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Mozilla’s overall revenue saw a sizeable boost in 2023, despite a drop in income from its lucrative search engine deals.

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 24.8.4 as the fourth maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 24.8 office suite series to address more than 50 bugs.

Building off the release of NetBSD 10.0 that arrived for Easter this year and incorporated a half-decade of work, NetBSD 10.1 is out right before Christmas as the first update to this BSD operating system series.

The Orange Pi CM5 was launched as an alternative to Raspberry Pi CM4/CM5 last July with a Rockchip RK3588S octa-core Cortex-A76/A55 SoC, up to 16GB LPDDR4x, 256GB eMMC flash, and three board-to-board connectors maintaining partially compatibility with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4.

In the world of Linux and system administration, maintaining persistent connections is often crucial for managing remote servers. The Keep Alive mechanism serves as a vital tool to prevent disconnection from idle sessions, especially in SSH connections. This article will provide you with a straightforward Bash script example that keeps your session alive, ensuring you can manage your tasks without interruptions.

Computing is too pervasive and too important to leave up to the professionals. Linux is one of the computing phenomena that ordinary folks should understand better—and one that might improve their own lives directly.

Here are the best Linux apps we encountered in 2024. Try them out if you haven't yet!

Earlier this year, in May, VMware Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro were made free, and thus, a license to download and install them was no longer necessary for personal users. A guide was also released by Broadcom, which walked through installation and switching.

If you're considering a migration from the soon sunsetting Windows 10 to Linux and you're looking for a way to test the open-source operating system, here are four options.

AMD today sent out a first batch of "new stuff" feature patches to DRM-Next of new code for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver of material for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle.

How often have you wished to have an instruction manual — or, at least, a Unix man page — for life? Well, your wait is over. Of course, you probably were hoping for instructions on how to navigate life, but [cve’s] mott program plays life inside a man page. That might not be as useful as a real manual for life, but it is still pretty cool.

Digital Clock 5 is billed as a very customizable and beautiful clock. It lives up to its billing and more besides.

Sublime Text 4 Build 4186 delivers refined syntax highlighting, faster theming, improved file detection, stable Git scans, and enhanced cache compression.

The Toybrick TB-RK3576D SBC is a compact development board designed for high-performance computing tasks. Its key features include dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, a PCIe slot, and multiple display interfaces, all in a compact form factor.

The Unixi-est of desktops gets a wide-ranging update. Comment The new version of the longest-established Linux desktop is here, and at last, it's possible to use Wayland – although not everything works yet.

A few weeks back I reviewed the SilverStone XE360-SP5 and XE04-SP5 cooling solutions catering to AMD EPYC 9004/9005 Socket SP5 processors. These coolers worked well with 400 Watt EPYC processors and especially the XE360-SP5 all-in-one liquid cooling was very performant and practical with today's server CPU TDPs ever increasing.

I've been covering Linux and open-source since 1999 (the year of Prince). During that long stretch, a year hasn't gone by that I haven't experienced someone (or a group of someones) still believing the myths that seem to be forever churning about the open-source operating system.

Giving people the ability to shape the internet and their experiences on it is at the heart of Mozilla’s manifesto. This includes empowering people to choose how they search.

Fish Shell 4.0 beta introduces a major rewrite in Rust, with improved keybindings, better auto-suggestions, enhanced scripting, and terminal support.

Learn how to set up Navidrome with Docker in minutes with this step-by-step guide, perfect for streaming your music collection effortlessly.