addresses by creating ad-hoc firewall rules. In this tutorial, we see how to install and configure fail2ban on Linux, and we learn the basic concepts behind its usage.

Qualys has discovered a nasty security hole, dubbed 'Looney Tunables', in the glibc C library. This means almost all Linux distributions have a bad security problem.

Guide to install Wike Wikipedia Reader on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish via three methods: APT, Snap or Flatpak.

Steps to install Visual Studio Code (VSCode) on Linux Mint 21 via APT or Flatpak with the command line terminal.

Learn about the new features of Kubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur", bringing the latest KDE Plasma 5.27 desktop and improvements.

The Debian Project announced the general availability of Debian 11.8 in “Bullseye” and Debian 12.2 in “Bookworm” series as bugfix releases.

Apache Tomcat is an open-source Java web server and Servlet container used to host web applications written in Java. This tutorial will show you how to install Apache Tomcat on Ubuntu 22.04.

That is not dead which can eternal lie. Iä! Iä! IA16! Version 0.7.0 of ELKS OS, and 0.4.0 of its creator's next baby, Fuzix, are out – if you like your 'nix systems as tiny as can be.…

Suricata is a Network Monitoring tool that examines and processes every packet of internet traffic that flows through your server. It can generate log events, trigger alerts, and drop traffic upon detecting any suspicious activity.